Speaker 1: Escape.
Speaker 2: You were rushing forward through time, far into the future,
Speaker 2: trying desperately to flee the clutching fingers of a band
Speaker 2: of night creatures, a dreamlike horror from which there seemed
Speaker 2: no escape.
Speaker 3: Escape designed to free you from the four walls of today.
Speaker 3: For a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 2: Night we escape to the year one hundred thousand and
Speaker 2: eighty and to a world where beauty and terror live
Speaker 2: side by side.
Speaker 4: As H. G.
Speaker 2: Wells described it in his Immortal Story, a time machine.
Speaker 5: You must be mad, Dudley. A time machine.
Speaker 4: Yes, my friend, a time machine.
Speaker 5: This thing, this very thing, well, this contraptionless whatever it
Speaker 5: is made of quartz and brass and ivory. Well, it's
Speaker 5: levers and dials and its seat in the middle. This
Speaker 5: is the result of three years hard work.
Speaker 6: I promise you followed that. On this machine a man
Speaker 6: can go wherever he likes in time. By working these levers,
Speaker 6: a man can choose his century, his year, his very day.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's impossible. It's out of the question.
Speaker 6: Then, one of the journeys I've already taken on this
Speaker 6: little contraption.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm afraid you're you're having a bad dream.
Speaker 6: You mean I've developed into a liar. Very well, you
Speaker 6: shall have proof, my friend. Just climb on, Fowler, sit
Speaker 6: in a seat with me. I'll take you for a
Speaker 6: little spin. You mean right now, right now? Well, just
Speaker 6: in case it should work. Aren't there any preparations we
Speaker 6: should make?
Speaker 4: No fallow.
Speaker 6: You won't need any luggage in this trip, not even
Speaker 6: a toothbrush. You'll be back in less than a minute.
Speaker 6: All right, i'me on now what hold tight? Because it
Speaker 6: sways a good deal. I'd hate to lose you.
Speaker 5: I can't be frightened, Dudley.
Speaker 1: Then you're a braver than I am. Tell me what
Speaker 1: time is it?
Speaker 5: It's just twelve noon?
Speaker 1: Before we start.
Speaker 6: I want to adjust this control of it.
Speaker 5: Is everything ship shaped?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes? Tell me? Did you notice anything just then?
Speaker 5: Only a noise of humming noise? Nothing else?
Speaker 1: And what time is it?
Speaker 4: You just asked me?
Speaker 5: Old man, that's funny what my watch says eleven o'clock.
Speaker 5: I could have sworn it was noon a moment ago. Hm,
Speaker 5: must be something wrong with it.
Speaker 6: There's nothing wrong with the watch. It's only that I
Speaker 6: touched the lever to test it. And we've gone forward
Speaker 6: a full day twenty three hours at any rate, Dudley,
Speaker 6: have you finished, scoffing Fowler, yes, I believe I have.
Speaker 6: Then hold tight, this will be the real article.
Speaker 5: I'm ready, deadly good man.
Speaker 6: Well, say goodbye, Fowler, say goodbye to nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 2: We went off with the shattering jar, with machines swaying
Speaker 2: under us.
Speaker 5: The walls of doctor Dudley's laboratory suddenly fell away. A
Speaker 5: night was speeding after daylight, the flapping of a black wing.
Speaker 7: I saw the sun hopping across the sky, leaping swiftly
Speaker 7: across it every second, and every second man a day.
Speaker 7: I saw the moon spinning through a quarters like a ball,
Speaker 7: from new to full, all in the twinkling of an eye.
Speaker 2: Trees grew and blossomed like puffs and smoke, and then
Speaker 2: passed away. And all the while we were going faster,
Speaker 2: And now our.
Speaker 8: Pace was a year a second, So that second by
Speaker 8: second the white snow flashed across the world, and was
Speaker 8: followed by.
Speaker 2: The bright brief spring, And still we went on into
Speaker 2: the future.
Speaker 4: How do you feel, Fouler s a week and very dizzy.
Speaker 4: Don't let go, don't fall off. Where are we? How
Speaker 4: far we come?
Speaker 9: We're in one hundred thousand and fifty and sixty and seven.
Speaker 4: That's enough.
Speaker 2: Stop it, deadly, I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 9: Stop it.
Speaker 5: You were right, I believe, sir, Oh broken bones.
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure? I must have stopped to suddenly?
Speaker 5: Where are we, Dudley?
Speaker 1: Look around for yourself, and a wide lawn and a beautiful,
Speaker 1: vast garden. I meant, geographically, just where we were when
Speaker 1: we started.
Speaker 6: We're standing exactly on the spot where my laboratory stood
Speaker 6: a hundred thousand years ago and the year one hundred
Speaker 6: thousand and eighty.
Speaker 5: It seemed absolutely incredible, a dream, but a pleasant one,
Speaker 5: for the garden in which we found ourselves was beautiful
Speaker 5: in summary and inviting. At some distance we could see
Speaker 5: a large, imposing building. All was quiet and peaceful, almost
Speaker 5: too much so, and a sense of strangeness, of incredible strangeness,
Speaker 5: sent a shiver up my spine.
Speaker 1: One hundred thousand and eighty.
Speaker 5: Dudley, Dudley, have you thought what we might find here?
Speaker 5: What manner of man? What danger?
Speaker 1: I don't see any man at all, or perhaps.
Speaker 5: They don't exist at all anymore. If they do, what
Speaker 5: are they like?
Speaker 4: How they'd developed?
Speaker 1: It's been a long interval between us, more than a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand years. We won't know until we see them,
Speaker 1: and that it may be too late.
Speaker 5: Suppose the race has lost its manliness and has become
Speaker 5: a savage animal. Do you want to go back?
Speaker 4: Yes, Dudley, I'm frightened.
Speaker 5: Let's go back, Dudley, from over there in the bushes,
Speaker 5: solid human.
Speaker 4: Come on, but Dudley, we don't have any weapons.
Speaker 5: Come on, Ah, it's a child. Look, it seems to
Speaker 5: be a very small girl.
Speaker 6: There's been a beast here of some kind. It struggled
Speaker 6: with a look at the marks on her arms.
Speaker 5: I er, I see here, my dear. You'll be all
Speaker 5: right now, you won't be harmed. Of course she wouldn't
Speaker 5: understand English.
Speaker 6: I don't think it's that she's motioning us to go there.
Speaker 6: I don't believe they have any language at all. Dudley,
Speaker 6: what about the animal?
Speaker 5: Did you see? No?
Speaker 1: Not a glimpse. It was too fast for us.
Speaker 5: Perhaps we'd better go back badly. Girls seems to be
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 6: Now leave her like this without seeing her people and
Speaker 6: the way they live.
Speaker 4: You want to go back so soon? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I've had enough.
Speaker 1: Well they haven't, Old man because they're here, all around us.
Speaker 5: They had crept up on soundless feet to surround us,
Speaker 5: the little people of this era. And the girl we'd
Speaker 5: saved was not her child, but a full grown woman.
Speaker 5: For they all stood four feet high, dressed in simple tunics,
Speaker 5: beautiful creatures, but terribly frail, with a plump, soft kind
Speaker 5: of frailty. Their mouths were small, and their little chins
Speaker 5: ran to a point, and they made no sound, and
Speaker 5: they were like eerie figures in a dream. And all
Speaker 5: we could hear was the heavy rustling of their clothes
Speaker 5: as they surged happily around us, their faces wreathed in smiles.
Speaker 5: They're not savage at all. They're very loving and gentle
Speaker 5: little people.
Speaker 4: Yes, but there's something terribly wrong with them.
Speaker 5: What do you mean?
Speaker 6: They seem to have the minds of five year olds.
Speaker 6: This one over here has been trying to talk to
Speaker 6: me with gestures.
Speaker 4: Look at him.
Speaker 6: He seems to be asking me if I've come from
Speaker 6: the sun or a thunderstorm. How do you expect them
Speaker 6: to be far ahead of us? Of course, incredibly ahead
Speaker 6: of us in knowledge and in science.
Speaker 4: And look at them, children.
Speaker 5: Or they seemed happy in this huge garden of theirs.
Speaker 5: That's something I've changed my mind, Dudley. Maybe we shall
Speaker 5: enjoy spending a few days with our little friends. The
Speaker 5: little people led us home into their valley. They lived
Speaker 5: in colossal buildings, sleeping all together in one huge hall,
Speaker 5: eating in another, playing and frolicking together in the sunshine.
Speaker 5: And Dudley and I lived with them for days, not
Speaker 5: a contentment. One afternoon we walked together along the banks
Speaker 5: of the Great River.
Speaker 6: There's no apparent difference among the sexes. They all wear
Speaker 6: the same clothes, have the same soft, taireless skin, same
Speaker 6: feminine roundness of limbs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder if it's because they're vegetarians.
Speaker 6: They're vegetarians because they have to be. You haven't run
Speaker 6: across any horses or dogs, a cattle of.
Speaker 5: Any kind, have you, no, Now that you mention it, with.
Speaker 6: Good reason, they're all extinct by now, just as the
Speaker 6: dinosaur is with.
Speaker 5: Us, Dudley. There's something very strange here, something hidden away
Speaker 5: and silent.
Speaker 6: You may be right anyway. I've taken the precaution of
Speaker 6: removing the controls from the machine. I don't much fancy
Speaker 6: the idea of someone riding away with it into another century.
Speaker 6: And leaving us here for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 5: Dudley, do you recognize this bit of ground? Why?
Speaker 1: Yes, this is where we landed, thoughts? So I wasn't sure.
Speaker 5: Why do you ask? Can't you see? Look around? It's empty?
Speaker 5: What's happened to the machine?
Speaker 4: They've taken it away? They've stolen it for a Dudley.
Speaker 4: Where see the tracks where they've dragged it over? Here?
Speaker 1: Come along right here by this monument, the end of
Speaker 1: the trail.
Speaker 5: Those are brass doors in the base and they're locked.
Speaker 4: The machine. It must be in there inside. We must
Speaker 4: get it straight down the door. How can we here?
Speaker 4: We use the leavers.
Speaker 8: It's no good, Dudley, there's solid will never break through
Speaker 8: never never do you mean stay here for a our lives?
Speaker 4: You mean never go home again?
Speaker 9: They's much open the machine, the time machine.
Speaker 5: The time machine was gone. The brass doors of the
Speaker 5: monument held our retreat was cut off, the thin line
Speaker 5: by which we could make our way back home, back
Speaker 5: to our own time and our own people. But they
Speaker 5: seemed nothing we could do. We had no way of
Speaker 5: communicating with the little people, of asking what they had
Speaker 5: done with the machine and why and how to get
Speaker 5: it back. They merely stood around and watched our bain efforts.
Speaker 5: There was nothing hostile in their attitude. They were more
Speaker 5: like simple wondering children. Only one, the young woman weener
Speaker 5: whose life we had saved on our first day, had
Speaker 5: become really friendly. She went with us wherever we walked,
Speaker 5: and brought us presents of garlands of flowers, slept near
Speaker 5: us at night in the hall, and we, in turn
Speaker 5: had taught her a few words of English. Now we
Speaker 5: redoubled our efforts, like men racing against a clock, so
Speaker 5: that we might speak to and discover the secret of
Speaker 5: our immense loss.
Speaker 6: No, not these, Dudley, No, how could you be so
Speaker 6: sure that your people didn't steal the machine?
Speaker 4: Art there any thieves among them?
Speaker 1: Are they all perfect?
Speaker 5: That's a lot deadly? You'll awaken them. Besides, she doesn't understand.
Speaker 6: But the thief must be sleeping somewhere in this hall, Weena,
Speaker 6: they take machine?
Speaker 10: No, Dudley, No, Who then?
Speaker 4: Who we are? Friends?
Speaker 10: Yes? Yes, friends?
Speaker 4: We need must.
Speaker 1: Have machine, yes, Deadley, Yes, who took machine?
Speaker 4: Are there other people?
Speaker 6: Not yours?
Speaker 5: What about those doors?
Speaker 4: Weena? Doors open?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: No, wiena machine in there must open?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: No, not open.
Speaker 4: All right, my dear, go to sleep, get.
Speaker 10: Some rest, Yes, Toutley, sleep, you two.
Speaker 1: Folll try anyway, I've tried.
Speaker 5: It's no good.
Speaker 4: What's to become of us?
Speaker 6: We caught here in this century, so we spent our
Speaker 6: lives with the little people and their secret.
Speaker 5: Try to sleep, Dudley. We'll go back to the monument tomorrow.
Speaker 5: We'll find a way of breaking in.
Speaker 4: Dudley.
Speaker 5: Yes, did you just.
Speaker 4: There is again?
Speaker 5: What? Something on my face cold and felt into the
Speaker 5: touch on.
Speaker 4: My face and my hair cold is deaf? Dully, You're right,
Speaker 4: my boy, there's something in here with us. I smell
Speaker 4: of the grave. What was it? I don't know, but
Speaker 4: look at them. The little people are all awake. It
Speaker 4: is all they've been stampeded. Let's get out of here.
Speaker 4: I want some fresh air.
Speaker 5: We went quickly through the hall outside, away from the
Speaker 5: frantic rustling of the little people, and entered silence. The
Speaker 5: moon was full just overhead, and it was close to dawning.
Speaker 5: There was a faint sound speeding close behind us, and
Speaker 5: we turned. Our nerves ragged and our muscles tensed.
Speaker 4: But it was only Weena, coming swiftly to join us.
Speaker 6: Weena come closer, my girl, deadly, tell us what do
Speaker 6: your people fear?
Speaker 4: What makes them afraid?
Speaker 10: Afraid? Darkness?
Speaker 4: And there is something?
Speaker 5: What do you mean?
Speaker 10: Darkness, dark things, dark places? Night?
Speaker 5: Why why?
Speaker 10: I I don't know.
Speaker 5: Why should they be afraid of the night, dead Lea.
Speaker 6: Perhaps it's not the night alone, dark places that's our cue.
Speaker 1: Perhaps it's something underground.
Speaker 5: By now it was light another day. We have wandered
Speaker 5: into a lovely wooded place about a mile from Nick,
Speaker 5: near Lee. Suddenly, Weena screamed. We stopped short. A pair
Speaker 5: of glaring eyes was fixed upon us. As we the
Speaker 5: petrified the thing, A little apelike figure rushed across our
Speaker 5: path and disappeared in the clearing about thirty yards away.
Speaker 4: Oh was it? I couldn't see it too well.
Speaker 6: It seemed to be dull, white, with white hair on
Speaker 6: its head and down its back.
Speaker 4: Looked like a small ape.
Speaker 6: That's because it was running an old four zer with
Speaker 6: its arms held very low.
Speaker 5: Whenna, what's the matter?
Speaker 10: Moorlocks? The yu warnock?
Speaker 4: Who are the morlocks?
Speaker 5: What are they?
Speaker 4: Weina tell me no.
Speaker 2: No gory.
Speaker 4: Let's go over there and see where.
Speaker 1: It disappeared.
Speaker 5: In the clearing. We found a round well like opening.
Speaker 5: I leaned over and looked down a deep shaft, and
Speaker 5: as I did so, I saw a small white creature
Speaker 5: retreating down a ladder in the well, something like a
Speaker 5: human spider, its large bright eyes watching me as it
Speaker 5: went swiftly down. And then it disappeared in the shaft.
Speaker 4: Powler, did you see it like a nape?
Speaker 5: Yeah, not like a man.
Speaker 6: So there are two species of men in this world,
Speaker 6: hey fellow, Yes, the little people above the ground and
Speaker 6: this obscene thing, this bleached monster below.
Speaker 4: Two races of men in this country, and a white look.
Speaker 5: It's common to animals that live in the dark, like
Speaker 5: huge rats, like worms, that are cold of the touch.
Speaker 4: I know because they've touched me.
Speaker 1: You can feel air being sucked down into the shaft.
Speaker 6: Yes, the earth must be tunneled enormously here under our feet,
Speaker 6: and these monsters live in the tunnels.
Speaker 5: I think we know now who stole our time machine.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm sure of it. Then then we'll go down
Speaker 1: and have a look.
Speaker 5: No, don't go, Why not.
Speaker 10: Winer warlocks, you never come back.
Speaker 5: We've got to have our machine, my dear, You'll wait
Speaker 5: for us here.
Speaker 4: No, no, but we.
Speaker 5: Went down our heels ringing on the small metallic bars
Speaker 5: that were meant for creatures so much smaller than we
Speaker 5: Down We climbed down, down, ever in darkness, down, it
Speaker 5: seemed into the center of the.
Speaker 1: Earth, into the core of the world.
Speaker 4: Much longer. We won't know till we reach the bottom.
Speaker 5: Can only stop and rest.
Speaker 4: It can't be much further. I'm so terribly tired. Hang out,
Speaker 4: all man, you hear that, like maceiery, We're almost there.
Speaker 5: Well, thank Heaven for that.
Speaker 4: All right, follow, I'm at the bottom. Come along, just
Speaker 4: a few more steps, give me your hand. Follow good.
Speaker 5: We're here in the land of the morlocks.
Speaker 11: If you haven't match, you know, yeah, it seems to
Speaker 11: be a large vaulted cavern at the end of the passage.
Speaker 5: What do you suppose they'll do if they catch us?
Speaker 1: I've no idea, so we'd better take care not.
Speaker 4: To get caught another match.
Speaker 6: That throbbing noise, it's probably the ventilating system popping air down.
Speaker 6: There must be thousands upon thousands of these morlocks living
Speaker 6: under the earth, and.
Speaker 5: We haven't seen any yet except for our friend who
Speaker 5: came down ahead of us.
Speaker 4: Why do you suppose.
Speaker 5: They wanted our time? Machine.
Speaker 1: I think they wanted us, Stutley, not the machine.
Speaker 5: And we've come to them. We must.
Speaker 1: It's our only chance.
Speaker 6: Powlup if that noise does come from air, pump sell,
Speaker 6: Why is it so stuffy here, so.
Speaker 4: Oppressive, Dudly, that smell.
Speaker 5: Blood?
Speaker 4: Like another match, Daddy, look.
Speaker 5: Straight ahead on the white metal table. It's set for
Speaker 5: a meal as with a big chunk of bloody meat.
Speaker 5: And we know that cattle are extinct, whether they feed
Speaker 5: on these morlocks, don't you know?
Speaker 4: I guess I do.
Speaker 5: Another match, all right, I uh, Dudley, Dudley, I haven't
Speaker 5: got any more.
Speaker 4: We've used on our last match. All right, we'll have
Speaker 4: to go back there. Then we know the secret now anyway.
Speaker 6: The morlocks living here underground are the masters of this age.
Speaker 1: And our friend up above.
Speaker 6: Fatted cattle fed by the morlock's clothed and supplied and
Speaker 6: housed until the day when they're cut out from the
Speaker 6: herd and brought underground as food. This is the future
Speaker 6: you're looking at. This is what we man of the
Speaker 6: twentieth century shall come to.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 4: I felt hands, cold hands.
Speaker 9: Take one of these levers, use as a weapon, lash
Speaker 9: out against the wall, Paula here beside me, Dudley, what
Speaker 9: do we do do fight them?
Speaker 4: Tell you Jr.
Speaker 2: Heaver Man. Like this, Dudley, They're all around us.
Speaker 9: This way, Vala, this way, fat this way.
Speaker 5: We went back, and that evil darkness, fighting every step
Speaker 5: as we went back to those projecting bars, kicking and
Speaker 5: clawing ourselves loose from their pallid, grasping hands, and climbing
Speaker 5: up again toward daylight and freedom a wave and their
Speaker 5: stench in the eagerness of their icy hands. And they
Speaker 5: didn't follow, for daylight was their enemy and their great fear.
Speaker 5: And we lived among the lush gardens of the gentle
Speaker 5: little people, like prisoners, like men without reprieve, like men who.
Speaker 1: Are dead, or they still walked the earth, or the.
Speaker 5: Time machine was locked away behind great brass doors, and.
Speaker 4: We knew we could never force them open.
Speaker 5: Then one day, Weena told us of an old building,
Speaker 5: an ancient, staggering structure that had survived through many ages
Speaker 5: and was filled with many curious objects.
Speaker 4: A museum, that's what it must be.
Speaker 1: A museum, fol perhaps from some earlier time.
Speaker 6: I am in no mood to go looking at a museum,
Speaker 6: But don't you see specimens hermetically sealed in museums. Perhaps
Speaker 6: there were things, weapons, machinery, something we could use.
Speaker 5: Sure, if we could find some dynamite, gunpowder, or something.
Speaker 4: We could blast those doors, we could get in. Where
Speaker 4: is this place? Weena?
Speaker 5: It's all building that no one ever goes near.
Speaker 10: I take you, fouler eat not far.
Speaker 1: A chance, old man, a slim chance, but a chance.
Speaker 5: Nonetheless, all day we've wandered through the great ruined halls.
Speaker 5: The building had been deserted and in disuse for perhaps
Speaker 5: a century. The childlike men of that time had long
Speaker 5: since ceased to care about anything but their own personal comforts.
Speaker 5: It was late afternoon and growing dark when we came
Speaker 5: upon the chemical section. We'd found nothing useful to us
Speaker 5: until then. And now, huh now came the worst disappointment
Speaker 5: of all.
Speaker 1: And it's dust, all of it. It's been dust.
Speaker 5: For centuries, another dead end. It's hopeless.
Speaker 1: We were out of.
Speaker 6: Our heads to hope that night rates would retain their
Speaker 6: form for a hundred thousand years.
Speaker 1: Better go if nothing here, Wait just a moment. There's
Speaker 1: something in this case.
Speaker 5: You can break it with your lever.
Speaker 1: We stand back a little.
Speaker 6: Hallow Loiah box of matches her medically sealed.
Speaker 4: Perfect, not even damn And what should we do with them?
Speaker 4: Burned down?
Speaker 6: Those brass doors.
Speaker 5: Better keep them anyway, least we can smoke again. And
Speaker 5: you can't tell Fowler.
Speaker 6: Yeah on the floor, see them small narrow footprints leading
Speaker 6: away into the darkness at the end of the gallery.
Speaker 4: We'd better go.
Speaker 1: Pick Queen up and carry am. We'll have to run
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 4: Don't be frightened, my dear, It'll be all right. Go
Speaker 4: on run.
Speaker 5: We came out of the gloom of that place into
Speaker 5: the deeper gloom of dust. Suddenly we saw we were
Speaker 5: trapped all around us with the morlocks.
Speaker 4: Were they weather thousand.
Speaker 5: Surrounding us and coming closer, a long even line of
Speaker 5: deathly white, their eyes blinking in the half light, and
Speaker 5: the tiny mouths alive with appetite the matches.
Speaker 4: Dudley, light a fire here.
Speaker 6: The forest is dry.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 9: We'll have an inferno here in a minute, and our
Speaker 9: little friends don't like light or heath.
Speaker 5: The fire leaped high to the heavens, and the countryside
Speaker 5: was ablaze. The morlocks turned in fear, blinded by the glare.
Speaker 5: Some of them burned in the middle of the raging flames,
Speaker 5: and the rest.
Speaker 4: Faded away like a fog.
Speaker 5: Dudley had left a narrow passageway for our retreat, and
Speaker 5: we fled down a long corridor of leaping flames and
Speaker 5: blistering heat.
Speaker 4: We fled to safety.
Speaker 7: Woo.
Speaker 5: We fled back toward the community of the Little People,
Speaker 5: and as we ran, we passed the huge monument with
Speaker 5: its great bronze doors that were locked tight on our
Speaker 5: time machine, and suddenly, in the glare of the distant fires,
Speaker 5: we saw something that stopped a short.
Speaker 4: They're open, foul o, the doors are open.
Speaker 10: No, no, not go in, Dudley.
Speaker 4: No' to tramp. They're ready for us inside. Ready or not,
Speaker 4: We're going in, Dudley. It's suicide.
Speaker 6: It'll take me about one minute to screw the levers
Speaker 6: in again. Then I touched them and we're away, all right.
Speaker 6: I'll try to give you your one minute, good.
Speaker 4: Boy, No, no, go not.
Speaker 5: Leave me you, my dear, you hold tight around my neck.
Speaker 5: You're coming home with us.
Speaker 4: All right, let's go. We're in luck the machine. They
Speaker 4: haven't harmed it. I don't see them yet. Come on, quickly,
Speaker 4: give me that other lever.
Speaker 5: The doors.
Speaker 1: Dudley they're closed. Get in the seat.
Speaker 4: I'll be ready in a minute.
Speaker 5: I waited for the hum that would signal our departure,
Speaker 5: and there in the darkness, the Morlocks were finally upon us. Cold,
Speaker 5: persistent fingers swarmed over my body, tugging at me, sucking
Speaker 5: me away from the machine. But I held tight to
Speaker 5: Waena as a man holds fast to life, and tried
Speaker 5: to kick them away with my feet.
Speaker 6: Hurry, Dudley, hurry, can't.
Speaker 4: Seem to get these leaves.
Speaker 9: Click over done, Just another turn and it laugh.
Speaker 4: I'll we're away. We God, oh we made it.
Speaker 6: You are right.
Speaker 4: I'm all right God.
Speaker 5: And Wayna, Wayna, isn't with us?
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 5: They tore her from my hands the last minute they
Speaker 5: got her.
Speaker 4: I tried to save her.
Speaker 8: I couldn't I know, Oh man, I still got a
Speaker 8: piece of her tunic here in my fist, A little
Speaker 8: piece of her tunic, Dudley, but nothing else.
Speaker 5: And so we came home again, back into the very
Speaker 5: minute from which we had left, Back into twelve noon,
Speaker 5: May ninth, nineteen hundred and forty eight. We were in
Speaker 5: Dudley's laboratory again, motionless, sitting on the ridiculous contraption, which
Speaker 5: he called a time machine. Was it all a dream,
Speaker 5: a mad and feverish dream.
Speaker 4: Did any of it happen? Could any of it happen? No,
Speaker 4: of course, not, how stupid?
Speaker 5: But then, what says what of this jagged piece of
Speaker 5: thick green silk I hold in my hand? What does
Speaker 5: that mean?
Speaker 4: Escape?
Speaker 3: Produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Tonight brought you The
Speaker 3: Time Machine by H. G. Wells, adapted for radio by
Speaker 3: Irving Ravach, with Eric Rolf as Foller, Jeff Corey as Dudley,
Speaker 3: and Kay Brinker as Weena. The musical score was conducted
Speaker 3: by a Wilbur Hatch. Next week, You're wandering in a
Speaker 3: vast white solitude, torn by the icy blastovodic wind, your
Speaker 3: strengthenpping and frozen death creeping up on you, and behind
Speaker 3: you a man with a gun from whom there is
Speaker 3: no escape. Next week we escape, another great story of
Speaker 3: high adventure by one of the world's best known authors.
Speaker 3: Good Night then, until the same time next week, when
Speaker 3: once again we offer you escape. This is CDs, where
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