It told about wo generations of a wealthy American cattle ranching family in Texas spanning a twenty-five year period (from the 1920s to he 1950s), who clashed over money, property, class differences, and racism (the film was partly shot on location near Marfa, TX).The atmosphere is so quiet and still that the slightest cough and accidental crackling of another gentleman""s newspaper disturbs the elderly club members.The virus was raced back to a San Francisco biotech lab, Gen-Sys.Because of he widespread pandemic disease, only 1 in 500 individuals survived.All normal functions ceased, martial law became rampant, and civil unrest broke out.Nuclear power failures caused a massive meltdown and millions of deaths.Civilization collapsed.The title screen.10 years later.The film officially opened with a pull-back from a close-up view of the face and eyes of Caesar, he lead chimpanzee (with vertical white stripes around his mouth), surrounded by dozens of other evolved, highly-intelligent apes (a new generation) who were living as a colony within Mt.A heart-shaped picture and a headline take the front page:DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER BLOWS FUSESmaller columns are headed: "J.