Скачать или смотреть Stowaway cat on first class flight back home to Wisconsin

(1 Dec 2005) SHOTLIST

1. Jean Pierre Burger from a kennel in Nancy walking to airport with cat Emily in pet carrier
2. Close-up of cat in pet carrier and pan to airport boarding screen
3. Various of man walking with cat in carrier inside airport
4. Man handing cat to Philippe Fleury, Head of Communications, Continental Airlines France
5. Close-up of sign reading: "Business First Customers" and cat being carried to check-in counter for boarding
6. Official from Continental Airlines playing with Emily
7. Close-up of cat inside pet carrier
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Fleury, Head of Communications, Continental Airlines France
"We have a special programme: it's called Pets Safe, which is a good programme, I should say, for the pets to travel, and moreover we are dedicated, if I can say so, in carrying animals."
9. Close-up of cat in pet carrier playing with stewardess
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Fleury, Head of Communications, Continental Airlines France
"I think she deserves business first because she is such a hardship story just coming here for one month then coming back with honours to the United States is a good thing, and in business first of course. I don't think she will drink champagne, but I think she will be happy to rest."
11. Identification tag found with Emily enabling her owners to be contacted
12. George Chiladze, a Continental Airlines Sales Agent based in Newark, playing with Emily who he is accompanying back to the US
13. Pan from Chiladze to Emily
14. SOUNDBITE (English) George Chiladza, Emily's escort on the plane and Continental Sales agent based in Newark
"I like the animals, I love animals, you know with pleasure, because I will make someone really happy to deliver this poor traveller back to home."
15. George Chiladza boarding plane carrying Emily in her cage
16. George getting settled in Business First along with Emily
17. George takes Emily out of her cage and stares out the window
18. Close-up of Emily in George's hands
19. Pan from George and Emily to plane window

STORYLINE

Emily, the cat that disappeared two months ago from Wisconsin in the United States and ended up travelling across the Atlantic to France as a stowaway in a cargo container, is finally on her way home.

Continental Airlines is flying the wayward tabby back to the United States in business first class - a combined business and first class category, with a round-trip ticket costing as much as seven thousand US dollars.

Emily has her very own seat and is being escorted by a Continental sales agent based in Newark in the United States - her first destination. After that she's expected to be transferred by Continental Airlines to Chicago, also in business class.

Emily's plight became known around the world, prompting Continental Airlines to offer to fly Emily home to her family once she cleared quarantine. Her return is eagerly awaited by her owner Lesley McElhiney of Appleton, Wisconsin.

Emily vanished from her Appleton home in late September after apparently wandering into a paper company's distribution centre near her home and crawling into a container of paper bales.

The container was taken by truck to Chicago and then by ship to Belgium before the cat was found on October 24 at Raflatac, a laminating company in Nancy, France.

Emily, who turned one on the day she was found, was thin and thirsty but still alive. It's still a mystery to those who cared for her in Nancy how exactly she survived the voyage.

Workers at Raflatac used her name tag to phone her veterinarian in Wisconsin, and the vet then called the McElhineys.


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