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00:00FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET
00:14MORE POWERFUL THAN A LOCOMOTIVE
00:19ABLE TO LEAP TALL BUILDINGS AT A SINGLE BOUND
00:23LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S A BIRD!
00:26IT'S A PLANE! IT'S SUPERMAN!
00:28YES, IT'S SUPERMAN!
00:30STRANGE VISITOR FROM ANOTHER PLANET
00:31WHO CAME TO EARTH WITH POWERS AND ABILITIES
00:33FAR BEYOND THOSE OF BORTAL MEN!
00:36SUPERMAN!
00:37WHO CAN CHANGE THE COURSE OF MIGHTY RIVERS,
00:39BEND STEEL IN HIS BARE HANDS,
00:42AND WHO, DISGUISED AS CLARK KENT,
00:44MILD-MANNED REPORTER FOR A GREAT MENOPROLITAN NEWSPAPER,
00:47FIGHTS A NEVER-ENDING BATTLE FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE,
00:51AND THE AMERICAN WAY!
00:53AND NOW, ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE IN THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN!
00:57COME WITH US NOW ON A FAR JOURNEY,
01:12A JOURNEY THAT TAKES US MILLIONS OF MILES FROM THE EARTH,
01:15WHERE, MANY YEARS AGO, THE PLANET CRYPTON
01:18BURNED LIKE A GREEN STAR IN THE ENDLESS HEAVENS.
01:21HERE, CIVILIZATION WAS FAR ADVANCED.
01:24IT HAD BROUGHT FORTH A RACE OF SUPERMEN,
01:27MEN AND WOMEN LIKE OURSELVES,
01:29BUT ADVANCED TO THE ABSOLUTE PEAK OF HUMAN PERFECTION.
01:33AS WE NEAR CRYPTON, WE SEE, HIGH ABOVE THE CITY,
01:36THE MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE OF WISDOM,
01:38WITH ITS MARBLE COLUMNS AND BURNING TORCHES.
01:41JAREL, CRYPTON'S LEADING MAN OF SCIENCE,
01:44HAS BEEN SUMMONED TO ADDRESS A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL.
01:48WHITE-BEARED ROSANNE, SUPREME LEADER OF THE COUNCIL,
01:52CALLS THE MEETING TO ORDER.
01:59MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL,
02:01YOU HAVE BEEN SUMMONED HERE ON URGENT BUSINESS.
02:04AS YOU ARE WELL AWARE,
02:06A CRYPTON HAS BEEN EXPERIENCING SOME STRANGE PHENOMENA.
02:10ONLY LAST WEEK ON THE FULL MOON,
02:12A GREAT TIDAL WAVE THREATENED TO ENGULF THIS CITY.
02:15THERE HAVE BEEN MYSTERIOUS QUAKES AND ERUPTIONS,
02:18SOME OF WHICH HAVE CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE.
02:21THIS IS A MATTER OF NO LITTLE CONCERN.
02:23AND I, THEREFORE, AS PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL,
02:26REQUESTED JOREL, OUR BRILLIANT YOUNG SCIENTIST,
02:29TO INVESTIGATE THESE PHENOMENA.
02:31HE IS HERE WITH US NOW, READY TO DELIVER HIS REPORT.
02:35GENTLEMAN, JOREL SPEAKS.
02:38MR. PRESIDENT,
02:40COUNCIL MEMBERS,
02:42I HAVE COMPLETED MY SOLAR CALCULATIONS.
02:45AND MUCH AS I DREAD UTTERING THESE FATEFUL WORDS,
02:49I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT CRYPTON IS ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED.
02:55THE SUN IS GRADUALLY DRAWING CRYPTON CLOSER TO IT.
02:58WITHIN A MONTH, POSSIBLY ONLY A WEEK,
03:01PERHAPS EVEN IN A MATTER OF DAYS OR HOURS,
03:03THE GRAVITATIONAL POLL WILL BE SO STRONG
03:05THAT CRYPTON WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WEATHER THE STRAIN.
03:08WHEN THAT TIME COMES,
03:10WHEN WE ARE DRAWN INTO THE BURNING ORBIT OF THE SUN,
03:12OUR PLANET WILL EXPLODE LIKE A GIANT BUBBLE.
03:15IT WILL BURST INTO A HUNDRED MILLION FRAGMENTS,
03:17AND EVERY LIVING THING ON IT WILL BE DESTROYED.
03:19THE MAN IS MAD.
03:20HE TALKS LIKE ONE DEMANDED.
03:22THIS IS AN INSULT TO OUR INTELLIGENCE.
03:24GENTLEMEN, GENTLEMEN, PLEASE, WE MUST HAVE ORDER.
03:27SIR, WITH YOUR PERMISSION.
03:33AS YOU KNOW,
03:34I'VE BEEN WORKING THESE MANY MONTHS ON THE MODEL OF A SPACESHIP,
03:37WHICH IN ITS FINAL FORM IS DESIGNED TO CARRY THE POPULATION OF CRYPTON TO ANOTHER PLANET.
03:45THE MODEL IS COMPLETED AND WILL BE TESTED BEFORE SUNDOWN.
03:48IF, AS I ANTICIPATE, THE TEST IS SUCCESSFUL,
03:51I WILL REQUIRE THE SERVICES OF 5,000 SKILLED WORKERS AND UNLIMITED MATERIAL
03:56TO CONSTRUCT A FLEET OF SPACESHIPS BEFORE THE END COMES.
03:59WHAT DOES HE TAKE US FOR, FOOLS?
04:01YES, TELL US, MR. SCIENTIST.
04:03WHERE DO WE GO IN THESE FANTASTIC SPACESHIPS OF YOURS?
04:06TO THE EARTH, COGAN.
04:08TO THE PLANET EARTH, COGAN.
04:10MY STUDIES TELL ME THE EARTH HAS AN ATMOSPHERE ALMOST IDENTICAL WITH OUR OWN.
04:13YOU STUDIED TOO MUCH, MY FRIEND.
04:15COGAN IS RIGHT, JOREL.
04:17YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING TOO HARD.
04:19WAIT.
04:21DO YOU HEAR THAT, ROSEAN?
04:23GENTLEMEN.
04:24I HEAR ONLY THUNDER.
04:27IT IS NOT THUNDER.
04:29IT IS AN INTERNAL ERUPTION.
04:31GAS EXPLODING IN SUBTERRANEAN POCKET.
04:33I WARN YOU, THE TIME WILL COME.
04:37AND THAT TIME IS PERHAPS VERY NEAR AT HAND WHEN YOU WISH YOU'D HEED THE WORDS OF JOREL.
04:41WHEN CRYPTON IS SHATTERED INTO A HUNDRED MILLION STARS.
04:44WHEN THE GLORIOUS CIVILIZATION WE HAVE BUILT IS NO MORE.
04:47WHEN YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES ARE SWEPT FROM THE FACE OF THIS PLANET LIKE DUST.
04:52WHEN YOU ARE IN TO THE CARE OF THIS PLANET, WHEN YOU ARE IN THE CARE OF THE WORDS.
04:57Okay, okay.
05:20Well, Lara, I didn't hear you come in.
05:22You were too intent on your work.
05:24What did the council say, Jerelle?
05:26They laughed at me. Marked me for a fool.
05:29No matter. Let them laugh.
05:33The model's ready to be launched.
05:35I'll send it on its way and watch its flight on the scanning screen.
05:38If it arrives safely, I'll immediately build one large enough to transport all three of us to Earth.
05:43My one prayer is I haven't waited too long.
05:45What do you mean, Jerelle?
05:47The clouds are dark.
05:49All day there's been a strange glow in the western sky.
05:52Different from anything we've seen before.
05:55It seems to be oppressively hot.
05:58Is that because we're being drawn closer to the sun?
06:00Yes.
06:01The sun that will finally destroy us.
06:04Where is Jerelle?
06:06Asleep now.
06:07He's been restless all day.
06:10Jerelle, what was that?
06:12An internal explosion.
06:13A bad one.
06:16Jerelle!
06:17Jerelle!
06:18Easy, Lara, easy.
06:23Jerelle!
06:24Jerelle!
06:25Jerelle!
06:26Lara, listen to me. This is the end. Krypton is breaking apart.
06:29What can we do?
06:30Nothing. I was a fool to have waited this long.
06:32It wasn't your fault, Jerelle.
06:33I should have built a larger ship months ago. Now we have only the model.
06:36Lara.
06:37Yes?
06:38The model can carry only one of us. You, Lara.
06:40No.
06:41If only one of us can be saved, it should be the child.
06:43All right. Get him. Wrap him in the blanket and bring him here.
07:07Here he is, Jerelle.
07:08You have him well wrapped?
07:09Yes.
07:10Why so good.
07:11Not even a whimper.
07:12The model might carry both of you, Lara.
07:14No.
07:15I'm not going.
07:16You must.
07:17My place is here with you.
07:18Lara, please. There isn't time. The takeoff pressure is building up in a few seconds now.
07:22I'd be lost in a new world without you, Jerelle.
07:25If anyone is to survive, let it be our son.
07:42It's gone, Lara.
07:43It's gone, Lara.
07:44It's gone, Lara.
07:45It's gone, Lara.
07:46Our son is on his way to Earth.
07:47It's gone, Lara.
07:48Our son is on his way to Earth.
07:49It's gone, Lara.
07:50It's gone, Lara.
07:51It's gone, Lara.
07:52It's gone, Lara.
07:53It's gone, Lara.
07:54It's gone, Lara.
07:55It's gone, Lara.
07:56Our son is on his way to Earth.
08:09It's gone, Laura.
08:13Our son is on his way to Earth.
08:39It must be getting a head cold.
08:49I've got a funny ringing in my ears.
08:52It ain't only your ears.
08:54I hear it too.
08:56You do?
09:03Eben, it's getting louder.
09:06What is it?
09:07I don't know.
09:09Sarah, look.
09:16Merciful heavens.
09:28What is it?
09:29Looks like one of them newfangled rockets.
09:35There's a baby in it.
09:37Land's sakes alive.
09:41Eben, you can't do nothing.
09:43You'll get burned.
09:44Gotta do something.
10:07Here.
10:07Burned much?
10:12Not burned at all.
10:16Like it ain't even scorched.
10:19Sarah, look.
10:22It's gone.
10:23Like it was never there.
10:25The baby, Eben, we can't be dreaming.
10:29The baby's real.
10:31Real is rain and just as pretty.
10:34What do you reckon we ought to do with it?
10:36I suppose we ought to turn it over to the authorities.
10:39Well, I suppose so.
10:40But who's going to believe all this, Sarah?
10:43We got nothing to show but the baby and a wild story.
10:47They'll say we're crazy.
10:50Let's keep the baby.
10:51We always wanted children of our own.
10:53Eben, Eben, you think maybe we could keep it and bring it up like our own?
11:00Well, now, I don't know.
11:01We could bring it up good, Eben.
11:03Oh, I reckon we could.
11:05Then we can keep it.
11:07Oh, we'll try, Sarah.
11:09We'll sure try.
11:10Oh.
11:17All right.
11:18And so the infant child, sole survivor of a lost civilization,
11:30last of a race of supermen,
11:33found a home on earth with the kindly farm couple,
11:36Sarah and Eben Kent.
11:38They named him Clark and raised him as their son.
11:42And with each passing year, it became more and more evident
11:45that he was endowed with strange powers and abilities
11:48far beyond those of ordinary human beings.
11:52Then, one day, when the boy was 12...
12:00That you, Clark?
12:05Clark?
12:08Hi, Mom.
12:15What's the matter, son?
12:22Don't you feel well?
12:26Clark, what is it?
12:30Mom, why am I different from all the other boys?
12:34Merciful heavens, is that what's bothering you?
12:37You had me scared for a minute.
12:39Thought maybe you was coming down with the measles or something.
12:41But, Mom, why am I different?
12:43Why can't I do things that nobody else can do?
12:47Why can't I run faster or jump higher?
12:50Why am I stronger than anybody?
12:54You've known all them things for a long time, Clark.
12:57Why, land sakes alive.
12:59When you was a tiny little shaver no bigger than this.
13:02Why, you was strong as a grown man almost.
13:05It's not just being strong, Mom.
13:07It's other things.
13:09What things, son?
13:10Well, today in school, for instance...
13:14Yes?
13:16We were playing baseball and the ball got lost.
13:19Nobody could find it.
13:20But all I had to do was look around and there it was behind a rock.
13:24You've got good eyes, that's all.
13:26No, Mom.
13:27It's more than just good eyes.
13:30I didn't see the ball behind the rock.
13:33I saw it right through the rock.
13:34Like my eyes were an x-ray machine.
13:38Like the rock wasn't even there.
13:41Son, your paul and me have been meaning to have a talk with you.
13:45But somehow we just never got around to it.
13:49Looks like now the time's come.
13:52I'll tell you why likely you're different from other boys.
13:56And why you've got to be extra careful.
13:58About 12 years ago, son, your paul and me were driving along down by Jones Farm.
14:05And all of a sudden, we seen something up in the sky.
14:08Searching back in vivid memory, Sarah Kent tells young Clark the amazing story of how he came to Earth.
14:15Of how a rocket streamed across the sky, almost deafening them.
14:19Of how his father snatched him from the flames.
14:22Of how, miraculously, neither he nor the curious blanket in which he was wrapped was scorched or burned.
14:29And the boy listened.
14:30And he understood.
14:36And so the years went by.
14:38Spring melting into summer.
14:40And summer into fall.
14:42And fall into winter.
14:44The boy Clark grew into tall, young manhood.
14:48While Eben and Sarah Kent grew older and greyer.
15:07Gosh, ain't you through house cleaning yet?
15:08Don't you trick any barn dirt in here.
15:10Look at them shoes.
15:12And look at them tracks.
15:13Well, the same shoes I had on yesterday and the day before and the day before that.
15:18Well, today ain't yesterday or the day before or the day before that.
15:21Well, what in tarnation is today?
15:24All four nunos a-cookin' and a-bakin' and a-fussin' around.
15:26I've got no idea what this day is.
15:29Well, let me think.
15:31Don't strain your brain, Paul.
15:33It's just 25 years ago this very day you pulled the baby out of that burnin' rocket.
15:38Or whatever it was.
15:39April 10th.
15:42Land of Goshen.
15:43It plumb slipped my mind.
15:44Did nothin' occur to you when I asked Clark to ride into town and fetch me a few yards of somethin' I didn't need?
15:50Well, I kinda wondered.
15:51He had to get him out of the way while I iced the cake and tidied up the parlor a bit.
15:55Few of the neighbors are comin' in to help us celebrate.
15:58You better go get your chores done.
15:59And change them smelly old clothes before he gets that.
16:02Chores is done.
16:03And all I gotta do now is put the tractor away.
16:0725 years.
16:10Doggone it.
16:10Don't hardly seem that long.
16:13No, sir.
16:14It sure don't.
16:16Oh.
16:17Oh.
16:19Oh.
16:21Even what's the matter?
16:23Oh, the couch.
16:24Oh.
16:37Ring the doctor, Sarah.
16:46Oh.
16:46is he is he all right doctor i'm sorry sarah
17:02he was a good man son
17:13he was a good husband
17:17and a good father
17:32bus will be along any minute now clark
17:42i'd still hate to leave you mother
17:45i'm gonna be just fine with cousin edith coming on to live with me and all
17:50besides you've got a great responsibility to the world clark
17:56you've got to accept it
17:58make use of your great powers
18:02you sure you pack that costume i made for you
18:05it's in the suitcase
18:07nothing will ever hurt it clark
18:09not acid nor fire nor nothing else
18:12it's made out of the red and blue blanket you was wrapped in the day you're pawing me
18:18i know mother
18:19here comes the bus
18:22goodbye mom
18:24bye son
18:32and so clark can't strange The
18:56And so Clark Kent, strange visitor from another planet, takes the first step toward dedicating
19:05his amazing powers to the cause of justice.
19:10He has resolved to keep secret his Superman identity and to adopt a pose of mild-mannered
19:16timidity as Kent in order to safeguard the masquerade.
19:23And in order to be at a place where he can learn immediately of any emergency that might
19:27require his help, he seeks a job as reporter on a great metropolitan newspaper.
19:39Mr. White's on the phone.
19:40As soon as he's through, I'll tell him you're still waiting.
19:43I don't care what it costs.
19:46That's the way I want it and that's the way I'm going to get it.
19:48Tell that to Mr. McGuire and if he doesn't like it, he can lump it.
19:52White speaking.
19:53White speaking.
19:54What?
19:55Absolutely no.
19:56Certainly not.
19:57And that's final.
19:59Yes?
20:00That young man is still waiting, Mr. White.
20:05What young man?
20:06Clark Kent.
20:07Who's he?
20:08A young man who's applying for a reporter's job.
20:10He's been here since three o'clock, Mr. White.
20:13You told me to, um...
20:14I don't care what I told you.
20:16I'm not hiring reporters at twenty minutes of sex.
20:19Anyway, I'd like to fire some instead of hire them.
20:21Send Lois Lane in here.
20:22Yes, Mr. White.
20:24Well, obviously Mr. White doesn't want to see me.
20:27I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Kent.
20:29He's not in a very good humor today.
20:31Perhaps if you come back tomorrow.
20:32Well, that's all right, Miss.
20:34I'm gonna get to him somehow.
20:36But thank you very much.
20:56You wanted to see me, Chief?
20:58Nothing works around here.
20:59Nothing.
21:00What's the trouble?
21:01I just can't get the top off of that thing, that's all.
21:02Here, let me try.
21:07I'll be a monkey's uncle.
21:18Who the blazers are you?
21:19My name is Clark Kent, sir.
21:20I told that girl not to...
21:22Please, don't blame your receptionist, Mr. White.
21:24She doesn't even know I'm in here.
21:25What do you mean she doesn't know you're in here?
21:27How'd you get past her?
21:28Well, I didn't.
21:29You see, I came in through the window.
21:30Is that supposed to be funny?
21:32That window's 28 stories above the ground,
21:34and the side of the building's as flat as this desk,
21:36except for a narrow lead.
21:37Mr. White!
21:38Who gave you permission to barge in here like a bull?
21:40Just got a flash.
21:41There's a dirigible flying over the airport
21:43with a guy hanging from a rope.
21:44Let's see, Jim.
21:45I still wanna know what...
21:46Listen, Chief.
21:47An oil company blimp attempting to land
21:48at Metropolis airfield in a high wind
21:50pulled 11 men aloft clinging to the landing ropes.
21:52Ten dropped off safely,
21:53but one man is still hanging to a rope
21:55while the blimp cruises at 1,000 feet above the field,
21:57unable to land.
21:58More to follow.
21:59You go down there right away, Lois,
22:00and you too, Olsen.
22:01Tell Ludlow to assign a photographer.
22:03Two of them.
22:04Okay, Chief. Come on, Jim.
22:05Right.
22:06Hello, Pete.
22:07Hold the seven star for a page one replay.
22:09No, I don't know when.
22:10Just hold it.
22:11Mr. White.
22:12Now, look here, young man.
22:13I'm too busy to talk to you.
22:15Well, if I could...
22:16That is, if that man could be rescued,
22:18and I got his exclusive story, sir...
22:19What?
22:20Would you give me a job?
22:21Don't bother me.
22:22Would you, Mr. White?
22:23Yes, yes.
22:24Now, leave me alone.
22:25Thank you, sir.
22:32Crazy.
22:33Just crazy.
22:51Step on it, Jim.
22:52Speed limit's 35, Miss Lane.
22:53I don't want to get a ticket.
22:54You're right.
22:55.
22:57Step on it, Jim.
22:58.
22:59Speed limit's 35, Miss Lane.
23:00I don't want to get a ticket.
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23:02You're right.
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23:22Just like I told Mr. Kent, there I was, hanging there for what seemed like years.
23:35Then your hand slipped from the rope.
23:37A thousand feet up. I knew I was a goner.
23:39That's enough pictures, Joe. Get them on metal for the next edition.
23:41Well, then I thought I must have flipped my lid from being so scared.
23:44Because right then, this guy in a red and blue costume comes flying through the air and catches me.
23:49Ah, it's ridiculous. There can't be any such thing as a man who flies through the air.
23:54Well, I know it, Mr. White, but it happened. I'm here, ain't I? And I'm alive.
23:58It happened, all right, Chief. Just as we got to the airport, we saw something streak across the sky and catch this man.
24:03We thought we were crazy, too.
24:04My brain was whizzing around in my head.
24:07And the next thing I knew, this super guy landed me behind one of the hangers like on a feather bed.
24:13Then I made like a schoolgirl and passed out. Fainted.
24:17And when you came to, Kent was there.
24:18Yes, sir. And he hustled me around to the side of the administration building, got me into a cab.
24:23Then we came straight here.
24:24Pretty smart, Kent. We've got a clean beat over every other paper in town.
24:28Does that mean I get the job, sir?
24:30There's your answer, son.
24:32Oh, thank you, Mr. White. Thanks a million.
24:35There are one or two things I haven't got quite straight in my mind, Mr. Kent.
24:39For example, how did you leave here later than we did and beat us to the airport?
24:43Is that all?
24:43Not quite. How come you found the man behind the hanger at just the right moment to get his exclusive story
24:49when every top experienced reporter in the business was breaking his neck...
24:53Or her neck.
24:54Or her neck to get that story.
24:55Maybe I'm a superman, Miss Lane.
24:58Or her neck to get that story.
25:28Or her neck to get that story.
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