Long Weekend: The Odds Get Shorter Pt. 1 of 2
Man walks & spins a wheel. “The pigeons have gone home to roost...” Picks up dice “these are my tools, pretty little things aren’t they”. Rolls dice & calls them each time. “What I do now is figure the odds. It takes a lot of moxie, even if I do say so myself.” Discusses the odds, real vs what the house gets you as he walks around various casino games. “Its the pigeons who gamble, not the house.” “You can even make book on people...I can even tell you what’s going to happen to them.”
16:08:26 POV along Nevada desert road, sign: Baker 12 Barstow 74 Car upside down & police around. Dissolve to entrance sign: “United States Air Force Norton AFB” View of gate & cars entering & leaving.
16:08:56 Four servicemen running down stairs of barracks, jump into Volkswagen station wagon. Talking about Las Vegas, while VO talks about odds of getting killed. POV from in front of the VW driving down road. Gives odds of death by age of Air Force men. Car heads onto freeway as odds upgraded due to small car. Sign: Barstow 33 Las Vegas 189 & shots of car on highway. POV on highway. Guys talking about the heat, want to stop for a beer. Driver pulls into motel w/ Cafe Draft Beer sign. VO about lowering the odds.
16:13:02 High angle following the car on freeway. POV past palm trees w/ Casino sign for the Dunes & buildings away. Night & neon signs: Caesars Palace; Thoroughly Modern Minsky World Famous Burlesque...; Sands.
16:13:52 Day & Sundown Motel sign w/ car pulling in. Guys get out of car, get bags out & go in.
16:14:34 Guy combs hair in mirror as others flip towels, read Playboy & talk about eating, gambling & chase women.
16:15:33 POV from back seat driving in Las Vegas. Slow past neon signs. Signs superimposed. Walking sidewalk outside casino, going in. Sitting at table of lounge show & applauding. More past superimposed signs. Applauding from bar. Neon signs. Dissolve & continued...
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Long Weekend: The Odds Get Shorter Pt. 1 of 2 Man walks & spins a wheel. “The pigeons have gone home to roost...” Picks up dice “these are my tools, pretty little things aren’t they”. Rolls dice & calls them each time. “What I do now is figure the odds. It takes a lot of moxie, even if I do say so myself.” Discusses the odds, real vs what the house gets you as he walks around various casino games. “Its the pigeons who gamble, not the house.” “You can even make book on people...I can even tell you what’s going to happen to them.” 16:08:26 POV along Nevada desert road, sign: Baker 12 Barstow 74 Car upside down & police around. Dissolve to entrance sign: “United States Air Force Norton AFB” View of gate & cars entering & leaving. 16:08:56 Four servicemen running down stairs of barracks, jump into Volkswagen station wagon. Talking about Las Vegas, while VO talks about odds of getting killed. POV from in front of the VW driving down road. Gives odds of death by age of Air Force men. Car heads onto freeway as odds upgraded due to small car. Sign: Barstow 33 Las Vegas 189 & shots of car on highway. POV on highway. Guys talking about the heat, want to stop for a beer. Driver pulls into motel w/ Cafe Draft Beer sign. VO about lowering the odds. 16:13:02 High angle following the car on freeway. POV past palm trees w/ Casino sign for the Dunes & buildings away. Night & neon signs: Caesars Palace; Thoroughly Modern Minsky World Famous Burlesque...; Sands. 16:13:52 Day & Sundown Motel sign w/ car pulling in. Guys get out of car, get bags out & go in. 16:14:34 Guy combs hair in mirror as others flip towels, read Playboy & talk about eating, gambling & chase women. 16:15:33 POV from back seat driving in Las Vegas. Slow past neon signs. Signs superimposed. Walking sidewalk outside casino, going in. Sitting at table of lounge show & applauding. More past superimposed signs. Applauding from bar. Neon signs. Dissolve & continued... Military Educational Films; Gambling; Driving; Americana; 1960s; 1970s; Gamblers; Gambling; Color; Morality;