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Transcript: Innovation — Green House: Louisville

  1. Montage of Shots of workers operating forklifts in a warehouse, moving enormous stacks of boxes.

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    Charles Boblett (voiceover):
    When you think of a warehouse, you think of a small area. But this is spread out over about fifty acres, and you can almost get lost in here if you're not careful. My name's Charles...
  2. Interior – GE Warehouse. Close Shot – Charles Boblett.

    Charles Boblett (continued):
    Boblett. I've been with GE, this is my thirty-seventh year.
  3. Montage of Shots of workers operating forklifts in a warehouse, moving enormous stacks of boxes.

    Charles Boblett (voiceover):
    The old lighting, it was more like working under spotlights. This lighting is more, uh, uniform. You can read the bar codes better.
    Ishon Lee (voiceover):
    My name's Ishon Lee, and I've- was involved in execution...
  4. Medium Close Shot – Ishon Lee.

    Ishon Lee (continued):
    of our revamping initiative across GE Industrial.
  5. Montage of Shots of workers operating forklifts in a warehouse, employees working in warehouse, shots of overhead lighting.

    Ishon Lee (voiceover):
    When we started the whole revamping initiative, we looked at a hundred and eighty facilities globally. And the primary usage is in utilities in the lighting. So if we're able to reduce the amount of energy that we're using in that lighting, not...
  6. Medium Close Shot – Ishon Lee.

    Ishon Lee (continued):
    only are we gonna see a substantial amount of energy savings, we're gonna see a substantial amount of, you know, greenhouse gas reductions.
  7. Low Angle Long Shot – Two rows of overhead lighting along the ceiling. Camera tilts up along the rows of lights.

    Ishon Lee (voiceover):
    Not only did we change over, uh, fixtures, we actually replaced...
  8. Medium Close Shot – Ishon Lee.

    Ishon Lee (continued):
    it with a better quality of light.
  9. Montage of Shots of Vicki Cline working in the warehouse, unloading and opening packages.

    Vicki Cline (voiceover):
    We come in at early hours. The lighting is quite crucial in waking up and getting motivated to start your job each day. My...
  10. Medium Shot – Vicki Cline. Staff work busily in background continuously throughout scene.

    Vicki Cline (continued):
    name is Vicki Cline. I'm assembler in Building Five.
  11. High Angle Close Shot – A plant and some artificial flower decorations at a work station. Camera pans left off the plant and decorations to Vicki Cline and other workers working busily in the warehouse.

    Vicki Cline (voiceover):
    And now with these new lights, we've got plants growing on some of the work stations, people feel good about their jobs.
    Ishon Lee (voiceover):
    When we...
  12. Close Shot – Ishon Lee.

    Ishon Lee (continued):
    first did the revamping, some of the remarks were, oh my gosh. This is great.
  13. Medium Close Shot – Vicki Cline. Camera zooms in on her.

    Ishon Lee (voiceover):
    People have been very excited about...
  14. Medium Close Shot – Charles Boblett.

    Ishon Lee (voiceover) (continued):
    seeing change. Ultimately...
  15. Medium Shot – Ishon Lee.

    Ishon Lee (voiceover) (continued):
    it's about, you know...
  16. Medium Close Shot – Ishon Lee.

    Ishon Lee (continued):
    Ecomagination. It's about being able to reduce greenhouse gases, as well as, um, from a plant standpoint, seeing a significant amount of energy savings.
  17. Black. Fade to Black.

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