icepick141's video: The French Lieutenant s Woman

We are in Dorset, Thomas Hardy country. More specifically we are in the South English fishing village of Lyme Regis, on Lyme Bay, and, to be more specific still, we are on the quay, looking out over the ancient, handsome, serpentine seawall known as the Cobb. The weather is appropriately dour and the sea beyond the Cobb looks thick and heavy with time, its movements having less to do with weather than with the momentum it shares with the planets. In the foreground, a busy motion-picture crew is setting up a shot. They are interlopers, scavengers of natural scenery. There are cameras, cables, lights, reflectors, prop men, makeup for the assistants, the director and his star, an authoritative, preoccupied young woman wrapped in a large black cloak. "Action. Camera." The clapboard is clapped in front of the camera, and production commences on a film titled The French Lieutenant's Woman, a romantic melodrama set in Lyme Regis in 1867 and which we enter as the camera records this initial scene: