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Event Location(s): Bath, United Kingdom | Description: EXT DAY ENGLAND WS: Overhead shot of a city’s skyline. MS: Horse moves down street pulling an unseen carriage. MS: Shadows of the horse and of the carriage are seen through the carriage’s window. MS: Horse drawn carriage moves past old homes. CLIP (BBC): Clip from a “Pride And Prejudice” TV movie with actors Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. EXT DAY ENGLAND MS: NBC’s Keir Simmons is seen in the horse drawn carriage reading a book. MS: Book “Pride And Prejudice” held in Simmons’ (faces unseen) hands in the horse drawn carriage. MS: Simmons reads the book’s opening line as the words are GFX supered on the screen. CLIPS (BBC): Clips from a “Pride And Prejudice” TV movie with actors including Ehle including Ehle reciting the opening line. EXT DAY ENGLAND MS: People walk near old buildings. MS: People walk down the street past older buildings. MS: In interview (part VO) Local Jane Austen Society’s Chairwoman Diana White says “People can identify with her and the characters that she writes about because everybody knows somebody that Jane Austen depicted in one of her books.' CLIPS: Clips from movie “Pride & Prejudice” with actors including Keira Knightley, Donald Sutherland, Judi Dench, Matthew Macfayden, and Brenda Blethyn. EXT DAY MS: Knightley poses for photos on a red carpet. MS: Firth poses for photos on a red carpet. CLIPS: Clips from the Bollywood version of “Pride And Prejudice” titled “Bride & Prejudice.” GFX: Book cover “Pride And Prejudice And Zombies” INT ENGLAND MS: Men and women wearing outfits from the “Pride And Prejudice” era dance in a Jane Austen dance class. MS: In interview in the dance class Jane Austen fan Julie Perkins says (about finding someone to marry) “…and this would be how you’d do it. You danced.” SKETCH: Black and white of Jane Austen. CLIP: Clip from movie “Pride & Prejudice” with actors including Dench, Macfayden, and Knightley. INT ENGLAND MS: In interview Perkins says “All these people who are pretending to be somebody else. People are looking for wives. People are looking for husbands. It’s all there because she saw it and she was telling it how it was. She’s laughing at them but very cleverly, very cleverly. MS: Simmons dances at the Jane Austen dance class. MS: Simmons’ feet (faces unseen) dancing. 2 MS: Simmons and his partner laugh as they dance. CLIP (BBC): “Pride And Prejudice” TV movie clip with actors including Firth and Ehle . VO: Simmons signs off from Bath, England.