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Not a sound. Stillness. Not a move from the cordon of tanks and armored cars and troops in full battle dress.

11 seconds sound clip from the The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:04:56 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Luckton at Ferris to Baker, Ferris to Baker.

- I have an object at two zero zero thousand feet, four zero zero zero miles an hour.

- Then it was here. Incredibly, it was here! Burning down through the sky over Washington, D. C., hovering over the Mall. Descending.

- They're here! They've come! They're here, they're here!

(ALIEN SPACECRAFT LANDS NOISILY)

- Not a sound. Stillness. Not a move from the cordon of tanks and armored cars and troops in full battle dress.

- Not a sound or gesture from the monstrous domed disk resting on the grass.

- The ship, designed for travel outside the earth's atmosphere, landed in Washington today at three forty-seven p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

- We still do not know where it came from.

- The ship is now resting exactly where it landed two hours ago.

- So far there is no sign of life from inside the ship.

[...]

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954) Sound Clip

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954)Relive the nostalgia of old-time radio with sound bites from Lux Radio Theater's "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Classic sci-fi, vintage sound & dialogue.

Actors: Michael Rennie (Klaatu), Jean Peters (Helen Benson), Paul Frees (Narrator), Lamont Johnson (Tom), Herb Butterfield (Professor Barnhardt), Tudor Owen (Mr. Harley), Billy Gray (Bobby), Edith Evanson (Mrs. Crockett)

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