RED (V.O.)
In 1959, the folks up Augusta way finally clued in to the fact they couldn't buy him off with just a 200 dollar check. Appropriations Committee voted an annual payment of 500 dollars, just to shut him up.
INT -- PRISON LIBRARY -- DAY (1960)
TRACKING the construction. Walls have been knocked down. Men are painting, plastering, hammering. Lots of shelves going up. Red is head carpenter. We find him discussing plans with Andy.
RED (V.O.)
Those checks came once a year like clockwork.
INT -- PRISON LIBRARY -- DAY (1960)
Red and the boys are opening boxes, pulling out books.
RED (V.O.)
You'd be amazed how far Andy could stretch it. He made deals with book clubs, charity groups… he bought remaindered books by the pound…
HEYWOOD
Treasure Island. Robert Louis…
ANDY
(jotting)
…Stevenson. Next?
RED
I got here an auto repair manual, and a book on soap carving.
ANDY
Trade skills and hobbies, those go under educational. Stack right behind you.
HEYWOOD
The Count of Monte Crisco…
FLOYD
Cristo, you dumbshit.
HEYWOOD
…by Alexandree Dumb-ass.
ANDY
Dumas. You boys'll like that one. It's about a prison break.
Floyd tries to take the book. Heywood yanks it back. I saw it first. Red shoots Andy a look.
RED
Maybe that should go under educational too.
INT -- WOOD SHOP -- DAY (1961)
Red is making a sign, carefully routing letters into a long plank of wood. It turns out to be --
INT -- PRISON LIBRARY -- DAY (1963)
-- the varnished wood sign over the archway: "Brooks Hatlen Memorial Library." TILT DOWN to reveal the library in all its completed glory: shelves lined with books, tables and chairs, even a few potted plants. Heywood is wearing headphones, listening to Hank Williams on the record player.
RED (V.O.)
By the year Kennedy was shot, Andy had transformed a broom closet smelling of turpentine into the best prison library in New England.
EXT -- SHAWSHANK PRISON -- DAY (1963)
FLASHBULBS POP as Norton addresses MEMBERS OF THE PRESS:
RED (V.O.)
That was also the year Warden Norton instituted his famous "Inside-Out" program. You may remember reading about it. It made all the papers and got his picture in LIFE magazine.
NORTON
…a genuine, progressive advance in corrections and rehabilitation. Our inmates, properly supervised, will be put to work outside these walls performing all manner of public service. Cutting pulpwood, repairing bridges and causeways, digging storm drains…
ANGLE TO Red and the boys listening from behind the fence.
NORTON
These men can learn the value of an honest day's labor while providing a valuable service to the community -- and at a bare minimum of expense to Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Taxpayer!
HEYWOOD
Sounds like road-gangin', you ask me.
RED
Nobody asked you.
EXT -- HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION SITE -- DAY (1963)
A ROAD-GANG is grading a culvert with picks. There's dust and the smell of sweat in the air. GUARDS patrol with sniper rifles, A pushy WOMAN REPORTER in an ugly hat bustles up the grade, trailed by a PHOTOGRAPHER.