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Event Date(s): 11/01/2006 | Event Location(s): Silver Spring, Maryland;Leominster, Massachusetts; | Description: INT SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND MS: Gayle Hoehle (ph) plays"Where Flamingos Fly" on the piano amidst pink flamingo facsimiles. MS: Hoehle (faces unseen) plays the keyboard. CU: Music sheet. MS: Hoehle plays. MS: Pink flamingo lamp and painting. CU: Hoehle (faces unseen) writes with a pink flamingo pen. CU: Shower curtain with a pink flamingo pattern. CU: A pink flamingo pillow lands in shot. CU: The toilet cover is lowered revealing a pink flamingo decoration. CU: Pink flamingo silverware is placed on a plate. 2 MS: Standing with NBC's Bob Faw in her dining room, Hoehle says,"Our theme here is flamingos with elegance." CU: Pink flamingo towel holders. CU: A pink flamingo figurine is held up before pink flamingo statues. X CU: A pink flamingo snow globe. CU: A beaded pink flamingo. MS: In interview, Hoehle says,"They're just so fun. It's almost like God is showing his sense of humor." EXT DAY BRIEF CUTS: Shots of pink flamingo lawn decorations. MS: Father Dave Krolczyk (ph) stands before his church amidst the pink flamingos. CU: A pink flamingo. MS: In interview, Krolczyk says,"I mean they're awful. They're so bad they're good, right?" INT CU: A man (faces unseen) stacks pink flamingo lawn decorations. CU: Pink flamingo heads. INT LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS CU: Original pink flamingo designer Donald Featherstone man holds unpainted plastic flamingos. EXT DAY LEOMINSTER MS: In interview, Featherstone says,"Tropical elegance for less than $10. Hard to beat." EXT DAY MS: A car passes by pink flamingo lawn decorations. MS: Pink flamingos. CU: A spinning lawn decoration. MS: Pink flamingos. INT CU: A velvet Elvis Presley painting. INT CU: A pink flamingo rocks. INT MS: In interview, Syracuse University Popular Culture Analyst Professor Robert Thompson says,"Cheesy kitsch. The pink flamingo has spent well over half its life as a gag." INT CU: Pink flamingos. INT A FACTORY IN LEOMINSTER CU: A punch card time clock. CU: Unpainted flamingos. MS: Machinery. MS: Boxes on the factory floor. CU: Flamingo parts. MS: In interview with off camera Faw, Union Products President Dennis Plante says,"It's just not feasible for me to make them anymore." (FAW: Economically.)"Economically." MS: Faw reports on-camera before a conveyer belt with flamingo parts. CU: Flamingo parts CU: A hand uses an airbrush. CU: Someone holds a pink flamingo. MS: A worker hangs a pink flamingo on a line. MS: A line of pink flamingos. INT SILVER SPRING MS: In interview, Hoehle says,"They make you feel happy. It's hard to be unhappy when you see all these strange-looking creatures looking at you." X CU: Music sheets. EXT DAY BRIEF CUTS: Shots of pink flamingo lawn decorations. INT SILVER SPRING MS: Hoehle plays the piano. VO: Faw signs off from Leominster. a and c copies nat sot hit time 19:39:20