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A shadow flickered as the vultures dropped down from the blazing sky... to finish what the lions left.

10 seconds sound clip from the X Minus 1 - The Veldt by Ray Bradbury classic radio drama series.

You can hear this line at 00:22:07 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- When Dr. David McClean came a half hour later, he found the two children in the nursery sitting in the center of the open glade eating a picnic lunch.

- Beyond them was the water hole and the yellow veldtland... above was the hot sun.

- At a distance, Dr. McClean saw the lions fighting and clawing and then settling down to feed in silence under the shady trees.

- Hi, kids. Where are your mom and dad?

- Oh, they'll be here directly.

- Good, good. We've got to get along.

- He squinted at the lions with his hands up to his eyes. Now they were done feeding and they moved to the water hole to drink.

- A shadow flickered as the vultures dropped down from the blazing sky... to finish what the lions left.

- Dr. McClean? Dr. McClean? Have a cup of tea?

- Which concludes my report to date.

- There were no lions, of course. Not in a physical sense.

- Lydia and George were devoured, however, almost as surely as if there had been lions.

- Their personalities were devoured by the mechanistic marvels which had usurped their role as parents.

[...]

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X Minus One Sound Clip

X Minus OneQuotes with audio samples from the old-time science fiction radio drama series "X Minus One" that was broadcast from 1955 to 1958 on NBC.

Actors: Fred Collins (Announcer), Wendell Holmes, Bill Zuckert, Peter Capell

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