The Invisible Ray
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- 1936
- 80 min
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[Thunder clapping]
[Thunder rumbling]
[Thundering continues]
(Mother Rukh)
Diana?
Yes, Mother Rukh.
Janos is still
in the laboratory, of course?
Yes. He's checking
his equipment
before the people
from England arrive.
I'm to let him know
when I see
the lights of the car.
[Thunder clapping]
It was on such a night
that Janos
first caught his ray
from Andromeda.
Your father worked the guides,
I held the detecting lens
and never saw again.
Dear Mother Rukh.
My son will not learn
until too late, I fear,
that the universe
is very large,
and there are some secrets
we are not meant to probe.
Janos says the electricity
will help the demonstration.
He is wrong to demonstrate
to these people.
Who are they?
Pigmies that scoff at a giant,
who have said
that he is only a visionary,
unscientific, a charlatan.
Huh.
He's greater
than all of them.
He sent for them.
If he had waited,
one day
they would have begged,
begged to come to him.
[Thunder clapping]
[Thunder rumbling]
I see the car now.
I'll tell Janos.
Janos?
Janos?
[Rain pattering]
Diana.
They are coming
up the grade.
Sir Francis Stevens
and the great Dr. Benet
from the University of Paris.
What do they know?
What will they ever know?
I'll take them somewhere
they have never been.
Back into time.
It will work well tonight.
I'm sure and I'm ready.
They'll never
laugh at me again.
Janos.
They'll be here any minute.
You must prepare
to meet them.
Come.
Yes. Yes.
[Wind howling]
I'm Diana Rukh.
My husband will be here
presently.
I'm Lady Stevens.
This is my husband,
Sir Francis.
How do you do?
And this is Dr. Benet.
Madame.
How do you do?
And this is my nephew,
Ronald Drake.
How do you do?
May I present you
to my husband's mother,
Frau Rukh?
How do you do?
Oh, what a lovely fire.
I hope you didn't have
too bad a time coming up.
It really is
rather a terrible trip.
Oh, I don't mind anything,
but my poor
sit-downish husband minded it.
Brandy?
Oh, thanks.
That will help.
Thank you.
Would anyone ever expect
to find anything like this
on top of
the Carpathian Mountain?
No.
Sir Francis.
To see you again
after so many years
is interesting.
Dr. Benet, we meet at last.
But we already
know each other.
True.
You've come to see me fail,
but you'll be disappointed.
I have come to see that
Sir Francis isn't deceived.
Your doubts
are very flattering.
They are mutual.
We have never seen
eye to eye.
That is because
I've always looked
200 years ahead
of your theories.
(Arabella)
Dr. Rukh?
You haven't met me.
Lady Stevens.
Nor my nephew, Ronald Drake.
And you too
are a scientist, sir?
No, I'm afraid not.
He doesn't know a thing
about science.
But he's one of
who crossed the mountains
of the moon,
made maps of the country.
And since
that's where we're going,
he'll come in useful.
Very commendable work, sir.
Good man. I've seen him
tested in Africa.
I read that you were
going to Africa.
That's why
I asked you here.
Because what I have
to show you after dinner
concerns Africa,
and the claim I made
many years ago.
[Switch clicks]
All of this
makes a man like me
feel quite small
and useless.
But you've gone
into uncharted places, too.
Oh, my explorations
have all been on this planet.
They reach into space.
This is the nebula
in Andromeda.
A ray from this nebula
will be caught here
and electrically transferred
to the projector
in my laboratory.
There I will recreate
what is recorded
on that beam of light.
From Andromeda?
From Andromeda.
Three-quarters of a million
light-years distant.
Can he do that?
Yes.
He will not fail.
He must not.
It would kill him.
Have you seen it?
No one has seen it,
but Janos.
You'll wait here
a few minutes.
I'll prepare the projector.
He seems very confident.
Yes.
Of course,
the theory of reproducing
vibrations from the past
is not new.
But if proved, would be.
Yes.
This may be
very interesting.
Yes. Very.
Doesn't all this
sort of thing
ever affect you?
Oh, no. I'm used to it.
When he died
three years ago,
I married Dr. Rukh.
Oh, I see.
[Buzzing]
[Electricity humming]
I am ready.
[Machine whirring]
A new development
which will protect you
from all dangerous rays.
[Machine continues humming]
[Clicks]
[Electricity buzzing]
[Humming]
To reproduce what is written
upon the beam from Andromeda,
we must travel out into space
upon that ray of light
until we reach a point
at which we turn and look back
upon our own planet.
We approach the moon.
Dead ashes,
where there is no air
or water.
In the shadows,
colder than our Arctic.
In the sunlight,
hotter than any desert
of the Earth.
Saturn we pass,
with its twirling rings.
A vast cloud
of tiny movements,
each moving
in its own orbit.
Another constellation
speeds towards us.
Five hundred light-years
distant.
But we travel at a speed
far greater than light,
the pace of
electric magnification.
Otherwise it will take
a million lifetimes
to reach our goal.
We move by this chaotic mass
and see Andromeda.
Our nearest neighbor
among the island universes
of space.
left there before man existed,
before our Earth had cooled.
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