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Night of the Living Dead (news report)

Short · The Night Shift shorts · November 13, 1921 · 78 words

The transcript of “Night of the Living Dead (news report)”, an episode of The Night Shift shorts first broadcast November 13, 1921. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Night Shift plays The Night Shift shorts free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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supposed to be a burial of an executed felon. Uh, Reverend Hicks was one of the first to report on what at the time seemed to be so unbelievable, so bizarre that the dead could rise again, could somehow become mobile.

Reverend, how would you explain this? This is like the flood that struck in Noah's time, or the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. We are being punished for our sins. The dead are rising and judgment day.

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