Intermission INTERMISSION: Light, not-much-is-happening-go-get-something-to- eat music plays As the countdown film begins. TEN MINUTES: The camera pans slowly around an aerial panorama of a city, Coming to rest on a movie house In the foreground. NINE MINUTES: The camera shifts, zooms in on a point on the horizon. There, in the distance, is a Monster. Coming closer. EIGHT MINUTES: Big enough to use flatcars as skateboards, The Monster advances through the city. The Army is powerless to stop it. SEVEN MINUTES: Step by step the Monster moves on As crowds flee in terror before it. The ground trembles with its tread. SIX MINUTES: Again the camera shows the theater, The last of the mob fleeing past. Then all is quiet until the Monster arrives. FIVE MINUTES: With one motion of the Monster's mighty claws The theater is unroofed. Sound effect: A tab-top being pulled. FOUR MINUTES: The monster looks down into the ruins, Reaches in, and lifts out The refreshment stand. THREE MINUTES: The popcorn machine vanishes down the Monster's cavernous maw, Followed by the Coke machine, several racks of candy bars, And a freezer labeled "Ice Cream". TWO MINUTES: Satisfied, the Monster pauses a moment, Wipes its mouth on a ripped-off store awning, And turns to leave. ONE MINUTE: The camera follows the Monster away through the city Until it finally vanishes Over the horizon. ZERO MINUTES: And the show goes on. Thomas G. Digby written 0200 hr 11/23/75 typed 0230 hr 11/25/75 entered 1705 hr 2/27/92