TREATMENT Alluring animated graphics along with historical footage and photos of pre-1906 San Francisco and post-earthquake San Francisco will set the tone and open the documentary. Historical recordings of the Exposition Organ, the famous "Lemare Rolls" (player organ music rolls) and other recordings of Austin organs will provide the music. On-camera interviews along with historical photographs of the construction and deconstruction of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition will propel the story through the P.P.I.E. segment. Interviews will include Lawrence Schoenstein. Lawrence followed in his father and grand father's footsteps and worked as an organbuilder for the family company (Felix F. Schoenstein & Sons). He will recount stories handed down to him by his father Louis J. Schoenstein who, along with his four brothers and father, Felix F. Schoenstein, installed the great Exposition Organ in 1915. Photographs, letters, blueprints, drawings and ephemera will be used to support the narration and interviews. These materials come from: The California Historical Museum, The San Francisco Public Library, The Bancroft Library, Moulin Photography, Schoenstein & Company, the Austin Organs' archives and the private collections of Charles Swisher, Betty Lemare Biza, Paul Motter, Lawrence Schoenstein and Edward Schoenstein. Character voices will read letters and memoirs written between the Schoensteins, the Austins, P.P.I.E. officials and The City of San Francisco regarding the installation of the Exposition Organ. Example memoir: "Representatives or agents of the leading organbuilding firms of the country, in one instance the builder himself, soon arrived in San Francisco, all desirous of securing the coveted contract, using devious means of approach, influence, intrigue and salesmanship to win the prize. Excitement was keen, expectations high, but likewise disappointment acute to the unsuccessful bidders when the information was finally made public that the local representative of the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, Conn., Mr. Robert Fletcher Tilton, had secured the contract to build the organ. The contract was signed in 1914." -- Louis J. Schoenstein. An interview with Betty Lemare Biza along with archive photographs will be featured in a segment about her legendary father Edwin H. Lemare. She will recount stories and memories about her father who was considered at the time to be the greatest living organist. Lemare was San Francisco's first municipal organist. An interview with Jack Bethards, president of Schoenstein & Company will tell of the instrument's history at the Civic Auditorium. Besides having twice installed the instrument, the Schoensteins have continually maintained and cared for the Exposition Organ for over eighty years. Bethards has personally tuned each and every pipe of the Exposition Organ and was directly involved in restoring the instrument before the Loma-Prieta earthquake of 1989. File footage of quake damage and fires around the city and photographs of a damaged Exposition Organ will embody this segment. An interview with Charles Swisher, Exposition Organ historian and activist will be featured throughout the documentary. Swisher headed up the Citizens' Committee to Preserve the San Francisco Municipal Pipe Organ (Exposition Organ) and was instrumental in securing FEMA funds used to repair the instrument after the earthquake. John Fenstermaker, organist for San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, will recount how the City issued a cease-work directive halfway through the restoration endeavor. Reasons for this cease-work order are debatable, but it is speculated that financial, political and profitable use-of-space issues drove the directive. The San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists, along with Fenstermaker, Bethards, AGO Exposition Organ project chair Cheryl Arnold, and others created an ad-hoc group of advocates to save the Exposition Organ. Through their efforts, the city was persuaded to allow Austin Organs to finish at least the basic repairs. The Exposition Organ has since been warehoused in Brooks Hall beneath the Civic Center. Mark Dorian, representing the City of San Francisco and directly involved with the storage of the instrument will be interviewed and will talk about how the instrument was stored and protected. Video footage will show 40-tons of crated wind chests, blowers, 7,500 wood and metal pipes, cabling and an enormous relay. Footage will demonstrate the enormity of the large 1,600 pound pedal pipes and feature the beautiful ebony console. Cameras will visit Austin Organs, Inc. in Hartford, Connecticut. A tour of the factory will show where and how the Exposition Organ was built. On camera interviews with Kimberlee Austin, president, Donald Austin, CEO and Victor Hoyt, organbuilder, along with Dr. Orpha Ochse, author of a book about the company's history, will be featured in this segment. An on-camera tour of the Austin organ factory will explain how the instrument was built and how it works. A cutaway view of an Austin organ windchest and pipe, along with computer animation will illustrate. The story will describe a once proposed plan to move the instrument out of state to Jacksonville, Florida. Opposition to this plan was led by Supervisor Sue Bierman who wanted to preserve San Francisco's musical heritage. Footage of the San Francisco Parks and Recreation Committee, The Board of Supervisors, the American Guild of Organists, San Francisco Beautiful, and others will demonstrate the overwhelming support to keep the Exposition Organ in San Francisco. These discussions shaped the Embarcadero Music Concourse and Exposition Organ project. Also the proposed installation of the Exposition Organ at the new Pacific Bell stadium will be addressed in the section, along with artist concept drawings. The audience will briefly tour the ROMA Design Group, an architectural and planning firm that has been working on the Embarcadero Reconstruction Project since 1991. Blueprints, drawings and a large model of downtown San Francisco are located in their offices. These tools will illustrate how the finished project will look. An on-camera interview with Boris Dramov president of the firm will be included. A brief segment will feature the outdoor Spreckles Organ (Austin) at Balboa Park in San Diego, California. Bob Plimpton, organist at Balboa Park will discuss the importance of municipal organs and highlight the success of the Spreckles installation and the Spreckles Organ Society. Lyle Blackinton, curator of the Spreckles organ and Exposition Organ consultant, will be interview for this segment. A special segment of the program will discuss the many treasures San Francisco has lost over the years and drive home the importance of preserving historical treasures such as the Exposition Organ. Historical footage of the interior and exterior of the famous San Francisco Fox Theater will show what was lost. Disturbing demolition footage of the Fox will drive home the urgency for preservation. An interview with Paul Motter, organ historian, will be featured in this segment. Photographs and footage will document the construction of the Organ Pavilion and the installation of the Exposition Organ. The camera will be an eyewitness to project obstacles as they are addressed and overcome. Time-lapse photography of the construction of the Organ Pavilion and installation of the Exposition Organ will be included in this segment. As needed, on-camera interviews with architects, engineers, city supervisors, the mayor of San Francisco, members of the American Guild of Organists, organ builders, consultants and organists will be used throughout the documentary to round-out the balance of the program. The documentary will end with the re-dedication concert and will include brief reflections by some of those interviewed earlier. The ending will bring an emotional triumph to an audience now appreciative of the challenges overcome to bring this historic organ back to the people of San Francisco.