You've Got Mail - 00. The beginning

CYBERSPACE

We have a sense of cyberspace-travel as we hurtle through a sky that's just beginning to get light. There are a few stars but they fade and the sky turns a milky blue and a big computer sun starts to rise.

We continue hurtling through space and see that we're heading over a computer version of the New York City skyline. We move over Central Park. It's fall and the leaves are glorious reds and yellows.

We reach the West Side of Manhattan and move swiftly down Broadway with its stores and gyms and movies theaters and turn onto a street in the West 80's.

Hold in front of a New York brownstone.

At the bottom of the screen a small rectangle appears and the words: ADDING ART
As the rectangle starts to fill with color, we see a percentage increase from 0% to 100%. When it hits 100% the image pops and we are in real life.

NEW YORK BROWNSTONE - DAY

Early morning in New York. A couple of runners pass on their way to Riverside Drive Park. We go through the brownstone window into: