The Fall of the House of Usher

00:00:08 Central Film Distribution presents

00:00:50 During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year

00:01:25 in the contemplation of the House of Usher?

00:01:56 The writer spoke of acute bodily illness

00:02:32 an eye large and luminous

00:03:08 which, in the form of his family mansión

00:03:40 While he spoke, the lady Madeline, for so was she called, passed slowly

00:04:18 In the monarch Thought s dominion It stood there!

00:04:52 In state his glory well befitting The ruler of the realm was seen

00:05:33 I remember that this ballad led us into a train of thought

00:06:05 in the long undisturbed endurance of this arrangement

00:07:39 and an observable change came over the features of the mental disorder of my friend.

00:08:11 as if listening to some imaginary sound.

00:08:46 He carefully shaded his lamp, hurried to one of the casements

00:09:38 broceeds to make good a men trance by force

00:10:16 because it appeared to me

00:10:44 'As the good champion Ethelred entered the door

00:11:18 the like whereof was never before heard.'

00:11:46 I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid

00:12:17 yet I knew that he was not asleep from the wide and rigid opening of the eye.

00:12:54 which in sooth tarried not for his full coming

00:13:27 As I placed my hand upon his shoulder, his whole person shuddered

00:13:57 yet I dared not...

00:14:38 then with a low, moaning cry fell heavily inward