00:00The time is now 10.51. Nine minutes before countdown. Nine minutes.
00:10Nine minutes before countdown. Nine minutes while the world waits and wonders.
00:15Share if you dare the unbearable suspense of men and women who have never in their lives faced greater peril.
00:21The day the earth caught fire will burn itself into your memory. Is it fiction or is it fact?
00:28What's the nutation of the earth?
00:30Nutation? Well, it's a slight oscillation on the earth's axis caused by the pull of the sun and the moon.
00:36It's changed.
00:37You see, there's a slight bulge on the...
00:39There's also an item here about axis rotation. There's been an 11 degree variation, whatever that may mean.
00:44They've shifted the tilt of the earth. The stupid, crazy, irresponsible bunglers.
00:52They've finally done it.
00:55From the presses of Fleet Street, today's headlines blaze into tomorrow's history.
01:00And here are the people who report the most sensational story a newspaper has ever had to print.
01:05A story that might be the last it ever prints.
01:08These are the people caught in the most explosive threat ever to face the world.
01:13Jeannie, the girl on the government switchboard.
01:16And Stenning, one time ace reporter striving to make a comeback in life and love.
01:21You happen to walk in at the end of a black Monday.
01:24Well, what about a foggy Sunday?
01:26Oh, come on now, Pete. We're too old for scuffling.
01:28I'm not too old.
01:29Look, I said you could use the phone and that's all.
01:31Oh, come on now, Jeannie. What do you want? A slow build-up? Hot hands at the movies? Knee troubles in a coffee bath?
01:35This is McGuire, the science editor who unearths the deadly facts.
01:39What the hell kind of fog only comes up to the fourth floor?
01:41I'd know it's better not to come up here. This place is like the anti-roof to hell.
01:44It's really chaos at London Airport, Mr. McGuire.
01:46It usually is.
01:47Question is, how do we get home tonight?
01:49Yes, I know. Isn't it wonderful?
01:50Yeah.
01:55The countdown must have started by now.
01:57Drink up, then.
02:01Here's how.
02:02Twenty-two.
02:05Twenty-one.
02:06To the luck of the human race.
02:10The day the earth caught fire fearlessly tackles a ferocious subject.
02:14It will seize your imagination, stretch your nerves with suspense,
02:17more compelling than any you have known in a cinema before.
02:20Four.
02:22Three.
02:24Two.
02:26One.
