Case Study No. 0897: Lucy Sherwood and Unnamed Female Librarian

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[scene opens with Lucy Sherwood sitting at the front desk of the American Library of London, stamping books, when the phone rings and an older female librarian gets up to answer it]
FEMALE LIBRARIAN: Hello?
LARRY: [over the phone] Is that the American Library?
OLDER FEMALE LIBRARIAN: Yes?
LARRY: [over the phone] Can I speak to Miss Sherwood, please?
OLDER FEMALE LIBRARIAN: Oh, just a moment ... Lucy, it's for you, and you really must get him to ring up out of work!
[she gets up and runs to the phone]
LUCY: I'm sorry, I'll tell him ... Hello? Hello, Joe?
[cut to a phone booth where one of Joe's friends is on the other line]
LARRY: Lucy, this is Larry.
LUCY: [pauses] Hello Larry.
LARRY: You know why I'm phoning, don't you?
LUCY: [stone-faced] Sure. Sure ... Oh no, he's gone. I guess I knew it would come. Thank you, Larry. You alright? Yes, he was a good flyer. Thank you for ringing, Larry.
[she hangs up, as an older male officer approaches her and tries to hand her a book]
PATRON: Would you check this book out please, Miss?
[still in a state of shock, Lucy walks right past without acknowledging him and exits the library]

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From earthlink.net:

THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS

Neame, Ronald (Director). The Man Who Never Was. United Kingdom: 20th Century Fox, 1956.

Starring: Gloria Grahame (Lucy Sherwood, Librarian); Clifton Webb (Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu)
Based on the Book: Montagu, Ewen. The Man Who Never Was. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1953.

She refers to herself as "Lucy the Languishing Librarian," a young, lovely Londoner with a weakness for dating flyers during the second World War. She knows she is heading for heartbreak but can't help herself. She inadvertently takes on a small role in a military plot to convince Germany that Britain's next target is Greece, not the strategically critical Sicily where the enemy lies in wait. They do so by inventing "William Martin," a British officer serving as a courier of secret documents, in reality the corpse of a Scotsman who died of bronchitis. "Martin" is to wash up on the shores of Spain and convince the enemy to relocate their forces away from Britain's target. To make the dead man appear genuine, the military stuffs his pockets with personal objects, including a love letter and photograph from his fictional girlfriend. Lucy dictates the content of this love letter to her roommate (who works for the military and whose own writing skills are inadequate), but Lucy is writing from her heart to a real flyer, Joe. The plan works beautifully, and when a German spy (with the worst Irish accent ever) comes to London to check up on the validity of "Willie Martin," he is convinced that Lucy is the real thing because, having just learned that Joe's plane was shot down, she is in genuine mourning. Library themes are thin here. The only stereotypical element is the one brief library scene where Lucy (wearing thick glasses) is busy rubber-stamping a stack of books. She serves, however, as a portrayal that does not visually support the profession's public image (except the glasses!) with her long hair and fashionable clothing. Based on a true story, The Man Who Never Was might have taken liberties with this character (as names and details have been changed), so Lucy may or may not have been an actual librarian who helped save thousands of lives during World War II.

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From google.com:

"The Man Who Never Was" (1956), filmed in DeLuxe Color and set in England during World War II, is based on Ewen Montagu's book of the same title. The film recounts the development of Montagu's successful plan to give the Third Reich false information about a forthcoming invasion of the continent. the plan requires creating a fictitious military persona (Major William Martin) for a cadaver that is intentionally dropped into the sea off the coast of Spain. Montagu anticipates that the Germans will be able to obtain and examine the contents of an attache case attached to the writs of Major Martin and, hopefully, will believe the contents and divert troops away from the actual invasion site. Clifton Webb portrays Montagu in this suspenseful film, and Gloria Grahame portrays Lucy Sherwood, a librarian who is very instrumental in convincing a German agent that Major Martin existed, thereby verifying the accuracy of the top-secret documents in the attache case.

Lucy and Pam (Josephine Griffin), Montagu's office assistant, share an apartment, where Pam often meets Lucy's boyfriends; Lucy's current beau is Joe, a Roayl Air Force flier. Pam, believing that Lucy is too serious about Joe, warns her not to fall in love. Lucy responds, "Who? Me? Lucy, the languishing librarian, not a chance. If ever I fall in love, it will be with a guy who goes out at 9 to a nice safe office and comes back at 6. Not one of these flyers - here today and gone tomorrow."

But the denial cannot hide the fact that she is in love with Joe. In this scene, Lucy, a redhead (shoulder length soft curls), wears a long sleeve sweater, large multicolor neck scarf, and black capri pants. Both Lucy and Pam are very attractive young women. Pam's makeup is very soft, enhancing her beauty; Lucy's makeup appears harsh throughout the film, as if deliberately overdone, detracting from her beauty. Variety noted that "there is something very much amiss with her makeup in this picture."

On the day that Joe gives Lucy an engagement ring, Pam is struggling to compose a love letter to put in Major Martin's personal belongings. Lucy, disappointed that Joe is going on another mission, dictates a very emotional, poignant letter to Pam; the letter reveals Lucy's emotions about her relationship with Joe, and is exactly the type of letter that will authenticate Martin's persona and that of his nonexistent girlfriend. Pam signs the letter "Lucy," and after an office discussion about including a photograph of a young woman, Montagu asks Pam to obtain a photograph of Lucy. Major Martin is deposited off the Spanish coastline, and the Germans (as expected) obtain copies of the contents of the attache case and Martin's personal belongings. A Nazi agent is dispatched to London to verify the facts relating to Martin's personal activities and life, including his girlfriend Lucy.

While working in the American Library, Lucy receives a telephone call from one of Joe's friends, informing her that Joe has been killed. She is so overwhelmed with grief that after she hangs up the telephone, she walks out of the library. That same afternoon, the Nazi agent visits Pam and Lucy's apartment; when no one answers the door, he waits in the stairwell until Pam arrives. Pam knows that he is a German agent as soon as he asks about Martin and Lucy. As he prepares to leave the apartment, Lucy arrives, totally distraught about Joe's death. When the agent asks her about Martin, she begins a sobbing discourse aobut losing a loved one. Impressed by the sincerity of her grief, the agent believes mistakenly that she is distraught about Martin. When he returns to his apartment, he immediately transmits a message suggesting that Martin may be genuine if he transmits a second message in an hour, which he does, causing the German army to deploy forces away from the invasion site.

Lucy's one scene in the library utilizes several of the visual characteristics and occupational tasks of reel librarians. She sits behind a desk, stamps books, and wears large oversized eyeglasses, which she uses only in this scene, removing them before responding to her telephone call. She dresses very similarly in all of her scenes, basically white tops and black pants or skirts. Lucy closely approximates the image of reel librarians.

Lucy's occupation is not important to the storyline, but Pam, as an assistant to Montagu, requires a roommate of similar or comparable occupational status. Pam is rational, very sedate, and extremely sensible about waiting out the war to find a boyfriend. Lucy, on the other hand, is emotional and enjoys male companionship, remarking "I don't know how to keep away from these boys, Pam." Lucy is a librarian looking for love, and in wartime London, she appears to have successfully attracted several young men.

A second library employee (uncredited) who answers the telephone before handing it to Lucy is evidently her supervisor, as she remarks to Lucy in a tone nearing anger, "It's for you, and you really must get them to ring up out of work, you know." A graying brunette (finger wave; loose curls at side and back), the librarian is "only 38" and dresses modestly - a charcoal grey suit and red blouse.

Case Study No. 0896: Miss Sophia

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A trailer for Lauren Kate's awesome book Fallen.
We can't wait for the second book in the series. Can you?
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Luce has always seen shadows

They were there ...
the night of the fire.

They linger ...
in dark places.

Now, they've followed
her to Sword & Cross.

But they're not
finished haunting her yet.

Torn ...
between two boys.

Luce may find
a way to escape the shadows.

But what if the person
you were meant to be with ...

Could never be yours?

Can love alone
save Luce this time?

Or is her life
destined to end ...

Again and again ...
for centuries?

Some angels ...
are meant to fall.

Fallen book trailer
by Brooke Ballard

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From wikipedia.org:

Fallen is a 2009 young adult fantasy novel written by Lauren Kate. The novel revolves around a young girl named Lucinda Price "Luce" who is sent to Sword & Cross Reform School in Savannah, Georgia, after she is accused of murdering a boy by starting a fire. At the reform school, she meets Daniel, a handsome boy whom she feels inexplicably drawn to, and believes she has met before. The book revolves mostly around the love triangle between Luce, Daniel, and Cam, another boy enrolled at Sword and Cross.

Plot Summary

Lucinda Price is a seventeen-year-old girl from Georgia. She previously attended a private school in New Hampshire before the court ordered her be moved to a boarding school for troubled youth, after an incident left her alive, but her boyfriend Trevor dead. When she first enters Sword & Cross, she realizes how much her life will change. There are cameras watching her every move and there is a strict rule regarding cell phones. On her first day, she meets Arriane Alter, an excitable and enigmatic girl who immediately takes a liking to Luce. She shows her fondness by asking Luce to cut her hair just like Luce's, much to Luce's dismay for she does not want to mess her hair up. Also on her first day at Sword & Cross, Luce finds herself meeting the handsome Cam Briel and being drawn to the fascinating Daniel Grigori, who seems to have mixed feelings for her when he smiles and then flips her off. During the first day, she also meets Penn, the daughter of the now deceased caretaker. Luce also makes enemies with Molly, an angry girl with multiple facial piercings. and feels as if Daniel is familiar. Luce falls in love with Daniel,and with the help of Penn and the librarian she uncovers her secret - she reincarnates every lifetime after meeting Daniel, whom she also discovers is an angel, as well as many of the other school kids. There is an angel fight at the end, where the librarian is found to be evil and murders Penn and tries to kill Luce but Daniel saves her. Cam is actually a demon and fights against Daniel in the battle.

Characters

* Lucinda 'Luce' Price

Luce is the main protagonist of the novel. She has black hair and hazel eyes. She began seeing 'Shadows', amorphous, sinister apparitions, at a young age. As a child, she tells her parents about this phenomenon, troubling them, and causing them to take her to many psychiatrists and psychologists who put her on anti-psychotic drugs, which do not make the shadows abate. Years later, when she is off the pills and is attempting to fit in and act like a "normal" teenager, she is invited to a beach party where her "friend with benefits", Trevor, is caught in a fire in a cabin while she kisses him. Trevor dies, causing Luce to be transferred to a reform school called Sword & Cross. She is befriended almost immediately by Arriane, another student studying there, and soon makes friends with Pennyweather "Penn," Cam, and the librarian, Miss Sophia. She is also inexplicably drawn to Daniel Grigori, whom she believes that she recognizes from somewhere.

* Daniel Grigori

Daniel is a fallen angel - a heavenly being who chose to side with neither God nor Satan at the beginning of time - and Luce's main romantic interest. He is described as a handsome blond, with gray-violet eyes. He saves Luce from a falling statue of an angel in the cemetery adjoining the school. He feigns disinterest in Luce, trying to ignore her for her own "safety", but is drawn to her nonetheless.

* Miss Sophia

Miss Sophia is the school's librarian. She appears to like Luce and Penn, considering them good students and approves of their interest in the library. She teaches the Religion and has very strong beliefs on the subject. It is later discovered that she is in fact one of the 24 Elders of Zhsmaelin, a radical heavenly sect. She is an elderly lady with black eyes and silver hair.

Case Study No. 0895: Emily MacDougall

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In this episode, an English librarian and her American friend are vacationing in France when Emily has a vision.
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[scene opens inside Emily's vacation home in France, when (awakened by the sound of gunfire) she opens the door to her bedroom and yells out into the hallway]
EMILY: Ann? Oh, what do you suppose it is? Has the war started?
[she runs out into the hallway]
EMILY: Ann! Ann!
[she opens the door to the other bedroom, but no one is inside]
EMILY: Ann? Ann, where are you? Ann!
[she hears knocking at the front door below]
SERGEANT: [off camera] Open up! Break it, break it in!
[as Emily watches from the top of the staircase, three soldiers break down the door and carry another into the house]
SERGEANT: Easy with him! Waddaya think he is, a sack of potatoes? Now get back and find a medical officer! Get him over here, straight away!
[the soldiers leave, as the officer tends to his fallen comrade, while Emily yells down the stairs at them]
EMILY: Who are you? What're you doing here?
[the sergeant ignores her, instead speaking to the fallen captain]
SERGEANT: How you feeling, Captain?
HARRY: Not ... not so good.
EMILY: Who are you?
SERGEANT: The crew will be here anytime now. Shot for the pain, then back to the ship and a proper hospital. You'll be in top shape in no time at all, sir.
[he gives him a cigarette]
SERGEANT: Come on, take your mind off your troubles ...
[he leans in and whispers]
SERGEANT: Did you ever see such a bloody mess? Where were the ships, the planes? How could so many things go wrong? Hitler will dance a jig when he hears how we botched this one up! He'll make August Twelfth a national holiday, free beer and pretzels for everyone!
[the captain suddenly shudders and gasps for air]
SERGEANT: Hang on, the doctor will be here any second.
EMILY: Answer me! Why don't you answer me?
HARRY: Sergeant!
SERGEANT: Sir?
HARRY: [whispers] If the doctor shouldn't come in time ...
SERGEANT: Now, now don't talk like that, sir!
HARRY: If I shouldn't get back alright, look up my wife. Understand? Make, make it as easy as you can. And tell her I ... I love her. Emily!
[Emily starts walking down the stairs with a shocked look on her face, as the captain begins mumbling to himself]
HARRY: [whispers] Emily ... Emily, I love you.
[Emily walks up to the two men and bends down to caress the captain's head ... only her hand goes right through him]
[cut to Ann running into Emily's bedroom (because she's screaming as if waking up from a nightmare)]
ANN: Oh Emily! Emily! Stop it, stop it! What's the matter, darling? Everything's alright! Come on now, calm down. Did you have a bad dream?
[Emily runs to the window at the sound of thunder]
ANN: It's only thunder, dear! There goes our picnic ...
EMILY: It was an awful dream! There was a battle, and they brought this man in. And he was so badly hurt. And as he was dying, he called my name ... "Emily, I love you."
ANN: Darling, I thought a librarian was just supposed to dust the books, not read them ... The hero dying in battle, with the name of his beloved on his lips! Just like a romantic novel.
[Emily turns away in embarrassment]
EMILY: It's not funny.
ANN: But it was only a dream.
EMILY: It didn't seem like a dream ...
ANN: Dreams never do. Now look, we only have a few days left in France, and we're going to have fun! You'll be back in that musty library soon enough.
EMILY: It didn't seem like a dream ...
[she helps Emily back into bed]
ANN: Now you go back to sleep, darling.
[she leaves]
EMILY: [to herself] It didn't seem like a dream at all ...
[cut to Emily working at the library, where's she's checking the card catalog ... the camera pans over to a man carrying a stack of books, when he turns and reveals himself to be Harry (in civilian clothes)]
[he carries the books over to the front desk, and Emily (without even looking up) walks over and checks them]
EMILY: I'm sorry, eight books are the maximum.
HARRY: But I need every one of them ... and ten more beside, to tell the truth.
EMILY: I'm sorry.
[she turns back towards the card catalog]
HARRY: Well, don't keep saying you're sorry! I-I need the books!
EMILY: I'm sorry--
[she finally turns around and sees that this is the same man from her dreams, giving a look of horror that confuses the innocent patron]
HARRY: What is it?
[she faints, then cut to Emily inside her home, when she hears a knock at the door and answers it (only to find that it's Harry)]
HARRY: Hello!
[she gasps]
HARRY: Feeling better?
[she starts losing consciousness]
HARRY: Oh no ... No, no!
[he lifts her up in his arms]
HARRY: No no, please don't faint again!
[he carries her to the bed]
HARRY: Oh, this is terrible, just terrible! I-I shouldn't have run from the library when you fainted, but nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I, uh, well, I made a girl blush once, but ... well, everybody in town could make her blush. That was no accomplishment.
[she gets up]
EMILY: Doctor said I fainted because I'm coming down with influenza.
HARRY: I'm glad ... I mean, uh, I'm glad because it wasn't because of me. Well, uh, your name was on the nameplate on your desk, so I looked up the address in the directory. Well, better stay in bed and drink plenty of tea. A drop of whiskey wouldn't hurt either!
[he gives her an awkward smile]
HARRY: Goodbye ...
[he turns and exits, but she goes to the window and opens the shade]
EMILY: Sir!
HARRY: Yes?
EMILY: I'm terribly confused ...
HARRY: Oh? Uh, about what?
EMILY: Have I seen you before?
HARRY: Well, I came down from Dorkitt. It's a little town six miles from Glasgow. And, um, I went to Liverpool when I was six years old for my elder sister's wedding, but I'm sure we didn't meet there.
EMILY: But it really was you, and you said my name.
HARRY: I did?
EMILY: [pause] I don't have influenza, and ... I don't faint when a man looks at me.
HARRY: Good.
EMILY: And I'm not a neurotic, or a hysteric, or anything like that ...
HARRY: Jolly good!
EMILY: I did dream about you ... It was a terrible dream!
HARRY: Oh, I apologize ...
EMILY: You're making fun of me.
HARRY: No no no, I'm not! Really, I'm very sympathetic ...
EMILY: You're laughing at me!
[she pulls down the shade in his face]
HARRY: No, really!
[he runs over and knocks on the door again]
EMILY: Go away!
HARRY: I'm not laughing at you Miss ... uh, really I'm not.
[she opens the door]
HARRY: You see, I-I'm a bit confused too. Well, no one's ever dreamed of me before. I mean, no one not related to me. Uh, and fainting besides ... Well, it shakes you up a bit!
[she smiles]
EMILY: I know.
HARRY: Well, perhaps you dreamed of someone else. Someone who looks like me, now that's very possible ... I mean, I've got a very ordinary face.
EMILY: You have not. You've a marvelous face ...
[she suddenly gets an embarrassed look on her face, and closes the door on him ... she then peeks out the window for him, but hears him knocking at the door again, so she opens it]
HARRY: Well, uh, well thank you. But I, I really haven't, you know ... My ears are monstrous, and my eyes don't match. Left one's just a wee bit cock-eyed. And uh, oh yes, I have an extremely weak chin. It's a family characteristic.
[they both smile]
EMILY: Won't you have some tea?
HARRY: Why yes! I-I'd love to!
[he steps back inside]
HARRY: You know, we talk like characters in one of those silly comedies, where the audience laughs and eats chocolates and everyone knows it's gonna turn out alright!
[she gets a sad look on her face]
EMILY: But it doesn't turn out alright ...
[cut to Harry and Emily sitting in a restaurant, as he shakes his head angrily]
HARRY: No, oh no! A creatch had a dream, ate a bit of cheese before dozing off and had a dream! So it can't be! Huh, what nonsense!
EMILY: How do we know it's nonsense?
HARRY: How do we know it isn't?
EMILY: Some of it is true. In the dream, I married you, and now you've asked me. Don't you see?
HARRY: And if, in real life, we don't marry ... is that how we somehow defeat fate?
EMILY: You're making fun of me!
HARRY: Alright, alright ... I was badly wounded?
EMILY: You were dying.
HARRY: How do you know? Did you see me die?
EMILY: No. Not exactly.
HARRY: Do you know I haven't had one single childhood disease? Not even the measles? What makes you so sure I'm gonna die that easily? How do you know I won't die in my own bed at the age of ninety seven, surrounded by six generations of loved ones--
EMILY: Oh Harry!
HARRY: No! We're not gonna meet tomorrow night or the night after or ever ... I'm all through batting my head against the stone wall of your superstitious mumbo jumbo! For the future, I wish you nothing but pleasant dreams!
[he gets up and storms out of the restaurant ... she looks down dejectedly, but he suddenly returns with an old man wearing a sandwich board]
HARRY: In, uh, in that dream or whatever it was, I was wounded in the war?
EMILY: Yes, of course.
HARRY: About the same age as I am now?
EMILY: Yes.
[he turns the man around, revealing that the sandwich board reads "Peace in our time! Chamberlain returns from Munich"]
HARRY: What war?
[he smiles and gives the man some money]
HARRY: Thank you, my good man.
[the man leaves, and Harry gets down on one knee]
HARRY: Marry me!
[she smiles]
EMILY: Alright, alright, alright, alright ...
[they kiss, and he hugs her (although the camera zooms in on her face to show there is still a look of concern]
[cut to Harry and Emily living together, sitting across from each other at the dinner table]
HARRY: And I don't see why, if following our plan, in the next two months we could--
[the air raid sirens suddenly start up, as Emily gets up and looks out the window (while Harry tries to brush it off nonchalantly]
HARRY: It's nothing to worry about ... Just an alert. The first day of war's always the worst.
[she walks over with a depressed look on her face]
HARRY: Emily, darling!
[he smiles and sits her down on his lap to console her]
HARRY: In about a month from now, Adolph will be on his boney knees begging our pardon ... Can't you just hear the dear chap explain the whole thing was a, a slight misunderstanding?
[she gets up (still looking depressed) and sits in a nearby chair]
HARRY: Look, if you're at all worried, we'll go down to the basement ... I-I suppose it is safer down there.
EMILY: [quietly] We're safe here ...
HARRY: Well, of course we are!
EMILY: It doesn't happen here. It happens near Point Louasse, in France.
HARRY: Emily ...
[the sirens start again, as she gets up and places her hands over her ears]
HARRY: Emily ...
EMILY: It's already past August twelfth, so it won't happen this year.
HARRY: Please, darling--
[he tries to smile, but she continues speaking calmly about his impending death]
EMILY: Is it next August twelfth? Perhaps even the August twelfth after that ... Do you think we might have two years? Could we possibly be that lucky? Could we, Harry? Could we?
[now near tears, she embraces him]
HARRY: Emily ... I love you!
[cut to Emily (without Harry) sitting in a bunker while writing to her penpal]
EMILY: [in voice over] "Dear Ann, I am approaching another August twelfth. But unlike the agony of last year, when Harry's unit was stationed here in England, this year my darling is in Alexandria, Egypt. Five thousand long long miles from that house, near Point Louasse."
[Harry suddenly walks down the stairs and kneels down next to her]
HARRY: Hello ...
[she looks up from her writings in shock]
HARRY: Yes, it's me. It's really me! They flew a company of us back for special training at a camp nearby, very hush hush! But I'll tell you one thing, there's gonna be plenty of long weekend leaves!
[she simply stares at him]
HARRY: Well, aren't you even a tiny bit glad to see me?
[suddenly overcome with emotion, she hugs him]
EMILY: Oh, Harry!
[cut to a closeup of Emily's face]
EMILY: [whispers] So, it's to be this August twelfth ...
[cut to Harry sitting in a chair in his home, nervously smoking a cigarette]
EMILY: [from off camera] Harry ... Harry?
HARRY: Yes, I'm right here.
[she enters (her hair no longer in a bun, but worn down) and they embrace]
EMILY: I woke up, you weren't there ... I thought you'd gone without saying goodbye!
HARRY: Now, would I do a thing like that?
EMILY: I really wouldn't blame you. I've made our weekends here so miserable ...
[they kiss]
EMILY: Why are you up so early?
HARRY: Hmm? Oh, couldn't sleep.
EMILY: Why?
HARRY: No reason.
EMILY: How long have you been awake?
HARRY: I don't know.
EMILY: It's almost five. I'd best start breakfast.
[she gets up and walks over to the kitchen]
HARRY: Emily ...
EMILY: Yes?
HARRY: Y'know, in that dream of yours ... uh, I was a captain, wasn't I?
EMILY: That's right ... Thank heaven you're just a leftenant. If some things are wrong, maybe everything's wrong.
HARRY: Yes.
[he walks over and tries to nonchalantly continue the conversation (while lighting another cigarette)]
HARRY: Also, uh, where was that landing to take place again?
[she turns to him with a pensive stare]
HARRY: Oh, now don't look so serious!
EMILY: What is it, Harry?
HARRY: Nothing! Well, after all, it's such a spectacular dream, I like to check up on it from time to time ... Just to keep the facts straight.
[she turns away]
EMILY: You know the dream as well as I. You know it's Point Louasse.
HARRY: [pause] We're gonna land in Norway.
[she turns back with a relieved smile on her face]
EMILY: What?
HARRY: Somewhere near Bergen.
EMILY: Darling!
HARRY: Sometime in November.
EMILY: Oh!
[they embrace, but then she pulls back]
EMILY: Is that true?
HARRY: Well, of course.
EMILY: Why didn't you tell me before?
HARRY: I can get court-marshalled for even telling you now!
EMILY: Harry ... if you ever lied to me about this--
HARRY: I wouldn't!
EMILY: Yes, you would.
HARRY: Alright ... On some distant August twelfth, when GHQ says "Off to Point Louasse, boys!", I shall instantly phone you and say "Guess what?" And what good would that do?
EMILY: If you didn't tell me the truth ... I'd never forgive you. Even if my dream were insane and you came back, or if you die of your wounds. Until I died, I wouldn't forgive you.
HARRY: Forgive me for what? Sparing you senseless worry?
EMILY: Denying us one honest moment ... before we said goodbye.
HARRY: Why you sentimental little ...
EMILY: I mean it, Harry.
[she walks back to the kitchen, and he starts to leave, but turns and looks at her with a sad look on his face]
HARRY: [whispers] Point Louasse ...
EMILY: What?
[he looks at her (as if suddenly realizing she can hear him) and smiles]
HARRY: Oh, nothing. Nothing.
[cut to Harry and Emily driving through the countryside]
EMILY: We're almost there ... Harry, instead of staying at home, next Friday why don't we drive down to Henley on the Thames and have a picnic!
[she turns to him and smiles, but he continues driving with a tense look on his face]
EMILY: Harry?
HARRY: Yes, darling?
EMILY: Did you hear what I said?
HARRY: Why yes, darling.
EMILY: [pause] What is it, Harry?
HARRY: You meant what you said before, didn't you?
EMILY: About what?
HARRY: That if I lied to you, you'd never forgive me ...
[she gets a distant look in her eyes]
HARRY: Well, it's gonna be in newspapers anyhow afterwards, so ... And you're such an unpredictable little character, you might actually hate me for the rest of your life.
[she continues staring off with a stunned look on her face]
HARRY: [pause] It is France, and we are landing August twelfth ... but I'll come back to you, Emily! I will!
[she suddenly grabs the wheel and turns hard]
EMILY: No no no no!
[cut to the car driving off the road, as it flips several times before landing in a ditch]
[cut to Emily (her head covered in bandages) waking up in a hospital bed, as a male doctor sits by her bedside]
DOCTOR: Welcome back.
[he smiles]
DOCTOR: You had a motor accident. You're in Saint Martin's Hospital.
EMILY: Was my ... husband hurt?
DOCTOR: Just a few scratches, that's all. Now, you must try and get some rest. It's been quite an ordeal! Y'know, you've been unconscious for almost a week!
EMILY: What day is this?
DOCTOR: Tuesday.
EMILY: I mean the date.
DOCTOR: August the seventeenth.
[she gets a concerned look on her face, as an older female nurse enters the room]
NURSE: Doctor, will you please tell this soldier that it's pointless to sit in the hall day after day?
[Emily suddenly gets up out of bed]
EMILY: Harry, darling! You told me they couldn't kill you so easily! You were right! You were right!
[she makes her way towards the door, but the doctor tries to restrain her]
DOCTOR: Now you must get back to bed at once!
[the camera pans over to show that the soldier outside is actually the sergeant from Emily's vision]
EMILY: [quietly] Harry's dead, isn't he?
[the sergeant looks down]
DOCTOR: Now please, you must go back to bed at once! A shock like this might kill you!
EMILY: It's alright, doctor ... I've been expecting this man, for years.
[the screen shimmers (revealing that the entire episode up until this point had been a flashback), then cut to Emily (her hair back in a bun) sitting in a room speaking to a male military officer]
OFFICER: And you expect me to believe that ... the knowledge of this raid was a dream? An accident in time?
EMILY: [quietly] Believe what you wish.
OFFICER: Misses MacDougall, I deal in facts. And the only fact I have is that you were in hospital unconscious, in a delirium, and in that delirious state you mentioned again and again the exact time and place of a raid that was yet to take place.
[she closes her eyes]
OFFICER: He's dead now, poor chap, and you can't hurt him anymore with the truth ... Did he mention the raid beforehand to you?
[she begins to cry, but continues to speak calmly]
EMILY: [quietly] Why ... won't you believe me?
[the camera pans over to show a man in the room (whom Emily and the officer can't see) speaking directly to the camera]
JOHN NEWLAND: And so, what did Emily's pyschic experience really prove? That fate can't be changed, no matter what? Yes, I suppose so. But, if Emily had had a second chance, aren't you absolutely certain she would've chosen the dream and those few sweet years with Harry? And what about Harry MacDougall? What would he have chosen? Exactly what he did choose, of course. Because isn't that the whole point about fate? That given any number of second chances, they would always have done exactly what they did do? It would still and always end exactly the same way ...
[the scene fades to black]

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From imdb.com:

"Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond"
Season 1, Episode 7 ("To Know the End")
November 01, 1959

Emily MacDougall, a young woman living in England during World War II, begins to have strange hallucinations of death and destruction. What she doesn't realize is that her visions may threaten not only the man who is closest to her, but the entire country as well.

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From amctv.com:

Synopsis: On vacation in France with her American friend Ann (Sally Fraser), English librarian Emily (Elen Willard) has a disturbing vision in which an English military officer dies in combat on French soil. Addition "sign" in the vision somehow suggest that the ill-fated officer is Emily's husband. Thing of it is, Emily is not only not married, but she isn't even engaged. . .and for that matter, there isn't any war of any kind going on.

Director: John Newland
Year: 1960
Run Time: 30 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Category: Television
Filmed in: B&W, Show, TV Episode

Case Study No. 0894: "Librarians are PURE EVIL"

Librarians are PURE EVIL :O
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Added: 1 year ago
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["One Min Wednesday" appears onscreen, as Emay speaks directly to the camera]
EMAY: You know who's pure Axis of Evil? Librarians!
[cut to another shot of Emay]
EMAY: I have never met a nice librarian ... Elementary school? Bitch. Middle school? Super bitch. High school? Quadruple bitch.
[cut to another shot of Emay]
EMAY: That's not actually true, I met ... one. Once. Who was a librarian, and she was pretty cool. But I have a feeling that it was an act, and inside she's the devil.
[cut to another shot of Emay]
EMAY: But maybe a librarian possessed her with her librarian magical powers to make her a librarian ... They do that. They brainwash you into making you a librarian, because who the frick wants to be a frickin' librarian?! I mean, the people that are, the librarians brainwash them with their magical powers.
[cut to another shot of Emay]
EMAY: They're nice at first, they realize how much their jobs suck ...
[cut to another shot of Emay]
EMAY: The poisons and toxins ...
[cut to another shot of Emay]
EMAY: The classical ... bitch.
[cut to another shot of Emay]
EMAY: I don't care if you say you've met a nice librarian ... You're a frickin' liar. They don't exist.
[cut to another shot of Emay]
EMAY: I'm gonna go now. See you tomorrow, bye.

Case Study No. 0893: Unnamed Female Librarian (BBC Four)

BBC Four ident - 2005 to present - Library
0:24
A Librarian is putting books back on a shelf, but manages to knock one off.
Tags: bbc four bbc4 ident logo book library
Added: 1 year ago
From: tvboxuk
Views: 2,661

["www dot thisisfive dot co dot uk slash presbits" appears on screen, then cut to a giant wall of books on shelves covering the entire screen (with the "BBC Four" logo appearing in the middle of the screen) as a young female librarian (brown hair in a ponytail, white blouse, black skirt, nylon stockings and high heels) is climbing a ladder to reshelve a book ... except that another book "falls" up into the air and disappears off screen]
[she pushes herself towards the right, and the half of the ladder that she's on slides off screen while the upper half moves towards the left ... then the (same?) librarian instantly appears from the left-hand side of the screen, as the two halves of the ladder lock back into place, and she reshelves a new book (except that yet another book "falls" off of a nearby shelf and up into the air where it disappears off screen)]
[the librarian begins climbing down the ladder, but as she disappears off screen, she instantly re-appears climbing down the ladder from the top of the screen]
FEMALE ANNOUNCER: Now on BBC Four, five hours of comment and analysis, some fab suits, and a fantastic title sequence.
[the librarian stops climbing (as only the lower half of her body can be seen on screen) and sticks her leg out as if to steady herself, when another book falls off the shelf (actually falling down this time) in the lower right-hand portion of the screen]
FEMALE ANNOUNCER: We join David Dimbleby for Decision Seventy Nine.
[the ladder again splits in two (with the lower portion moving towards the left and off screen, while the upper portion with the librarian moves to the right) ... the lower half of the librarian then suddenly disappears, just as the lower portion of the ladder appears from the right-hand side of the screen (with the librarian holding a book), as the two pieces of the ladder lock back into place and she reshelves a new book in place of the one that fell down earlier]
[the scene fades to black, as "Captured by Pres Bits from This is Five" appears on screen]

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From thisisfive.co.uk:

BBC Four introduced a new look on 10th September 2005 along the theme of a screen dived into four. For the idents these consisted of what initially appears to be a sign le image, but following interaction be various things within the scene it reveals that it is in fact 4 separate images.

IDENT - LIBRARY
A Librarian is putting books back on a shelf, but manages to knock one off.

Case Study No. 0892: Unnamed Female Librarian (Library Chicken)

Library Chicken Song
2:41
Age old story of a love triangle between a chicken, a librarian and their books.
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Added: 2 years ago
From: rcutrer2
Views: 1,923

[scene opens with a woman holding a banjo and speaking directly to the camera]
ROSIE: Hello, my name is Rosie Cutrer, and this is "Library Chicken!"
[she begins playing the banjo and singing]

Librarian sittin' at her desk
Computer clickin', phones ringin' away
When she looked up and much to her surprise
A rooster walked up to her desk
Took a bow and made a request
To check out a book on chicken exercise
Well he's a library chicken
A book-book-book-book-book-book pickin'
Pickin' books to make his little light shine
He's a library chicken
A book-book-book-book-book-book pickin'
Pickin' books to keep an open mind
Well when she gets up off the floor
She decides to show that bird to the door
But he says "Boook! I left my library card at home!"
Boook!
"But if you get online, you'll see
"I've got a card, no overdue fee!
"I'd like to take some library materials home!"
Well he's a library chicken
A book-book-book-book-book-book pickin'
Pickin' books to make his little light shine
He's a library chicken
A book-book-book-book-book-book pickin'
Pickin' books to keep an open mind
Well, what's that lady gonna do?
He's got a card, nothing's overdue!
And so she helps him find some things to read
Down the aisle goes that chicken
Little bird feet on the hard floor clickin'
Pickin' books to soothe his every need
Well he's a library chicken
A book-book-book-book-book-book pickin'
Pickin' books to make his little light shine
He's a library chicken
A book-book-book-book-book-book pickin'
Pickin' books to keep an open mind
Books so funny and books so scary
Books on eggs and aviaries
Books on worms and how to vocalize
Book-book-book-book!
How to live in close quarters
Political books on peckin' orders
Books on love and chicken lullabies
How to gain more altitude
How not to get ruffled, not to brood
How to keep your feathers fluffed and lookin' fine
Books on farms and foul weather
How to roost and stay together
Books so good they'd win a Pulitzer Prize
Well he's a library chicken
A book-book-book-book-book-book pickin'
Pickin' books to make his little light shine
He's a library chicken
A book-book-book-book-book-book pickin'
Pickin' books to keep an open mind
Pickin' books to keep an open mind

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From rosiecutrer.com:

I love telling stories to people young & old. There's nothing more satisfying than to see folks in an audience who have entered into a story & become part of it.

About 17 years ago I took a storytelling class in Kansas City. I learned a folktale & tried it out on my 1st grade class. To my delight I found that by putting the book down & telling a story an immediate positive bond was formed between my students & myself. I was hooked. On weekends & during the summer I started getting offers to do paid performances at some area libraries & then began to tell to adult audiences.

Since then I have developed an extensive repetoire of original stories, my own versions of folktales & stories based on literature. In the spring of 2000 I left teaching to become a full time performer & have been on the road visiting many states in the U.S. Recently I did a storytelling tour in Ireland!

When telling to the very young I use lots of music & audience participation. For older kids & adults I have some great funny pieces, ghost stories & inspirational stories. I also write music & bring my banjo along for a song or two.

Case Study No. 0891: "Stupid Librarian"

stupid librarian
0:28
funny animated clip of a guy who looks like mario gets kicked out the libary
Tags: goanimate cartoon
Added: 2 years ago
From: sameei21
Views: 181

[scene opens with a man standing in the middle of a public library]
MALE PATRON: I am in the library ... Hey, librarian! You stink!
[the female librarian walks into the scene]
FEMALE LIBRARIAN: No talking.
MALE PATRON: I didn't say anything!
FEMALE LIBRARIAN: You did now, so be quiet!
MALE PATRON: That is not fair!
FEMALE LIBRARIAN: You spoke again! That's it, get out!
[the patron starts walking away]
MALE PATRON: I hate you ...
FEMALE LIBRARIAN: I love my job ...
[cut to outside, as the man exits the library]
MALE PATRON: Stupid librarian!
[he runs off, as the scene fades to black]

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GoAnimate was founded by Alvin Hung in 2007. He was trying to create a animated video but all the tools were difficult and required him to draw. As a serial entrepreneur, he quickly recognized this as a large and growing problem needing a solution. Since then the GoAnimate community has grown to include several million users. The company has approximately 20 employees distributed in the Bay Area and Hong Kong.