And the magic diamond is lowered to signify the end and the beginning.
8 seconds sound clip from the Rudolph's Shiny New Year movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:11:57 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on, so treasure memories, for what is gone is gone.
- And oh, you may swear that time told you no it's great just to be alive.
- And as midnight nears, the old year waits. And all the clocks count down his last moments.
- And the magic diamond is lowered to signify the end and the beginning.
- This year, the diamond may not come down.
- But what happened to the Baby New Year?
- You see, little Happy was anything but happy here. And I didn't know a thing about it.
- Happy was different from all the other little New Years. You see, he had rather unusual big ears.
- Well, blimey, I can't help it. Those bloomin' ears.
[...]