Throughout his journey, Tamino collects flowers and
presses them into his journal.
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Your excellent memory skills have given you the chance to see the original
storyboard for Tamino's first scene in the film.
The black screen dissolves as the first great chord of the overture begins, and we almost feel the heat of a brilliant morning sun...
We tilt down through a vastness of a clear blue sky...
As the second chord comes in and chases the birds across the view.
As the third chord rings out we tilt further down and reveal a pastoral landscape of rare beauty. It is sublimely peaceful.
20 seconds in and the music leads the camera to drop still further to a beautifully casual arrangement of wild flowers; daisies, dog roses, buttercups...
At around 28 seconds, as the music gently swells, we have fixed in massive close-up an achingly simple trio of surreally blue forget-me-nots...
At 40 seconds, the music gently swells again as water droplets fall onto the fragile blooms.
We move slowly up and widen to reveal a soft and delicate hand slowly squeezing a soaked handkerchief.
The shot widens still further, and we pan to the left following the hand as it withdraws with exaggerated care as if desperate not to make a sound.
As we widen further and the ravishing landscape is no longer our backdrop, we see the arm withdraw through a man-made hole which pierces the flower-strewn bank. We move in as the arm disappears...
...to be replaced for a moment by the face of our hero, Tamino. The camera continues to move forward close to the youth and unblemished innocence of his features. (55 seconds) He moves out of shot...
...and the camera moves up and over the bank to reveal him to be in what appears to be some kind of grave surrounded by wood and earth. He looks nervously and hopefully to the sky. (1min. 06)
We see he is in some kind of W.W.1 uniform, difficult to identify. There are glimpses of other people. In a recess is a small book. We see him write in it. He is the very image of the Brooke-ian soldier poet.
After long consideration, and with delicate ceremony, he encloses the volume in the breast pocket of his tunic.
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