Camera pans the homes of the town.  Camera stops to view the well kept lawns, the abundance of flowers, and a cloud that is shaped like a four leaf clover.

Birds chirping

View of the town square, which shows a run down bank to the left, and a post office to the right.

A breeze

Birds chirping

Close-up of a man reading a paper.

Pages flipping

Man standing on a hill with his son.  They view the town square from a distance.  The man points at the town square repeatedly.

Birds chirping

Narrator addressing his son

A view of the town square from the narrator’s point of view on the hill.  Children enter the square from all sides.

Children laughing in the distance.  Narrator and son talking.

Close view of the town square.  A boy is inspecting various rocks.  He puts some of them in his pocket, while others are thrown back to the ground.

Children having various conversations

Close view of the town square.  Some children are picking up rocks, while others are placing them in a pile in the North West corner of the square.

Birds chirping

Rocks hitting other rocks on the rock pile

Boys having conversations

Close view of the town square.  Boys are picking up rocks.  Girls watch the boys with curiosity.

Girls chatting.

Rocks hitting other rocks on the rock pile.

Close view of the town square.  Children are playing in a mud puddle.

Children laughing

Water splashing

Close view of the town square.  Men enter the town square. 

Men talking

Children laughing

Birds chirping

Water splashing

A view of a road to the north of the town square.  Woman appear cresting a slope in the road.

Women Chatting

Women laughing

Close view of the adults in the town square.

Women yelling for their children

A view of the Martin family.

Mrs. Martin screaming at her son.

A view of the Martin Family.  Bobby Martin runs toward the rock pile, but quickly returns to his family.

Mr. Martin yelling at his son.

Random conversations from other townspeople.

A view of the town square from the narrator’s point of view on the hill.  A man can be seen entering the town square with a black box in his hands.

Noise from the crowd.

Birds chirping

Narrator speaking with his son

Close view of the town square.  Joe Summers enters the square and places the block box on a stool.

Crowd noise

Birds chirping

Joe Summers talking

Conversations between Joe Summers and the crowd

Close up of Joe Summers and Harry Graves.  The crowd can be seen on the left.

Joe Summers and Harry Graves talking

Close up of town square. The postman enters the square from the direction of the post office.

Birds chirping

Crowd noise

Joe Summers talking

Joe Summers holds up his right hand and swears in.

Mr. Summers talking to the postman

Crowd answering Joe Summer’s questions

A close up of the town square.  Tessie Hutchinson entering the town square from the south side.

Joe Summers talking to people in the crowd

Birds chirping

Close up of Tessie Hutchinson and Mrs. Delacroix.  Tessie Hutchinson wipes her hands on her apron

Tessie Hutchinson talking to Mrs. Delacroix

Mr. Graves and Mr. Martin talking to Bill Hutchinson.

Close-up of Joe Summers

Joe Summers talking to the crowd

Crowd responses

A view of the crowd of people in the town square.  People are licking their lips.

Crowd chatting

A view of Joe Summers and the black box.  People from the crowd walk to the box one by one and take a piece of paper, and then return to the places in the crowd

Joe Summers talking to the crowd.

Joe Summers calling the names of people in the crowd

Close-up of Mrs. Delacroix and Mrs. Graves

Mrs. Delacroix and Mrs. Graves talking

Birds chirping

A view of Joe Summers and the black box.  Harry Graves approaches the box and takes a piece of paper from the box.  He then returns to his position next to Mr. Summers.

Joe Summers and Harry Graves talking

A view of the Hutchinson family.  Bill walks toward Joe Summers and takes a piece of paper from the black box.  He then returns to his family.

Joe Summers talking to Bill Hutchinson

Tessie Hutchinson and random people from the crowd encouraging Bill Hutchinson

Close-up of Old Man Warner and Steve Adams.

Old Man Warner and Steve Adams talking.

Crowd noise

Birds chirping

A view of the Martin family.  Mr. Martin walks to the black box

Crowd noise

Birds chirping

Children laughing

A view of Joe Summers and the black box.  Mr. Martin takes a piece of paper from the box, and then returns to his family

Crowd noise

Birds chirping

Close-up of Mrs. Dunbar and her son.  Her son runs off screen

Mrs. Dunbar talking with her son

Birds chirping

Crowd noise

Close-up of Joe Summers and the black box.  Joe Summers move to the opposite side of the box and takes a piece of paper from it.  He then returns to his position at the other side of the box.

Joe Summers speaking

Box creaking as it opens

A view of Joe Summers and the black box.  Old Man Warner walks toward Joe Summers.  He stops every few steps and speaks to the crowd.  He takes a piece of paper from the box and returns to his place in the crowd.

Old Man Warner speaking to the crowd.

Crowd noise

A view of Joe Summers and the black box.  The Watson boy walks toward Joe Summers slowly and visibly shaking.  He takes a piece of paper and returns to his spot in the crowd

Joe Summers speaking to the crowd

A view of the crowd.  The people in the crowd open their papers at the same time.

Rustling of papers

Breeze

Camera pans the pieces of paper and stops on the one with a black dot.

Crowd noise

Camera moves from the piece of paper with the black dot to the man holding it, which is Mr. Hutchinson.

Crowd noise

Old Man Warner shouting

A view of the Hutchinson family.  The camera pans each person in the Hutchinson family.

Bill and Tessie Hutchinson arguing

Random shouts from the crowd

A view of Joe Summers and the Hutchinson family.

Joe Summers talking with the Hutchinson family

A view of Joe Summers, Mr. Graves, Davy Hutchinson, and the black box. Mr. Graves takes a piece of paper from the box and takes three steps back.

Birds Chirping

Davy Hutchinson laughing

Joe Summers talking with Mr. Graves

A view of Joe Summers and the black box.  Nancy Hutchinson walks to the box.  She takes out a piece of paper, and then returns to her family.

Crowd noise

Joe Summers talking to Nancy Hutchinson

A view of three girls in school clothes.  They are crying.  One begins to pray.

Friend praying

A view of Joe Summers and the black box.  Bill Hutchinson Jr. walks to the black box.  He takes a piece of paper, and then returns to his family.

Joe Summers talking to Bill Hutchinson Jr.

Birds chirping

A view of the Hutchinson family.  The camera follows Tessie to the box.  She selects a piece of paper and returns to her family.  Bill Hutchinson walks to the box.  He takes out a piece of paper and returns to his family.

Joe Summers talking to Tessie Hutchinson and Bill Hutchinson.

Pan the crowd of people.

Bird chirping

Random conversations in the crowd

A view of three girls in school outfits.  All three are on their knees.

Girls crying

Crowd noise

Birds chirping

Wind Blowing

Close-up of Old Man Warner.  He is stamping his cane on the floor.

Old Man Warner speaking to the people around him

Cane hitting the ground repeatedly

A view of the Hutchinson family opening their papers

Papers crinkling

Joe Summers speaking to the Hutchinson family

A view of Nancy and Bill Jr.  They open their papers, which reveals that they do not have the paper with the black dot.

Clapping

Laughter from Nancy and Bill Jr. Hutchinson

Close-up of Bill Hutchinson.  Bill Hutchinson opens his paper revealing a blank piece of paper.  Bill takes the paper from his wife’s hand and opens it.  The black dot can be seen on the paper.

Joe Summers speaking to the Hutchinson family

A view of the crowd moving toward the pile of stones in the North West corner.  Tessie Hutchinson begins running.

Joe Summers speaking to the crowd

Tessie Hutchinson screaming

The crowd starts yelling

A view of Mrs. Dunbar running.  She slows down and begins walking.  Mrs. Delacroix turns around and faces Mrs. Dunbar.

Mrs. Delacroix speaking with Mrs. Dunbar
 

Crowd yelling

Tessie Hutchinson screaming in the distance

Feet pounding against the ground

A view of the children running on the North road toward Tessie Hutchinson.

Bobby Martin yelling to the other children

Other children yelling

Birds squawking

Close-up of Bobby Martin.  He throws a stone and hits Tessie Hutchinson in the head.

Tessie Hutchinson screaming

Stones hitting flesh

Close-up of Old Man Warner.  He has an evil grin on his face.  He throws a stone at Tessie Hutchinson.

Old Man Warner yelling at the crowd.

Tessie Hutchinson screaming.

A view of Joe Summers and Harry Graves walking.

Joe Summers and Harry Graves talking

A view of the narrator with his son standing on a hill overlooking the town square.  The narrator and his son walk off screen and a view of Tessie Hutchinson’s corpse can be seen in the distance.  The camera fades to black.

Narrator and son talking

Birds chirping

Wind blowing