Hidden Figures
Storyboard Description
It’s a story of brilliance, but not of ego. It’s a story of struggle and willpower, but not of individual glory. Set in 1960s Virginia, the film centers on three pioneering African American women whose calculations for NASA were integral to several historic space missions, including John Glenn’s successful orbit of the Earth. These women—Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan—were superlative mathematicians and engineers despite starting their careers in segregation-era America and facing discrimination at home, at school, and at work.
Storyboard Text
- Dorothy Vaughan's Case
- Holy Moses, that’s lightning fast.
- The IBM 7090 data processing system. It has the capability of solving over twenty-four thousand multiplications per second.
- They’ll never get that to work.
- Mary Jackson's Case
- Well, the curriculum is not designed for teaching a woman.
- Well I imagine it’s the same as teaching a man. I don’t see a colored section. Should I just take any seat?
- I’m Mary Jackson. I’m enrolled.
- Katherine Johnson's Case
- There you have it. No more colored restrooms. No more white restrooms. Just plain old toilets. Go wherever you damn well please. Preferably closer to your desk. Here at NASA, we all pee the same color.
- In this scene, Dorothy is informing her team of human calculators to be ready to take the place of the machines if they end up not doing the right calculations. They were responsible for calculating mathematical computations for engineers conducting aeronautical experiments in wind tunnels on the variables affecting drag and lift of aircraft.
- After all the court work Mary had been through, she was finally allowed to go to college and pursue her dream job of being an engineer. When she got into her night class, she was the only woman in the night class and the only black person in the room.
- White Women's Bathroom
- In this scene, Katherine was being asked why she was always going in and out of the office instead of doing the work she was assigned. She then tells Al Harrison, the "chief", that there're no colored bathrooms in the building or any building outside the West Campus, which is half a mile away from where she was assigned to work. Harrison then proceeds to break off the signs and says, "No more colored or white restrooms. Here at NASA, we all pee the same color."
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