Trailer for The Last Picture Show (1971). PAN of a small town main street. Shot of community dance with a young couple dancing together, a young man off to the side watches them. MS of Elizabeth Taylor being projected on a screen. Young man in a psychedelic patterned shirt combing a duck tail hair style outside of what looks like a classroom door in an outdoor hallway. LS of two boys throwing rocks into a body of water on a desolate looking landscape with one dead tree in foreground. LS of a funeral on a grassy area in which the sky takes up more than half of the screen, a woman in a light colored dress walks away from the group of people in the background. They begin to walk as well as the shot cuts to a medium long shot of a high school marching band performing with their conductor/teacher with his back towards the camera. LS of cheerleaders in a row shaking their pom poms. LS of football players playing football on the same field. Film title shows “THE LAST PICTURE SHOW” in front of football stands. MCU shot of older white man in a black sweater facing two young boys, whose backs are to the camera and symmetrically are half out of the frame. They sit at a booth in a diner. Reverse shot focusing on one of the boys looking sheepish. Shot returns to the older man. Cuts to a MS of two young lovers in bed, the blonde girl wears a flannel shirt and the dark haired young man is topless tearing apart an Oreo sandwich cookie. Cuts to a MS of a blonde, clean and pure looking girl facing her bedroom vanity mirror and turns around speaking. Shot of an older woman saying something with an annoyed look on her face as she walks away. MCU of older man with a high school banner behind him. He wears a towel around his neck. LS of boys in P.E. clothes running around an indoor basketball court. The older man is now sitting and whips the boy running by with his towel. Older, rough looking man in a army jacket, outside of an old sort of liquor store speaks in the night. Reverse shot to a small group of youths wearing polished clothes yet looking menacing looking back at him. Back to the man before cutting to a medium shot of a door reading “9” opening with two young adults walking out. A blonde girl in a cropped halter top with the duck tail guy with another interestingly patterned shirt on. They walk and speak. Cut to a close up of a young man in the driver seat of a car then a shot of the same blonde girl next to him. He turns to her after she says his name. Close up on her face as she makes an expression as if she wants to/is about to be kissed. He leans in and just before their lips touch the trailer cuts to the two boys that have been seen with the blonde arguing with one another. Guy with a duck tail hits the other over the head with a bottle, cutting to a shot of the ground with the broken glass. They wrestle and punch on top of a car as people run over to them. Aerial shot of the hit boy lying partially under a car as a crowd surrounds them. Cuts to an older blonde woman throwing dishes at the wall in her kitchen. Young man hit with bottle before is sitting in a room with the angry woman. Medium shot of her yelling in a bathrobe. Cuts to the two men in the street, duck tail man wearing military uniform the other in a varsity jacket. The one in military uniform gets onto a bus cutting to a long shot of the bus driving away. Panning shot over river with desolate landscape surrounding. Older man with cowboy hat sits by water with two young boys, one of which is rolling a cigarette. Panning shot over small down’s buildings on main street. Title reads over frame. Cuts to black with reviews from the press.