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A beam of orange smoke flows from right to left across a black background, eventually forming the words "you and i films," which then dissolve. Another stream of orange smoke flows across the screen, forming the words "media for a better world."

A drawn flower whose petals are various shades of green and yellow (meant to evoke the BP logo) Some of the petals are shades of gray, black and white and there is smoke rising up from the sides, meant to evoke the oil spill. On the right hand side is a black oily splotch. There is something written in white letters, but half of them are covered by the flower petals and the only visible letters (written in white) are:

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On the very bottom of the picture is a web link: www.no-tar-sands.org" written in yellow letters.

The scene changes to an arial view of a tar sand beach. There are two dump trucks: one in the upper left corner, one in the bottom right corner. Near the bottom of the screen is a white banner with "CLIMATE CRIME" written in black letters. The camera jumps forward, showing a closeup of this banner and four people in orange suits milling around underneath it.

[Caption in white letters over the scene:]

"Petrol companies have been aware for a century of the vast quantities of oil rich bitumen lying beneath the boreal forests of Alberta.

"However as the oil sources available to Western oil majors became scarcer, the relative commercial attractiveness of tar sands improved and significant investments in their extraction began."

The scene shifts to another aerial view of a tar sand beach, but this one has more swirly paths in the sand, as if something has driven along it. In the upper middle right is a white truck, while on the far right is a white mechanical crane.

[Caption in white letters over the scene:]

"Canada is the international oil industry's test site—if it becomes acceptable to finance the tar sands of Alberta, then the global finance sector will have normalised a disastrously high-carbon development path

"It is for this reason that the Canadian tar sands have become a frontline in the struggle against the destruction of the climate through the extraction of hydrocarbons."

Camera fades in, and we see a dump truck at the bottom of the screen, as well as two white cars on the right-hand side. In the middle are two white banners with black lettering. One reads: "TAR SANDS" and the one below reads: "CLIMATE CRIME." To the left of those, near the bottom of the screen is a third car, brownish-green. Camera fades in even closer on the banners. People in orange suits are milling around the banners.

The scene changes to an aerial view of a city, with a body of water in the background. In the upper right corner is a building that spews out billows of white-gray smoke. Camera fades in in the smoke and the buildings.

Scene flashes to a large compound with many blue buildings that look like sheds. There are also gray chimney-looking stacks, as well as two gray tent-shaped buildings with yellow roofs and what looks like a giant bicycle pump that ends in a hook on the right-hand side. The scene is quickly gone.

Scene changes to a beach. In the foreground is a plant with two yellow flowers and several green leaves.

Scene shifts again to a beach. In the foreground is a long pipeline, while in the background are a series of buildings billowing white-gray smoke. The largest plume is on the right-hand side, moving leftwards.

Scene shifts to an aerial view of winding brown pathways surrounding bodies of water. (From this distance, the water looks like big puddles). Camera fades in. In the bottom-rightmost "puddle," two clouds are visible.

[Caption in white letters over the scene:]

"Tar sands extraction in Canada is devastating Indigenous communities, wildlife and vast areas of boreal forests, as well as being many times more carbon-intensive to produce than 'conventional' oil."

Scene shifts to an aerial view of more brown paths (some with trucks driving on them). There are several trucks visible in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. In the upper and lower left corners—as well as the center-bottom—are what look like muddy "puddles." The camera circles around slowly.

Camera fades in to a scene of a dump truck and an orange mechanical crane on dirt. On the bottom of the screen, a rock rolls rightward.

Scene shifts to a lake in the foreground, with green hills and evergreen trees in the background. A light blue sky is visible above. Camera moves forward, as if flying over the scene.

[Caption: white text over the scene:]

"Open pit mining strips away the trees from the top layers of the earth to expose the bitumen beneath it. This process destroys the local environment and ecosystems, leaving gaping open pit mines up to 75 meters deep as scars on the landscape."

An aerial view of a digital map of parts of Canada, divided into fifths by white dotted lines. British Columbia and Vancouver are on the left-hand side; Alberta, Edmonton and Calgary are to their right. (From Alberta to Edmonton is a land mass that's outlined in yellow. On Calgary is a digital orange pushpin with a "B" on it. To their right is Saskatchewan; to its right are Manitoba and Winnipeg, with a body of water visible between them. Camera pans out to show most of Canada and the top half of the United States.

Scene shifts to an aerial view of a forest and the sky, with a body of water on the right hand side. Billowing white-gray smoke is visible in the background. The camera moves forward, as if flying. When it gets close enough to the smoke, white circular buildings are seen.

Scene shifts to glass-paneled skyscrapers/very large buildings Reflected in the right-hand building is a white 12-armed sun and the letters RBS, also in white. In the foreground are two spires, both brown with rings around them, one half as tall as the other. The larger one has 5 miniature columns visible around it; on top of it is what looks like a person holding a scythe over their head with two hands.

[Caption: white letters over the scene:]

"RBS led underwriting for over $7.5 billion in loans to tar sands related companies, over five times more than Barclays and over eleven times more than HSBC."

Scene shifts to a golden-brick wall. On its right side and stretching into the center is a large, lighter white-gold background with 12-armed sun and the letters "RBS" written in black letters over it. Beneath those in the same white-gold as the background are the words: "Royal Bank of Scotland Group." On either side of the golden-brick wall are glass sliding doors with rows of blue and black dots running across them—three rows on the right side and four on the left. There appear to be notes stuck where the door meets the golden brick wall or where it meets another door (one on the right side, three on the left), but they are unreadable. The doors close as a blue-green car drives by, filling the screen.

Scene shifts to a long-distance view of a city, which seems overlaid with blue. In the distance is a big chimney billowing white-gray smoke (which is trailing right). Next to that is a much smaller building that's also billowing white-gray smoke (also trailing right). A beach is visible in the background. Camera fades in on the plant; smoke billows toward it.

Scene shifts to a brown, muddy-looking pathway. A dump truck is driving on it toward the bottom-right corner. Camera pans out. Now the truck has turned a corner and is driving toward the left side of the screen.

An animated scene of children driving in a purple car. The driver is male ethnically white. He has blue eyes, is wearing a green shirt and a purple vest or overalls over it. He is mostly bald, except for one "e"-shaped swirl of hair on top of his head. He is smiling and pointing out the front window of the car. To his left is a girl with black hair in either a ponytail or pigtails, wearing pink and brown. She may be ethnically white, or she may not. In the back seat behind the "driver" is an ethnically non-white, probably male child with brown hair and caramel-colored skin who is smiling. (Only one eye is visible).

The children all look at what the driver is pointing towards. We see it is a domino or mah-jong shaped sign with the "BP" logo—the green and yellow flower with "bp" written in green letters in the top right corner—written over a white background. Behind the sign is a blue sky. Camera pans out to show it is a BP gas station. The children pull their car up in front of it (the girl is holding a teddy bear), stop and point out the window at it, smiling. An anthropormorphized gas pump with eyes, a mouth, and the BP flower for a nose is whistling a tune.

Scene shifts to a large black bird (possibly a crow or raven) standing on a pile of dirt. There is what looks like a brick or a tan rock beside its feet.

Scene with green plants in the extreme foreground, with a road behind them and a blackish-green shape as well. Camera focuses to show that the blackish-green shape is a mechanical crane.

Scene: Three people standing in front of a white building. On the right is a woman with a microphone speaking/singing into a loudspeaker. She looks ethnically non-white. She has black hair, is wearing jeans, earrings that are large white circles and a red T-shirt with a picture and caption on it that reads: "No 2010 Olympics."

To the left of her is an ethnically white man with sandy-colored hair, and possibly a beard. (his hand is covering most of the bottom half of his face). He is wearing a black T-shirt with words in white letters. The only readable words are: "Free Palestine" and below them is a green symbol. He is holding up a white banner with an oil splotch painted on it. The top part of it is red and it dissolves into black.


To the left of him, another man is sitting down, his tongue constantly moving, wearing what looks like a black poncho. The camera closes in on the woman with the microphone.

Shifts back to scene with green plants in the extreme foreground, with a road behind them and a blackish-green shape as well. Camera focuses to show that the blackish-green shape is a mechanical crane.

Shifts to a scene at dawn/dusk of a body of water behind a barbed wire fence and a sign that reads: "DANGER PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESPASSING."

Scene shifts to a body of water; orange-suited men are in it. In the distance are lots of black spikes sticking up. Two of them (on the far left) are burning.

[Caption: white text over the scene:]

Investment decisions taken now will have a major impact on current and future global greenhouse gas emissions and hence, the world's climate."

Scene shifts to an oil plant with a sign in the foregound that has a picture of the Shell logo yellow seashell. It reads: "Shell [Commands?] NO TRESPASSING. VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED."

Scene shifts to an aerial view of a mechanical crane in dirt.

Scene shifts to an aerial view of 6 white cars and a dump truck driving in dirt.

Scene shifts to a tall tower with metal rings on it and a "pipe" at the top. In the foreground are two flags: one with the Shell company logo on it and next to that, the Canadian maple leaf.

[Caption: white text over the scene:]

"Companies from all over the world own huge chunks of tar sands real estate."

Scene: a building with a blue-green roof and a white sign that reads "Total" in red letters with light blue, dark blue, orange and red swaths painted to the left of the word that form a sphere. A red car drives by.

(cont.).