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Script extracts

Read the following extract from the very first page of the film script:

1 EXT. BUSY STREET. BERLIN. - DAY 1
Music and opening credits over a busy, colourful city centre street. Berliners going about their daily wartime business, mainly women, mainly shopping, but also older businessmen, are a little startled by what sounds (vaguely) like a sudden burst of machine-gun fire. What they hear, in fact, is just children playing fighter planes. They step smartly out of the way as four 8-year-old boys run down the street, school satchels flying in their wake, arms outstretched like Messerschmitt wings, firing off imaginary bursts of ammo. "Dakka dakka dakka", "Hu-hu-hu-hu-hu", "Chukkachukka" etc. They are BRUNO and his three friends KARL, LEON and MARTIN.

2 EXT. CAFE SQUARE. BERLIN - DAY 2
Swastika flags hang from distant balconies in a Berlin square as BRUNO, KARL, LEON and MARTIN 'fly' through a pavement café full of startled locals. The more alarm the boys cause, the more they giggle..

3 INT. VARIOUS ROOMS. BERLIN HOUSE - DAY 3
Music and credits continue over frenzied household activity in a large town house. Several domestic STAFF frantically polish silver, dust pictures, mop floors, brush carpets.

Now complete the script activities.