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Veldt

Dimension X · August 9, 1951 · 30 min · 3,526 words

The transcript of “Veldt”, an episode of Dimension X first broadcast August 9, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Dimension X plays Dimension X free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Space, Future, The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of astounding science fiction bring you dimension X. The soundproofed happy life home had cost $30,000 installed. It clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them. Their life perd on from day to day measured and controlled

by the nucleonic thermostats. The iridium sponge servo brains that made the beds and washed down the bathroom floors and made sure the salt cellars flowed freely without clogging. Twice a day the house paused, rang a quiet bell and turned precisely 90 degrees on its axis in order that the view from the solaroid living room windows might be varied to avoid

on we of course the pride of the house was the nursery the agent for the company had been most enthusiastic this way right down the hall all right what we got well it's all automatic the nursery turns itself on when you come within 10 feet of it soft automatically that's the motto of the company all right now this is the

nursery 40 feet by 40 feet and 30 feet high separate power unit with automatic overload circuit breakers inspected and approved by the underwriters laboratory the nursery is educational instructive entertaining and therapeutic the entire control mechanism is adjusted to the electroencephalographic key of the child how much is it cost 30,000 f.o.b. Los Angeles but that's as much as the

whole house why no but we do want the best for our children don't we oh yes we want the best for our children. And it was the best. The crystalline walls wavered from two to three dimensions.

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