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This is the official thread for a project being made by F-22 Productions called Behind the Red Line.

Type of project: animation.
                        -Genre of animation: action
                        -Drawing style: normal

SUMMARY
The crew of a B-17 bomber is shot down over the Ardenns forest in December 1944, during World War Two. The crew lands behind German lines, and must survive in an effort to evade capture and get back to the allies.

.:SCRIPT:.

FULL PLOT
The following story is fictional, but takes place during real events

This is for F-22 Production members.

On December 15 1944, during World War Two, a small bombing raid of American 8th Air Force B-17 bombers is flown against some last minute target's in Frankfurt, Germany. One of the bombers is piloted by a man named Micheal Damon, and on board his plane is a stowaway* named Leonard O'Neil. The aircraft makes a successful run but is attacked by German fighter planes and damaged, wounding one man, and is also bombarded with flak**, and two crew members are killed. When the plane is over the Ardenns forest (on the Belgian/German border), more flak ensues, and the aircraft is shot down. All except one member of the crew manages to bale out. Damon and his crew manage to regroup, except for O'Neil, who is separated from the rest. They decide to set up camp for the night. Unfortunately, they don't know they are in fact 11 miles inside German territory, and when German troops come looking for them, they end up in a struggle to evade capture. Meanwhile, O'Neil, completely clueless with his geography, starts walking west, in an attempt to find american troops (he is too inside German territory). Eventually, O'Neil makes it back to the Americans, but right after, get's caught up in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge***.

*In WW2, ground crews were known for sneaking on board bombers, because they wanted to fight.
**Flak is a kind of Anti Aircraft weapon. An artillery gun launches a projectile in the air, and that explodes when it reaches a certain altitude.
***The Battle of the Bulge was Hitlers last major offensive in the war. The Germans attempted to drive hundreds of new King Tiger tanks, backed up my thousands of infantry (and the bad weather which grounded all Allied airplanes from bombing them), north-west from the German/Belgian border, through Belgium, to the coast city of Antwerp, cutting American forces (on the south side) and the British forces (on the north side) in two. It failed, and by 26 December, the weather lifted and the German advance stalled. They were pushed back to where they started in February 1945. The Germans surrendered on May 8 1945.

CHARACTERS

PFC Leonard O'Neil A 15 year old bar tender at the squadron Officers club who says he got in under age because the guy at the recruiter station was an old guy who didn't really care he was under age. As the main character he sneaked himself onto the bomber because he wanted to see action. After the crew is shot down he get's separated from the rest of the group.

Captain Micheal Damon The aircraft commander (pilot) of the bomber, and the squadron commander. He is in his early 30's,

Lieutenant Robert "Bob" Johnson He is the co-pilot of the bomber.

Flight Officer John "Jim" Coughlin The aircraft navigator. He is 17, and enlisted as young as 16 by lying on his enlistment paper, but proved himself as a genius in Geography, and was made a Flight Officer (A special grade between the enlisted ranks and officer ranks) and sent to navigator school.

1st Lieutenant Richard "Dick" Mulen The aircraft bombardier. He is an Irish-American who moved to the states shortly before the war started. He couldn't get back to England in time to sign on with Royal Air Force like he wanted to, and went
into the US Army Air Corps.

Private Joseph Fish The top gunner on the bomber.

Corporal Ezra Wentz A Jewish-American of German origin (yet he retains an American accent), who moved to the united states as a toddler when the Nazi party came into power in Germany. He is the belly gunner on the bomber.

Other characters will come later in the script.

ACTORS

Jet7889 as O'Neil

Militarydudes as Captain Damon/Lieutenant Johnson

Thomas96 as Mulen

30bla30 as Wentz

iCode747 as Fish

We need a part for Coughlin! Please audition using a line from the script and show it to me! I am looking for someone around 12 or 13 years of age, and a male (duh). Thanks!

PRODUCTION

Animators
militarydudes
StarCobra
The_Dancing_Donut

Writting
militarydudes

Production Supervisor
militarydudes.

Other Things
Opening Credits

Even though Scratch is protected by a copywrite policy that allows the use of copywrited material under the protection of it's use for Educational purposes, All copyrighted material used in this project will be accompanied by a disclaimer. Just in case. 

Last edited by militarydudes (2010-11-17 21:50:13)