Things to Come (1936)
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Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 978 segments kept, 169 dropped as the kind of hallucination the model produces over music and silence. Each timestamp links to the Archive's player at that second. This has not been checked against the film and can be wrong.
- 2:02 The King of the Rings
- 2:32 And the night of the angel was born on Christmas Day.
- 2:49 He met the night of the angel was born on Christmas Day.
- 3:48 Hello, young Harding. You're early.
- 3:50 Yes, I've finished up. It was too late to start an infresh.
- 3:54 What's all this fuss about in the papers tonight, Mr. Cabell? Wars and rumors of wars. Crying wolfs.
- 3:59 Someday a wolf will come.
- 4:01 fools are capable of anything.
- 4:03 In that case, what happens to medical research?
- 4:05 He has to stop.
- 4:07 That'll mess me up. Mess you up. Mess everything up.
- 4:10 My God, if war gets loose again. Happy Christmas, everyone.
- 4:14 While serpents watch their flocks by night all seated on the ground. What's the matter with you fellas?
- 4:22 All that?
- 4:23 This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything.
- 4:26 Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
- 4:30 Ho ho!
- 4:30 Another speech by him.
- 4:32 I tell you, there's nothing in it. It's just to buck people up about the air estimates.
- 4:37 Now, why meet wars halfway? Why not look on the bright side of things?
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- 4:41 You're all right?
- 4:42 Your business is going up?
- 4:43 Got a jolly wife, pretty home. All's right with the world, eh?
- 4:47 All's right with the world. Certainly.
- 4:50 Passworthy, you should have been called Pippa Passworthy. Oh, and Gabal, you've been smoking too much.
- 4:55 You're not...
- 4:56 You're not you picked.
- 4:57 Oh, come on, it's Christmas. Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.
- 5:05 Born is the king of Israel.
- 5:21 Nice toys they have nowadays. Nice toys.
- 5:25 The toys we had was simpler, ever so much simpler. Noah's Ark's and wooden soldiers.
- 5:31 Nothing complex like these.
- 5:33 You know, I wonder sometimes if perhaps all these new toys aren't a bit too much for them. It teaches them to use their hands.
- 5:42 And I suppose their grandchildren will see before one of those deals.
- 5:47 Progress.
- 5:48 progress.
- 5:50 I'd like to see the wonders they'll see.
- 5:54 Don't be too sure of progress. Oh, listen to the incurable pessimist. What's to stop progress nowadays? War. War.
- 6:03 First, there isn't going to be a war. And secondly, war doesn't stop progress. It stimulates progress. Yes, war can be a highly stimulating thing.
- 6:11 You can overdo a stimulant. Oh, well, after all, I'll be exaggerating the horrors of war. Don't be rather overdo that song. After all, you know, the last war wasn't as bad as some people make out.
- 6:22 We didn't worry. Something, something great seemed to have got hold of us.
- 6:27 something greater still may get hold of us next time.
- 6:30 If we don't end war, war will end us. Well, what can you do?
- 6:37 Yes. What can we do?
- 7:01 - Peace and earth, good will to all men.
- 7:03 Real old-fashioned Christmas this year. Fresh little snow with a nip in the air, eh?
- 7:10 What is that? It sounded like a gun.
- 7:12 No guns here.
- 7:15 Merry Christmas, Gabel. Here's to another good year for all of us. Another year of recovery, eh?
- 7:21 What is searchlight doing now?
- 7:24 All right.
- 7:24 Yes. It must be anti-aircraft maneuvers.
- 7:31 Maneuvers at Christmas? No.
- 7:36 This one.
- 7:37 guns again.
- 7:48 Yeah?
- 7:49 about a biggie
- 7:52 The hill down there, drum it's free.
- 7:54 Come on.
- 7:57 Mobile station.
- 8:00 Oh, God.
- 8:01 Perhaps it's only precautionalization.
- 8:04 The unknown aircraft passed over sea beach.
- 8:11 and drop bombs within a few hundred yards of the waterworks.
- 8:14 They then turn seaward again.
- 8:16 By this time they've been picked up with the searchlights of the battleship dinosaur.
- 8:19 Before they command out of range, she had opened upon them with her anti-aircraft gun.
- 8:23 Unfortunately, without result.
- 8:25 Of course, everyone has said this time they'll start without any declaration of war. Oh, listen. We do not yet know the nationality of these aircraft, though, of course, there can be little doubt of that place of origin.
- 8:34 But before all things, it is necessary for the country to keep calm.
- 8:39 No doubt the losses suffered by the fleet are serious. Is that losses of the fleet? And it is imperative that the whole nation should at once stand to arms.
- 8:46 Orders for a general mobilization have been issued
- 8:49 And the precautionary civilian organization against gas
- 8:52 will at once be put into operation.
- 8:54 Our instructions have just come to head.
- 8:57 We shall cut off for five minutes.
- 8:58 Then read you the general instructions.
- 9:00 Please call in all your friends.
- 9:02 Call in everyone you can.
- 9:07 You've got your stimulant, Fass, Wavy.
- 9:09 Something great has got you.
- 9:12 War has come.
- 10:27 War has broken out suddenly.
- 10:29 There may be an airway.
- 10:31 But it is not likely to be a very serious one.
- 10:33 You must be prepared for it.
- 10:35 The danger will not be great.
- 10:37 As soon as the danger is over, bugles will sound all clear. The streets will be dangerous.
- 10:43 Do not assemble in crowds. Keep indoors. Go home. Those who are far from home can take refuge in the underground railways. Go home. Go home.
- 10:51 Go home. Get out of the square. Get out of the street. Go home. Do not go right. Close the window. There's a wet seat or a wet seat. There's a wall of the window.
- 11:24 Are you sorry we've had these children?
- 11:28 Life must carry on.
- 11:31 Why should we surrender life to the...
- 11:33 We can fool.
- 11:35 I loved you.
- 11:36 I wanted to serve you and...
- 11:38 and make life happy for you.
- 11:42 But think of the things that may happen to them.
- 11:48 Were we sensitive?
- 11:49 You weren't afraid to bear them.
- 11:51 We were children, yes.
- 11:54 We're anxious.
- 11:56 But we're not afraid.
- 12:03 Courage, my dear.
- 12:06 May that little heart have courage.
- 12:27 Are you not?
- 12:28 For Gatti?
- 12:29 Well, you've got to do your bits, you know, Sonny. You've got to do your bits. I'm enough for two, baby. That's the spirit.
- 12:35 Carry on, sir. Carry on.
- 12:37 Heh heh.
- 12:40 Goodbye, son.
- 12:42 Yeah.
- 12:43 A ver.
- 12:45 Quick, bomb!
- 13:15 Get to cover. Get under cover at once. The enemy are not an elite race force, and our anti-aircraft gunner will speedily destroy them.
- 15:15 Oh, my God.
- 19:29 I'm sorry.
- 19:37 I'm not sure.
- 20:00 *Loud noise*
- 20:07 Bad save, eh?
- 20:08 Why does it come to this?
- 20:11 God, why do we have to murder each other?
- 20:14 Go, my friend.
- 20:16 That is my guess.
- 20:18 It's a bad guess.
- 20:22 - I leave them.
- 20:24 If I'm killed by my own poison. Quick, Captain.
- 20:30 I'm going to go.
- 20:33 Come on.
- 20:39 Get this on quickly. Give it to her.
- 20:43 I've given plenty to others.
- 20:45 Why should I not have some myself?
- 20:47 Give it to her. I'm done. I'm done.
- 20:54 Breathe through your mouth.
- 21:02 Ah!
- 21:04 Hold.
- 21:17 I dropped it.
- 21:18 Good guess on her.
- 21:20 Maybe
- 21:22 killed her father in medicine.
- 21:25 Maybe I've killed a whole family.
- 21:27 I
- 21:31 And then I go and give up my mask to save her.
- 21:33 uh...
- 21:36 That's funny.
- 21:38 I'm not.
- 21:42 That's a joke.
- 21:44 I'm
- 21:45 and
- 22:32 I'm I'm
- 24:45 Look!
- 24:46 He's carrying infection.
- 25:02 Very ardent.
- 25:08 It's my mother, Father.
- 25:09 This is the last drop.
- 25:14 God.
- 25:15 What is the use of trying to save this mad world?
- 25:20 Oh father, if only you could get some. How can I?
- 25:25 See how they wander out to die.
- 25:47 Why don't you shoot the...
- 25:49 It's their lives for us. Let's get God and make a court.
- 26:09 That's how they dealt with the pestilence in the dark ages.
- 26:18 Master, stop it. Gordon!
- 26:22 How do you know?
- 26:24 Her heart beats faster, and she feels faint, and... She won't answer me. What can I do for her?
- 26:31 I thought something might be known. Janet. And you, your poor dear.
- 26:36 - Mitchell. - I might be infected.
- 26:40 Oh, my God.
- 26:43 Is there nothing to make her comfortable?
- 26:53 Let it.
- 26:55 as nothing will make anyone comfortable anymore.
- 28:03 No! Don't shoot!
- 28:06 Shoot, I tell you, shoot!
- 28:13 That's the way to do it.
- 28:15 Shoot him!
- 28:44 Mayday 1970. The pestilence has ceased.
- 29:00 Thanks to the determined action of our chief in shooting all wanderers,
- 29:05 There have been no cases for two months. The pestilence has been conquered.
- 29:11 The chief is preparing to resume hostilities against the hill people with the utmost vigor.
- 29:18 Soon we shall have victory and peace.
- 29:21 All is well. God save the chiefs.
- 29:24 God save our land!
- 29:32 I have any more insulated wire. I've got no rubber to wire for it.
- 29:35 Any rubber tape?
- 29:36 There's not a scrap left in the place. We used the last on the other motor.
- 29:41 Oh, what's the use? There's no petrol anyway.
- 29:44 Normally there's three gallons of petrol left in this accursed ruin of a town.
- 29:48 What's the good of setting me at a job like this?
- 29:50 Nothing will ever fly again. Flying's over. Everything's over.
- 29:53 Civilization's dead.
- 29:55 I
- 30:06 Hey!
- 30:12 Hello.
- 30:13 Mr. Roles!
- 30:16 Yes.
- 30:17 It's a good pre-pestinance machine. I oil it and turn it over at times. You think it'll go fast someday still?
- 30:24 I'm not one of your petrol hoarders.
- 30:27 But all the same.
- 30:29 That engine turns over still.
- 30:31 Why, I remember when I was a lad, when it was new. We thought nothing of going a hundred miles in it.
- 30:37 A whole hundred miles.
- 30:39 Less than three hours I've done it in.
- 30:42 Well, that sort of thing's all gone now.
- 30:45 Gone forever, huh? Afraid so.
- 30:48 Vip!
- 30:49 Yep.
- 30:53 - Richard. - What is it?
- 30:55 She won't think me less.
- 30:57 Go, darling.
- 30:58 I thought I heard an airplane this morning.
- 31:00 At dawn. I thought it was a dream that... Nonsense. I tell you flying's finished.
- 31:05 We shall never get in the air again.
- 31:07 Never.
- 31:08 The box is heavy.
- 31:55 Anything to report, Gordon? Nothing, dear. Helpful, Chief. I must have those airplanes, somehow. I do what I can, but you can't fly without petrol. I'll get petrol for you, trust me. You look after the machines. I know you haven't got the stuff, but you can't.
- 32:07 and get round there for example.
- 32:09 Transfer parts. Use bits of one to mend another. Be resourceful.
- 32:13 Give me only ten machines in working order. Give me only five. I don't want them all.
- 32:17 We'll end this war of ours forever.
- 32:19 I'll see you get your reward.
- 32:23 Your wife, Gordon?
- 32:25 If you were well hidden...
- 32:27 Felicidades, lady.
- 32:29 Use your influence with our master mechanic. The competent state wants his service.
- 32:34 I'm sure my husband does his best for you. That's hardly enough, lady. The competent state demands miracles.
- 32:39 Not everyone can work miracles as you do, Chief. Oh, I'm sure you could work miracles if you tried, Lady. Rudolph!
- 32:46 Lady, lady, I showed it to you, but you said you didn't want it. Wodzki's been up to his tricks again. He'll have to answer for them.
- 32:53 But he's been keeping things back from me again.
- 32:55 Only Wotsky keeps things back. What do you think of our master mechanic here? There won't be had those planes of mine to end this war of ours with the Hillman. Well, can't you make him?
- 33:04 I thought you could make everybody do everything. Some things you can't do, madame.
- 33:07 You can't fly without Petro.
- 33:09 Garment machines without tools or materials.
- 33:12 contact
- 33:13 - Oh.
- 33:14 Flying's become a lost skill in every town.
- 33:16 Are you really as stupid as that? I'm as helpless as that.
- 33:20 And now, Chief, what are you going to do about it? He's going to let me have those machines and I'm going to let him have clothes.
- 33:25 stuff to make oil.
- 33:27 What?
- 33:27 It's a dream of a...
- 33:35 There it is. You were right. A plane once more.
- 33:45 Look, there it is.
- 33:47 Oh, look.
- 33:51 He's starting off. He's coming down. What's the meaning of this?
- 33:56 They got airplanes before us!
- 33:59 And you told me we couldn't fly anymore. Well, we've been fumbling, they've been active.
- 34:04 Yes, some of you. You and you.
- 34:06 Find out who this is and what it means.
- 34:08 There's only one man in it. Hold him!
- 34:10 Somewhere they can see.
- 34:11 He'll make new machines.
- 34:13 I didn't dream it was still possible. Yes, but who is this man? How does he dare come here? Pitch him to the town hall, guard his machine, and bring him to me there. Come on.
- 34:25 Come along, Mary. I must see that machine.
- 34:57 Who's in control of this part of the country?
- 35:01 The chiefs.
- 35:02 what we call the boss.
- 35:04 Good.
- 35:04 I want to see him.
- 35:05 He sent me to arrest you.
- 35:08 You can't do that.
- 35:10 But I'll come and see him.
- 35:11 Well, you're under arrest whether you'll admit it or not.
- 35:15 The country is in a state of war.
- 35:17 Well, come along.
- 35:18 I know the way.
- 35:29 Remember this place well
- 35:31 I used to live over there for years.
- 35:34 Ever heard of a man named Partworthy?
- 35:36 Amen.
- 35:37 Harding?
- 35:38 Yeah!
- 35:40 Here he comes now.
- 35:48 So you're hard.
- 35:51 I seem to remember.
- 35:53 I'm a thing. Like two? Come on.
- 35:55 You were a young man.
- 35:57 George!
- 35:58 John Cabell.
- 36:00 I ain't remember you.
- 36:01 I used to visit your house here.
- 36:04 endless years ago before the wars
- 36:07 You're still flying?
- 36:09 Your hair is gray, but you look young enough.
- 36:12 Arving's here. Who's in control of this?
- 36:14 We have a
- 36:15 Chief?
- 36:17 Warlord?
- 36:18 The usual thing.
- 36:20 I want to look up your warlord.
- 36:22 Where can we go and talk?
- 36:24 My laboratory is the best thing. It's just over here. Right.
- 36:37 You can't go in there. You're under a risk. You've got to go with me to the chief. All in good time.
- 36:42 I must see this gentleman first.
- 36:44 Well, you've got to go with me. Orders are orders. The boss first.
- 36:50 Where is this man? Why isn't he brought here? He's come up with Dr. Hardy.
- 36:55 He has to be brought here. I must deal with him. Yeah, you can't go to him.
- 36:58 That's impossible. He must come to you. Send another man for him. Send three men. He's got to be brought here. Come on.
- 37:05 So that's the sort of man your boss is.
- 37:07 Not an unusual sight. Everywhere we find these little semi-military upstarts robbing and fighting.
- 37:12 That's what endless warfare has led to. Brigandies.
- 37:15 What else could happen?
- 37:16 But we, who are all at the left of the old engineers and mechanics, have pledged ourselves to salvage the world.
- 37:22 We have the airways, all that's left of them. We have the seas.
- 37:26 We have ideas in common.
- 37:28 The Brotherhood of Efficiency.
- 37:30 The Freemasonry of science.
- 37:34 We're the last trustees of civilization when everything else is failed.
- 37:37 I've been waiting for this.
- 37:40 I'm yours to command.
- 37:41 Not mine. Not mine.
- 37:43 No more bosses.
- 37:44 Civilizations to command.
- 37:47 - He'll have to come. - He won't come on foot. Well, we'll have to carry him. I don't know what will happen to him, Mr., if he don't come.
- 38:05 Well, what do you want to see me about? Who are you? Do you know this country's at war?
- 38:10 Let's go off.
- 38:12 Still at it, then.
- 38:14 We must clean that up. What do you mean, we must clean that up?
- 38:17 or wall
- 38:19 Who are you, I said? The law.
- 38:22 Law and sanity. I'm the lawyer.
- 38:25 I said law and sanity.
- 38:27 Where do you come from? Who are you?
- 38:29 Wings over the world.
- 38:32 well you know you can't come into a country like this in this fashion i'm here
- 38:36 Do you mind if I sit down?
- 38:39 And now for the fourth time...
- 38:42 Why?
- 38:43 I tell you, wings over the world. That's nothing. What government do you under? Common sense.
- 38:48 I belong to World Communications.
- 38:51 We just rung ourselves.
- 38:53 You run into trouble if you try and land here in wartime!
- 38:57 What's the game?
- 38:59 Order and trade. Trade, eh?
- 39:02 Can you do anything in munitions? Not our line of business. Fure, spare parts. We've got planes, we've got planes. I've got boys that have trained a bit on the ground. With no fuel, it hampers us. We might do a deal.
- 39:11 We might.
- 39:12 I know I can get some fuel, I've got my plans later, but if you can manage a...
- 39:16 Temporary accommodation, we'll do business. World communications helps no one to make war. End war, end war!
- 39:22 I want to make victorious peace. I think you've heard that phrase before.
- 39:27 When I was a young man.
- 39:29 But it made no end of war.
- 39:31 Now look here, Mr. Aviator. Let's see how we stand. Come down to actuality.
- 39:36 The way you swagger, you don't seem to realize you're under arrest. You and your machine.
- 39:41 You'll find other planes looking for me if I happen to be delayed. We'll deal with them later.
- 39:47 I even start a trading agency here, if you like. I've no objection.
- 39:51 The first thing we shall want
- 39:53 is to get our planes in the air again. Quite. A laudable ambition.
- 39:57 But our new order has an objection to private errors.
- 40:00 The impudence. I'm not talking about private airplanes.
- 40:03 Our airplanes are public airplanes.
- 40:06 This is an independent sovereign state at war.
- 40:09 I know nothing about any old order.
- 40:12 I'm the chief here.
- 40:14 And I'm not taking any orders old or new from you.
- 40:18 Suppose I walked into trouble. Yeah, you can take that as right.
- 40:25 Where have you come from?
- 40:27 I flew from my headquarters at Basra this morning.
- 40:31 We have some hundreds of new type planes and we're building more fast.
- 40:34 The factories are working again.
- 40:36 We're gradually restoring order and trade in the whole Mediterranean area.
- 40:39 We're scouting this region now to see how things are. You'll find out.
- 40:43 This is an independent sovereign state.
- 40:46 Yes, we must talk about that. We don't discuss it.
- 40:50 We don't approve of independent sovereign states. You don't approve?
- 40:54 We mean to stop them.
- 40:55 That's war, if you will.
- 41:00 Well, I think we know how we stand.
- 41:03 Button?
- 41:05 Take this, ma'am.
- 41:06 If it gives you any trouble, club it.
- 41:09 You hear that, Mr. Wings Over Your Wits?
- 41:12 My friends know my whereabouts.
- 41:16 If I don't come back, they'll send a force to find me. Perhaps they won't find you.
- 41:20 They'll find you. They'll find me ready.
- 41:24 Take him to the detention room downstairs.
- 41:38 Now, was that wise? Wise? Yes, wise to quarrel with him at once. Quarrel with him! Quarrel with him!
- 41:43 Confunding to begin to quarrel with me.
- 41:46 Eh!
- 41:47 You must clean that up. Clean that up!
- 41:50 My wall. There's things behind him. Things behind him?
- 41:54 Some sort of aerial bus driver.
- 41:57 Standing up to me.
- 41:59 Like an equal. You lost your temper and you bullied him. I don't bully. I just handle the man.
- 42:13 He's the first real aviator that has come this way for years.
- 42:16 Think of what that means, my dear.
- 42:18 You want aeroplanes, don't you?
- 42:20 You want your aeroplanes put in order?
- 42:22 Really clever man, when it had some of those machines up long ago.
- 42:26 I'm sure of it. Along comes this stranger who's going to...
- 42:29 clean me up
- 42:31 You expect me to hand my planes over to him? Lock, stock and barrel. Why talk nonsense?
- 42:35 You could have persuaded him under supervision. Supervision? Supervision?
- 42:38 The sort of oafs I've got here to supervise him.
- 42:41 It'd be too much for them. Oh, well, of course, if it's going to be too much for you, why don't you hang him and hide his museum before the others are after you?
- 42:47 I don't agree with you. I don't agree with you.
- 42:50 Now this stranger hasn't taken me by surprise.
- 42:55 I knew he was coming.
- 42:57 Yes, I knew he was coming.
- 43:00 I felt this conspiracy of air bus drivers brewing somewhere in the world.
- 43:05 I've felt they were getting ahead with their airplanes down there somewhere. Very well, now's our chance.
- 43:10 We've got this fellow bottled up. They won't even begin to miss him for days.
- 43:14 I've got everything fixed now for an attack straight away on the Floss Valley to the old coal and shale pits where there's oil too. Then...
- 43:21 Up we buzz.
- 44:25 Victory approaches!
- 44:28 Your sacrifices have not been in vain.
- 44:30 Our old struggle with the hillbair has come to its climax.
- 44:34 Our new victory at the cold pits...
- 44:37 brought a great supply of oil within our reach.
- 44:39 Once more we made poop to pig the air.
- 44:42 Look our invaders in the face.
- 44:45 It's 20 airplanes.
- 44:47 A larger force, I venture to say, as any in the world.
- 44:51 New oil can be adapted to our needs.
- 44:54 That's quite a simple business.
- 44:57 Nothing remains
- 44:58 with the conclusive bombing of the hill.
- 45:00 Send for a time!
- 45:02 We can hope for a rich, rewarding peace.
- 45:05 A piece of a strong man armed who keepeth his house.
- 45:09 - No.
- 45:10 It's been quite as you thought.
- 45:12 I must the mechanic refuse your help. Where are my planes?
- 45:16 Charles is more difficult than you think.
- 45:18 A few machines are hopelessly old.
- 45:20 You haven't 20, sounds one.
- 45:22 To be exact, 19.
- 45:23 You'll never get the others off the ground.
- 45:25 The thing can't be done as you imagine it.
- 45:27 I want assistance.
- 45:28 Water system.
- 45:29 Your prisoner.
- 45:30 But you want that chap in black that...
- 45:32 Wings over the world.
- 45:34 You want him released?
- 45:35 You know this business.
- 45:37 I don't know.
- 45:38 Make him my technical advisor. I don't trust you technical chaps. Then you won't get an airplane off. I want those planes.
- 45:47 What if you get it?
- 45:48 And I want Dr. Harding out, too. Where are those? Search it.
- 45:51 I can't help that.
- 45:52 If anybody in every town can adapt to that crude oil for our airplanes, it's hardy.
- 45:56 It's not confident.
- 45:58 We had a bit of an argument with Harding.
- 46:01 He's the only man who can do this work for you.
- 46:05 Get back.
- 46:07 Come on.
- 46:09 Amen.
- 46:17 Undo his hands.
- 46:24 Well?
- 46:26 Well what, Mr. Newton?
- 46:28 Damn, Mr. Luce. Damn. Well, never mind, Mr. Luce. I will talk about that later. Now, look here. Let's see how we stand. You, Gordon, are to undertake the reconstruction of our Air Force. The prisoner, Cabal, is to be placed at your disposal. Everywhere he goes, he is to be under guard and observation. No relaxing in there.
- 46:41 Either you nor he has to go within 100 yards of his airplane, mind that.
- 46:45 Are you Harding?
- 46:47 that will assist Gordon with his cure problem.
- 46:49 Place your knowledge of poison gas at our disposal. I have nothing to do with poison gas. You've got the knowledge of a heart to wring it out of your...
- 46:57 State your mother or your father, but don't tell her to hear your interest.
- 47:02 No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed.
- 47:07 Duncan!
- 47:08 We have a duty to civilization.
- 47:10 You and your thoughts are driving us straight back to eternal barbarism.
- 47:14 But this is pure treason! I protest against being dragged away from my work!
- 47:19 Go around your silly world, your war material, and all the rest of this.
- 47:22 All my life has been interrupted and wasted and spoiled by war!
- 47:26 I will not tell it any longer. This is treason. Preason. No, no, no. Stop that. We need of your service.
- 47:34 Tell what you want. You're constructive!
- 47:37 You're under my orders now, and under no other orders in the world.
- 47:42 I am master here, I am the state.
- 47:46 I need fuel.
- 47:47 And gas. Neither fuel nor gas.
- 47:50 You refuse? Absolutely.
- 47:54 I don't want to be forced to extremities. May I have a word?
- 48:00 I understand you want all of those out of date crocs of yours, which you call your Air Force, to fly again.
- 48:05 I will. They shall!
- 48:07 With the help of that man Cabell, you had him a film.
- 48:10 Dr Harding here.
- 48:11 and we even have a dozen of your planes
- 48:13 the arrogance.
- 48:17 All right.
- 48:17 Traitor to civilization.
- 48:19 I won't touch.
- 48:22 You will give me a cabal.
- 48:24 And if you leave me free to talk with Hardim...
- 48:27 I promise you you'll see your Air Force.
- 48:29 A third of it, at any rate.
- 48:31 in the sky again.
- 48:32 You talk as if you're driving a bargain with me. I'm sorry, Chief.
- 48:36 Not I who make these conditions.
- 48:38 the nature of things.
- 48:40 You're going to have technical services
- 48:41 You can have scientific help without treating the men who give it to you properly.
- 48:46 That's what I said all along.
- 48:47 You're bullying too hard, my dear. There's a limit to bullying.
- 48:50 You can't make a dog hunt by beating it? I want those planes!
- 48:58 I wanted to look at you.
- 49:00 I'm at your service, madam.
- 49:03 You're the most interesting thing that has happened in every dancing year. You are amazing.
- 49:08 You come from outside?
- 49:11 I began to forget there was anything outside.
- 49:15 I want to hear about it. May I offer you my only chair?
- 49:18 Oh.
- 49:19 I'm not a stupid woman.
- 49:21 I'm sure.
- 49:22 This life here is limited.
- 49:25 War always going on and never ending.
- 49:27 Flags marching.
- 49:29 Ah!
- 49:30 I adore the Chiefs.
- 49:31 I've always adored him since he took control in the testament days when everyone else lost hearts.
- 49:36 He ruled.
- 49:37 He's fun.
- 49:39 Everyone.
- 49:40 Every woman finds him strong and attractive.
- 49:43 I can't complain.
- 49:45 I have everything that is to be had here.
- 49:47 And yet,
- 49:48 This is a small, limited world we live in.
- 49:53 You bring in the breath of something greater.
- 49:56 When I saw you swooping down out of the air,
- 49:58 when I saw you marching into the town hall,
- 50:01 I thought this man lives in a greater world.
- 50:04 And you spoke of the Mediterranean and the East.
- 50:06 of your camps and factories.
- 50:08 I've read about the Mediterranean.
- 50:10 and Egypt and Greece and India.
- 50:13 Oh, I can read.
- 50:15 A lot of those old books
- 50:17 I'm not like most of the younger people here. I learned a lot before education stopped and schools closed down.
- 50:23 I want to see that world.
- 50:25 Skies.
- 50:27 Snowy mountains, blue seas, sunshine... If I had my way, you could fly to all that in a couple of hours.
- 50:34 If you were free,
- 50:36 And if I was free...
- 50:39 I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things.
- 50:44 You don't understand our imagination.
- 50:46 How wild our imagination can be.
- 50:49 I wish I were a man.
- 50:51 Oh, if I were a man.
- 50:55 What are your people trying to do to us?
- 51:00 What are you going to do to this boss of mine?
- 51:03 The immediate question seems, what does he mean to do to me?
- 51:06 Something violent and foolish?
- 51:09 Unless I prevent it.
- 51:10 That's how I see things.
- 51:13 And if he kills you,
- 51:16 We shall come here and clean things up.
- 51:18 But if you're killed, how can you say we?
- 51:21 We go on.
- 51:22 That's how things are.
- 51:24 We are taking hold of this.
- 51:26 Science and government in the long run, no man is indispensable.
- 51:31 The human things go on.
- 51:33 Weed.
- 51:34 Forever.
- 51:35 I see.
- 51:37 And this warlike state of ours here,
- 51:40 It has to vanish.
- 51:42 Like the Tyrannosaurus and the Sabretoothed Tiger.
- 51:47 Oh, so here you are. I said I should talk to him, and I have. I told you to leave that pillow alone. Yes, and sat up there drinking and swaggering and looking as proud as you could.
- 51:58 Rudolph the victorious
- 51:59 And here am I trying to find out what this black invader means.
- 52:03 You think I wanted to come and talk to him? This gray, cold man...
- 52:07 While you're swaggering here, there are more planes away there of Basra getting ready. Basra? His headquarters. Have you never heard of Basra?
- 52:15 These are matters for us to talk about.
- 52:19 This lady has been putting me through a severe cross-examination.
- 52:22 But the gist of it is that away there in Basra, new airplanes are rising night and day.
- 52:28 Like hornets round a hornet's nest.
- 52:31 What happens to me is a small affair.
- 52:34 They'll finish you.
- 52:36 The new world of United Airmen will finish you.
- 52:40 Listen.
- 52:41 You can almost hear them coming now.
- 52:45 Not a bit of it. What he says is the truth. What he says is bluff. Make peace with the armor and let him go. That means surrender of our sovereign independence.
- 52:53 But more machines will be coming and more and more. And he's here.
- 52:57 Hostage for their good behavior. Come, madam, enough of this little diplomatic mission of yours.
- 53:04 You've got the subtlety of our bullfrog!
- 53:12 I don't know what she's been saying to you.
- 53:16 I don't much care.
- 53:18 There's no making peace between you and me. It's your world or mine, and it's going to be mine.
- 53:25 Destroy your threats of...
- 53:26 Swans of hornets and so on.
- 53:29 You're a hostage, remember that?
- 53:32 Don't be too sure you win.
- 53:37 Just sit here and think that over, Mr. Wings Over the World.
- 53:47 Now get round to the other side and look at these engine barrel braces. Quickly.
- 53:51 I'm going to go.
- 53:56 I could get to my plane as a wireless there.
- 53:59 Hopeless, they won't even trust me.
- 54:01 She'll have to make a job of this.
- 54:07 I managed to get your reserve petrol. Let me have that for this plane. Good.
- 54:11 It won't be easy to make a getaway.
- 54:15 These oil pump connections aren't very good, but we'll have to risk it.
- 54:19 I think we'll manage it all right now that Harding knows his part of the job.
- 54:22 Good.
- 54:24 Look, it's your Gordon. He's flying a block.
- 54:46 *Sigh*
- 54:53 Oh! Get the aeroplane out of the yard, boys!
- 55:05 Free of war!
- 55:11 Where do you come from?
- 55:12 Come from the north, from Everton. Says the bar is a prisoner. They've got him, sir, and he's in danger. I had great difficulty in getting here.
- 55:19 Say Cabela's in danger?
- 55:20 and very great things.
- 55:22 The bus there is a violent stop.
- 55:24 Your frail is cobra.
- 55:25 Well, now we've got a chance to try the new gas of peace on somebody. There's no time to lose them. May I report to headquarters?
- 55:31 Yes.
- 55:32 Take him to the council.
- 55:38 At last we have definite news. What is it? Gordon didn't fall into the sea. He got away. A fishing boat saw him making for the French coast. Perhaps he reached his pal. Well? Well, he'll be coming back.
- 55:48 He'll be bringing the others with him.
- 55:51 Curse these world communications.
- 55:55 Curse all the airmen and...
- 55:57 Gasmen and Machinemen.
- 56:00 Why didn't we leave their machines and their sciences alone? I might have known. Why did I tamper with
- 56:05 Well, we need it, airplanes. Against the hill station.
- 56:08 Somebody else would have started in again with airplanes and gas and bombs if we hadn't.
- 56:12 These people would have come interfering anyhow. Why was all this science ever allowed? Why was it ever let begin? Science?
- 56:19 He's an enemy of everything that's natural in life.
- 56:22 I dreamt of those fellas last night, great ugly black inhuman chaps.
- 56:26 of like machines bombing and
- 56:30 Bombing. I guess they'll come bombing all right. Then we'll fight them.
- 56:33 Since Gordon got away, I've had those airboys up to see me. They've got guts. They'll do something still. We'll fight them. We'll fight them.
- 56:39 Hey!
- 56:40 You've got hostages?
- 56:42 Better than shoot them anyway.
- 56:44 It was that Shep Harding.
- 56:47 Of course.
- 56:48 He can't tell us what to do against this gas.
- 56:51 If I have to pull his arm off and knock his teeth down, it's true. Get him, get him. Get him, Secretary.
- 57:00 I have to come to earth sometime...
- 57:03 What is this world communications?
- 57:06 A handful of men like ourselves.
- 57:09 They're not magic.
- 57:20 I'll be back.
- 57:37 Do you entrust these good, tried, tested machines?
- 57:42 You are not mechanics!
- 57:44 You are warriors!
- 57:46 You have been trained...
- 57:47 Not to think!
- 57:48 What to do?
- 57:50 Maybe...
- 57:52 To die!
- 57:53 I salute you.
- 57:55 I...
- 57:57 Your chiefs!
- 58:21 What do you know about these world communication people? They've got gas? What sort of gas? I know nothing about gas. It's about these masks anyway.
- 58:31 Are they rotten?
- 58:33 No good at all. What sort of gas has it got?
- 58:36 I tell you, gas isn't my business. Well, the Comcast house when you're here, anyway.
- 58:41 Help me out!
- 58:42 Lytton!
- 58:43 They're coming already!
- 59:23 Major, don't stand by.
- 59:49 Clumsy great things. Our boys will have them down in no time. They're too clumsy.
- 1:00:20 Look up where the rest of our pillars go on! I'll pack him!
- 1:00:30 Oh, boy, got him. They're both coming down, cowards. But they can't suggest that we have hostages. The hostages? I'm not done yet. Go on, fetch them. Bring them out here. Out in the open town up where they can be seen.
- 1:00:52 Where's the other fellow? He's the prize hostage. He's the best of the lot. They'll know him. Fetch him. Fetch him.
- 1:01:00 Look. Is that gas?
- 1:01:12 Anyway, you won't get out of this. You! Don't you see? We're beaten.
- 1:01:21 Shoot them! What are you all doing? Why don't you move? I never did do any harm. I saved your father and I saved you.
- 1:01:30 Couldn't you call up your man there to stop this?
- 1:01:35 I won't have it like this.
- 1:01:40 What's happening?
- 1:01:43 Everything's swimming.
- 1:01:47 Shoot! Shoot! We're not shot enough yet! Shoot!
- 1:01:53 We were smart enough.
- 1:01:56 We spared them now.
- 1:02:00 The world of hell.
- 1:02:04 Why should I be beat like this?
- 1:02:15 Oh!
- 1:03:15 There they are.
- 1:03:19 Mary!
- 1:03:25 Well, it's not hurt.
- 1:03:27 He's like the others.
- 1:03:29 Cabal safe. Cabal. Well done, Gordon.
- 1:03:43 I wonder if they'll ever use gas, Marcella.
- 1:03:46 Tom! What is it?
- 1:03:47 I'm going to go.
- 1:03:50 This man's not sleeping. He's dead.
- 1:03:55 dead in his world, dead with him.
- 1:03:57 And a new world begins.
- 1:04:00 poor old boss here in his flags and his folly. And now for the rule of the airmen.
- 1:04:07 and a new life for mankind.
- 1:04:29 Our job is only beginning. For now we have to put the world in order. It will be a long and complicated struggle.
- 1:04:37 But we have the unity of a common order and a common knowledge.
- 1:04:41 This is how I conceive our plan of operation.
- 1:04:44 First to round up a brigad, that last dismal vestige of ancient predatory soldiers. The last would-be conqueror.
- 1:04:53 Then settled, organized, advanced.
- 1:04:57 This zone, then that.
- 1:04:59 And at last,
- 1:05:00 Wings over the world.
- 1:05:02 A new world begins.
- 1:05:04 Do you realize the immense task we shall undertake?
- 1:05:08 When we set ourselves to an active and aggressive peace,
- 1:05:12 When we direct our energies to tear out the wealth of this planet, and exploit all these giant possibilities of science that have been squandered hitherto upon war and fenceless competition.
- 1:05:25 We shall excavate the eternal hills.
- 1:05:28 We shall make such use of the treasures of sky and sea and earth as men have never dreamt of hitherto. I would that I could see our children's children in this world we shall win for them.
- 1:05:42 But in them and through them we shall live again.
- 1:11:51 It's any better world than it used to be. I rebel against this progress.
- 1:11:55 What has this progress this world civilization has done to us?
- 1:11:59 machines and marbles.
- 1:12:01 They've built these great city of theirs?
- 1:12:04 It prolonged life, yes.
- 1:12:06 They've conquered nature, they say, and made a great white world.
- 1:12:11 Is it any jollier than the world used to be in the good old days?
- 1:12:14 When life was short and hot and merry and the devil took the hindmost...
- 1:12:17 All the thing. What can we do about it? Rebellion.
- 1:12:20 Rebell now, now, now is the time. Why now in particular? Why, because the space comes.
- 1:12:26 Because of this project to shoot human beings at the stars. People don't like it, shooting humans away into hard, frozen darkness.
- 1:12:34 They're murmuring. They've murmured before and nothing came of it.
- 1:12:39 because they had no leader.
- 1:12:42 But now...
- 1:12:45 Suppose someone cried...
- 1:12:48 Halt!
- 1:12:49 Stop this progress.
- 1:12:51 Suppose I shout into the world, make an end to this progress, I could talk.
- 1:12:55 Talk.
- 1:12:57 Radio is everywhere. This modern world is full of voices.
- 1:13:01 And a master craftsman, I have the right to talk.
- 1:13:04 Will they listen to you?
- 1:13:06 They'll listen, Custer.
- 1:13:09 If I shout...
- 1:13:10 Arise.
- 1:13:12 Awake!
- 1:13:14 Stop this progress before it is too late.
- 1:13:40 Bye bye.
- 1:13:42 Mm-hmm.
- 1:13:44 What a funny place New York was.
- 1:13:47 Oh, it's big enough and full of windows. They built houses like that in the old days.
- 1:13:52 Why?
- 1:13:53 There's no light inside those cities as we have.
- 1:13:56 So they had to stick them up into the daylight.
- 1:13:58 What there was of this...
- 1:14:00 They had no problem in mixed and conditioned air.
- 1:14:05 Everybody lives half out of doors.
- 1:14:07 Ahem!
- 1:14:08 They have windows, Lou.
- 1:14:09 Ripple's love.
- 1:14:11 The age of windows lasted four centuries.
- 1:14:14 I never seem to realize that we could light the interior of our houses with sunshine of our own.
- 1:14:19 So there was no need to stick them up ever so high into the air.
- 1:14:22 They keep on inventing new things nowadays.
- 1:14:25 and making life lovelier and lovelier.
- 1:14:29 ...lovelier.
- 1:14:30 Yes.
- 1:14:31 Holder.
- 1:14:33 I suppose I'm an old man, my dear, but some of it seems like going too far.
- 1:14:38 The face of Don of theirs that they keep on shooting.
- 1:14:41 He's fifth base gun, great-grandfather.
- 1:14:44 Well...
- 1:14:45 It's a gun that is charged by electricity.
- 1:14:48 It's a lot of guns inside one another.
- 1:14:50 And each one discharges the gun mixed in sight.
- 1:14:54 I don't properly understand it.
- 1:14:55 But the cylinder it shoots out last goes right away from the earth.
- 1:14:59 I wish I could fly around the moon.
- 1:15:02 Well, that in time.
- 1:15:04 Won't you come back to your history pictures again? I'm glad I didn't trip in the old world.
- 1:15:09 I know that John could balance his aim and tidy it all up.
- 1:15:13 Did you see John Cabal, good granddad? Well, you can see him in your picture.
- 1:15:18 You saw him when he lived. You really saw him.
- 1:15:21 Yes.
- 1:15:23 I saw the great John Cabell with my own eyes when I was a little boy.
- 1:15:28 He was a lean, brown old man with hair as white as mine.
- 1:15:33 He was the great-grandfather of our Oswald Cabal, the president of our council.
- 1:15:44 I take it the space gun's passed all its preliminary trials, and there's nothing left now but to choose the two who are to go.
- 1:15:50 That's going to be the trouble. Thousands of young people have been applying.
- 1:15:53 Young men and young women.
- 1:15:55 I never guessed the ball was so attractive. Practically, the gun was perfect now.
- 1:15:59 There are risks, but reasonable risks.
- 1:16:01 And the position of the moon in the next three or four months gives us the best conditions for getting there.
- 1:16:07 It's only that the choice of the tuna that matters.
- 1:16:10 There are going to be difficulties.
- 1:16:12 That man, Theatropoulos, is talking on the radio about it.
- 1:16:15 He's a fantastic fellow.
- 1:16:18 Yes, but he's making trouble. It's not going to be easy to choose these young people.
- 1:16:23 With all these thousands offering themselves...
- 1:16:26 We've looked into thousands of cases
- 1:16:28 We've rejected everyone of imperfect health or anyone of her friends who objected.
- 1:16:32 And the fact is...
- 1:16:33 We want you to talk to two people.
- 1:16:35 There's Raymond Harswell, the of General Frederick. You know him? Yes, I know him. And his son.
- 1:16:39 We want you to see the sun, Morris Passworth.
- 1:16:42 Why?
- 1:16:43 He asks to go.
- 1:16:45 We think you ought to see him.
- 1:16:46 He's waiting, yes.
- 1:16:51 Is Morris Passworthy there?
- 1:16:54 He's on his way.
- 1:16:55 Good.
- 1:17:01 You want to talk to me? Forgive me, sir. I came straight to you.
- 1:17:04 You're asking a favor. A very big favor.
- 1:17:07 I want to be one of the first two human beings to go around the moon.
- 1:17:10 It means danger.
- 1:17:12 Great hardship anyhow.
- 1:17:14 You realize there's an even chance of never coming back alive.
- 1:17:18 Still a greater chance of coming back a cripple.
- 1:17:20 Keep me finished for not minding that, sir.
- 1:17:24 Yes, but a lot of you young people don't mind that.
- 1:17:28 But why should I give you a favor?
- 1:17:30 Relax.
- 1:17:31 And the son of a friend of yours?
- 1:17:33 People seem to feel you want them to send someone you don't know, sir.
- 1:17:36 Go on.
- 1:17:37 We've talked about this over and over again.
- 1:17:40 Oui.
- 1:17:41 Yes, both of us.
- 1:17:43 It's hurt, I dare, even more than it's mine.
- 1:17:45 All right, dear?
- 1:17:47 With sheep.
- 1:17:48 Someone much closer to you than I am, sir.
- 1:17:52 Go on.
- 1:17:53 Catherine.
- 1:17:55 Your daughter.
- 1:17:56 She says you can't possibly send anybody's child but your own.
- 1:18:09 I might have known.
- 1:18:12 Today I'm going to put it to the world plainly.
- 1:18:15 Is this thing to go on?
- 1:18:17 Or are we sane and normal human beings to put an end to it?
- 1:18:21 and an end to all such follies forever.
- 1:18:51 What is this progress?
- 1:18:53 What is the good of all this?
- 1:18:55 progress onward and onward.
- 1:18:57 We demand a halt. We demand a rest.
- 1:19:00 The object of life is happy living.
- 1:19:02 We will not have human life sacrificed to itself.
- 1:19:04 Cut him.
- 1:19:05 Progress is not living.
- 1:19:07 It'll only be the preparation for living.
- 1:19:09 They staged the old Greek tragedy again.
- 1:19:12 And the father of his daughter,
- 1:19:14 To his evil gods. And that voice is sounding to the whole world. No.
- 1:19:20 The old slavers have taken new names.
- 1:19:23 They'll have to hear him and make what they can of him.
- 1:19:25 What does this face done for ten?
- 1:19:28 Make no mistake about it.
- 1:19:31 The slavery they put upon themselves today
- 1:19:33 They will impose tomorrow upon the whole world.
- 1:19:37 is meant
- 1:19:39 Never to rest.
- 1:19:41 Never to be free.
- 1:19:43 A time will come
- 1:19:45 When you in your turn will be forced to wait to take your chance upon strange planets...
- 1:19:50 An inquiry...
- 1:19:52 Abominable places beyond the stars.
- 1:19:55 Make an end to this progress now.
- 1:19:58 Let this be the last...
- 1:20:00 of the scientific age.
- 1:20:02 Let this place come the symbol of all that drives us.
- 1:20:06 and destroy it!
- 1:20:08 Now!
- 1:20:14 I wonder what they will make it.
- 1:20:23 Well, for you, Carol...
- 1:20:25 Oh, the great-grandson of John Gabel, the air dictator, the man who changed the whole course of the world...
- 1:20:31 You've got experiment in your blood, you and your daughter.
- 1:20:34 Fine.
- 1:20:34 I'm more normal. I don't believe my boy would have thought of it.
- 1:20:38 The two of them must have got together. They'll come back together. This time there's no attempt to land on the moon.
- 1:20:46 Well...
- 1:20:47 Where is this great experiment remain?
- 1:20:50 How much longer we got before they go? When the space gun is ready. Sometime this year, you mean? Soon.
- 1:20:56 and
- 1:20:57 Is there no way of saving our children from this madness?
- 1:21:01 But would it be saving our children?
- 1:21:03 Well, here they are.
- 1:21:05 Father, where's the girl? Yes, you're the girl.
- 1:21:08 - It's an arm.
- 1:21:09 Two hours ago.
- 1:21:21 Your speech has struck fire. All the people are excited and angry.
- 1:21:25 Some are already going out of the city towards the space gun.
- 1:21:27 Nothing is wanted now but leading.
- 1:21:30 We must go right on with this.
- 1:21:31 The space gun!
- 1:21:34 And so we end on a...
- 1:21:40 Young people.
- 1:21:41 Just beginning life.
- 1:21:44 You want to go into that outer horror
- 1:21:48 Why don't you send somebody who's sick of life?
- 1:21:50 They want fit young people, alert and quick.
- 1:21:52 And where sit young people?
- 1:21:54 We can observe and come back and tell.
- 1:21:56 Cabal.
- 1:21:57 I just want to ask you one plain question.
- 1:22:00 Why did you let your daughter dream of going on this mad moon journey? Because I love her.
- 1:22:04 And I wanted to live to the best effect.
- 1:22:07 Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect.
- 1:22:12 The mirror of a poem, the sweet of a meat.
- 1:22:15 The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
- 1:22:19 I'm a broken man.
- 1:22:21 I don't know where Anna lies.
- 1:22:23 You haven't got things right, Passworthian.
- 1:22:26 Our fathers and our fathers' fathers cleaned up the old order of things because it killed children.
- 1:22:31 to kill those who are unprepared for death.
- 1:22:33 Because it tormented people in vain.
- 1:22:36 Because it outraged human pride and dignity. Because it was an ugly spectacle of waste.
- 1:22:42 But that was only a beginning.
- 1:22:44 There's nothing wrong in suffering if you suffer for a purpose.
- 1:22:49 Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death.
- 1:22:52 It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
- 1:22:56 Cabal.
- 1:22:59 Come out, the gun's in urgent danger. It's a race against time now to save it.
- 1:23:03 Theodore Coppola is up with a crowd of people already. He's going to the space gun now. They're going to break it up.
- 1:23:07 They say it's the symbol of your tyranny. Are their weapons? Bars of metal. They can smash delicate apparatus.
- 1:23:12 They can do endless mischief.
- 1:23:15 But you have a traffic control. Can't they produce the police? Very few.
- 1:23:18 We've nothing but the gas of peace and it isn't ready.
- 1:23:20 It'll take hours yet.
- 1:23:22 We must hold this crowd back at any cost for a time until the gas of peace is ready.
- 1:23:26 Is it?
- 1:23:49 Well, they're rioting. Bob, let them come back. Who are you? William Jeans, Destin Omnipro Department, Space Guard. Well, we've stopped the airways. They'll have to go afoot. And they'll take an hour or more to get there, even those who've already started.
- 1:24:00 That gun mustn't be broken up.
- 1:24:02 After all the final experiments have been made,
- 1:24:05 When everything was ready. When everything was ready...
- 1:24:07 If they'd smash up his infernal gunmen,
- 1:24:09 Honor is satisfied and you needn't go.
- 1:24:11 They won't finish the career.
- 1:24:13 Suppose the gun was fired now. Would the cylinder reach the moon? It would miss and fly into outer space.
- 1:24:18 Five now?
- 1:24:19 If the gun were fired before seven... And it could be. Yes. Then... We go now. No, no, no.
- 1:24:24 Oh, I don't know what to say, but don't go, don't go. But, Father, we must go now or we may never go. And then for the rest of our lives, we'll feel we've shirked and lived in vain.
- 1:24:33 We must go now.
- 1:26:35 Quickly, this way.
- 1:26:38 Hmm.
- 1:26:46 If you go up to the platform, we'll guard this below. Right.
- 1:27:10 Oh, my God.
- 1:27:20 I'm going to go.
- 1:28:03 Contract all your muscles when the concussion comes.
- 1:28:06 In five minutes, you'll be able to get loose and move about.
- 1:28:11 All right.
- 1:28:17 Amen.
- 1:28:25 There is the man. There is the man who rubbed his daughter to the devil of science. What do you want here?
- 1:28:56 We want to put hands on this in human poolery.
- 1:29:00 We mean to destroy that gun!
- 1:29:02 We have a right to do what we like with our lives, with our sort of lives.
- 1:29:06 We don't grant you your artistic life.
- 1:29:09 You have safety, plenty, all you want.
- 1:29:11 We want to make the world safe for men.
- 1:29:14 No one prevents you.
- 1:29:16 How do we do that when you're sons in vins of a bit of a changing life on us?
- 1:29:20 We're not ever lost in the confiding strange things.
- 1:29:24 When you make what we think great, seem small.
- 1:29:27 When you make what we think strong, seem people.
- 1:29:31 We don't want you in the same world with us.
- 1:29:34 We don't want this, Dick. We don't want this, Dick.
- 1:29:36 We don't want mankind to go on the moon and the planets.
- 1:29:40 We will hate you more if you succeed than if you fail.
- 1:29:43 Destroy the gun!
- 1:29:48 Before you can even reach the base of the gun, it'll be fired.
- 1:29:52 Beware of the concussions!
- 1:29:55 Beware of the concussion!
- 1:30:19 Stand by, control room.
- 1:30:25 They're all outside of the suburbs.
- 1:30:55 Oh, my God.
- 1:31:52 So
- 1:32:15 There! There they go! That same dream of life!
- 1:32:20 I feel that what we've done is monstrous! What they've done is magnificent!
- 1:32:24 Will they come back? Yes. Go again and again. Till the landing is made and the moon is conquered.
- 1:32:30 This is only a big deal.
- 1:32:33 But if they don't come back, my son and your daughter, what of that cabal? Then presently others will go.
- 1:32:39 Oh, God, is there never to be any age of happiness? Is there never to be any rest? Rest enough for the individual.
- 1:32:47 Too much, too soon. We call it death.
- 1:32:50 But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest.
- 1:32:56 Earth this little planet and its winds and waves.
- 1:33:00 And then all the laws of mind and matter that restrained him. Then the planet's about him.
- 1:33:07 And at last, out across the density to the stars.
- 1:33:11 And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time,
- 1:33:18 Till he will.
- 1:33:19 been picking.
- 1:33:23 We're such little creatures.
- 1:33:24 Poor humanitaries, so fragile, so weak.
- 1:33:28 Let's go.
- 1:33:29 Little animals.
- 1:33:31 Little animals. And if we're no more than animals, we must snatch each little scrap of happiness and live and suffer and...
- 1:33:41 God.
- 1:33:43 mattering no more than all the other animals.
- 1:33:46 do or have those.
- 1:33:48 It is this...
- 1:33:51 Or fast.
- 1:33:53 All the universe or nothings.
- 1:33:58 Which shall it be?
- 1:34:02 Which shall it be?








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