Things to Come (1936)

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The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.  Director: William Cameron Menzies  Writer: H.G. Wells  Stars: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson

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00:00We live in interesting, exciting, and anxious times.

00:18Don't be too sure of progress.

00:20Well, what's going to stop progress nowadays?

00:22War.

00:23There is war.

00:24And rumor of war.

00:26The unknown aircraft passed over sea beach

00:28and dropped bombs.

00:54We'll fight them.

00:55Since Gordon got away, I've had some of those air chaps up to see me.

00:58They've got guts.

00:59They can do something still.

01:01We'll fight them.

01:02We'll fight them.

01:03We've still got hostages.

01:04I've read of the Mediterranean and Greece and Egypt and India.

01:08Oh, I can read.

01:10A lot of those old books.

01:12I'm not like most of the younger people here.

01:14I learned quite a lot before education stopped and schools closed down.

01:18I want to see the world.

01:21If I had my way, you could fly to all that in a couple of hours.

01:24If you were free, and if I was free...

01:27Will this be humanity tomorrow?

01:31And the years after?

01:34What then?

01:35I don't believe my boy could have thought of this.

01:37The two of them must have got together.

01:38They'll come back together.

01:40This time, there's no attempt to land on the moon.

01:43When...

01:44When is this great experiment to be made?

01:46How much longer have we got before they go?

01:47When the space gun is ready.

01:49Sometime this year, do you mean?

01:50Soon.

01:57Well, they're rioting.

01:58It's barbarism come back again.

01:59If they smash up that infernal gun,

02:01then honor is satisfied and you needn't go.

02:03They won't smash the gun.

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02:13He never geht.

02:14All four of them ca are they his hindrance.

02:15They know they ought to get me down.

02:16But.

02:17I know they come back when they conquer big ol' Mississippi,

02:18Everybody is waiting for me for freedom to pop behind.

02:19All four of us that we have had to fall into.

02:20All four of them are asked for Vokullah Portable.

02:21All four of them moveain.

02:22Now engage this puede.

02:23All four of you.

02:24The battle.

02:25All four of you.

02:26All four of them 무 and baby pattern with your family.

02:28All five of them have addressed today.

02:29Well come ready.

02:30Let's move on.

02:31universities."

02:33Which case earnsking that half you...

02:34Destroפicing that has aboard.

02:35It's birthed the employee,

02:37one of you,

02:382036 A.D.

03:01You are catapulted through the centuries,

03:03whirled into the great unknown,

03:05into an era of glass cities

03:06towering to the sun

03:08and a gigantic space gun

03:10rocketing passengers to the moon.

03:17Is man never to rest?

03:21Never to be free?

03:22Make the space gun the symbol of all that drives us

03:26and destroy it!

03:28Now!

03:29Let's go!

03:43Let's go!

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