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Able to leap into the air an eighth of a mile in a single bound. Hurtle a twenty story building with ease. Race a high powered bullet to its target.

10 seconds sound clip from the The Adventures of Superman - The Baby from Krypton classic radio series.

You can hear this line at 00:00:33 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.

- Boys and girls your attention please, presenting a new and exciting radio program. Featuring the thrilling adventures of an amazing and incredible personality.

- Faster than an airplane. More powerful than a locomotive, impervious to bullets.

- Up in the sky look. 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 on Earth.

- Able to leap into the air an eighth of a mile in a single bound. Hurtle a twenty story building with ease. Race a high powered bullet to its target.

- Lift tremendous wights 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.

- As our story begins we ask you to come a far journey. A journey that takes us millions of miles from the Earth.

[...]

The Adventures of Superman Sound Clip

The Adventures of SupermanQuotes with audio samples from the old-time radio series "The Adventures of Superman" that originally aired from 1940 to 1951

Actors: Bud Collyer (Clark Kent / Superman), Joan Alexander (Lois Lane)

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