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[Eerie music playing]

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(Narrator) You unlock this door
with the k e y of ima Gina t/on.

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Beyond it is another dimension.

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A dimension of sound.

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A dimension of sight.
A dimension of mind.

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You're moving into a land of
both shadowand substance,

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of things and ideas.

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You've just crossed over
into the twilight zone.

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Good evening, happy family
members and stockholders

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of the w.V whipple
manufacturing corporation.

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This year, as you've
already perceived,

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we are bringing you the story of your company's
progress via the motion picture screen.

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This is our main opera
ting plant in the mid west.

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You will note the number of
employees a ttend/ng the assembl y line.

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In this one plant,

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your company employs 34,827 men.

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Added to 13 other major whipple
plants across the country.

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We employ a total of
close to 283,000 personnel.

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And now, to the stunning
and exciting news

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which I believe you'll
agree shows, once again.

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That at whipple's, we
only take forward steps.

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And now, family members and
stockholders of the whipple corporation,

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this is the x109b14

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modified transistorized totally
automatic assembly machine

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which eliminates

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sixty-one thousand jobs,

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seventy-three bulky,
inefficient machines,

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eighty-one thousand needless
man hours per eleven working days,

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and $4 million in
expenditures each year

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for employee hospitalization,
employee insurance,

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employee welfare and
employee profit participation.

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Even as you stockholders
are watching this film,

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the first model of the x109b14

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modified transistorized machine

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is being placed into operations

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here in our
midwestern main plant.

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With/n six months, our
entire product/on facilities

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will be totallyautoma Ted.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
from now on

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whipple will operate
from a brain center

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with machines such as this one.

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Ladies and gentlemen
of the whipple family,

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this ends our 1967
year-end report.

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Well, what? t do you think, hanley?
Will tha t bring the stockholders

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to their feet cheering? Not that I
need any particular encouragement.

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The movie speaks for itself.

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It does, indeed.

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You didn't like it, hanley?

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I'm a chief engineer,
Mr. Whipple.

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My duties consist of plant
management. I'm not a film critic.

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Look, I didn't expect you
to give it four stars, hanley.

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But as plant manager, I
thought you'd have a point of view

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as to the film's content. I thought
you'd have some degree of enthusiasm

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for the changes we're planning.

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Now, does it or doesn't it
give you the lay of the land?

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You can answer that can't you?

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Oh, yes. It gives me
the lay of the land.

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Tell me, do you really expect to
automate this place in six months?

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Four months would
be a better guess.

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There a lot of things going
in the old trash heap, hanley.

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Time clocks, for instance. There
won't be anybody to punch in or out.

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I, uh, I think I'll donate
them to a museum.

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Something, ha nley?

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Yes, something. Something
like a lot of men out of work!

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That, unfortunately,
is progress, hanley.

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You know, you're a solid man when
it comes to assembly line planning.

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But when it comes to the
afore mention progress,

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you're a foot-dragger.

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Well, little sweetheart, you and I are
gonna spend a great deal of time together.

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Indeed, we are.

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Indeed, indeed, indeed we are.

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(Narrator) These are the pla yers,
with or without a scorecard.

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In one corner, a ma chine.

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In the other, one
Wallace v. Whipple, man.

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And the game?

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It happens to be the historical
battle between flesh and steel,

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between the brain of man
and the product of man's brain.

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We don't make book on this
one, and predict no winner

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but we can tell you that
for this particular contest,

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there is standing room only
in the twilight zone.

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You know what your
trouble is, hanley?

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You're holding on tight
to this 19th century.

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I'm holding tight to some
principles, Mr. Whipple.

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Some principles that
have to do with firing.

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The regret for
the wholesale firings

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of men who've worked
here from 20 to 30 years.

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Regret, indeed. It's come to regret,
huh? I'll let you handle the regrets.

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That'll be your responsibility. I tell you
what, hanley. Have a sign made for your desk.

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It'll say, "Mr. Walter hanley, plant
manager in charge of regrets."

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Tell me, Mr. Whipple, why are you so
eager to replace men with machines?

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Ever occur to you that you might
be trading efficiency for pride?

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Pride?

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Yes, pride! Craftsmanship. What a
man feels when he makes something.

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Tell me, what do you suppose that machine
of yours feels? Anything? Anything at all?

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What the devil can I do with pride?
Can it, bottle it, wrap it, produce it?

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I'm not selling pride,
I'm selling product.

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Your father...

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What about my father?

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Your father ran this plant for
40 years. He had an eye for profit.

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Nobody ever accused him
of inefficiency, but...

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But what?

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He had something
else on his mind.

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What else did my father
have on his mind, Mr. Hanley?

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Good will. And the welfare of
the people who worked for him.

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Good will and the welfare of the
people that worked for him, indeed.

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In 40 years, my father
doubled the size of his plant

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while his competitors
quadrupled theirs.

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His competitors, Mr. Hanley, who
were perhaps a little bit less concerned

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with the good will and welfare
of the people that worked for them.

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They paid a fair wage and they
got a fair day's work in exchange.

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But, if they could find a machine they
could put in to replace a man, they did it.

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But perhaps they didn't have
plant managers like yourself

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who went off into a crying jag every time
a pink slip was attached to a time clock.

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What's the name
of the plant foreman?

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Dickerson, dickerson, that's his
name. Get him up here for me, will you?

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I'm going to indul ge in some of tha t
heartfel t compass/on tha t you hunger for.

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I'm going to give him and his
staff four months' notice.

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Now, I put it to you, hanley, is
that compass/ona te or isn't it?

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Now, you go get him, would you
please, hanley? Get him up here

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and hold his hand, dry his
eyes, pat him on the head,

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but get him up here.

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So, tha t's about the size of it,
Mr. Dickerson, you may tell the entire da yshift

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that they'll be pink-slipped
as of the first of July.

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We're here to set
it up, Mr. Whipple.

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Fine, I've checked the machine over. Just
put it downstairs, but treat it gently.

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Handle it with care.

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Now, you realize that this
somewhat wholesale discharge

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has nothing whatever to do with dissatisfaction
on your part or that of the men.

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It's merely progress,
Mr. Dickerson. Progress.

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Out with the old, in
with the new. Automation.

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That'll be all, Mr. Dickerson.

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Yes, Mr. Whipple.

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That will be all.

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Did you ever notice, Mr. Hanley,

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ever notice how it
looks like it had a face?

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An ugly face.

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A miserable, ugly face.

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Whipple, he thinks
it's a machine.

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It's not a machine, it's an
enemy. It's an opponent.

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I swear, we've got to
ha te a thing like this.

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Getting awful late, dick. Should
have closed half an hour ago.

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[Drunkenly] You know
what these are?

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Pair of hands?

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Yeah, pair of hands. You
know what else they are?

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They're obsolete,
they're off the market.

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They're like wooden wagons
trying to roll down a freeway.

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Flesh and bone
and muscle and nerve,

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but that don't cut
mustard anymore.

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I want to tell you some... i'm
going to tell you something.

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There isn't a machine made

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that can beat a man.

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Isn't one ma...
I'll prove it to you!

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I'm going over there right now
and I'm gonna prove it to you.

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I'm gonna take that
new machine of whipple's

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and I'm gonna turn it
into nuts and bolts.

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And if that slob with the
key chain gets in my way,

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I'm gonna strangle him with it.

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Dickerson! I just got a call from
the watchman. He said you're drunk

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and barged right past him
without paying any attention.

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And he's right, Mr. Whipple.

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I am drunk.

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And I did barge right in.

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I've worked here for 30 years!

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And I've been foreman
for 77of them.

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In my book, that gives me
some rights, Mr. Whipple.

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Well, you've got the
wrong book, dickerson.

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My book reads as follows:
You're drunk, disorderly

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and trespassing on private property
and therefore subject to arrest.

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Tell me something, Mr. Whipple.

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When you're dead and buried,
who do you get to mourn for you?

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Shall I tell you the difference,
Mr. Dickerson, between you and it?

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That machine costs two cents an
hour for current. It lasts indefinitely.

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It gets no wrinkles, no arthritis,
no hardening of the arteries.

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That one machine is a lathe
operator, a press operator.

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Two of those machines
replace 114 men

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that take no coffee breaks, no
sick leaves, no vacations with pay.

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And that, in my book,
Mr. Dickerson,

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is worth considerably
more than you are.

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They should have
stopped you a year ago!

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Somebody ought to held you down

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and put a bit in your head

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and poured in some reminders

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that men have to eat and work.

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And you can't pack them in
cosmoline like surplus tanks!

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Or put them out to
pasture like old bulls!

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I'm a man, Mr. Whipple!

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You hear me? I'ma man!

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And that makes me
better than that

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hunk of metal, you hear me?

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Better!

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What should I do mr, whipple?

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Stop him, stop him!

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He has a crow bar!

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I don't care!

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No, you can't do
that, Mr. Whipple.

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[Two gunshots]

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You see, machine?

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It... took more than
you to beat me.

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It... it took a man.

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Oh, hanley, I've
been expecting you.

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No doubt.

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They told me you
were at the hospital.

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I just came from the hospital.

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Fortunately for you,
Mr. Whipple, dickerson's gonna live.

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Fortunately for me other than protecting my
property I have no involvement in that at all.

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Are the, uh,
technicians downstairs?

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Henley, I asked you a question. Are the
technicians repairing that machine downstairs?

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It appears so.

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Ah, good. Good. Oh, hanley,
this should interest you.

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This is a tape-controlled seven
axis. What do they call it? A sentry.

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You know what it does? It keeps an eye
on every operation in the entire plant.

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It keeps absolutely
accurate data

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on man hours, cost hours,
product rejects, just everything!

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It's the most sophisticated machine
I've ever seen. I-I just bought it.

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And how many men
does it replace?

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Oh, well, this should please
you. Only one, just one!

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As a matter of fact,
hanley, it replaces you.

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Well, that's only
right, Mr. Whipple,

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since the point of my coming here
today was to give you my notice.

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Oh, good, good. I, uh,
I suspected as much.

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You're a sensible man, hanley,

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and I'm sure you know that an industrial
team has to be a compatible team.

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And when two men, well, when
they rub each other the wrong way,

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well, it's unrealistic and impractical
that they try to stay on the same team.

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In spite of the fact you
think I'm kind of an ogre,

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some sort of a
heartless scrooge,

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I'm not going to forget
the many years of hard work

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you put in here
for me and my father.

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I'm going to see that you get an
extremely liberal severance pay

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and what I'm sure you'll agree is
a far better than average pension.

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That's very generous
of you, Mr. Whipple.

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There's something I'd like
to give you, if you don't mind.

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No, what is that?

234
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That's for you,
Mr. Whipple, from me.

235
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For your lack of sensitivity,
your lack of compassion.

236
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Your heartless manipulation
of men and metals.

237
00:15:49,282 --> 00:15:52,201
You can take my
severance pay, my pension,

238
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and your goodbye speeches
and feed them into your machine.

239
00:15:55,663 --> 00:15:59,459
Because when I walk away
from you, I walk away clean.

240
00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:02,086
And that, Mr. Whipple,
is one hell of a trick!

241
00:16:08,092 --> 00:16:10,052
A new watchman device.

242
00:16:10,136 --> 00:16:13,139
Take out your I.D. Card and
hold it in front of the door.

243
00:16:13,222 --> 00:16:16,058
There are built-in
electric eyes.

244
00:16:47,381 --> 00:16:49,091
Yes, Mr. Whipple?

245
00:16:49,175 --> 00:16:52,345
Oh, run a control check, please.

246
00:16:52,428 --> 00:16:54,889
I've already done it,
Mr. Whipple, two hours ago.

247
00:16:54,972 --> 00:16:57,433
I did it right after lunch,
too. And if you recall, sir,

248
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I did it just after you
came in this morning as well.

249
00:16:59,894 --> 00:17:02,230
Have you never heard of
preventative maintenance?

250
00:17:02,313 --> 00:17:05,441
It's my job, Mr. Whipple. But what
you're asking me to do isn't maintenance.

251
00:17:05,525 --> 00:17:07,902
It's not preventing a thing.

252
00:17:07,985 --> 00:17:11,280
Indeed. I suppose you know what's
needed in this plant and what isn't needed.

253
00:17:11,364 --> 00:17:14,534
I know that running equipment
checks ten times a day is a waste of time,

254
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a waste of effort, and it's getting
to be an idiotic ritual around here.

255
00:17:18,204 --> 00:17:22,208
Young man, your presence
here is a necessity of the moment.

256
00:17:22,291 --> 00:17:24,210
Notice I stress "of the moment."

257
00:17:24,252 --> 00:17:26,712
Uh, a case in point.
Case in point.

258
00:17:26,796 --> 00:17:29,465
Now, stay here, observe this.

259
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Dear sir, yours of the 14th
received and acknowledged.

260
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Now is the time for all good men
to come to the aid of their country.

261
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Et cetera, et cetera
et cetera, et cetera.

262
00:17:44,772 --> 00:17:46,857
[Machine typing]

263
00:17:52,446 --> 00:17:55,408
A perfect letter. Not
one error or erasure.

264
00:17:55,491 --> 00:17:59,161
Typed at the moment of conception.
Am I getting through to you, young man?

265
00:17:59,245 --> 00:18:02,331
I presume you mean that
secretaries are obsolete now.

266
00:18:02,415 --> 00:18:05,376
Precisely, obsolete. And do
you know what else it means?

267
00:18:05,459 --> 00:18:08,754
It means there'll be no more
powder rooms, no more coffee breaks.

268
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No more work stoppages
due to sundry inconveniences

269
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such as maternity
and that sort of thing.

270
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Inconveniences like maternity?
You'll have to forgive me, Mr. Whipple,

271
00:18:18,222 --> 00:18:21,851
but if we keep up with this sort of thing,
we're gonna have wonderful products

272
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but mighty few
people to buy them.

273
00:18:23,811 --> 00:18:26,522
Happily that is not my concern.

274
00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:30,484
I am here to provide efficiency.
That is my only concern.

275
00:18:34,614 --> 00:18:37,950
Mr. Whipple? Have you looked
around this place lately?

276
00:18:37,992 --> 00:18:39,619
Looked around?

277
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The cafeteria, for example.

278
00:18:42,079 --> 00:18:44,874
It's like a cave.
Not a soul in there.

279
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Just a few vending machines and
music coming through a loudspeaker.

280
00:18:49,170 --> 00:18:51,380
Have you walked
around the parking lot?

281
00:18:51,464 --> 00:18:54,634
It's a desert.
No cars, no people.

282
00:18:54,675 --> 00:18:56,594
How very enlightening.

283
00:18:56,677 --> 00:18:59,180
This place has everything
now in the way of efficiency.

284
00:18:59,263 --> 00:19:00,681
But do you know what it lacks?

285
00:19:00,765 --> 00:19:03,017
No, tell me.

286
00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:06,646
Voices. Laughter. Just whatever it
is that make people feel for people.

287
00:19:06,729 --> 00:19:10,900
That's what it lacks. This is a
lousy place to work in, Mr. Whipple.

288
00:19:10,983 --> 00:19:14,487
Then I'll spare you any further
suffering. You're discharged.

289
00:19:14,528 --> 00:19:18,240
I've been expecting that. As a
matter of fact, I've been wanting it.

290
00:19:18,324 --> 00:19:20,910
No, I can't work here anymore.

291
00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:23,245
It's too darn lonely.

292
00:19:27,083 --> 00:19:29,377
And another thing, Mr. Whipple.

293
00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:33,005
Having to do with equipment
checks and preventive maintenance,

294
00:19:33,047 --> 00:19:35,174
I think it might be a good idea

295
00:19:35,257 --> 00:19:38,511
if you ran an equipment
check on yourself!

296
00:19:45,393 --> 00:19:47,520
[Muttering] Equipment
check on myself!

297
00:19:47,561 --> 00:19:49,730
What insufferable rot!

298
00:19:49,814 --> 00:19:51,982
Equipment check on myself!

299
00:19:55,945 --> 00:19:58,531
[Han/ey's voice]
Did it ever occur to you

300
00:19:58,572 --> 00:20:02,243
you might be trading
efficiency for pride?

301
00:20:02,326 --> 00:20:04,912
[Dickerson's voice] When
you're dead and burled,

302
00:20:04,995 --> 00:20:08,124
who do you get to mourn for you?

303
00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:10,876
[Technician's voice] I think
/t might be a good idea

304
00:20:10,918 --> 00:20:14,714
if you ran an equipment
check on yourself!

305
00:20:14,755 --> 00:20:16,841
[Machine buzzes and beeps]

306
00:20:20,970 --> 00:20:24,557
Did it ever occur to you you might
be trading efficiency for pride?

307
00:20:24,598 --> 00:20:26,726
When you're dead and buried,

308
00:20:26,767 --> 00:20:29,145
who do you get to mourn for you?

309
00:20:29,228 --> 00:20:31,397
I think it might bea good idea

310
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,066
if you ran an equipment
check on yourself!

311
00:20:34,150 --> 00:20:36,277
[Distorted] I think it
might be a good idea

312
00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,779
if you ran an equipment
check on yourself!

313
00:20:38,863 --> 00:20:42,116
Did it ever occur to you you might
be trading efficiency for pride?

314
00:20:42,199 --> 00:20:45,161
When you're dead and buried,
who do you get to mourn for you?

315
00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:47,246
[Recordings speed up]

316
00:20:47,329 --> 00:20:50,374
[Machine buzzes and beeps]

317
00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:00,593
[Distorted recordings continue]

318
00:21:26,035 --> 00:21:27,411
What'll it be Mr. Whipple?

319
00:21:27,495 --> 00:21:29,455
Beer, please.

320
00:21:42,134 --> 00:21:44,220
To other days, Mr. Hanley.

321
00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:47,056
And, uh, to other toasts.

322
00:21:47,139 --> 00:21:49,642
I'll drink to that, Mr. Whipple.

323
00:21:54,522 --> 00:21:56,232
How are you finding retirement?

324
00:21:56,315 --> 00:22:00,152
Oh, tolerable,
Mr. Whipple, tolerable.

325
00:22:00,236 --> 00:22:03,823
I manage to... I manage to keep
busy. Not as much as I'd like.

326
00:22:03,864 --> 00:22:09,537
My wife says I'm underfoot,
but, uh, I do all right.

327
00:22:09,620 --> 00:22:12,998
But you know, it's kind of nice
to sleep late in the mornings.

328
00:22:15,167 --> 00:22:18,921
It's important. Uh,
this retirement, I mean.

329
00:22:19,004 --> 00:22:20,923
Very important.

330
00:22:21,006 --> 00:22:25,386
A man should have time for
leisure when he grows older.

331
00:22:25,469 --> 00:22:28,889
It's important he
have time for leisure.

332
00:22:28,973 --> 00:22:33,018
That's so, Mr. Whipple.

333
00:22:33,102 --> 00:22:36,856
You know, when the, uh, when
the board of directors, uh,

334
00:22:36,939 --> 00:22:40,442
first indicated to me that they
thought I was uh, somewhat overtired,

335
00:22:40,526 --> 00:22:42,945
should relinquish some
of my responsibilities,

336
00:22:43,028 --> 00:22:46,365
well, if the truth were
known, Mr. Hanley, I, uh,

337
00:22:46,448 --> 00:22:52,204
I did feel some sort of antipathy
for them, but, uh, they were right.

338
00:22:52,246 --> 00:22:54,456
They were-they were
quite right, you know.

339
00:22:54,540 --> 00:22:58,377
But with the
perspective of time, I...

340
00:22:58,460 --> 00:23:01,422
I realized they'd
moved me out of there.

341
00:23:01,505 --> 00:23:03,883
I'm not-I'm not
married, you know,

342
00:23:03,966 --> 00:23:07,469
and, well, things
get a little dull.

343
00:23:07,553 --> 00:23:09,972
Well, no, not, not dull, really.

344
00:23:10,055 --> 00:23:12,641
I, uh, I manage
to keep myself busy,

345
00:23:12,725 --> 00:23:16,729
but there are times
when I wish th... when I...

346
00:23:19,064 --> 00:23:21,901
It's not right, hanley.
It's-it's not right.

347
00:23:21,942 --> 00:23:24,486
Cold, dispassionate,
impersonal, they...

348
00:23:24,570 --> 00:23:27,072
They Chuck a man out
right in his prime.

349
00:23:27,156 --> 00:23:31,243
Chuck him out like he was
some-some kind of a-of a part.

350
00:23:31,285 --> 00:23:33,746
Said I was neurotic
about things.

351
00:23:33,829 --> 00:23:36,582
Said that being alone with
the machines had warped me.

352
00:23:36,665 --> 00:23:39,668
That was the expression
they used. "Warped."

353
00:23:39,752 --> 00:23:42,421
It's not fair, hanley.
It's not fair.

354
00:23:42,504 --> 00:23:48,010
A man has value.
A man has worth.

355
00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:52,932
They just snap their fingers, and
they-they bring in a replacement.

356
00:23:52,973 --> 00:23:57,019
They just bring in a
replacement. It-it isn't fair, hanley.

357
00:23:57,102 --> 00:24:00,606
It-it isn't fair, the way
they-the way they diminish us.

358
00:24:00,648 --> 00:24:03,359
(Narrator) There are many
bromides applicable here.

359
00:24:03,442 --> 00:24:08,197
Too much of a good thing, tiger by
the tail, as you sow, so shall ye reap.

360
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:12,368
The point is that too often man
becomes clever instead of becoming wise,

361
00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:14,954
he becomes inventive,
but not thoughtful.

362
00:24:15,037 --> 00:24:17,623
And sometimes, as in
the case of Mr. Whipple,

363
00:24:17,665 --> 00:24:20,292
he can create himself
right out of existence.

364
00:24:20,334 --> 00:24:23,128
Tonight's tale of oddness
and obsolescence

365
00:24:23,212 --> 00:24:24,964
from the twilight zone.

366
00:24:28,425 --> 00:24:30,386
(Male presenter)
And now, Mr. Serl/ng.

367
00:24:30,469 --> 00:24:32,346
On the twilight zone next trip,

368
00:24:32,429 --> 00:24:35,391
we move into the area
of authentic folk singing.

369
00:24:35,474 --> 00:24:39,061
But this is folk singing like you've
probably never heard before.

370
00:24:39,144 --> 00:24:42,314
The words and the music in
this item are haunting indeed

371
00:24:42,356 --> 00:24:46,360
and this one provides one of the more
odd excursions into the places of shadow.

372
00:24:46,443 --> 00:24:48,195
Gary Crosby and Bonnie beecher

373
00:24:48,278 --> 00:24:50,823
star in a most unusual
tale by Anthony Wilson.

374
00:24:50,864 --> 00:24:53,283
It's called come wander with me.

375
00:24:55,285 --> 00:24:57,830
[Eerie music playing]