A scene from The Iron Giant 1999
Narrator on Film

[The scene changes to a classroom where Hogarth is drawing the giant robot he saw earlier as the whole class watches an educational film.]

A peaceful, stay-at-home kind of day in a town very much like your own. But then suddenly without warning. [The bomb exploded] Atomic holocaust! But how does one survive an atomic attack?

Classroom Boy #1

[To another boy]

Hey did you hear about crazy Mr. Stutz? He says his boat ran into a sea monster.

Classroom Boy #2

I heard it was sunk by a meteor.

Classroom Boy #3

[Shaking his head]

No, no, no. It was a metal meteor. It ate his boat. My dad says--

Hogarth Hughes

[Interrupting]

it wasn't any of those things.

Classroom Boy #2

[Annoyed]

What would you know about it Poindexter?

Mrs. Tensedge

[Sternly]

Hogarth! [Shushing] Don't make me come over there.

Chorus on Film

[Singing]

Hands over your head, Keep low to the ground, Time to duck in cover, The bombs are coming down. [The bomb exploded] Duck and cover.

Hogarth Hughes

[Whispering to his classmates]

It's about 50 or 60 feet high and it only eats metal.

Classroom Boy #1

[Annoyed, whispering]

Shut up, you little spaz!

Classroom Boy #3

It's probably been sent by foreigners to take over the country.

Classroom Boy #2

Yeah, we should bomb it to smithereens before it does.

Chorus on film

"Cause all the kids who don't, Will cease to be around.
[Hogarth draws a giant robot eating metal.]

In this scene

T Mrs. Tensedge Cloris Leachman

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