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Transcript: The Mysterious Island

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00:03:56 #1 satisfied now. The truth I'm a little bit upset by this this adventure. Are you

00:04:03 #2 frightened I thought I don't know what fear is but I thought I'm shocked. Tell me

00:04:09 #3 what impressed you most about it down there. Each man I thought you were

00:04:14 #4 taking me into the very depth of hell that's it you hit it the first time

00:04:18 #5 pain. The heat the terrific heat. You know what this whole island is so what

00:04:26 #6 It is a submerged volcano.

00:04:29 #7 Well, what of it?

00:04:30 #8 Simply this.

00:04:31 #9 Within its walls, deep down beneath the sea, great masses of lava, terrifically hot.

00:04:39 #10 Very interesting.

00:04:40 #11 What is the result?

00:04:42 #12 Like a shaft of that volcano becomes a heat cycle.

00:04:47 #13 It sends a current of warm water upward, which in turn draws cold water to take its place.

00:04:54 #14 Cold water from the very bottom of the sea indeed

00:04:58 #15 Think for a moment what that means

00:05:01 #16 It means that that water there comes up directly from the world

00:05:07 #17 No man has ever seen the deepest part of the sea very interesting indeed and Sunday

00:05:13 #18 I'll come back and hear all about but will you

00:05:15 #19 Pardon me if I tell you the urgent business that brought me from the mainland

00:05:19 #20 Oh, I thank your father, Taylor.

00:05:22 #21 I'm afraid I ride my hobby in and out of season.

00:05:26 #22 We alone will be overheard, old friend.

00:05:40 #23 I'm about to put my liberties at the end of my life in your hands.

00:05:46 #24 Now what do you mean?

00:05:48 #25 Even a month, the revolution will take place.

00:05:51 #26 Silently, bloodlessly, I hope it will put a new king on the throne of Hephaeus.

00:05:57 #27 a failure. I think we'll be myself. Why not when I am going to another

00:06:07 #28 presently at all. My family is one of the most powerful and

00:06:13 #29 a. I know you. All this is out of my knowledge who am I I'm

00:06:21 #30 a scientist who asks nothing but to be left alone here on my

00:06:28 #31 island we do think of things or rank or power. Here the humblest worthmen in my shops, the

00:06:36 #32 present who fills my field is my eatin'. We work with but one end. We study, we learn

00:06:44 #33 to be free, to seek happiness each in his own way.

00:06:50 #34 Very pretty, Andre, but you're also one of the most powerful nobles in the realm,

00:06:56 #35 And I thought my friend I am I wish you well all I ask is you to let me forget

00:07:06 #36 what you've said forget it absolutely and go back to my shop my last come now

00:07:13 #37 we'll strike a bargain I will refrain from writing my hobby and boring you you

00:07:23 #38 you refrain from boring me

00:07:26 #39 probably

00:07:33 #40 okay

00:07:50 #41 what i said

00:07:57 #42 yes sir

00:08:00 #43 what a miracle

00:08:01 #44 all that ralph is not a bit of

00:08:03 #45 what is it

00:08:04 #46 bone

00:08:05 #47 all right boys

00:08:06 #48 i'm afraid you might be bored

00:08:09 #49 i know i promise you but

00:08:11 #50 what is it

00:08:14 #51 i'll show you

00:08:30 #52 i told you

00:08:31 #53 that this natural current

00:08:34 #54 inside the island

00:08:36 #55 draws the water

00:08:41 #56 of the sea. Now at first I studied this unending stream. I found bits of fragments such as this,

00:08:51 #57 pieces of bone, debris. Just curiosity, nothing more. Then bit by bit I began to discover something

00:09:01 #58 that led me to one of the most astounding discoveries in the history of science.

00:09:07 #59 What do you mean?

00:09:09 #60 Fallon, life began in the water.

00:09:12 #61 We scientists believed that this was a liquid world in the beginning.

00:09:19 #62 Life as we know it started then.

00:09:23 #63 Then out of the slime and the drying mud,

00:09:29 #64 man marched upward to his present place in the universe.

00:09:34 #65 Yes.

00:09:35 #66 It's supposed that in all the ages that man has been developing to his present state,

00:09:46 #67 that a distant cousin of his, starting from the same source,

00:09:52 #68 has been going through a similar process of evolution under the water.

00:10:00 #69 You mean creatures like men actually living deep down in the sea?

00:10:06 #70 Precisely.

00:10:07 #71 How do they breathe?

00:10:11 #72 How do fishes live?

00:10:13 #73 How do fishes breathe?

00:10:15 #74 What are all the legends of water nymphs and mermaids and lauroi

00:10:20 #75 except proof that in the dim dawn of time man knew of these distant cousins?

00:10:27 #76 Or even then starting their downward march as man was starting up?

00:10:33 #77 Up on, nonsense.

00:10:35 #78 The sort of fairy tale you tell to children in the nursery.

00:10:39 #79 But I have proof of it.

00:10:43 #80 By bit I've collected the fragments that have come up to me from the depths.

00:10:50 #81 They don't come under any classification known to science.

00:10:54 #82 No one has seen such creatures anywhere on land or sea.

00:11:01 #83 Nor have you, Andre.

00:11:02 #84 No, that's true.

00:11:04 #85 But I built one by bit.

00:11:11 #86 Bone by bone.

00:11:13 #87 Do you mean there are creatures like this actually living under the sea?

00:11:33 #88 Living? Perhaps dwelling in popular cities. Who knows.

00:11:38 #89 The size and shape of the skull indicate a brain beyond that of any living creature, except man and self.

00:11:55 #90 This latest find fills out the outline of the jaw.

00:12:00 #91 John Ray, there'll always be only a theory.

00:12:12 #92 No one will ever know what lies at the bottom of the ocean.

00:12:15 #93 Ah, don't be too sure.

00:12:18 #94 I'm planning to explore the ocean's depths now.

00:12:23 #95 Sit down.

00:12:28 #96 Now you've often wondered what need I had for workshops, a shipyard,

00:12:39 #97 all hidden away here on mysterious islands.

00:12:44 #98 Hubert, I'm building a boat that will descend to the bottom of the ocean.

00:12:50 #99 Many do that, friend Andre.

00:12:55 #100 But this one is going to come up again.

00:12:58 #101 Oh, I've planned it very carefully. The work of years. It will succeed. I know it will succeed.

00:13:07 #102 An armed vessel, Andre?

00:13:12 #103 Who knows what perils will meet at the bottom of the ocean.

00:13:15 #104 A ship that will sail under the sea to attack.

00:13:21 #105 With that, we could conquer the world.

00:13:26 #106 If I thought my vessel would be used in this slaughter of mankind, I'd never build it.

00:13:32 #107 It's for science only.

00:13:36 #108 Ship number one reporting.

00:33:10 #109 230 foot depth.

00:33:12 #110 Distance 14 miles.

00:33:14 #111 All well.

00:33:16 #112 Nicolai Roget reporting.

00:33:18 #113 Out of Ripple.