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Dimension X - "Beyond Infinity" (1950) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: In an unnamed totalitarian European country, an American journalist is
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: taken to Dr. Wensler's laboratory, where an experimental apparatus can
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: shrink objects to microscopic scale. This is NBC's Dimension X,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Episode 16, Beyond Infinity, first broadcast July 21st, 1950. An
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: underground resistance hopes to use Wensler's invention to move vital
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: material past the authorities as secret police close in on
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: the household. Villiers Gerson wrote this original radio play, directed
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: by Edward King and produced by Van Woodward. And now
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: Wheaties presents Dimension X.
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: Adventures in time and space. Transcribed in future tense.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: Dimension X.
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  Speaker 4: On stage tonight, Dimension X. Another in the Wheaties' big
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  Speaker 4: parade of exciting half-hour presentations.
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  Speaker 5: If you're a mother or a father with a warm
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  Speaker 5: spot in your heart for pink-cheeked, happy-eyed youngsters, here's something
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  Speaker 5: you should know. Good food builds good health, and Wheaties
• 1:23
  Speaker 5: are good food. Now, I don't know what you've been
• 1:26
  Speaker 5: doing about breakfast for the kids, but did you know
• 1:29
  Speaker 5: that every Wheaties flake is a kernel of wheat? With
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  Speaker 5: the sunny, wholehearted goodness of field-grown wheat in every flake?
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  Speaker 5: With the full strength of whole wheat vitamins, minerals, proteins
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  Speaker 5: in every flake?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's true.
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  Speaker 7: Whole wheat in all its richness.
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  Speaker 5: That's what you furnish when you fill the cereal bowl
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  Speaker 5: with Wheaties. But don't slip up. See that they get Wheaties. Crisp, sunshiny, good.
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  Speaker 5: Pour on the milk, put on the fruit, and know
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  Speaker 5: the youngsters are getting all that whole wheat can give.
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  Speaker 7: Do that now. Wheaties.
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  Speaker 3: Breakfast of champions. Now, tonight's adventure into the unknown. Into
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  Speaker 3: the world of Dimension X. Somewhere in Europe, a man
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: is walking through the darkness down a cobblestone street. It's
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: early evening still, only a little past eight, but the
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  Speaker 3: street is strangely deserted. He pauses, looks behind him, then
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  Speaker 3: knocks quietly on a door.
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: Is Engineer Winstermann?
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  Speaker 8: What is it, please?
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  Speaker 7: Mrs. Wessler?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: I'm selling brushes. We have a nice line of brooms.
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  Speaker 7: They sweep well.
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  Speaker 8: Do they sweep the little or the large?
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  Speaker 2: Both.
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  Speaker 7: They're especially fine for the large.
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  Speaker 6: Come in.
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  Speaker 8: What cell are you in?
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  Speaker 7: I'm not with the underground. I'm an American, newspaper correspondent.
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  Speaker 7: It's all right.
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  Speaker 9: Chief Nine said I should see your husband. He gave
• 3:18
  Speaker 9: me the password. Look, you know the Americans are on
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  Speaker 9: your side?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I don't know. My husband is not home at
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  Speaker 8: the moment.
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  Speaker 10: If I.
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  Speaker 6: Eva, who is it?
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  Speaker 8: Someone to see Alan, Father. My father-in-law knows nothing. Don't
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  Speaker 8: see anything which might disturb him.
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  Speaker 6: Okay. You wish to see my son, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Arnold.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, a friend asked me to look him up.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Arnold is an American correspondent, Father.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, an American. It is not often I have had
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  Speaker 11: the chance to talk to an American these days.
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  Speaker 7: Things have changed, haven't they?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, these last few years... we have been out of
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  Speaker 11: touch with the world. I was working in my laboratory, Mr. Arnold.
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  Speaker 6: Would you care to come in while you wait for
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  Speaker 6: my son?
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  Speaker 8: Father, not the laboratory.
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  Speaker 11: We cannot ask our guest to sit alone in the library.
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  Speaker 11: And besides, I would like to talk.
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  Speaker 6: This way, please.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Arnold, I know nothing of politics... My only interest is science. Come,
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  Speaker 11: I will show you what we are doing.
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  Speaker 6: A most interesting experiment. Really, really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Dr.
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  Speaker 11: Wenzler.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Erickson, my associate. Dr.
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  Speaker 12: Erickson, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Arnold.
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  Speaker 7: An American.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 13: Dr.
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  Speaker 14: Rensselaer, is it advisable to allow strangers in the laboratory?
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  Speaker 13: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Arnold, it's my son's friend.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 14: Rensselaer, you will recall that the last directive... It.
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  Speaker 11: Has no bearing on the work we are doing. Our
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  Speaker 11: experiment is in the field of pure science. It has
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  Speaker 11: no military application.
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  Speaker 2: But the directive said.
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  Speaker 6: Dr.
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  Speaker 11: Erickson, may I remind you that I am still in
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  Speaker 11: charge of this laboratory.
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  Speaker 15: Very well.
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  Speaker 14: If you will excuse me, I want to test a
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  Speaker 14: new diatomic at night.
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  Speaker 7: Do that.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Wensler. I'm afraid your friend Erickson doesn't like my looks. Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: It's not that.
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  Speaker 6: It's just that he's worried.
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  Speaker 7: He's worried for me.
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  Speaker 11: Afraid that someone will misinterpret your visit and report me
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  Speaker 11: to the authorities.
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  Speaker 6: He's my most loyal and trusted assistant. But he tends
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  Speaker 6: to exaggerate the danger.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I hope you're right, Doctor. Say, this is some
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  Speaker 9: setup you've got here. That ten-foot plastic cylinder, what's that for?
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  Speaker 11: Every experiment must have a focal point, and that transparent
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  Speaker 11: cylinder is ours. The objects upon which we wish to
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  Speaker 11: work are placed inside and brought under the catalyzed beam
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  Speaker 11: over here.
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  Speaker 12: Eva!
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  Speaker 8: That's Arno now.
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  Speaker 15: Excuse me, I'll go and tell him.
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  Speaker 7: What is this experiment you're working on, Dr.
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  Speaker 13: Winston?
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  Speaker 6: Ah, very interesting, you problem. You say you are not
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  Speaker 6: a physicist or engineer, Mr.
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  Speaker 13: Arno?
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  Speaker 7: No, I'm not, but I can follow you, if that's
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  Speaker 7: what you mean.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: Well, we have been working with the problem of subatomic particles. Now,
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  Speaker 11: in attempting to manipulate them, to bring them closer to
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  Speaker 11: each other, we have discovered that we can shrink objects,
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  Speaker 11: reduce them in size.
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  Speaker 7: That's very interesting. How much can you reduce them? Half size? Oh,
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  Speaker 7: much more.
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  Speaker 11: We can make objects become microscopic and still retain their characteristics.
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  Speaker 7: Doesn't seem possible.
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  Speaker 6: We can make them even smaller. Much smaller. Theoretically, in fact,
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  Speaker 6: down to atomic dimensions.
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  Speaker 9: Well, as I said before, I'm no expert, Dr. Wensler,
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  Speaker 9: but tell me, what's the point? What good does it
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  Speaker 9: do to shrink anything down to that size?
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  Speaker 6: You do not understand. Man has never actually seen an atom.
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  Speaker 11: But if we can reduce a camera and recording instruments
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  Speaker 11: to the atom size... Then we would know the secrets
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  Speaker 11: of the universe.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, there you are, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Arnold. Oh, hello, Alan.
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  Speaker 2: You can't be interested in this. Why don't we go
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  Speaker 2: into the study and talk? But Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Arnold is interested.
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  Speaker 7: Well, sir, maybe I'd better talk to Alan at that.
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  Speaker 14: Excuse me, Dr.
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  Speaker 9: Welser.
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  Speaker 14: I mean to ask you, if you think you can
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  Speaker 14: get along without me for a few minutes, there's something
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  Speaker 14: I must do.
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  Speaker 2: It's important.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 6: As long as it will not take too much time.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, it won't take me long. It has been
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  Speaker 2: a pleasure, Mr. Arnold.
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  Speaker 15: I shall see you soon, I hope.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, Alan, let's go talk.
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  Speaker 2: Your credentials seem to be in order, Mr.
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  Speaker 13: Arnold.
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  Speaker 2: I talked to our chief after Ava explained why you
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  Speaker 2: were here. I don't agree with him, but.
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  Speaker 9: Look, Alan, you think the chief of your cell would
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  Speaker 9: have let me come here if he didn't think I
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  Speaker 9: was trustworthy and could help?
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  Speaker 2: I know, but.
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  Speaker 7: Public opinion can't be marshaled overnight, you know. Not even
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  Speaker 7: in America. Suppose the revolution is successful.
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  Speaker 2: It will be.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 9: Your only chance to make it stick will be in
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  Speaker 9: recognition by our government. And immediate help. Now, my stories
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  Speaker 9: can do a lot to lay the foundation for that.
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  Speaker 9: And with the date of the uprising so near... You
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  Speaker 9: know too much, Mr. Arnold, if this should leak to
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  Speaker 9: the secret police. Don't worry about it. It's my neck
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  Speaker 9: as much as yours. What do you think, Eva?
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  Speaker 8: Chief Nine said he was to be given the fullest cooperation.
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  Speaker 2: Very well, then.
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  Speaker 3: What do you want to know?
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  Speaker 9: Question one. What makes you think this revolution really has
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  Speaker 9: a chance? You can't fight tanks and guns with just your.
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  Speaker 7: Bare hands, Mr.
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  Speaker 16: Arnold.
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  Speaker 2: We believe the Wensler machine can solve our biggest problem.
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  Speaker 7: What's that?
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  Speaker 2: How to collect arms without being attacked by the secret police.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I see.
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  Speaker 2: Now, suppose we could reduce all our equipment. Electronic guns,
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  Speaker 2: ray gas, anti-tank blaster. Anything which could be brought in unassembled.
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  Speaker 2: Reduce it to so small a size that a woman's
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  Speaker 2: handbag could hold enough to equip a regiment.
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  Speaker 7: You see what that would mean?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 7: No one would think of looking for a cannon in.
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  Speaker 3: Precisely.
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  Speaker 2: But Father's machine and the cylinder were necessary for the reduction.
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  Speaker 2: That's why our supply depot is right here.
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  Speaker 10: Here?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. When the day arrives, we'll enlarge the arms and
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  Speaker 2: pass them on.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, but where's the stuff now?
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  Speaker 2: Eva, please get me that model from the mantel. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: of course.
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  Speaker 11: Here you are.
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  Speaker 2: Take a look at this, Mr. Arnold.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's a... That's a model of an anti-tank blast
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  Speaker 7: to complete every detail.
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  Speaker 2: Not a model, Mr.
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  Speaker 13: Arnold.
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  Speaker 2: This is an anti-tanker. Reduced in the cylinder by the
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  Speaker 2: Wensler process. At the proper time, we shall enlarge it,
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  Speaker 2: wheel it out through the garage, and set it up.
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  Speaker 2: When the men assemble, we pass out the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the arms, and we have our revolution. A division of men,
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  Speaker 2: properly armed, can take the city. Let's get back to
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  Speaker 2: the laboratory.
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  Speaker 11: Father will think it odd that we have.
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  Speaker 8: Been gone so long.
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  Speaker 10: The End.
• 10:02
  Speaker 11: Oh, I was wondering where you were, Alan.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what's keeping Erickson.
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  Speaker 6: He should have been back long ago. I need some
• 10:09
  Speaker 6: help on this circuit here.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Father. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 11: Erickson, I have amplified the effect by putting another diatomic
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  Speaker 11: catalyzer into phase. I want to give a test run, Alan,
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  Speaker 11: if you will bring one of the animals from the cage.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Father.
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  Speaker 17: Animals?
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: We are experimenting now with the reduction of living animals,
• 10:25
  Speaker 11: guinea pigs.
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  Speaker 7: How does it work?
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  Speaker 11: Those we diminish to microscopic size return unharmed. But those
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  Speaker 11: sent down to the atomic dimension... Yeah? The cylinder returns.
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  Speaker 11: But there's nothing inside.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: So, Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Winslet... Have you ever tried it on a human being?
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: I tried to persuade Father to send me down to
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: find out what's making the animals vanish.
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  Speaker 13: No, Alan.
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: But, Father, we've installed high-frequency radio communication now. If anything
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: started to go wrong with me, I could tell you
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  Speaker 2: in time to reverse the process.
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  Speaker 6: No, I will never permit it.
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  Speaker 7: All right. Guinea pigs it is, then. But someday, Father, I.
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, dear?
• 11:06
  Speaker 8: Come to me. That man, the one in the raincoat.
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  Speaker 8: He has been standing in that doorway across the street
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  Speaker 8: ever since I looked out the window.
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  Speaker 2: What of it?
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  Speaker 8: I don't like it, Alan. He has been standing there
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  Speaker 8: just looking at our house.
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  Speaker 7: Who?
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  Speaker 8: Alan, do you think it is?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know. I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 13: Eva.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. You know what we planned in this eventuality.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Get the arms and the provisions. We can't afford to
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  Speaker 2: take a chance.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Alan.
• 11:35
  Speaker 15: What is it, my son?
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: Father, it's better for you not to know too much, but...
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  Speaker 2: I'm a member of the underground.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Eva, too. We have... Well, we have some contraband hidden
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: in the house. We'll have to put it in the cylinder.
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  Speaker 6: Contraband?
• 11:50
  Speaker 7: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Arms, Father. Arms and provisions for an army reduced to
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  Speaker 2: 140 at size.
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  Speaker 13: Arms?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we must put them in the cylinder and warm
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: up the machine. If it is the secret police, we'll
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: make the arms invisible, microscopic in size. Can I help?
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: If you wish, Mr. Arnold, you can help my wife
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  Speaker 2: get the supplies. Okay. What is it, Eva?
• 12:07
  Speaker 8: Two police cars have just turned the corner.
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  Speaker 17: They're full of men.
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  Speaker 7: That changes matters.
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  Speaker 2: Father, you'll have to operate the machine yourself. Eva and
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: I are getting into the cylinder. No, Alan, you can't.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: It's too dangerous. It's the only way, Father. Those are
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  Speaker 2: the secret police.
• 12:34
  Speaker 7: Dimension X will continue in just a moment.
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: Tomorrow morning, get up and get at them with Wheaties
• 12:41
  Speaker 5: to help. Now, does that sound as if I just
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: made it up?
• 12:45
  Speaker 7: Well, listen, folks, it's real.
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: It's so.
• 12:49
  Speaker 5: If you'll pour the Wheaties into a bowl tomorrow morning,
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: if you'll pour on cold milk and put on the
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: fruit you like best, if you'll do these things, you
• 12:56
  Speaker 5: can honestly feel a difference all morning long.
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  Speaker 3: And here's why.
• 13:01
  Speaker 5: Every golden Wheaties flake, every flake is made from a
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  Speaker 5: grain of wheat. That's why every flake of Wheaties gives
• 13:08
  Speaker 5: you full whole wheat vitamins and minerals and the amazing
• 13:11
  Speaker 5: energy you'll notice still with you by 11 in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: You simply cannot miss. Because it's a fact, you do
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: better by yourself on a better breakfast. Whatever your job,
• 13:23
  Speaker 5: if you'll start the morning with a reasonable meal, You
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: should find yourself working better, feeling better, even looking better
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: all morning long. Yep, 7 o'clock Wheaties, 11 o'clock, still
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: feeling good and working happy. You try it now. Not
• 13:40
  Speaker 5: somebody else, but you. You may be pounding a rug
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: or pounding a typewriter tomorrow morning at 11. You may
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: be driving a tractor or driving a bargain. But you're
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: going to feel the difference with breakfast of champions tucked inside.
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: You try it.
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: Really now, see how Wheaties at 7 can help at 11.
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  Speaker 2: I have a catalyzer ready.
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  Speaker 10: Ready.
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  Speaker 6: Set at point 034.
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  Speaker 13: Good.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Ava. Get in the cylinder.
• 14:15
  Speaker 18: Alan, I can't let you take the chance, Alan. Isn't
• 14:20
  Speaker 18: it enough to make the supplies disappear?
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: Not for the secret police. They must know something. Otherwise,
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: they wouldn't be here. But how could they prove anything? No, Father.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Every man has his breaking point. And I can't afford
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: to gamble with the lives of others. I don't know
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: how I'd react on the torture.
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: Torture?
• 14:35
  Speaker 15: Oh, father, you are naive.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: But don't worry.
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  Speaker 7: You'll be safe.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: Everyone knows you aren't interested in politics.
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  Speaker 13: Mr.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Arnold is an American. Perhaps that will protect him. They're
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: coming now. Oh, my son. What have you done? There's
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: no time for recriminations now, father. I'm getting in with Eva. Arnold,
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: will you help my father with the machine?
• 14:55
  Speaker 15: And after?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I'll do whatever I can.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Now, take us down to sub-microscopic size.
• 15:02
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Hold us down until the police have gone. Tell them
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: we've left. They won't dare meddle with the machine. Tell
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: them it will mean death to anyone who gets in
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: the way of the beam. When they're gone, bring us
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: back up. I'll maintain radio silence until I hear from you.
• 15:14
  Speaker 7: Very well, my son.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: There they are. The machine's warmed up. Move over, Ava.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: I'm coming in.
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: Let me in.
• 15:22
  Speaker 17: I've switched on the radio.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: If you can hear me, secure the porthole, Arnold.
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: Okay, we hear you. The porthole's secure.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Ready, Father? Yes.
• 15:35
  Speaker 18: Are the oxygen tanks all right?
• 15:39
  Speaker 19: Yes.
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: They're breaking down the door.
• 15:41
  Speaker 18: Atomic setting 034.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Preliminary release.
• 15:46
  Speaker 17: Temperature?
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: 27 degrees centigrade. 760 millimeters pressure.
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: Hurry, Father!
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: Very well.
• 15:51
  Speaker 10: Now!
• 15:55
  Speaker 12: Break on.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Alpha 4, beta 16, gamma 0.12, temperature 30 centigrade, pressure 1100.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Be careful.
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: Holy mackerel, the cylinder's only three feet high.
• 16:03
  Speaker 12: Open that door, boss.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Temperature 36, pressure... It's getting too high.
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: I can't do it.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Stand by to reverse.
• 16:13
  Speaker 13: No.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: The temperature and pressure show signs of stabilizing. Now 38
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: and 2,000. Make setting at Angstrom 5, 10 times to
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the third. That's a small. We can't afford to take chances.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Only three inches high.
• 16:24
  Speaker 12: It's all right, Father.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Temperature and pressure beginning to drop. Thank God. A half
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: inch high. They're coming. They're coming. If anything happens, it
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: isn't your fault. Remember, this is my doing.
• 16:39
  Speaker 18: Ava, switch off. Don't come near the beam. No, this
• 16:50
  Speaker 18: machine is in operation and can kill anyone.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Coming within range. Shut off that machine.
• 16:56
  Speaker 18: The machine cannot be shut off until it reaches nadir.
• 17:00
  Speaker 18: A sudden reversal would cause an explosion and take us
• 17:03
  Speaker 18: all with it.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: You there.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Who are you?
• 17:07
  Speaker 13: Who, me?
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: Just a friend of the family.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Arrest him.
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: Get your hands off me.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Let go of me. Now, Dr. Wenzler, your son and
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: his wife, where are they? Answer me, you old fool.
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: They left a few minutes before you came.
• 17:26
  Speaker 11: Left?
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Jan, I told you to watch all the exits.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: We did, Commander. A mouse could not have escaped.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: I swear it, by the leader. They are not here.
• 17:36
  Speaker 10: You.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: What do you know of this?
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: I told you, they left some time ago.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Keep an eye on them. And keep away from that machine.
• 17:46
  Speaker 11: Jan.
• 17:47
  Speaker 13: Yes, sir.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Send out a general alarm.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, Commander.
• 17:51
  Speaker 14: Dr.
• 17:51
  Speaker 13: Wenzelam.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Who are your son's friends?
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: Please, please.
• 17:55
  Speaker 18: Commander, let me finish my experiment. I know nothing about
• 17:59
  Speaker 18: my son's activities or his friends, I swear it. I
• 18:01
  Speaker 18: know nothing about politics.
• 18:03
  Speaker 13: So?
• 18:04
  Speaker 18: I must stay here until this experiment is finished. It
• 18:07
  Speaker 18: is too dangerous to be left unattended.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Very well. Take the American to headquarters. The rest of you,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: search the house.
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: Look here, I'm an American citizen.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Erickson!
• 18:19
  Speaker 16: Yes, my dear Vincenzo.
• 18:22
  Speaker 15: Have you found him, Commander?
• 18:23
  Speaker 13: Ereks.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: You have betrayed me.
• 18:27
  Speaker 14: I am a member of the League of Loyal Scientists.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Your son is the traitor, not I. Have you found him, Commander?
• 18:32
  Speaker 12: No.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: We have searched the house.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: They swear the son and his wife escaped before we arrived.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: That is ridiculous. They were here when I left.
• 18:42
  Speaker 14: People do not vanish into thin air. Then where are they?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Right under your nose, Commander.
• 18:47
  Speaker 12: What?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: They're in the cylinder, of course, under the beam there.
• 18:51
  Speaker 14: That is the only place they could be. Allow me
• 18:53
  Speaker 14: to handle the controls. You shall have your prisoners in
• 18:54
  Speaker 14: five minutes.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I see. Very clever, Dr.
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: Wenzler.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Very clever. All right, Erickson, you take charge of the machine.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: You spy, you traitor.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Don't let him touch that dial. Grab him. You, you,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: you won't. There, there.
• 19:13
  Speaker 14: He has set it for subatomic dimension.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
• 19:17
  Speaker 14: Whatever is in that cylinder has become as small as
• 19:20
  Speaker 14: the atom.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Then shut it off!
• 19:21
  Speaker 14: It has almost reached nadir. We must wait ten seconds,
• 19:25
  Speaker 14: then reverse polarities. The machine has reached nadir. Angstrom 10
• 19:31
  Speaker 14: to the minus 11. We must now wait ten seconds. One, two, three, four.
• 19:43
  Speaker 17: Fine.
• 19:40
  Speaker 16: What's the matter, Alan?
• 20:01
  Speaker 15: I don't know. Something must have gone wrong.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Alan, look up there.
• 20:06
  Speaker 13: Why?
• 20:08
  Speaker 15: Why, it's the Solar System. It's coming at us so fast.
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: Look, the sun.
• 20:14
  Speaker 15: The sun?
• 20:15
  Speaker 19: No, that can't be. Eva, that's the nucleus of an atom.
• 20:21
  Speaker 19: We've reached the subatomic dimension. That sun is the nucleus,
• 20:25
  Speaker 19: and those planets are the electrons revolving about it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: That planet coming up at us, there on the other
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: side of the sun, I mean the nucleus, is.
• 20:34
  Speaker 15: An electron. It's growing in size. We're heading straight for it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 15: They're coming down on it.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: They are going to land.
• 20:44
  Speaker 17: Well, I guess we finally reached the nadir.
• 20:58
  Speaker 15: We haven't shrunk for the past two or three hours.
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: Where are we?
• 21:03
  Speaker 15: I don't know.
• 21:05
  Speaker 17: Somewhere in a valley between the mountains of a huge
• 21:07
  Speaker 17: electronic ray.
• 21:08
  Speaker 15: It's almost funny, resting on the surface.
• 21:11
  Speaker 12: Of an electron.
• 21:15
  Speaker 15: Look. The soil under the floor of the cylinder.
• 21:20
  Speaker 12: It looks like vegetation.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 21:23
  Speaker 15: Moss.
• 21:25
  Speaker 13: Lichen.
• 21:29
  Speaker 15: That's the last of the air. I've been expecting it
• 21:33
  Speaker 15: to go out for the past two days. We have perhaps...
• 21:37
  Speaker 15: A half hour more. Eva, dearest.
• 21:41
  Speaker 12: I know.
• 21:43
  Speaker 15: There is one chance. That vegetation. That means there must
• 21:46
  Speaker 15: be some sort of atmosphere on this electronic planet. We
• 21:49
  Speaker 15: have to take that chance. Eva, are you willing to
• 21:53
  Speaker 15: step out of the cylinder with me?
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: Of course, my dearest. For without our ghost, I will go.
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: Thy people shall be my people.
• 22:05
  Speaker 15: And thy God, my God.
• 22:08
  Speaker 12: When thou diest, I will.
• 22:13
  Speaker 15: We haven't much time. Ready?
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: Ready.
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 22:23
  Speaker 12: Open the portal.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Seven....
• 22:38
  Speaker 14: Eight, nine, ten. All right, ten seconds. I shall now
• 22:46
  Speaker 14: reverse polarity.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I see something. The cylinder? Yes, there it is. Just
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: a few seconds more and it will become normal size.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: A foot high. Keep that man quiet. It blows very rapidly.
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Three feet high.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: Four.
• 23:08
  Speaker 14: Now, there you are, Commander. And in a moment, you
• 23:12
  Speaker 14: will see your prisoners. Get the door open.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: There is no door, my Commander.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: No door, Erickson. But there must be. No, sir.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: Nothing but a gas valve.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: You are right. Nothing but violet gas.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: That's impossible.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Where are your son and his wife?
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: We told you they left the house some time ago.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: That is a lie. Where are they? I.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: I do not know.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Erickson, open that valve. But the gas will be poisonous.
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: We shall see.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Open the valve. Very slightly. What is that? I.
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 23:54
  Speaker 14: I seem to hear music inside my head.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: So did I.
• 23:59
  Speaker 14: Apparently the gas produces auditory hallucinations.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Open the valve again.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: Careful.
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: We, the people of peace, greet the great scientist, the omnipotent,
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: the maker of all.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I thought I heard a voice.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: This is the.
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: Law of our people, laid down by our first father
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: ten million years ago, that always and ever there be
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: this record of our race. For it is told that thou,
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: in the fruitfulness of time... shall take back unto thee
• 24:39
  Speaker 10: this ark... like unto that cylinder in which the first
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: father and mother.
• 24:44
  Speaker 13: Of us all.
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: came unto us.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: I don't understand.
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: I am the last of our race. And the sun
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: is cold and desolation is upon the face of our planet.
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: But in our time there was majesty and joy.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: and the gleaning of the fruits of the soil.
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: For we have been the people of peace.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: And life was bountiful.
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: For generations until that day came when in thy everlasting
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: wisdom thou didst decree the.
• 25:16
  Speaker 12: End of all.
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: Though there were some who wept, we did not query why.
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: For we have been a happy race. We have followed
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: the law of the first father, Alan, and of the
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: great mother, Ava. And we have built this ark so
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: that there may be a report of our deeds and.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Of the fulfillment of the trust.
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: Now I, Lamarion, the last of the billions who lived here,
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: do lie me down into that last sleep, from which,
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: if thou will, I shall awake unto the land which
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: is thine. Hail, oh great one. From the descendants of
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: Alan and Ava, hail and farewell.
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: Good Lord, what was that?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Alan and Ava?
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: Dr.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Wenzler, where are they?
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: They are beyond your reach.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Don't you understand? All time is relative.
• 26:19
  Speaker 11: One year of our time is one revolution of the
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: planet Earth about the sun. Somewhere down In the microcosmos,
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: my son and his wife found themselves in an atomic universe.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: And landed upon an electronic planet. That planet whirled around
• 26:41
  Speaker 11: its sun, the nucleus of an atom, a million times
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: in the space of a second.
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Hour. Second.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: Wensley, what are you trying to say?
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: That voice we heard... is the voice of a human being,
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: the last member of a race whose blood is mine.
• 27:03
  Speaker 11: For in the space of ten seconds of our time,
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: Alan and Ava settled upon their microcosmic planet and bore
• 27:14
  Speaker 11: sons and daughters and a great and peaceful race that
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: lived and died beyond infinity. And my children, Alan and Ava,
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: who founded that race, are dead and gone. Ten million
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: years ago. Ten seconds ago.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Tonight, Dimension X has presented Beyond Infinity, an original radio
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: drama written by Vier Gerson. Featured in the cast were
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Les Damon as Arnold, Lada Stavitsky as Ava, E.A. Krummschmidt
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: as Dr. Wensler, and Joe DeSantis as Alan Wensler. Your
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: narrator was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman. Dimension X
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: is produced by Van Woodward and directed by Edward King.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: In a moment, we'll tell you about next week's show.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: And now, here is your Wheaties man.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Frank Martin.
• 28:25
  Speaker 13: This is Ed Prentiss batting for Frank Martin. To bring
• 28:28
  Speaker 13: you a word from a fellow most of you know. Lucius,
• 28:30
  Speaker 13: would you step over here, please?
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: You bet, Ed. Folks, I'm Luke Kaplan.
• 28:34
  Speaker 13: I've been playing shortstop for the Chicago White Sox practically forever. Yes,
• 28:38
  Speaker 13: it is practically forever. This makes your 20th season, Luke.
• 28:40
  Speaker 13: Do you think it's going to be a permanent job? Well,
• 28:43
  Speaker 13: you know, Ed, I play baseball like I eat Wheaties.
• 28:46
  Speaker 13: Just get set and plow right through. Wheaties and baseball
• 28:49
  Speaker 13: just seem to go together. The Wheaties give me the
• 28:51
  Speaker 13: energy to play more baseball, and a tough game gives
• 28:54
  Speaker 13: me the appetite to eat more Wheaties.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I think it's a real nice arrangement. Well, Mr.
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: Appling, if you're happy, so are we. Thanks a million
• 29:01
  Speaker 13: to our real Wheaties champion, Luke Appling.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: And folks, if you haven't had the pleasure of Wheaties lately,
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: have some tomorrow. Wheaties, breakfast of champions. And eat happy.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Next week, a strange story of other worlds. The story
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: of the barbaric Potters of First. Another adventure into the
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: unknown world of tomorrow.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: The world of.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Dimension X.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: And this is the Wheaties man, Frank Martins. inviting you
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: to listen tomorrow night to Joel McRae in Tales of
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: the Texas Rangers on the Wheaties Big Parade.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: See you then. This program was transcribed.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Stay tuned for Stories of the Underworld by Jack Laid
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: on NBC.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Dimension X, Episode 16, Beyond Infinity, has reached its close.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Until our next broadcast, good night. Now follow old-time sci-fi
• 30:21
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