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Boys and girls, your attention please.
Presenting a new exciting radio program featuring the thrilling adventures of an amazing and incredible personality.
Faster than an airplane.
More powerful than a locomotive.
Impervious two bullets.
I'm in the sky.
It's a bird.
It's a plane.
It's Superman.
And now Superman.
A being no larger than an ordinary man.
But possessed of powers and abilities never before realized honor.
Able to leap into the air on eighth of a mile at a single bound.
Hurdle a 20-story building with ease.
Race a high-powered bullet to its target.
Lift tremendous weights and rend solid steel in his bare hands.
As though it were paper.
Superman.
A strange visitor from a distant planet.
Champion of the oppressed.
Physical marvel extraordinary.
Who has sworn to devote his existence on earth to helping those in need.
At our story begins we ask you to come with us on a far journey.
A journey that takes us millions of miles from the earth.
Where the planet Krypton burns like a green star in the endless heavens.
Here civilization is far advanced.
It is brought forth a race of Superman.
Men and women like ourselves.
But advanced to the absolute peak of human perfection.
As we near Krypton we see high walls and gleaming turrets.
We approach the magnificent temple of wisdom.
And there in a great hall.
Jorell.
Krypton's foremost man of science.
It's out to address a meeting of the planet's governing council.
Attention.
Attention gentlemen.
Jorell speaks.
Members of the council.
I have completed my solar calculations.
And much as I tread under in these words.
I have come to the conclusion Krypton is doomed.
I hear him right.
Gentlemen.
Gentlemen.
Gentlemen, hear him out.
These internal quakes we've been experiencing.
These foul character eruptions, tidal waves, gas escaping from giant craters.
Oh point to only one thing gentlemen.
Krypton is ugly and finally doomed.
By the mass mass.
One moment gentlemen.
One moment.
There is no cause for anxiety.
I am certain Jorell has made a mistake.
Through we have had a few minor quakes and eruptions.
But nothing very serious.
There must be some error in your calculations.
Oh no, there is no error.
I only wish there were.
The sun is gradually drawing Krypton closer to it.
Within a month, possibly only a week,
the gravitational pull will be so tremendous
that Krypton will not be able to weather the strain.
And then, then our planet will explode like a giant bubble,
destroying every living thing on it.
That is nonsense.
Assuming for the moment Jorell,
what you say is true, how are we to await it?
What can we do to stop it?
There is only one way.
As you all know, I have been working on a spaceship
designed for interplanetary travel.
With time and united effort,
we might transport the entire population of Krypton
to another world.
Impossible. Where will we go?
To the Earth.
My studies tell me the atmosphere of the Earth
is very nearly the same as our own.
You have been working too hard, Jorellell.
You need a rest.
Believe me, we have the utmost respect
of your knowledge and integrity.
But this is carrying it to bomb.
Man and society's Krypton do not explode, Jorell.
Which?
You hear that, Jorellell?
Before wanting to do, every moment is precious now.
It's like that.
Assuming the death of Krypton,
it will happen, gentlemen, and happen soon.
When the last radio option comes.
When it comes, Jorell,
it shall find all of us ready.
If Krypton is today,
we shall die with it.
The parting would be much too severe.
No, no, no, no.
I will like Krypton,
and you, members of the council,
I have no time to laugh.
My wife, Lara,
and my infant son,
are dear to me.
It is not my wish to stand by
and see an industry.
I have all of you.
But a time will come.
And that time is perhaps very close at hand.
When you will wish you had heated the words of Jorell,
now you will be a fool.
But remember what I have said, gentlemen,
when Krypton is shattered
into a thousand million stars.
When the glorious civilization we have built is no more.
When you and your families are swept
from the face of Krypton,
like doesn't it?
Order, gentlemen.
Order.
You have heard Jorell speak.
Is it your wish to be the whole time and money
for the building of spaceships
or the transportation of Krypton's population
to another planet?
No!
No!
I am sorry, Jorell.
The council has spoken.
Yes, and signed the death warrant
of every living thing on Krypton.
Well, I've done my best to convince you.
Now all that remains for me is to proceed
with my own means of salvation,
my own spaceship,
to save the lives of those nearer to me.
And for the rest of you,
may the gods have mercy on your soul.
Jorell is mad.
He is absolutely mad.
Ah, Lara.
I can see you.
I came out to take the air on a terrace.
It's been terribly hot all day.
Is that because we're being drawn to the sun, Jorell?
Yes.
What did the council have to say about that?
I...
I didn't mention it.
Is the model of your spaceship almost finished?
Yes, I just wrote the last rivet.
How does it look?
Splendid.
Ah, that remains to be seen.
If it does work,
I shall immediately begin construction of another,
just like it, only much larger.
One big enough to carry all three of us to another world.
Jorell, when will that be?
Every moment that we spend waiting and wondering?
If I know, I know, Lara.
It's been hard on all of us, and particularly hard on you.
How is the boy?
Sleeping, Jorell.
Let's take this afternoon, frightened him.
But he's all right now.
Can't you come in and look at him?
You're scarcely seeing these days what with working all hours
on a spaceship model.
It can't be helped here.
I'm racing against time.
Right now, I'm anxious to know whether the model will behave as I hope.
How does it operate?
Very simply.
When all is ready, I throw all this switch.
That closes the circuit,
and electric energy builds up pressure in the atomic generators.
Then, at the final moment,
the pressure forces the ship from its carrier and speeds it on its way.
But where does it go?
Wherever it's pointed.
This one I'm directing to the planet Earth.
Earth?
What is that, Jorell?
A planet smaller than our own,
situated on the other side of the Sun.
It's inhabited by a race of people similar to ourselves.
Like ourselves?
Well, only partly, of course, my dear.
They're about the same size,
but nowhere nearly is developed.
Very weak and helpless,
and with all their faculties extremely limited.
How do you mean?
Something like this.
You know how far you step when you want to go somewhere?
Practically as far as I want.
Why one step takes me to Brutus house near the fountain?
Exactly.
Well, down where I'm sending this spaceship,
it's quite different.
An Earth man steps only three feet at a time at most,
and everything else is in proportion.
And that's where we're going.
Oh, how dreadful.
My dear, which would you rather do?
Go to Earth and live,
or stay on Krypton and die?
I'll do anything new, Jorell, anything.
It doesn't matter to me whether we live or die
as long as we're together.
It's only the boy I worry about.
As I know,
our Lara darling don't worry, he'll be safe.
What are you testing the spaceship model?
In the morning.
Just as dawn breaks, I'll set it on its way,
watching its flight to a high-powered telescope
to see whether it lands safely on Earth.
Is Earth the only planet place we can go to Jorell?
We couldn't breathe on any other planet but the Earth.
It happens to have atmosphere similar to Krypton's.
I suppose you know best Jorell.
Are you coming in?
It seems to have gotten oppressively hot.
Yes, it has.
I wonder.
Lara, do you hear that?
Yes, Jorell.
What is it?
Subterranean explosions.
Do you feel that from trembling?
Yes, I do.
Jorell, do you think?
Lara.
Lara.
I'm afraid it's come.
Where is the boy? Hello?
What do you mean?
Get him quickly.
That's the end.
Jorell, what can we do?
Nothing. Nothing.
I'm not ready.
Oh, what a fool I've been to delay.
Isn't your father, Jorell?
You did all you could.
You can take a chance.
Jorell, what if Carrie wanted to save you?
Oh, I think so.
Lara, where are you going?
Stay here with me.
I'm getting Collell.
If one of us can save Jorell, it should be the boy.
No, no, Lara, come back.
If one must go, it should be you.
Lara, I said, come back.
Come back.
Here is Jorell.
Still asleep.
Goodbye, Collell.
Please, Lara.
No, Jorell.
Listen to me.
We will stay here.
Collell goes in the spaceship.
If there is a chance, Jorell.
One little chance I've wanted for my son.
Maybe you're right, Lara.
Jorell.
Look.
The sky.
It's fiery red.
The mountains.
Look, the mountains are falling in.
Jorell, what's happening?
The end of Puttunler.
Just as I foretold.
This is the last great quick.
Jorell.
Listen.
Explosion.
Quick, quick.
Give me the boy.
Hello.
What are you doing, Jorell?
What are you doing, Jorell?
Opening the door.
What are you inside?
Jorell.
The house is waiting.
It's breaking apart.
Look, Jorell.
There.
There is safe inside.
Now for the switch.
Stand back, Lara.
Oh, Jorell.
Will you reach the earth?
Hold me to God's know.
But there's a chance.
The only chance.
Stand back, Lara.
I'm going to throw the switch.
Jorell.
It's getting dark.
I can't see.
What happened?
Fire.
Smoke from the center of the planet.
Not much time now.
Hold me, Jorell.
There's a space you've gotten.
No.
No, not yet.
Waiting for pressure.
We may have been too late.
If it doesn't work out soon.
Wait.
Lara.
It's off.
It's on its way.
Jorell.
Where are you?
Here.
Beside your Lara.
Listen.
Can you hear me?
Callel.
Our son, Lara.
He's on his way.
On his way.
To work.
Callel.
Callel.
So the tiny rocket ship roars into the uncharted heavens.
As the mighty planet of Krypton explodes into millions of glowing fragments.
Glittering stars to remain forever in the night sky.
Jorell and Lara, devoted parents of the tiny boy,
perish in the giant quake that destroys Krypton.
But what of the rocket ship?
Does it reach the Earth?
Does it find its mark in all the far-flung darkness of space?
Remember.
Don't miss the next installment of Superman.
Up in the sky.
Oh, it's a tiny bird.
It's a plane.
It's Superman.
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