Rotoscoped pencil-sketch animation, graphite lines on white paper, loose hand-drawn outlines, cross-hatching for shadow, trembling lines, no fills, monochrome.

Six Decades grade: the man's skin as the hero tone, a field that changes with each decade exactly as each shot names it, neutral mid-grey base, lifted soft shadows that never reach black, faint dust in old light. The camera does not move unless a shot says so. Naturalistic performance, no dialogue, no music.

[00:00-00:02] Shot 1: A plain interior door opens toward us and light floods the frame; nobody is in it. Black and white, coarse grain, soft, no colour. Medium shot, standard lens. Hard cut.
[00:02-00:04] Shot 2: The young man in @Image1, about thirty-two, in a peaked cap, looks just past the lens and holds. Black and white, coarse grain, soft, no colour. Close-up, portrait telephoto, a lot of face. Hard cut.
[00:04-00:06] Shot 3: The man in @Image1, about forty-two, with a moustache and no glasses, laughs at the wheel of a car, seen from the front through the windscreen; beside and behind him a woman and children face forward, soft and out of focus. Seventies colour, warm, slightly bleached. Medium shot. Hard cut.
[00:06-00:07.5] Shot 4: The same man from @Image1 in a fur hat drives at night, dashboard glow on his face, headlights passing. Seventies colour, warm. Close, standard lens. Hard cut.
[00:07.5-00:09] Shot 5: The man in @Image1, about fifty-two, with glasses, stands still in a bleak outdoor scene. Eighties television play: pale, flat, low contrast. Medium shot. Hard cut.
[00:09-00:10.5] Shot 6: The same man from @Image1 in a plain dark uniform without badges lifts a cigar; smoke rises. Bluish crime-series light. Close, portrait telephoto. Hard cut.
[00:10.5-00:13.5] Shot 7: A small family car drives away from us down a tree-lined avenue in fog, flat winter light, no faces. Seventies colour, warm, bleached. Wide, standard lens; the camera drifts forward slowly and smoothly, the only camera move in the film. Hard cut.
[00:13.5-00:16] Shot 8: The man in @Image1, about forty-two, sits in a plain room with a guitar and plays quietly, head bowed. Seventies colour, warm lamplight. Medium shot, standard lens. Hard cut.
[00:16-00:18] Shot 9: The man in @Image1, about sixty-two, smiles, lit from a window. Nineties colour, bluish, cool window light. Close-up, portrait telephoto. Hard cut.
[00:18-00:20] Shot 10: The man in @Image1, about seventy-two, with glasses and a dressing gown, sits at a desk with a lamp, a wall of books behind him with no legible spines. Rich and dark, deep red, lamplight. Medium shot. Hard cut.
[00:20-00:22] Shot 11: The man in @Image1 in nineteenth-century evening dress with a cravat sits at a candlelit dinner, gold and deep red; the company behind him out of focus, backs to us. Medium shot, portrait telephoto. Hard cut.
[00:22-00:24] Shot 12: The man in @Image1 in a cardinal's scarlet cassock with a white collar turns toward us in a bright marble hall; other men in red robes stand out of focus behind him. Hard, clean, saturated colour. Medium shot. Hard cut.
[00:24-00:30] Shot 13: Final beat: the old man in @Image1, about eighty-five, gaunt and upright in simple dark clothes, stands alone and small on a bare stage in the warm pool of two work lamps, seen from the balcony front over dark rows of empty seats, the framing and light of @Image2. The work lamps dim steadily across the whole shot, from warm to near dark, while he stands still and the frame stays alive to the last frame. Wide, standard lens.
Audio: Natural diegetic sound only - a door, a car engine, guitar strings, fabric, faint room tone. No voices, no speech. No music, no score.