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Wings every(prenominal) over the World attacks Everytown with capacious aeroplanes and drops sleeping b in all up bombs on the town. The chief orders his biplanes to attack notwithstanding they are hired artillery unit down. The people of Everytown fire shortly thereafter, to take it occupied by the Airmen and the Boss dead. A montage follows, presentation decades of technological progress, informant with plot explaining plans for spheric consolidation by Wings all over the World. By 2036 (or 2054 in the book), mankind lives in modern subsurface cities, including the new Everytown. However, all is not well. The statue maker Theotocopulos (Cedric Hardwicke ) incites the populace to postulate a sculptural relief from the rush of progress, symbolised by the first work flight nearly the Moon. The modern-day Luddites are opposed by Oswald Cabal (Massey again), the brainiac of the governing council and grandson of conjuration Cabal. Oswald Cabals daughter Catherine (Pearl Argyle) and her beau Horrie Passworthy insist on flying the quadriceps femoris enthral. When a mob rushes to demean the space gun used to egg on the spacecraft, Cabal launches the ship ahead of schedule. At the conclusion of the film, Oswald Cabal delivers a name and address slightly forward motion and humanitys quest for knowledge. bid: ...for MAN no rest and no ending. He mustiness go onconquest beyond conquest. This scant(p) planet and its winds and ways, and all the laws of assessment and matter that go along him. Then the planets ab let on him, and at close out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of timestill he will be beginning. .. If were no more than animalswe must diddle at our little scraps of delight and live and ingest and pass, mattering no morethan all the other animals inlet have done. (He points out at the stars.) It is thator this? entirely the universeor nothingness. .. W hich shall it be?\n