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(WIND WOOSHING)
(CAR APPROACHES)
(TIRES SCREECH)
(HEAVY WINDS GUSTING)
(CAR ENGINE REVS)
(CAR ENGINE TURNS OFF)
NARRATOR: In a cold world, all the watches started to freeze.
The sun came and went between blizzards and gusts which erased all bearings.
In this world lived a fire
and in this fire, two lovers found a home.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(LAVA BOILS)
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
MALE TV HOST: (IN FRENCH)
(IN FRENCH)
MALE TV HOST 1:
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONCLUDES)
CAMERA MAN 1: (IN ENGLISH)
CAMERA MAN 1:
CAMERA MAN 1: All right. The volcano is ready, waiting for us.
Yes. (CHUCKLES)
MAURICE: Okay.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
CAMERA MAN 1: Katia?
(CAMERA CLICKS)
NARRATOR: This is Katia, and this is Maurice.
It's 1991, June 2nd.
Tomorrow will be their last day.
-They will leave behind samples. -(FILM REEL WHIRRING)
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: Words.
Hundreds of hours of footage.
Thousands of photos.
And a million questions.
FEMALE TV HOST 1: (IN FRENCH)
(LAUGHS)
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
FEMALE TV HOST 1:
(MAURICE LAUGHING)
The Muana Loa.
(VIDEO CAMERA REEL CLICKS)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) They meet 19 years ago.
-In 1966. -(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: There is no definitive account of this first encounter
and the visual record of their budding romance is sparse.
(UPBEAT MUSIC CONCLUDES) (MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: There is this photo...
and these rose-tinted moments a few years later.
Parts of Katia and Maurice's story remain lost to time.
As in love, there are mysteries.
You fall hard for what you know.
Harder for what you don't.
-(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(CAMERA REEL CLICKS)
(POP MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: In one story, Katia and Maurice meet by chance on a bench
at the University of Strasbourg.
(CROWD APPLAUDING)
(IN FRENCH)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) In a second,
they meet at a new film by renowned volcanologist Haroun Tazieff.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
NARRATOR: The most detailed account is a blind date at a café.
They bond over their first loves, Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli.
-(POP MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(CAMERA REEL WHIRRING)
NARRATOR: Katia, a rebel who was sent to a school for unruly girls,
convinces her parents to take her to Italy's volcanoes.
KATIA: (IN FRENCH)
(STONES CLATTERING)
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
KATIA:
MAURICE:
(CAMERA REEL CLICKS)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Maurice would return to Stromboli
at age 19,
feeling at once ecstasy and loneliness.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
NARRATOR: Katia understands this loneliness.
It is also hers.
-(GUNSHOT FIRES) -(LOUD EXPLOSION)
NARRATOR: Growing up in the rubble of postwar Alsace,
the world felt to them unsafe, uncertain.
They take refuge in the mysteries of the natural world.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
NARRATOR: Dreaming, just 20 kilometers apart.
The Vosges and Rhine fault lines shifting imperceptibly beneath them.
At the end of this version, the café closes and it begins to rain.
(RAIN DROPS POURING)
NARRATOR: They will never leave each other.
-(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(LAVA BOILING)
(ROCKS CLATTER)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(LAVA BOILS)
(FIRE BLAZES)
(LAVA BOILS)
-(EXPLOSION) -(OMINOUS MUSIC CONCLUDES)
NARRATOR: November 19th, 1967,
a U.S. fighter plane drops two snake-eye bombs
along the South Vietnam border...
the territory once colonized as French Indochina.
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: One week later,
Katia and Maurice join anti-war protests in Paris.
The next day, they show up on the front page of L'Humanité.
(PAPERS RUSTLES)
NARRATOR: But human pursuits of power begin to feel vain and absurd
next to the power of the Earth.
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) It's also the plate tectonic revolution,
and the field of volcanology is finding its form.
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) They devour each hypothesis, each myth.
Everything that has been gleaned so far from the archives of the Earth.
The truths...
the fragments...
the questions.
They wonder what forms and re-forms the world.
To these mysteries they long to get closer.
-(CAR ENGINE REVS) -(CAR HORN HONKING)
-(FOGHORN BLOWS) -(OFFICER WHISTLES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
NARRATOR: With just enough grant money and a donated car,
Katia and Maurice go seek Iceland's volcanoes
with their friend, Roland.
Katia is the geochemist,
Maurice the geologist.
Alone, they could only dream of volcanoes.
Together, they can reach them.
(CAR ENGINE SPUTTERS)
NARRATOR: Except the car breaks down 27 times.
-(TIRES SCREECHING) -(THUDS)
NARRATOR: Then crashes.
(LAVA BOILS)
NARRATOR: And Maurice gets into hot water.
(WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: Here is an actor reading Katia's account.
FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
MAURICE:
-(WHIMSICAL MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Undeterred, they spend the next few summers
studying their mutual friends, Etna and Stromboli.
They also bring along more human friends.
L'Équipe Vulcain, they call themselves.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
KATIA: (IN FRENCH)
-(METAL HELMET CLANGS) -(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(LAVA BOILS)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice are after
the strange alchemy of elements,
the combination of mineral, heat,
gas and time that incites an eruption.
(MACHINES WHIRRING)
NARRATOR: What is it, they ask, that makes the Earth's heart beat?
Its blood flow?
They study, examine and question.
Katia and Maurice begin to learn the secrets of the planet
that few others know.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(EXPLOSION)
NARRATOR: Understanding is love's other name.
(ROCKS CLATTER)
KATIA: (IN FRENCH)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) 1970,
Katia and Maurice marry in a small ceremony in Alsace.
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
NARRATOR: They honeymoon on the volcanic island of Santorini,
believed to be the secret location of Atlantis.
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: Katia and Maurice decide they will not have children.
“From here on out, life will only be volcanoes,
"volcanoes, volcanoes,” Maurice says.
-(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(CAMERA REEL CLICKS)
MALE TV HOST: (IN FRENCH)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
MALE TV HOST:
(ALL LAUGHING)
MALE TV HOST:
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) The young field of volcanology
has found two young stars.
MALE INTERVIEWER: (IN FRENCH)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGILSH) The camera loves them.
And they love their own cameras back.
(CAMERA REEL WHIRRING)
NARRATOR: Photography is a means of remembering, revisiting,
stretching their time with volcanoes.
MALE INTERVIEWER: (IN FRENCH)
KATIA:
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGISH) This photo shows the parabolic trajectories
-of volcanic bombs ejected from Stromboli. -(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
NARRATOR: This one shows how lava is stretched into glass wool
called Pele's hair.
And this shot helps visualize plate tectonic theory.
(CAMERA REEL WHIRRING)
NARRATOR: Volcanology is a science of observation.
The closer they get, the more they see.
-(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
-(NEEDLE RUSTLES) -(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
FEMALE TV HOST: (IN FRENCH)
MAURICE:
FEMALE TV HOST:
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) The very instant a volcano wakes up,
these weirdoes are notified
by a growing network of local friends and guides who help them
reach the craters as fast as humanly possible.
(MOTORBOAT ENGINE REVS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
NARRATOR: Maurice and Katia make their expedition to Nyiragongo,
a volcano that sits between two diverging plates.
They are guided by fellow volcanologist Jacques Durieux.
MAURICE: You arrive at the mouth of the volcano,
then you have to go
in the mouth of the volcano. So you are going down.
Not so high, 300 meters. But very bad rock. (CHUCKLING)
All kinds of fumaroles went through, and so it's not strong.
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(LAVA BOILS)
NARRATOR: Here, Maurice and Katia make their home
for the next two weeks.
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: Katia would later write...
FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)
(LAVA BOILS)
(ROCKS CLATTER)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Suddenly, the lava plunges down
ten meters in seconds.
FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)
(VOLCANO ROARS)
FEMALE VOICE:
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice will eventually emerge
from this crater unscathed and emboldened.
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) In the immense universe
that is the classification of volcanoes,
the Kraffts will eventually adopt two general classes.
Red...
and gray.
KATIA: (IN FRENCH)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Red volcanoes, like Nyiragongo,
form as tectonic plates pull apart,
and at hotspots on the ocean floor.
Magma rises and fills in the gaps opened up by the movement of the Earth,
creating new land.
Red volcanoes are basaltic.
Effusive.
And up to 1200 degrees Celsius hot.
(MAGMA BLAZES)
MAURICE: (IN ENGLISH)
-(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(FRENCH MUSIC PLAYING)
-(SONG STOPS) -(FIRE BLAZES)
(SONG CONTINUES)
(WAVES CRASH)
(SONG FADES)
(LAVA BOILS)
(LAVA ROARS)
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
(UPBEAT MUSIC CONCLUDES)
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
(UPBEAT MUSIC CONCLUDES)
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: (IN FRENCH)
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: (CHUCKLES)
MAURICE:
(CAMERA REEL CLICKS)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice have their differences.
-(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) -(SEAGULLS SQUAWK)
NARRATOR: Katia is like a bird.
Maurice, an elephant seal.
(SEAL BARK)
NARRATOR: Katia is drawn to details, the interconnectedness of things.
Maurice, the singular, the grandiose.
They both observe the world, but in their own distinct ways.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
NARRATOR: Katia, with her still camera, captures one moment with one frame.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
NARRATOR: Maurice chases motion...
recording a stream of seconds, 24 frames each.
He thirsts to get every possible shot, because the spectacle could vanish.
But this causes him to wander...
and wander...
and wander.
Katia's greatest fear is that she will lose sight of him...
and never see him again.
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
(LAVA ROARS)
(NEEDLE RUSTLES)
(HELICOPTER WHIRS)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) A surprise telegram summons Katia...
and Maurice to Nyiragongo,
their beloved volcano that they met four years ago.
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)
FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(KATIA BREATHING HEAVILY)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice knew
this kind of destruction was possible.
But this is the first time they experience it firsthand.
MAURICE: The lava flows were going very... very fast.
They were probably running at 60 to 70 kilometers per hour.
And this was in the morning where a lot of people were on the road
going for the market.
We think that around 100 people were overwhelmed by the lava flow.
Very unusual eruption.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(WIND WHOOSHING)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) No amount of scientific research
could have prepared them for this shock.
The language of myth instead feels apt.
They're in the cauldron of the devil,
the portal to hell.
Or caught amid the warring spirits of the volcano,
according to the stories from their friends in Goma.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
FEMALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)
MAURICE:
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(WIND WHOOSHING)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) For Katia and Maurice,
the unknown is not something to be feared.
It is something to go toward.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
(WAVES CRASH)
FEMALE VOICE:
(LAVA ROARS)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) At only 52 years old
an infant Indonesian volcano begins to throw a fit.
Katia and Maurice go chase it.
(FIRE BLAZES)
NARRATOR: In 1883, its parent, a volcano named Krakatau, exploded.
(WAVES CRASH)
It conjured a tsunami so forceful that it swept
neighboring coastlines, killing 36,417 people.
-(PAPERS RUSTLE) -(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: It also ripped up this coral from the seafloor
and parked a colonial Dutch steamship two miles inland.
Ash traveled the globe, intensifying sunsets that transfixed
the gaze of scientists and artists, especially one Norwegian painter
who described the sunsets as a scream.
Then the volcano collapsed into the sea...
only to spring up again as a newcomer called Anak Krakatau.
MAURICE: (IN ENGLISH)
-(TENSE MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(WIND WHOOSHING)
(EXPLOSION)
(ROCKS CLATTER)
(VOLCANO ROARING)
MAURICE:
(VOLCANO ROARING)
MAURICE:
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)
FEMALE VOICE:
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice must be totally in sync.
Any mistake that one makes can be costly for the both of them.
But Maurice cannot do this work without Katia.
Neither can Katia, without Maurice.
And together, they're there for the volcano,
who is indifferent in the face of their adulation.
MAURICE: (IN ENGLISH)
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(WIND WHOOSHING)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice know
that these rocks will long outlive them.
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: They are not religious.
"We are scientists," they say.
"We have but this one short life, then we return to the ground."
With her one short life, Katia dreams of growing old
with the volcano, of turning over its every stone.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: (IN FRENCH)
(VOLCANO ROARS)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Maurice burns to get closer to the fire, no matter what.
He once wrote,
MALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)
(VOLCANO ROARS)
(ROCKS CLATTER)
(MAGMA BOILS)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Maurice hatches this plan
from another boating adventure
during their first trip to Indonesia in 1971.
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: Here, they study the largest reserve
of sulfuric acid in the world.
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
(ACID HISSES)
MAURICE:
FEMALE VOICE:
(ACID SIZZLES)
(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
MAURICE: F
(ACID HISSES)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Suddenly, the acid eats through the steel cable
and claims the sample bottle at the bottom of the lake.
(WIND WHOOSHING)
NARRATOR: This mission is over.
A headwind sweeps them further from shore.
They will spend the next three hours struggling to get back.
Katia is furious.
-(GAS HISSING) -(OMINOUS MUSIC CONCLUDES)
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
(JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Over time, Maurice perfects
the legend of Maurice Krafft.
FEMALE TV HOST: (IN FRENCH)
(BOTH LAUGH)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) And together,
he and Katia have gotten good at playing themselves.
(IN FRENCH)
-(JAZZ MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(FILM CAMERA WHIRRING)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Despite what Maurice says,
their footage suggests otherwise.
For instance, how do they show that their work is grueling?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: Perhaps like this?
Or this?
How do they show how to gaze into the abyss?
Perhaps like this.
How do they stage geologic scale?
With images like this?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
NARRATOR: But what about this?
(HORSES NEIGHING)
NARRATOR: Why was this moment captured with their rationed feet of film?
(CHEERS)
NARRATOR: What or who was it for?
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(METALS CLANGING)
NARRATOR: Now and again, Katia and Maurice must go back to Alsace
to turn their photos and footage into books and films.
Here, they are denizens of this human world.
(MATCHSTICK CLICKING)
-(FIRE SPARKS) -(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
MALE VOICE:
FEMALE VOICE:
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) In order to get back home to the volcano,
they must pay the bills.
Katia catalogues their images,
writes the books
and handles the logistics.
(CAMERA REEL WHIRS)
NARRATOR: Maurice takes the lecture tour, media appearances,
tries in vain to plan his lava canoe trip.
(IN FRENCH)
(CHUCKLES)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) He also edits their films.
-(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(CAMERA REEL WHIRS)
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
ELECTRONIC PINBALL VOICE: (IN ENGLISH) Ball is in.
Danger.
-(PINBALL CLATTERS) -ELECTRONIC PINBALL VOICE: Danger.
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: Over in the United States, volcanologist Harry Glicken
takes this photo of Mount St. Helens on May 17, 1980.
What follows are some of the best-known images
of what will happen here tomorrow,
starting at eight hours, 32 minutes, 11.4 seconds Pacific Daylight Time.
(LAVA BOILING)
(RADIO DISTORTING)
MAN OVER RADIO:
(HIGH PITCHED BUZZING)
MAN OVER RADIO:
DAVID JOHNSTON:
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
MAN OVER RADIO:
(STATIC NOISE)
NARRATOR: Fifty-three kilometers to the east on Mount Adams,
-a hiker takes these photos. -(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
NARRATOR: Fifty-six kilometers to the northwest,
this image is taken.
Somewhere further, an eight-millimeter film camera records this.
(FILM REEL WHIRRING)
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) -(TV BUZZING)
NARRATOR: As for Maurice and Katia,
they did not film or photograph this eruption...
because they could not see or hear it.
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(TV CLICKS)
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
-(TV CLICKS) -(LOW PITCHED BUZZING)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) As ash descends on the surrounding area...
Katia and Maurice make their approach.
(HELICOPTER WHIRS)
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
(MAURICE BREATHING HEAVILY)
(FIRE BLAZES)
NARRATOR: Katia and Maurice will spend three months amid the ash...
monitoring, photographing, studying this force.
And little by little, they and their fellow researchers
will paint a clearer picture of the event, with numbers like
two point eight,
the number of cubic kilometers of land cast off by the mountain.
Twenty-five thousand, the eruption's force measured
in atomic bombs like the one that the United States dropped
on Hiroshima.
Fifty-seven, the official human death toll.
At one point, they will find the melted tapes of David Johnston.
(IN ENGLISH)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) No matter what they discover after the blast...
they come no closer to understanding how
to make the most critical measurements before it.
(IN FRENCH)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) From this moment on,
they will devote their lives to this kind of volcano.
The gray volcano.
The killer volcano.
(JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
(VOLCANO ERUPTS)
(ROCKS CLATTER)
MAURICE:
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Gray volcanoes may be killers,
but their ash makes the most fertile soil in the world,
as demonstrated by this killer turnip.
Unlike red volcanoes, which form when plates pull apart,
grays form when plates collide, causing pressure and heat
to build and build until a cataclysmic release.
(VOLCANO ERUPTS)
NARRATOR: A Who's-Who of such eruptions would include Vesuvius in the year 79,
Tambora in 1815,
and Pelée in 1902.
Here is a relatively small one,
Galunggung, in 1982.
And here's Una-Una in 1983.
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
(JAZZ MUSIC CONCLUDES)
MAURICE:
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) There may be signs before an eruption,
but there is no certainty. No way of knowing the exact timing.
And timing is everything in the human world.
-(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS) -(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: In 1884,
time was set to machines instead of the wild rhythms of the Earth.
No longer told by the Sun, Moon or stars,
it relied on manufactured intervals to coordinate railway cars
transporting minerals ripped from the Earth.
Embraced by the British Empire, this new railway time soon
mapped the globe.
But a volcano can't be scheduled.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
NARRATOR: The length of the fuse is never known.
MALE TV HOST: (IN FRENCH)
MAURICE:
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) This is a map drawn of Nevado del Ruiz,
a gray volcano in Colombia's Andean range.
It illustrates the threat if it erupts. And there's every indication that it will,
as Colombia's geoscientists communicated to officials in reports.
This one, presented on October 7, 1985,
states that there is a 100 percent probability of mudflows,
with great danger for Armero and the surrounding towns.
(FILM REEL WHIRS)
NARRATOR: Katia and Maurice are part of a chorus
who call for warning systems and evacuation plans.
(NEEDLE CLICKS)
NARRATOR: They know what will happen.
But the decision-makers deem these plans too costly.
(VOLCANO ROARING)
(LOW PITCHED BUZZING)
NARRATOR: On November 14, 1985, these images circulate around the world.
The volcano erupted the previous day,
and the mudflows swallowed the villages late at night,
while residents slept.
Katia arrives while Maurice is on a lecture tour in France,
promoting their latest film.
(WATER BURBLES)
-(RAIN POURS) -(WAVES CRASH)
(WIND WHOOSHING)
NARRATOR: The official death toll climbs to 22,000...
and then 23,000.
Some reports say 25,000.
The exact number is not known.
Survivors would later recount.
MALE VOICE: (IN SPANISH)
MALE VOICE 2:
MALE VOICE 3:
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia longs for Maurice,
who is likely lecturing
at this moment on the creative powers of volcanoes.
For the first time, she questions her life's purpose.
KATIA: (IN FRENCH)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
KATIA:
MAURICE:
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice had spent their lives
documenting how the Earth's heart beats,
how its blood flows.
Now they feel their own human hearts beating and breaking.
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: Long ago, Maurice said...
MALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)
(VOLCANO SIZZLES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(FIRE BLAZES)
(HOUSE THUDS)
-(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(AEROPLANE ENGINE WHIRS)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Volcanoes must destroy to create...
but must this unruly cycle take human life?
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
(FIRE BLAZES)
KATIA:
(HELICOPTER WHIRS)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) Katia and Maurice set out
to hunt for the rarest,
deadliest forces for a new film on volcanic hazards.
(WIND WHOOSHING)
NARRATOR: It took them one full year to get these shots
on Alaska's Mount Augustine.
KATIA: (IN FRENCH)
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)
KATIA:
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) The camera shakes as if it's telegraphing,
whether to stay or run.
Perhaps it is because their colleague, Juergen Kienle,
is about to pull them away from the burning ash cloud
at the last second.
(VOLCANO BOILS)
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
NARRATOR: Several years from now, their obituary will cite this
as the moment where Katia and Maurice insisted that the risks
should always be minimized...
but that this type of close-up study had to be done.
-(WIND GUSHING) -(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: Maurice once said,
“Look at how small we humans are against this volcanic force.
"The only thing that will remain of our passage is that we can write,
"tell stories, and film.”
(WAVE CRASHES)
(CAMERA DISTORTS)
(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES)
NARRATOR: When you could die at any moment...
what do you leave behind?
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)
MALE VOICE: (IN FRENCH)
KATIA:
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) A set of forces collide inside the planet
throughout the enormity of geologic time
to trigger one instant, an eruption,
that forever re-shapes the Earth.
And across humanity's two million years,
two tiny humans are born in the same place,
at the same time,
and they love the same thing.
And that love moved us closer to the Earth.
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)
-(VIDEO CAMERA BEEPING) -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
(TELEPHONE CLICKING, BEEPING)
(WIND WHOOSHING)
NARRATOR: (IN ENGLISH) June 3rd, 1991,
Mount Unzen begins to wake up after its 200-year slumber.
The mountain has been stirring since May,
but today, something will shift inside the Earth.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(SPEAKING FRENCH INDISTINCTLY)
We hope always, but we cannot be sure, and we don't know nothing.
You have big blocks on the top and they have to...
to come down, but when?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(THUNDER RUMBLING) -(RAIN POURS)
NARRATOR: Just after 4:00 p.m., it starts to rain.
Ash blows in on a north wind.
Something seems different this time.
The mist obscures their view,
so Katia and Maurice push closer
with their friend, Harry Glicken, to get a better shot.
-(VOLCANO ERUPTING) -(ROCKS CLATTER)
(SIREN WAILING)
NARRATOR: A journalist who abandoned their camera captured this shot.
(TV STATIC)
(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)
NARRATOR: And there's this moment, just before the blast.
The last known shot of Katia and Maurice together.
-(CAMERA REEL WHIRRING) -(CAMERA CLICKING)
NARRATOR: Japanese officials gave Katia and Maurice's friend, Yves, this photo.
Their urns resting in the Shimabara Temple
at the base of Mount Unzen.
Near the site of the surge, the marks on the earth indicated
that Katia and Maurice were next to each other.
Two items were recovered.
A camera and a watch,
its hands forever frozen in time
at 4:18 p.m.
Just over the East China Sea, Mount Pinatubo trembles.
In one week, it will explode in the most spectacular
volcanic eruption the Philippines has ever known.
Fifty-eight thousand people will evacuate.
Officials took the warning signs seriously, thanks to Katia
and Maurice's film about understanding volcanoes.
Across the world, near the French-German border,
the Vosges and Rhine fault lines shift imperceptibly beneath a sleeping Earth.
(MAGMA BOILS)
MAURICE: (IN FRENCH)
KATIA:
(WIND WHOOSHING)
(WAVE CRASHES)
-(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
-(ROCK MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
-(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONCLUDES) -(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES)