                          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
