Case Study No. 0930: The Fastest Librarian in the West

The Fastest Librarian in the West - Director's Cut
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Entry for the NLM Contest "NLM & You: The Video" - This is the extended version with credits and bloopers. To see the contest length video, go to: http://www.you tube.com/watch?v= CpYvQAc8e4w

Starring: Brian Bunnett, Lynette Fannon-Lamkin, Kevin Wiley, Thunder the Wonder Horse and Snark
Director, Cinematography & Editing: Leslie Sandoval
First Assistant Director: Patrick Newman
Screenplay by: Brian Bunnett, Dick Carr, Jon Eldredge, Laura Hall, Cory Meyer, Patrick Newman, Leslie Sandoval
Key Grip: Darren Sandoval
Props Master: Cory Meyer
Technical Adviser: Ed Merta
Best Boy: Brian Bunnett
Music: "The Streets of Laredo" [Traditional] Performed by Cory Meyer
Symptomatology: Tintinalli J, Stapczynski J, Ma O, Cline D, Cydulka R, Meckler G, eds. Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide. 7th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2011.
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No animals or librarians were harmed in the making of this picture.
Filmed on location in Peralta, New Mexico
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Presenting ... The Fastest Librarian in the West!
UNM Health Sciences Library and Information Center

[scene opens with black and white footage of a man (dressed like a cowboy) and a woman (wearing a turn-of-the-century dress and bonnet) walking down a dirt road]
[cut to a "rattlesnake" coiled up in the road, when it leaps up and "strikes" (thanks to someone off camera pulling it with a string)]
[cut to the man falling down]
MAN: Ooh, he got me!
[cut to the woman gasping in fright, then back to the man as he grabs his leg]
MAN: I'm feeling nausea ... Muscle fasciculation ... Tachypnea ... Tachycardia ...
[cut back to the woman, as the sounds of hoofbeats can be heard, so she takes a handkerchief out of her basket and flags down the unseen horseman]
[cut to an older male librarian sitting atop a horse]
LIBRARIAN: Let me put you outta your misery, pilgrim ...
[he reaches for his gun holster, but (instead of a pistol) he pulls out a smartphone and looks up "snake bit" on the PubMed Mobile site]
LIBRARIAN: PubMed says them one's ain't poisonous ... You'll pull through.
[he pulls on the reins, and his horse gallops off towards the sunset]
WOMAN: Who was that stranger?
MAN: I don't know, but he left this mighty fine triangular pen what says "Free MEDLINE" on it ...
[cut to a closeup of the pen in his hands, as "Visit www dot nlm dot nih dot gov" appears on screen]

Presenting the HSLIC Players
Lynette Fannon-Lamkin
Brian Bunnett
Kevin Wiley
Thunder, the wonder horse
and introducing ... Snark the Snake

Director and Cinematography
Leslie Sandoval

First Assistant Director & Animal Handler
Patrick Newman

Screenplay
Brian Bunnett
Dick Carr
Jon Eldredge
Laura Hall
Cory Meyer
Patrick Newman
Leslie Sandoval

Film Editor
Leslie Sandoval

Key Grip
Darren Sandoval

Props Master
Cory Meyer

Technical Advisor
Ed Merta

Best Boy
Brian Bunnett

Music
"The Streets of Laredo"
[Traditional]
Performed by Cory Meyer

Symptomatology
Tintinalli J, Stapczynski J, Ma O, Cline D, Cydulka R, Meckler G, eds.
"Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide." 7th ed.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2011.

Copyright HSLIC 2011

No animals or librarians were harmed in the making of this film.

Filmed on location in Peralta, New Mexico

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From challenge.gov:

"The Fastest Librarian in the West"
First Runner-Up

Tragedy strikes a pioneer couple in the Old West. Disaster is averted by the providential appearance of a mysterious stranger who uses the ultimate weapon - the most current biomedical information - to save the day. This powerful saga, filmed on location in Peralta, New Mexico, uses breath-taking scenery, hard charging steeds, heart-wrenching sufferings, sudden plot twists, and finely observed period costumes to create an uplifting and life-affirming message - the ineluctable victory of knowledge over ignorance.