(A gold paper flips in the logo onto screen, drawing a red outline of Mickey Mouse wearing a steamboat hat. The paper finishes flipping as an outline of Mickey turns into a scene from the 1928 Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie, and below the picture, the words "WALT DiSNEY" write themselves in the signature corporate font (with a slight modification), with "ANIMATION STUDIOS" fading in underneath)
(On a black background, a blue laser carves out a line across the screen. The line flips towards the screen, revealing a blue outline of Kermit the Frog, who is then filled with color from left to right. Kermit shines brightly, then he is swallowed by a dot of light that dances across the screen, which from left to right sweeps out the words. The television logo would either be still or it would have the dot for the i flying on top of the text: Jim Henson PICTURES then flies back to the logo to dot the "I")
(TITLE CARD: GONZO WITH THE WIND)
(Farmland. Morning mist. Gonzo's family home silhouetted against a white sky. The house is large and prosperous-looking. The year is ca. 1916)
(The house is still quiet. A mosquito net is suspended over two sleeping children)
(YOUNG GONZO (age 13) (DAVE GOELZ) and YOUNG KAREN (age 6) (LIVVY STUBENRAUCH), asleep. Clean clothes are neatly folded by their pillows)
(Beneath the netting, Gonzo is dreaming)
(Gonzo's dream. He climbs up the roof of his house)
(He reaches the peak of the house's broad tile roof. The predawn sky is cloudless. He walks along the peak of the roof)
(A small monoplane is perched on a wooden platform that extends from the peak of the roof. The plane is shaped like a bird with feather-like extensions on the wing tips. A little two-stroke engine protrudes from the fuselage ahead of the open cockpit. The morning sun is beginning to touch the mountains in the distance)
(Gonzo climbs into the cockpit)
(OUT)
(He primes the engine and hits the retro (at the time, cutting-edge) Bakelite ignition switch)
(The engine sputters to life. Soot and sparks belch from the exhaust)
(The propeller starts turning. The engine rises from a throaty putt-putt to a whine)
(The wings flex in the backwash from the propeller. The plane strains at its mooring, ready to ascend. Gonzo slowly rotates the throttle on the side of the fuselage)
(The wings flex gently in the backwash. Gonzo pulls the yoke back and the plane rises slowly, straight up)
(The plane ascends into the morning air, flashing in the sunlight, like a kite ascending. The sun peeks over the mountains. The plane keeps climbing, buffeted now and then by the wind)
(Gonzo climbs higher. We see his house amid the expanse of paddies)
(Sunlight streams over the water-filled paddies. Gonzo guides the plane lower over the green landscape)
(He glides lightly along the course of a stream)
(Gonzo flies along the stream. It winds between paddies and joins a river. He turns sharply left to follow the river, flying low over the water. A boat passes in the opposite direction, its single white sail taut in the breeze)
(The plane flies lightly just above the surface of the river)
(A town comes into view. Smoke rises from the chimney of a spinning mill. The plane is coming up on a bridge)
(Gonzo in the cockpit. The engine hums)
(People and draft animals cross the bridge in both directions. People are loading and unloading goods. Gonzo flies under the bridge and climbs sharply)
(The Taisho Era town spreads out below him, with a spinning mill by the river. Gonzo climbs past the towers of black smoke rising from the chimneys)
(Young women, mill workers, crowd the balconies of the wooden buildings to get a look at his plane. A few wave)
(Gonzo waves back)
(A swarm of black shapes, moving as if in formation, emerges from the cloud overhead. At first they are only partly seen. There is a great, low-pitched humming)
(Gonzo looks up and sees the shapes. The nose of a huge fantasy zeppelin peeks from the clouds. Rows of oar-like projections along the nose of the airship move in a sculling motion. Gonzo gapes with surprise)
(Farmland. Morning mist. Gonzo's family home silhouetted against a white sky. The house is large and prosperous-looking. The year is ca. 1916)
(The house is still quiet. A mosquito net is suspended over two sleeping children)
(YOUNG GONZO (age 13) (DAVE GOELZ) and YOUNG KAREN (age 6) (LIVVY STUBENRAUCH), asleep. Clean clothes are neatly folded by their pillows)
(Beneath the netting, Gonzo is dreaming)
(Gonzo's dream. He climbs up the roof of his house)
(He reaches the peak of the house's broad tile roof. The predawn sky is cloudless. He walks along the peak of the roof)
(A small monoplane is perched on a wooden platform that extends from the peak of the roof. The plane is shaped like a bird with feather-like extensions on the wing tips. A little two-stroke engine protrudes from the fuselage ahead of the open cockpit. The morning sun is beginning to touch the mountains in the distance)
(Gonzo climbs into the cockpit)
(OUT)
(He primes the engine and hits the retro (at the time, cutting-edge) Bakelite ignition switch)
(The engine sputters to life. Soot and sparks belch from the exhaust)
(The propeller starts turning. The engine rises from a throaty putt-putt to a whine)
(The wings flex in the backwash from the propeller. The plane strains at its mooring, ready to ascend. Gonzo slowly rotates the throttle on the side of the fuselage)
(The wings flex gently in the backwash. Gonzo pulls the yoke back and the plane rises slowly, straight up)
(The plane ascends into the morning air, flashing in the sunlight, like a kite ascending. The sun peeks over the mountains. The plane keeps climbing, buffeted now and then by the wind)
(Gonzo climbs higher. We see his house amid the expanse of paddies)
(Sunlight streams over the water-filled paddies. Gonzo guides the plane lower over the green landscape)
(He glides lightly along the course of a stream)
(Gonzo flies along the stream. It winds between paddies and joins a river. He turns sharply left to follow the river, flying low over the water. A boat passes in the opposite direction, its single white sail taut in the breeze)
(The plane flies lightly just above the surface of the river)
(A town comes into view. Smoke rises from the chimney of a spinning mill. The plane is coming up on a bridge)
(Gonzo in the cockpit. The engine hums)
(People and draft animals cross the bridge in both directions. People are loading and unloading goods. Gonzo flies under the bridge and climbs sharply)
(The Taisho Era town spreads out below him, with a spinning mill by the river. Gonzo climbs past the towers of black smoke rising from the chimneys)
(Young women, mill workers, crowd the balconies of the wooden buildings to get a look at his plane. A few wave)
(Gonzo waves back)
(A swarm of black shapes, moving as if in formation, emerges from the cloud overhead. At first they are only partly seen. There is a great, low-pitched humming)
(Gonzo looks up and sees the shapes. The nose of a huge fantasy zeppelin peeks from the clouds. Rows of oar-like projections along the nose of the airship move in a sculling motion. Gonzo gapes with surprise)
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