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The great rusty smell of animals...

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

You can hear this line at 00:07:24 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- On all sides, in three dimensions, stretched the hot, tired landscapes of an African veldt, reproduced to the last stick and pebble and bit of straw.

- The ceiling above them became a sky with a hot yellow sun.

- A wind blew in from the baked veldt-land.

- The hot straw smell of lion grass...

- The cool green smell of the hidden water hole...

- The great rusty smell of animals...

- The howl of the jackal in the distance...

- And the papery rustling of the great vultures that wheeled and circled under the yellow, burning sun.

- Let's get out of this sun. It's a little too real.

- Oh, George, you promised you'd look around.

- Well, I don't see anything.

- Wait a minute. There are the vultures.

- Filthy creatures.

[...]

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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