LTX-2 Pro
**Video sequence (can be made from a selection of frames):** * **0-15 sec:** Majestic repository plans of the national libraries (RGB, Library of Congress): endless shelves stretching into the distance. * **15-30 seconds:** Close-ups of antique folios: cracked leather bindings, yellowed pages, fancy letters. * **30-45 seconds:** Quick scene: A white-gloved hand gently turns over a fragile page. Then there's the contrast: a hand casually throws a battered book into a box, the page rips. * **45-60 seconds:** Frames of restoration workshops: scientists under a microscope, a chemical laboratory with flasks, the process of "rejuvenation" of paper. * **The last 5 seconds:** The icon of the family album, which turns into an old battered book (photoshop overlay). And a sudden transition to a black screen. **(The music stops. The final shot is on the screen: two books are lying on a black background. One is a luxurious antique folio under glass. The other is a modest, shabby, Soviet book in a cheap binding, like "Sherlock Holmes" or a cookbook with notes.)** **Problematic question of the presenter (voiced against the background of this frame):** > **"Imagine: the library is on fire. You only have a chance to save ONE book. Which one will you take out? The one that is in the public domain, a masterpiece... or the one in the margins of which your grandmother's handwriting contains a recipe for a pie that can't be baked anywhere else? Where is the nation's memory really stored — in perfect vaults or in the worn spines of our home libraries? And why is time merciless to both of them?"**