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The thing was noticed in Hong Kong first on the British radar.

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

You can hear this line at 00:03:37 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Now, Act One of The Day the Earth Stood Still, starring Michael Rennie as Klaatu and Jean Peters as Helen Benson.

- It was a pleasant spring day... an ideal day for a walk in the park, a day to push the baby buggy and be glad you were alive.

- There'd been at least twenty such sparkling days that spring and perhaps a billion or more of them since the Earth began...

- And nothing had ever happened to spoil them but a few small fires or a slight head cold in the evening, or a rain squall.

- This spring day, in the middle of the marvelous twentieth century, was different. It was the most different day that had happened to mankind since the first Christmas.

- The thing was noticed in Hong Kong first on the British radar.

- But that's impossible! That thing must be doing about four thousand.

- That can't be aircraft, sir. Must be a buzz bomb.

- Better give an alarm. Keep it steady, though. May be faulty equipment.

- If the British radar in Hong Kong was faulty, so was the radar all over the Orient, and Asia, and Europe. So were the announcers on the radio.

- This is Moscow!

- This is Kalkipur, India.

[...]

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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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