First of all, you have to be old enough to remember Dragnet- the staccato dialogue, the obvious two-shots, the stiff acting.

That said, in the 1970's we were asked to showcase how the local libraries had been modernized to include audi-visual and artistic media in their offerings.

Our response was this spot in which a library patron is mistaken for a criminal.

This is posted knowing how lousy the original off-the-wall video transfer from the original film is horrible, but it is offered as a companion piece to a bog about scriptwriting.