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(WIND WOOSHING)

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(CAR APPROACHES)

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(TIRES SCREECH)

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(HEAVY WINDS GUSTING)

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(CAR ENGINE REVS)

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(CAR ENGINE TURNS OFF)

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NARRATOR: In a cold world,
all the watches started to freeze.

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The sun came and went between blizzards
and gusts which erased all bearings.

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In this world lived a fire

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and in this fire,
two lovers found a home.

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(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)

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(LAVA BOILS)

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(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

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MALE TV HOST: (IN FRENCH)

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(IN FRENCH)

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MALE TV HOST 1:

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(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONCLUDES)

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CAMERA MAN 1: (IN ENGLISH)

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CAMERA MAN 1:

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CAMERA MAN 1: All right.
The volcano is ready, waiting for us.

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Yes. (CHUCKLES)

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MAURICE: Okay.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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CAMERA MAN 1: Katia?

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(CAMERA CLICKS)

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NARRATOR: This is Katia,
and this is Maurice.

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It's 1991, June 2nd.

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Tomorrow will be their last day.

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-They will leave behind samples.
-(FILM REEL WHIRRING)

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(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: Words.

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Hundreds of hours of footage.

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Thousands of photos.

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And a million questions.

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FEMALE TV HOST 1: (IN FRENCH)

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(LAUGHS)

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(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)

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FEMALE TV HOST 1:

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(MAURICE LAUGHING)

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The Muana Loa.

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(VIDEO CAMERA REEL CLICKS)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
They meet 19 years ago.

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-In 1966.
-(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: There is no definitive account
of this first encounter

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and the visual record
of their budding romance is sparse.

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(UPBEAT MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: There is this photo...

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and these rose-tinted moments
a few years later.

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Parts of Katia and Maurice's story
remain lost to time.

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As in love, there are mysteries.

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You fall hard for what you know.

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Harder for what you don't.

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-(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(CAMERA REEL CLICKS)

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(POP MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: In one story, Katia
and Maurice meet by chance on a bench

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at the University of Strasbourg.

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(CROWD APPLAUDING)

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(IN FRENCH)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
In a second,

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they meet at a new film
by renowned volcanologist Haroun Tazieff.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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NARRATOR: The most detailed account
is a blind date at a café.

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They bond over their first loves,
Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli.

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-(POP MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(CAMERA REEL WHIRRING)

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NARRATOR: Katia, a rebel who was sent
to a school for unruly girls,

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convinces her parents to take her
to Italy's volcanoes.

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KATIA: (IN FRENCH)

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(STONES CLATTERING)

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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

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KATIA:

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MAURICE:

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(CAMERA REEL CLICKS)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Maurice would return to Stromboli

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at age 19,

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feeling at once ecstasy and loneliness.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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NARRATOR: Katia understands
this loneliness.

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It is also hers.

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-(GUNSHOT FIRES)
-(LOUD EXPLOSION)

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NARRATOR: Growing up in the rubble
of postwar Alsace,

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the world felt to them unsafe, uncertain.

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They take refuge in the mysteries
of the natural world.

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(BIRDS CHIRPING)

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NARRATOR: Dreaming,
just 20 kilometers apart.

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The Vosges and Rhine fault lines
shifting imperceptibly beneath them.

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At the end of this version,
the café closes and it begins to rain.

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(RAIN DROPS POURING)

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NARRATOR: They will never
leave each other.

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-(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(LAVA BOILING)

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(ROCKS CLATTER)

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(THUNDER RUMBLING)

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(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

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(LAVA BOILS)

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(FIRE BLAZES)

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(LAVA BOILS)

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-(EXPLOSION)
-(OMINOUS MUSIC CONCLUDES)

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NARRATOR: November 19th, 1967,

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a U.S. fighter plane
drops two snake-eye bombs

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along the South Vietnam border...

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the territory once colonized
as French Indochina.

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(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: One week later,

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Katia and Maurice join anti-war protests
in Paris.

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The next day, they show up
on the front page of L'Humanité.

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(PAPERS RUSTLES)

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NARRATOR: But human pursuits
of power begin to feel vain and absurd

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next to the power of the Earth.

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MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

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(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) It's also
the plate tectonic revolution,

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and the field of volcanology
is finding its form.

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MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) They devour
each hypothesis, each myth.

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Everything that has been gleaned so far
from the archives of the Earth.

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The truths...

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the fragments...

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the questions.

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They wonder what forms
and re-forms the world.

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To these mysteries they long
to get closer.

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-(CAR ENGINE REVS)
-(CAR HORN HONKING)

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-(FOGHORN BLOWS)
-(OFFICER WHISTLES)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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NARRATOR: With just enough grant money
and a donated car,

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Katia and Maurice
go seek Iceland's volcanoes

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with their friend, Roland.

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Katia is the geochemist,

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Maurice the geologist.

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Alone, they could only dream of volcanoes.

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Together, they can reach them.

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(CAR ENGINE SPUTTERS)

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NARRATOR: Except the car breaks down
27 times.

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-(TIRES SCREECHING)
-(THUDS)

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NARRATOR: Then crashes.

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(LAVA BOILS)

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NARRATOR: And Maurice gets
into hot water.

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(WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: Here is an actor
reading Katia's account.

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FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)

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(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

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MAURICE:

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-(WHIMSICAL MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Undeterred,
they spend the next few summers

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studying their mutual friends,
Etna and Stromboli.

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They also bring along more human friends.

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L'Équipe Vulcain, they call themselves.

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(BOTH CHUCKLE)

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KATIA: (IN FRENCH)

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-(METAL HELMET CLANGS)
-(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONCLUDES)

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(LAVA BOILS)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Katia and Maurice are after

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the strange alchemy of elements,

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the combination of mineral, heat,

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gas and time that incites an eruption.

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(MACHINES WHIRRING)

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NARRATOR: What is it, they ask,
that makes the Earth's heart beat?

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Its blood flow?

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They study, examine and question.

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Katia and Maurice begin
to learn the secrets of the planet

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that few others know.

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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(EXPLOSION)

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NARRATOR: Understanding
is love's other name.

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(ROCKS CLATTER)

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KATIA: (IN FRENCH)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) 1970,

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Katia and Maurice marry
in a small ceremony in Alsace.

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-(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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NARRATOR: They honeymoon
on the volcanic island of Santorini,

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believed to be the secret location
of Atlantis.

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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: Katia and Maurice decide
they will not have children.

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“From here on out,
life will only be volcanoes,

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"volcanoes, volcanoes,” Maurice says.

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-(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(CAMERA REEL CLICKS)

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MALE TV HOST: (IN FRENCH)

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)

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MALE TV HOST:

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(ALL LAUGHING)

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MALE TV HOST:

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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
The young field of volcanology

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has found two young stars.

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MALE INTERVIEWER: (IN FRENCH)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGILSH)
The camera loves them.

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And they love their own cameras back.

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(CAMERA REEL WHIRRING)

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NARRATOR: Photography
is a means of remembering, revisiting,

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stretching their time with volcanoes.

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MALE INTERVIEWER: (IN FRENCH)

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KATIA:

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(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGISH) This photo shows
the parabolic trajectories

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-of volcanic bombs ejected from Stromboli.
-(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

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NARRATOR: This one shows how lava
is stretched into glass wool

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called Pele's hair.

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And this shot helps visualize
plate tectonic theory.

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(CAMERA REEL WHIRRING)

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NARRATOR: Volcanology
is a science of observation.

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The closer they get, the more they see.

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-(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(CRICKETS CHIRPING)

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-(NEEDLE RUSTLES)
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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FEMALE TV HOST: (IN FRENCH)

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MAURICE:

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MAURICE:

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FEMALE TV HOST:

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) The very instant
a volcano wakes up,

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these weirdoes are notified

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by a growing network of local friends
and guides who help them

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reach the craters as fast
as humanly possible.

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(MOTORBOAT ENGINE REVS)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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NARRATOR: Maurice and Katia
make their expedition to Nyiragongo,

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a volcano that sits
between two diverging plates.

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They are guided by fellow
volcanologist Jacques Durieux.

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MAURICE: You arrive
at the mouth of the volcano,

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then you have to go

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in the mouth of the volcano.
So you are going down.

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Not so high, 300 meters.
But very bad rock. (CHUCKLING)

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All kinds of fumaroles went through,
and so it's not strong.

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-(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(LAVA BOILS)

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NARRATOR: Here,
Maurice and Katia make their home

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for the next two weeks.

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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

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NARRATOR: Katia would later write...

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FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)

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(LAVA BOILS)

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(ROCKS CLATTER)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Suddenly, the lava plunges down

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ten meters in seconds.

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FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)

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(VOLCANO ROARS)

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FEMALE VOICE:

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice
will eventually emerge

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from this crater unscathed and emboldened.

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MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
In the immense universe

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that is the classification of volcanoes,

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the Kraffts will eventually
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Red...

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and gray.

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KATIA: (IN FRENCH)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Red volcanoes,
like Nyiragongo,

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form as tectonic plates pull apart,

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and at hotspots on the ocean floor.

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Magma rises and fills in the gaps
opened up by the movement of the Earth,

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creating new land.

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Red volcanoes are basaltic.

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Effusive.

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And up to 1200 degrees Celsius hot.

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(MAGMA BLAZES)

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MAURICE: (IN ENGLISH)

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-(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(FRENCH MUSIC PLAYING)

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-(SONG STOPS)
-(FIRE BLAZES)

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(SONG CONTINUES)

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(WAVES CRASH)

259
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(SONG FADES)

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(LAVA BOILS)

261
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(LAVA ROARS)

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00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,280
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

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(UPBEAT MUSIC CONCLUDES)

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MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

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(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

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00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,120
(UPBEAT MUSIC CONCLUDES)

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FEMALE INTERVIEWER: (IN FRENCH)

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FEMALE INTERVIEWER: (CHUCKLES)

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MAURICE:

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(CAMERA REEL CLICKS)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice
have their differences.

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-(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
-(SEAGULLS SQUAWK)

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NARRATOR: Katia is like a bird.

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Maurice, an elephant seal.

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(SEAL BARK)

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NARRATOR: Katia is drawn to details,
the interconnectedness of things.

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Maurice, the singular, the grandiose.

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They both observe the world,
but in their own distinct ways.

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(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

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NARRATOR: Katia, with her still camera,
captures one moment with one frame.

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(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

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NARRATOR: Maurice chases motion...

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recording a stream of seconds,
24 frames each.

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He thirsts to get every possible shot,
because the spectacle could vanish.

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But this causes him to wander...

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and wander...

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and wander.

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Katia's greatest fear is
that she will lose sight of him...

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and never see him again.

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MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

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(LAVA ROARS)

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(NEEDLE RUSTLES)

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(HELICOPTER WHIRS)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) A surprise telegram
summons Katia...

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and Maurice to Nyiragongo,

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their beloved volcano
that they met four years ago.

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(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)

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(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)

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00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,560
(KATIA BREATHING HEAVILY)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Katia and Maurice knew

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this kind of destruction was possible.

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But this is the first time
they experience it firsthand.

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MAURICE: The lava flows were going very...
very fast.

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They were probably running
at 60 to 70 kilometers per hour.

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And this was in the morning
where a lot of people were on the road

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going for the market.

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We think that around 100 people
were overwhelmed by the lava flow.

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Very unusual eruption.

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)

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00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:29,880
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(WIND WHOOSHING)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
No amount of scientific research

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could have prepared them for this shock.

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The language of myth instead feels apt.

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They're in the cauldron of the devil,

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the portal to hell.

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Or caught amid the warring spirits
of the volcano,

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according to the stories
from their friends in Goma.

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00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:02,120
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)

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MAURICE:

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)

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00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,400
(WIND WHOOSHING)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
For Katia and Maurice,

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the unknown is not something to be feared.

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It is something to go toward.

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(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

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MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

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(WAVES CRASH)

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00:40:58,200 --> 00:40:59,800
FEMALE VOICE:

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(LAVA ROARS)

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
At only 52 years old

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an infant Indonesian volcano begins
to throw a fit.

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Katia and Maurice go chase it.

336
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(FIRE BLAZES)

337
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:29,320
NARRATOR: In 1883, its parent,
a volcano named Krakatau, exploded.

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(WAVES CRASH)

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It conjured a tsunami so forceful
that it swept

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neighboring coastlines,
killing 36,417 people.

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-(PAPERS RUSTLE)
-(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

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00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,720
NARRATOR: It also ripped up this coral
from the seafloor

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and parked a colonial Dutch steamship
two miles inland.

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Ash traveled the globe,
intensifying sunsets that transfixed

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the gaze of scientists and artists,
especially one Norwegian painter

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00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,280
who described the sunsets as a scream.

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00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,760
Then the volcano
collapsed into the sea...

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only to spring up again as a newcomer
called Anak Krakatau.

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MAURICE: (IN ENGLISH)

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-(TENSE MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(WIND WHOOSHING)

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(EXPLOSION)

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00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,760
(ROCKS CLATTER)

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00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:22,920
(VOLCANO ROARING)

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00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,720
MAURICE:

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(VOLCANO ROARING)

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MAURICE:

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(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,000
FEMALE VOICE:

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NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice
must be totally in sync.

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Any mistake that one makes can be costly
for the both of them.

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But Maurice cannot do this work
without Katia.

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Neither can Katia, without Maurice.

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And together, they're there
for the volcano,

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who is indifferent in the face
of their adulation.

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MAURICE: (IN ENGLISH)

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(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)

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00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,600
(WIND WHOOSHING)

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00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:34,880
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Katia and Maurice know

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that these rocks will long outlive them.

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00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,680
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

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00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:44,160
NARRATOR: They are not religious.

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"We are scientists," they say.

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"We have but this one short life,
then we return to the ground."

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With her one short life,
Katia dreams of growing old

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00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,960
with the volcano, of turning over
its every stone.

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00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,640
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: (IN FRENCH)

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00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,240
(VOLCANO ROARS)

378
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:34,880
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Maurice burns
to get closer to the fire, no matter what.

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00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:37,560
He once wrote,

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00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,280
MALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)

381
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,040
(VOLCANO ROARS)

382
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,480
(ROCKS CLATTER)

383
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,280
(MAGMA BOILS)

384
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,240
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Maurice hatches this plan

385
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from another boating adventure

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00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:21,840
during their first trip
to Indonesia in 1971.

387
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:25,720
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

388
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,320
NARRATOR: Here,
they study the largest reserve

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of sulfuric acid in the world.

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00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,480
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

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00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:52,840
(ACID HISSES)

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00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,760
MAURICE:

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00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:18,720
FEMALE VOICE:

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00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:27,920
(ACID SIZZLES)

395
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:31,080
(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES)

396
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,120
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

397
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,120
MAURICE: F

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00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,040
(ACID HISSES)

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00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,440
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Suddenly,
the acid eats through the steel cable

400
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,400
and claims the sample bottle
at the bottom of the lake.

401
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:54,760
(WIND WHOOSHING)

402
00:51:58,360 --> 00:51:59,880
NARRATOR: This mission is over.

403
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,640
A headwind sweeps them further from shore.

404
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:09,640
They will spend the next three hours
struggling to get back.

405
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:13,760
Katia is furious.

406
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:23,680
-(GAS HISSING)
-(OMINOUS MUSIC CONCLUDES)

407
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,440
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

408
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:34,880
(JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)

409
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:54,680
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Over time, Maurice perfects

410
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,920
the legend of Maurice Krafft.

411
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,200
FEMALE TV HOST: (IN FRENCH)

412
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:02,600
(BOTH LAUGH)

413
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:13,440
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) And together,

414
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,640
he and Katia
have gotten good at playing themselves.

415
00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:20,360
(IN FRENCH)

416
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:43,720
-(JAZZ MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(FILM CAMERA WHIRRING)

417
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:45,680
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Despite what Maurice says,

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00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,000
their footage suggests otherwise.

419
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,640
For instance, how do they show
that their work is grueling?

420
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:01,040
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

421
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:02,920
NARRATOR: Perhaps like this?

422
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:07,040
Or this?

423
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,360
How do they show how to gaze
into the abyss?

424
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:16,360
Perhaps like this.

425
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:24,520
How do they stage geologic scale?

426
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,680
With images like this?

427
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,240
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

428
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,360
NARRATOR: But what about this?

429
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,280
(HORSES NEIGHING)

430
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:55,920
NARRATOR: Why was this moment captured
with their rationed feet of film?

431
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:57,720
(CHEERS)

432
00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:00,560
NARRATOR: What or who was it for?

433
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:08,520
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(METALS CLANGING)

434
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:15,000
NARRATOR: Now and again, Katia and Maurice
must go back to Alsace

435
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,400
to turn their photos and footage
into books and films.

436
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:23,040
Here, they are denizens
of this human world.

437
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:24,600
(MATCHSTICK CLICKING)

438
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,800
-(FIRE SPARKS)
-(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

439
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:33,680
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

440
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:49,480
MALE VOICE:

441
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,680
FEMALE VOICE:

442
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:21,200
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) In order
to get back home to the volcano,

443
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,200
they must pay the bills.

444
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:26,560
Katia catalogues their images,

445
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:28,040
writes the books

446
00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:30,480
and handles the logistics.

447
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:32,520
(CAMERA REEL WHIRS)

448
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,320
NARRATOR: Maurice takes the lecture tour,
media appearances,

449
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,400
tries in vain to plan his lava canoe trip.

450
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,680
(IN FRENCH)

451
00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:47,720
(CHUCKLES)

452
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:50,280
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
He also edits their films.

453
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:52,560
-(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(CAMERA REEL WHIRS)

454
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:01,440
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

455
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:22,400
ELECTRONIC PINBALL VOICE: (IN ENGLISH)
Ball is in.

456
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:25,200
Danger.

457
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,520
-(PINBALL CLATTERS)
-ELECTRONIC PINBALL VOICE: Danger.

458
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,480
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

459
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:36,280
NARRATOR: Over in the United States,
volcanologist Harry Glicken

460
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:40,760
takes this photo of Mount St. Helens
on May 17, 1980.

461
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,240
What follows are some
of the best-known images

462
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,120
of what will happen here tomorrow,

463
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:52,520
starting at eight hours, 32 minutes,
11.4 seconds Pacific Daylight Time.

464
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:55,720
(LAVA BOILING)

465
00:57:57,960 --> 00:57:58,800
(RADIO DISTORTING)

466
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,400
MAN OVER RADIO:

467
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:06,080
(HIGH PITCHED BUZZING)

468
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,720
MAN OVER RADIO:

469
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,120
DAVID JOHNSTON:

470
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:15,920
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)

471
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:20,240
MAN OVER RADIO:

472
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:27,840
(STATIC NOISE)

473
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:31,000
NARRATOR: Fifty-three kilometers
to the east on Mount Adams,

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00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:33,200
-a hiker takes these photos.
-(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)

475
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:37,440
NARRATOR: Fifty-six kilometers
to the northwest,

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00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:39,400
this image is taken.

477
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:44,760
Somewhere further, an eight-millimeter
film camera records this.

478
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:46,440
(FILM REEL WHIRRING)

479
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:53,320
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
-(TV BUZZING)

480
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,200
NARRATOR: As for Maurice and Katia,

481
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:57,640
they did not film or photograph
this eruption...

482
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:00,240
because they could not see or hear it.

483
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:03,200
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(TV CLICKS)

484
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,280
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

485
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:18,560
-(TV CLICKS)
-(LOW PITCHED BUZZING)

486
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:28,560
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) As ash descends
on the surrounding area...

487
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,480
Katia and Maurice make their approach.

488
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,040
(HELICOPTER WHIRS)

489
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:53,480
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

490
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,080
(MAURICE BREATHING HEAVILY)

491
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:27,120
(FIRE BLAZES)

492
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:04,680
NARRATOR: Katia and Maurice will spend
three months amid the ash...

493
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:09,840
monitoring, photographing,
studying this force.

494
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:15,680
And little by little, they
and their fellow researchers

495
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:19,720
will paint a clearer picture of the event,
with numbers like

496
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:21,320
two point eight,

497
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:25,440
the number of cubic kilometers
of land cast off by the mountain.

498
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:30,280
Twenty-five thousand,
the eruption's force measured

499
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,320
in atomic bombs like the one
that the United States dropped

500
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:34,640
on Hiroshima.

501
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:39,360
Fifty-seven,
the official human death toll.

502
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:48,480
At one point, they will find
the melted tapes of David Johnston.

503
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:53,760
(IN ENGLISH)

504
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:34,160
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) No matter what
they discover after the blast...

505
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:37,160
they come no closer to understanding how

506
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,600
to make the most critical measurements
before it.

507
01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:45,680
(IN FRENCH)

508
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:01,520
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
From this moment on,

509
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:05,440
they will devote their lives
to this kind of volcano.

510
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:07,480
The gray volcano.

511
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:09,440
The killer volcano.

512
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:11,240
(JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)

513
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:18,120
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

514
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:27,560
(VOLCANO ERUPTS)

515
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:35,360
(VOLCANO ERUPTS)

516
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,600
(ROCKS CLATTER)

517
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:47,000
MAURICE:

518
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:00,840
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Gray volcanoes may be killers,

519
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:04,640
but their ash makes the most fertile soil
in the world,

520
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:07,800
as demonstrated by this killer turnip.

521
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:15,200
Unlike red volcanoes,
which form when plates pull apart,

522
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:18,960
grays form when plates collide,
causing pressure and heat

523
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:22,160
to build and build
until a cataclysmic release.

524
01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:23,920
(VOLCANO ERUPTS)

525
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:28,920
NARRATOR: A Who's-Who of such eruptions
would include Vesuvius in the year 79,

526
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:31,520
Tambora in 1815,

527
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:34,240
and Pelée in 1902.

528
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:39,240
Here is a relatively small one,

529
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:41,920
Galunggung, in 1982.

530
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,480
And here's Una-Una in 1983.

531
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:58,560
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

532
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:32,640
(JAZZ MUSIC CONCLUDES)

533
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:36,680
MAURICE:

534
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:05,720
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) There may be signs
before an eruption,

535
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:10,120
but there is no certainty.
No way of knowing the exact timing.

536
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:13,840
And timing is everything
in the human world.

537
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:15,800
-(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS)
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

538
01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:19,040
NARRATOR: In 1884,

539
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:23,280
time was set to machines
instead of the wild rhythms of the Earth.

540
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:27,520
No longer told by the Sun, Moon or stars,

541
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:31,840
it relied on manufactured intervals
to coordinate railway cars

542
01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:34,120
transporting minerals ripped
from the Earth.

543
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:39,800
Embraced by the British Empire,
this new railway time soon

544
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:41,240
mapped the globe.

545
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:47,560
But a volcano can't be scheduled.

546
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:49,280
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)

547
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:52,080
NARRATOR: The length of the fuse
is never known.

548
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:03,560
MALE TV HOST: (IN FRENCH)

549
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:10,920
MAURICE:

550
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:26,720
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) This is a map
drawn of Nevado del Ruiz,

551
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:29,760
a gray volcano in Colombia's Andean range.

552
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:35,080
It illustrates the threat if it erupts.
And there's every indication that it will,

553
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:39,880
as Colombia's geoscientists communicated
to officials in reports.

554
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,480
This one, presented on October 7, 1985,

555
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:48,120
states that there is
a 100 percent probability of mudflows,

556
01:08:48,440 --> 01:08:52,200
with great danger for Armero
and the surrounding towns.

557
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:53,800
(FILM REEL WHIRS)

558
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:55,760
NARRATOR: Katia and Maurice
are part of a chorus

559
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,560
who call for warning systems
and evacuation plans.

560
01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:00,000
(NEEDLE CLICKS)

561
01:09:00,480 --> 01:09:01,920
NARRATOR: They know what will happen.

562
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:06,880
But the decision-makers
deem these plans too costly.

563
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:10,120
(VOLCANO ROARING)

564
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:20,680
(LOW PITCHED BUZZING)

565
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:35,200
NARRATOR: On November 14, 1985,
these images circulate around the world.

566
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:43,480
The volcano erupted the previous day,

567
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:46,920
and the mudflows swallowed the villages
late at night,

568
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:49,160
while residents slept.

569
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:58,400
Katia arrives while
Maurice is on a lecture tour in France,

570
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:00,640
promoting their latest film.

571
01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:03,920
(WATER BURBLES)

572
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:16,640
-(RAIN POURS)
-(WAVES CRASH)

573
01:10:30,440 --> 01:10:32,120
(WIND WHOOSHING)

574
01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:05,200
NARRATOR: The official death toll climbs
to 22,000...

575
01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:07,960
and then 23,000.

576
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:11,600
Some reports say 25,000.

577
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:14,840
The exact number is not known.

578
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:21,760
Survivors would later recount.

579
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:25,120
MALE VOICE: (IN SPANISH)

580
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:39,240
MALE VOICE 2:

581
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:52,920
MALE VOICE 3:

582
01:12:09,480 --> 01:12:11,160
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Katia longs for Maurice,

583
01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:12,840
who is likely lecturing

584
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:15,880
at this moment on the creative powers
of volcanoes.

585
01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:22,160
For the first time, she questions
her life's purpose.

586
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,680
KATIA: (IN FRENCH)

587
01:12:43,480 --> 01:12:46,640
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(CAR ENGINE REVVING)

588
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:53,840
KATIA:

589
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:08,040
MAURICE:

590
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:22,400
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice
had spent their lives

591
01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:25,400
documenting how the Earth's heart beats,

592
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:27,160
how its blood flows.

593
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:32,240
Now they feel their own human hearts
beating and breaking.

594
01:13:32,440 --> 01:13:35,360
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)

595
01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:38,600
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

596
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:47,600
NARRATOR: Long ago, Maurice said...

597
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:51,720
MALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)

598
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:33,760
(VOLCANO SIZZLES)

599
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:36,360
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

600
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:45,920
(FIRE BLAZES)

601
01:15:48,080 --> 01:15:50,840
(HOUSE THUDS)

602
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:54,680
-(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(AEROPLANE ENGINE WHIRS)

603
01:15:57,120 --> 01:15:59,680
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Volcanoes must destroy to create...

604
01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:03,840
but must this unruly cycle
take human life?

605
01:16:08,440 --> 01:16:10,640
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

606
01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:18,160
(FIRE BLAZES)

607
01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:27,920
KATIA:

608
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:55,280
(HELICOPTER WHIRS)

609
01:16:57,920 --> 01:16:59,560
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
Katia and Maurice set out

610
01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:01,240
to hunt for the rarest,

611
01:17:01,440 --> 01:17:05,280
deadliest forces
for a new film on volcanic hazards.

612
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:09,960
(WIND WHOOSHING)

613
01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:25,000
NARRATOR: It took them one full year
to get these shots

614
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:27,080
on Alaska's Mount Augustine.

615
01:17:36,440 --> 01:17:41,040
KATIA: (IN FRENCH)

616
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:47,760
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

617
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:56,360
KATIA:

618
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:42,120
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
The camera shakes as if it's telegraphing,

619
01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:44,280
whether to stay or run.

620
01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:51,440
Perhaps it is because their colleague,
Juergen Kienle,

621
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:54,200
is about to pull them away
from the burning ash cloud

622
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:55,520
at the last second.

623
01:18:56,480 --> 01:18:58,600
(VOLCANO BOILS)

624
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:01,480
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)

625
01:19:43,440 --> 01:19:46,960
NARRATOR: Several years from now,
their obituary will cite this

626
01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:50,200
as the moment where Katia
and Maurice insisted that the risks

627
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:51,760
should always be minimized...

628
01:19:53,480 --> 01:19:56,560
but that this type of close-up study
had to be done.

629
01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:02,320
-(WIND GUSHING)
-(BIRDS CHIRPING)

630
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:07,880
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

631
01:20:22,440 --> 01:20:23,840
NARRATOR: Maurice once said,

632
01:20:24,760 --> 01:20:28,720
“Look at how small we humans
are against this volcanic force.

633
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:33,520
"The only thing that will remain
of our passage is that we can write,

634
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:35,800
"tell stories, and film.”

635
01:20:37,240 --> 01:20:39,280
(WAVE CRASHES)

636
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:50,640
(CAMERA DISTORTS)

637
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:18,440
(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES)

638
01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:21,000
NARRATOR: When you could die
at any moment...

639
01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:23,760
what do you leave behind?

640
01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:29,280
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

641
01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:32,400
MALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)

642
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:02,640
KATIA:

643
01:22:37,240 --> 01:22:40,080
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) A set of forces
collide inside the planet

644
01:22:40,240 --> 01:22:43,080
throughout the enormity of geologic time

645
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:46,040
to trigger one instant, an eruption,

646
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:48,920
that forever re-shapes the Earth.

647
01:22:51,480 --> 01:22:54,360
And across humanity's two million years,

648
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:58,000
two tiny humans are born
in the same place,

649
01:22:58,720 --> 01:22:59,960
at the same time,

650
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:02,680
and they love the same thing.

651
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:07,720
And that love moved us closer
to the Earth.

652
01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:10,560
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)

653
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:12,520
-(VIDEO CAMERA BEEPING)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

654
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:15,760
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

655
01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:38,640
(TELEPHONE CLICKING, BEEPING)

656
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:44,680
(WIND WHOOSHING)

657
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:47,240
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH)
June 3rd, 1991,

658
01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:51,640
Mount Unzen begins to wake up
after its 200-year slumber.

659
01:23:52,480 --> 01:23:54,680
The mountain has been stirring since May,

660
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:58,480
but today, something will shift
inside the Earth.

661
01:23:59,480 --> 01:24:01,120
(BIRDS CHIRPING)

662
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:06,280
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

663
01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:31,600
(SPEAKING FRENCH INDISTINCTLY)

664
01:24:32,240 --> 01:24:36,560
We hope always, but we cannot be sure,
and we don't know nothing.

665
01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:40,200
You have big blocks on the top
and they have to...

666
01:24:40,320 --> 01:24:41,800
to come down, but when?

667
01:24:44,480 --> 01:24:46,200
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

668
01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:50,400
-(THUNDER RUMBLING)
-(RAIN POURS)

669
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:54,000
NARRATOR: Just after 4:00 p.m.,
it starts to rain.

670
01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:57,840
Ash blows in on a north wind.

671
01:24:59,360 --> 01:25:01,240
Something seems different this time.

672
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:06,560
The mist obscures their view,

673
01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:09,080
so Katia and Maurice push closer

674
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:11,640
with their friend, Harry Glicken,
to get a better shot.

675
01:25:23,400 --> 01:25:25,520
-(VOLCANO ERUPTING)
-(ROCKS CLATTER)

676
01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:51,840
(SIREN WAILING)

677
01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:16,800
NARRATOR: A journalist who abandoned
their camera captured this shot.

678
01:26:26,440 --> 01:26:27,640
(TV STATIC)

679
01:26:29,160 --> 01:26:30,440
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

680
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:33,280
NARRATOR: And there's this moment,
just before the blast.

681
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:36,840
The last known shot of Katia
and Maurice together.

682
01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:40,840
-(CAMERA REEL WHIRRING)
-(CAMERA CLICKING)

683
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:48,640
NARRATOR: Japanese officials gave Katia
and Maurice's friend, Yves, this photo.

684
01:26:49,440 --> 01:26:52,160
Their urns resting
in the Shimabara Temple

685
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:53,680
at the base of Mount Unzen.

686
01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:01,680
Near the site of the surge,
the marks on the earth indicated

687
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:04,280
that Katia and Maurice were next
to each other.

688
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:07,800
Two items were recovered.

689
01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:10,520
A camera and a watch,

690
01:27:11,200 --> 01:27:13,200
its hands forever frozen in time

691
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:15,200
at 4:18 p.m.

692
01:27:19,880 --> 01:27:23,520
Just over the East China Sea,
Mount Pinatubo trembles.

693
01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:27,360
In one week, it will explode
in the most spectacular

694
01:27:27,480 --> 01:27:30,240
volcanic eruption the Philippines
has ever known.

695
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:33,760
Fifty-eight thousand people will evacuate.

696
01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:38,600
Officials took the warning signs
seriously, thanks to Katia

697
01:27:38,720 --> 01:27:41,560
and Maurice's film
about understanding volcanoes.

698
01:27:49,240 --> 01:27:51,960
Across the world,
near the French-German border,

699
01:27:52,440 --> 01:27:57,640
the Vosges and Rhine fault lines shift
imperceptibly beneath a sleeping Earth.

700
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:05,560
(MAGMA BOILS)

701
01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:23,280
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)

702
01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:32,600
KATIA:

703
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:53,800
(WIND WHOOSHING)

704
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:08,360
(WAVE CRASHES)

705
01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:21,960
-(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

706
01:30:07,480 --> 01:30:09,720
-(ROCK MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)

707
01:31:55,160 --> 01:31:57,920
-(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

708
01:33:21,120 --> 01:33:23,280
(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES)