 Fantasy only man dr. West you please close the door certainly dr. Tegel Now gentlemen, I have summoned you my two trusted and loyal friends to divulge a secret that even I myself can hardly comprehend You made a new discovery Charles discovery yes, I Have found another world. Oh what another? World you say exactly Would you please snap off the lights doctor that switch there? Yeah, certainly Now by means of this special projection machine I'm going to show you something which will astound you beyond words. I Must ask you to remain perfectly still throughout this demonstration As the picture I'm about to show you progressors. I will explain in detail just what I've done First of all to start the machine Observe this picture. I've taken on color film a picture of the new moon Now you will notice that the camera has picked up a single ray of the moon Spocused upon a wall Where on dancers a single tiny moon beam The camera approaches the moon beam Closer Closer Still closer and Then the special film in my camera reaches the lens The scene changes dr. Smith a gentleman gentlemen, please Now you see here my other world My world within a moon beam Taken upon special color film of my own invention Film that is constructed to pick up objects within the very atoms Objects smaller that is than atoms themselves And notice, please the coloring of this other world within a moon beam see the hills The plains with a red grass their red leaf trees Notice that tiny stream at the left of vivid orange Notice the yellow of the tree trunks the orange colored sky and the deep blue Sun Men's quickly now, but first a rare sight is in store for you. I'll watch closely There a man But what sort of creature is that he's riding? I don't know You will notice the animal approaches the small stream wades quickly through it and Vanishes from the camera sight And as he vanishes into the distance the film ends Amazing astounding Unbelievable are the lights if you please dr. Oh, yes, of course look here to you. Is this a camera trick? Absolutely not. I have shown you what actually exists within certain or possibly all moon beams What's your theory doctor that all creation consists of worlds within worlds? Who can say that our world is not contained within some still larger one and that within another and that's still within another and so on That's how it suddenly becomes overwhelming. Yes, doesn't it? To think that all around us within even such tiny substances as the atoms themselves under our feet Overhead on all sides Our worlds of which we are unaware. Yes, if only there were some way to visit those other worlds our doctor West That is the point We can good heavens man. You mean there's just what do you mean? gentlemen I Plan to enter that world in the movie impossible I don't like to say so Charles But aren't you looking the laws of dimension the the general medium laws of nature that are so obvious not only that terium, but aren't you appearing a little ridiculous on the face of things I do not expect you to be convinced until you will see we in our profession are not inclined to take such things as we are Speaking of for granted then let's not waste words my friends. I propose to convince you beyond all possible doubt Well, I have no objection to being convinced all right No, I really believe terium has led his imagination Win the upper hand. We shall see a Here gentlemen on this table. You see what looks like an Eskimo igloo Made of crystal clear glass with an opening at one side of the base much like an entrance to an igloo or tent Yes, it's about ten inches high and About eight inches in diameter when we extinguish the lights here in this room When that curtain is drawn from the window over there The moon beam in question will be centered directly through that little glass case. You want us to assist you exactly But what do you intend to do? I have here a number of small capsules filled with a portion whose base consists mostly of radium What is this preparation? Substance which will cause animal matter to decrease itself many billions of times in other words You think it'll make you become smaller precisely but small enough to enter the realm of a single atom I hope so. Well, have you have you tried this concoction only on animals first on rabbits and rats and Just yesterday. I sent a dog into the world of atoms, but granting such a feat is possible Don't you think your clothes would also shrink with you? I've found that any object in contact with the animal matter at the time the capsule is consumed will be caused to shrink in proportion With the animal matter itself. I found that out yesterday when I failed to remove the dog's color But suppose you consume too great a quantity of the potion I have an equalizer another mixture which will counteract the first capsule by taking particular amounts of it I can stop the reaction of the capsule and then having stopped it by taking another dose of the stabilizer or equalizer I can increase my size again. This is all very extraordinary I plan to be gone quite some time I'm asking you to watch over this little glass case for a four-day period. You can count on me to handle me. Good Now I shall take a capsule I'll begin to grow almost immediately I've reached about two feet in height. I want you Dr. Smith to bend down to the floor Pick me up and place me on this table here Side this little glass case Putting me directly in front of the opening or door of the case. Is that clear quite? Yeah, good Gentlemen my hand. Good luck Charles Smith. We'll follow your instructions carefully Good. I knew I could count on you to Now the capsule my head is wearing my ears are ringing eyes The growing dim I have a sensation of emptiness in the pit of my stomach You notice any change in my appearance. Good heavens He's lost a foot in height while you're growing smaller to you. You are man You're actually growing smaller. He's two feet smaller now. I I Hope I regained my eyesight before I become too small Are my clothes diminishing too? Yes. Yes quiet. I Cannot describe my sensations. I feel a strange weakness My senses seem to be deserting me. I find it rather difficult to talk. Look He's just about two feet high now. Where do as he told you doctor pick him up now place him on the table Just so careful now There Yeah, but in closer to that door so you'll have no trouble finding it. What's your arm doctor don't cut off the moon beam? There that's good. He's only about six inches high now. There he goes In to the glass case See The moon beam is completely covering him He's so tiny now you can hardly see him besides a Small ant he's faded into the light of the beam now. I Wonder what he'll discover in there. I wonder what At last I'm here in another world Such a strange place Similar to the place I came from yet different Trees Yet with leaves of brilliant scarlet and yellow bark the grass also scarlet Orange colored sky overhead a son of dazzling blue and The water in the little stream over there not blue but orange Yes, the colors all different Everything else correspondingly the same. Why do you speak so strangely? I beg your pardon. I thought I was alone. You must be a foreigner Otherwise, you'd know you're in the king's gardens, and they are quite private. I'm so sorry Yes, I am a foreigner if you'll forgive me. I'll leave at once. Oh, no, please It is our custom to treat foreigners in a friendly manner And so I bid you welcome. I Am the princess Elena Princess yes daughter of King Landelier Surely you've heard of me No princess. I've not but surely My father rules the world with kindness and justice and Everyone knows him for his goodness princess Will it frighten you if I tell you something? Something most strange. I think not sir for you yourself or most strange Your clothing the colors Not in the least ordinary And your features are so different Princess Elena My name is Charles to Hume I'm a citizen of the united states of America America I know the world quite well, but never have I heard of America That is why I fear I might frighten you your highness you see America is not in this world It is in another You're from another world exactly You see I'm a scientist in my own universe I discovered your world here So I found a way to come to visit you I You don't seem at all surprised. No Why should I be surprised? We've expected you for a long time me Well, not you exactly But someone but what do you mean? Our scientists have known for many years that other worlds besides ours exist But they've never been able to discover a method of entering one of them We've been hoping someone from beyond would find a way here Amazing That is why I asked if you were a foreigner Since my father rules the entire world Naturally a foreigner could only be from another world this absolutely astounds me Princess I must speak to your scientists Well, this is so wonderful the people of our world seem much alike save in a few minor respects We look alike talk alike We've often wondered how much we would be like the people from beyond take me to your scientist princess I must see them. I'll gladly take you to them But first I must warn you You're in great danger Danger Our world is doomed We're falling victims to a strange malady Which none of our doctors or learned men can overcome It is slaying our people but the thousands a plague. Yes A mysterious disease one we've never encountered before in all history If you would save yourself use whatever method you have and Return to your own world before it's too late one moment Princess Will you take me to your father? I I don't know why I say this but perhaps I can help. Oh no No save yourself I beg of you Do not remain here to perish. Please princess at least allow me to try to help You're either very brave or very foolish. Brave or foolish take me to your father Very well But he will only warn you as I have done And that your majesty is how I found your world and the way to enter it It's interesting At one time I would have said amazing But with our discoveries of other worlds around us it's now only interesting I've warned dr. Tehune to return to his own universe before he falls victim to the plague Yes, my son. You must but I would like to help. I'm a doctor where I came from. Perhaps I could do something I fear is useless Almost brilliant physicians are powerless to even make a diagnosis Much less a cure, but I have a knowledge from another world your majesty. That's true father He found a way of reaching us While we here have been unable to reach the other places beyond yes, yes daughter Your reason wisely please your majesty permit me to see some of the victims I can't return home until I've at least made an attempt to help you Very well as you wish Come with me My son lies dying in a room above I will permit you to examine him Well, dr. Tehune your majesty Heaven's man. This is typhoid typhoid. But what is typhoid? We have it on our earth But tell us do you know the cure? Yes, your majesty. I do take me to your nearest medical laboratory We must prepare a serum huge quantities of it. We must send it to all parts of the world immediately if we're to save your people Daughter these are parts small parts of the universe The deaths grow fewer and fewer each day. It's a miracle father and charles ter huen has saved us all There's been no typhoid deaths now for three days. I know Our fight has been won the people are clamoring for you dr. Huen They almost consider you a god I am no god princess Merely a man with a little knowledge But you came to us like a miracle man In time to work the greatest wonder of all history I'm happy that my journey here has been for a purpose Anything you ever wish in the world will be yours. I know Elena There's so little I want Yet so much Will you remain here with us forever? I I cannot princess You called me Elena a moment ago I cannot Elena I must return to tell my people what I've discovered. Oh, but if you go now Yes, Elena Oh, why must we always be governed by rules of propriety? Elena if If you're thinking what I hope you are Elena my darling Is it wrong to say I love you? Is it wrong for stars to shine or for flowers to bloom? Oh my darling princess I love you Elena and I love you Please Don't leave me my darling Just for a little while I will return to you Elena I promise and I will wait for you beloved And when you return Nothing in this world or any other will ever take us apart It's past his time almost four days. Look A moment there in the moonbeam see no I Yes Look He is coming back. See there. He's out of the glass case on the table top. He's growing rapidly best You better place him down on the floor. Look larger and larger. This is perfectly astounding man I wonder what his adventures have been dr. Tejun Can you hear me dr. Tejun? He's almost four feet tall now. Can you hear me dr water? So water please water wetly Almost quickly over there in that goblet. Yes. Just one moment. Here we are. He's all right now Full size again Here to you Drink this Yes Thanks That's better. Are you all right Tejun? Yes quite all right. Thank you Gentlemen, I have had the strangest experience imaginable I have visited a world that's amazing and Wonderful tell us about it. Yes, I will When I became small enough to enter the moonbeam I found myself in the exact spot you two saw in the picture I displayed for you I did not know which way to go naturally after a moment. I heard someone That my friends is precisely what happened to me and you say those people knew all about the existence of other worlds but Were not familiar with such a disease as typhoid. Exactly. You must have been somewhat of a hero to you Yes, somewhat, you know, if I hadn't seen this demonstration with my own eyes, I'd never have believed it Well, dr west Even though I was the one who experienced it I'm still wondering if it actually happened and it happened. All right. Yes, we saw you grow small right before eyes So small you became almost invisible and disappeared in the moonbeam I trust you two will confirm any statements. I might make to the public about all this No, absolutely certainly tejun by the way Is my sister here during my absence? Why yes, she was She acted very strangely too, but we told her nothing Well gentlemen, perhaps I should have told you this before You see my sister and I jointly own several hundred acres of valuable oil land in the south She's a greedy woman She's tried for years to obtain full possession of the property She's tried many ways, but Her latest method is by charging that I'm insane. Oh, that's ridiculous. Yes, exactly, but she's preferred the charges Tomorrow at nine I must appear before a group of alienists Who will decide whether or not I'm mentally unbalanced That is why I had to make my experiment before tomorrow Dr. Turhune, you've been carefully examined by this impartial and experienced board of alienists At the request of your sister Yeah, it's our decision that you must submit yourself to a series of treatments At whatever sanitarium your sister might choose. Oh, no, stop This has all been so irregular so unfair You think I'm mad I was thought I have told you was true. I can prove everything I've said Please dr. Turhune my two friends dr. West and dr. Smith ask them Why haven't you let them testify for me? They saw it. They'll tell you everything I've said is true One moment. Yes Oh Yes, he's here with me now I see Yes, all right, I'll tell him I'm sorry dr. Turhune. I'm afraid I have bad news for you Doctors west and smith were to have testified on your behalf But I've just received word that they were both killed a few moments ago in an automobile accident That was the verdict now men call me mad So they've locked me here in the cell Till the time they can they moved me to a sanitarium any moment now they'll come for me Whisk me off through the night My discovery will never be proved People will laugh for a while Speak to the mad dr. Turhune And then I will forget no escape Elena no escape No escape Oh what a stupid fool I am The moonbeam of course the moonbeam fantasy Men call me mad An original tale of dark fantasy by scott bishop Ben Morris was heard as dr. Charles Turhune Eleanor nailer coran was princess elena Fred Wayne was king londelier Murillo scofield was dr. West Muir height was dr. Smith and daryl mccallister was the specialist Next friday night at the same time the national broadcasting company will present another tale of dark fantasy the house of bread A strange and compelling drama of christmas 1941 and that first christmas nearly 2000 years ago told to you by scott bishop Dark fantasy originates in the studios of station wky in oklahoma city. This is the national broadcasting company