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Ancient Egypt
SKETCH-O-VISION
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The premise
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In Egypt in 1909, a stiff-upper-lip professor and his pith-helmeted team pry open a sealed chamber they hail as the source of all ancient learning, and the white explorers coo over a bottled elixir. Richard Pryor's archaeologist, meanwhile, unrolls an old book and reads it aloud: humanity began with Black gods arriving by spacecraft, and Black people went on to invent medicine, music and brain surgery. He whoops with delight, plans to tell everyone back home and insists history will have to be rewritten. The professor responds by announcing that the site holds nothing of interest, calling in the bulldozers to flatten it and suggesting it is time for tea.
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Highly quotable.
Great Scott, we've discovered the fountain of all knowledge of Egypt and the entire world.
Get the bulldozers. There's nothing here.
Good heavens, time for tea, eh?
Behind the scenes
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John Moffitt
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Script
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- 00:04
Professor!
- 00:05
Professor! I got it open!
- 00:16
Good heavens, man!
- 00:19
Great Scott, we've discovered the fountain of all knowledge of Egypt and the entire world.
- 00:26
Do you realize the importance of this moment, Smedley?
- 00:31
Yes, sir, I do.
- 00:32
Do you see the brilliance, the untold years?
- 00:37
I see it, sir.
- 00:40
Sir, wait, sir. This is medicine.
- 00:42
Thank you so much.
- 00:45
Thank you, sir.
- 00:46
Have fun.
- 00:47
There you swine.
- 00:48
What?
- 00:49
Look!
- 00:50
What is this?
- 00:52
Let's see.
- 00:55
It says...
- 00:56
Okay, now.
- 00:57
This is the elixir of life, sir.
- 00:59
The elixir of life?
- 01:00
The cure for all diseases.
- 01:02
Right.
- 01:03
Let's see here.
- 01:05
Wait.
- 01:05
Give it to me.
- 01:06
There's a description on the bottom.
- 01:07
Give it to me.
- 01:07
Give it to me.
- 01:08
Open at other end.
- 01:11
You little
- 01:12
Lunaromics.
- 01:13
Lunaromics.
- 01:13
this can't be man what you know what this is what is it luna it's the book of life
- 01:26
in the beginning when man arrived on earth the black gods did leave their spacecraft
- 01:35
and they walked and they named the beast of the sea and the animals of the land
- 01:43
And man in his blackness did walk to earth, making up medicine, then discovered time.
- 01:53
These were all black people, god damn!
- 01:55
This
- 01:56
Wait a minute! This ain't nothing in here about whitey!
- 02:00
This is ours, Jack!
- 02:02
Wait till your brothers hear this!
- 02:03
Booner!
- 02:04
Oh, get this book out of here, baby!
- 02:06
This tells the real team!
- 02:08
Booner, control yourself! Control yourself, don't you see?
- 02:11
What do you mean, Jack? Look at this here!
- 02:13
Black people discovered it!
- 02:15
Started the music and the brain surgery back in the year 3 B.C.
- 02:19
Yes, of course! Of course, Booner!
- 02:21
Man, they was getting down!
- 02:22
This is it, brother!
- 02:24
gonna know about this.
- 02:26
is what we can change in history.
- 02:28
Civilization will be changed.
- 02:29
Yeah, this is gonna be it.
- 02:34
Get the bulldozers.
- 02:36
There's nothing here.
- 02:37
Shut up!
- 02:40
Good heavens, time for tea, eh?
- 02:42
What?
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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