The Temple
As the Great War drags on, German U-boats prowl the North Atlantic, torpedoing military and civilian vessels alike. When a shipwrecked man is recovered at sea, he tells a strange and disturbing tale of his experience on a German submarine. Has the experience driven him mad, or did his voyage reveal unseen monstrosities at the bottom of the ocean?
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Track Listing
1. Opening 2:54
2. The Ship 13:14
3. The Mission 7:36
4. The Hunt 17:46
5. The Descent 21:56
6. The Temple 13:09
7. Closing 1:19
Total Runtime 77:57
Cast and Crew
Sean Branney...Altberg-Ehrenstein
Ken Clement...Lester Mayhew
Dan Conroy....Captain Pringle
Mike Dalager....Salinger, American Sailor, British Sailor
Matt Foyer....Padre Morgado, Talbot, Bohm
Dan Harper....Zimmer, Teddy Roosevelt
Daniel Kaemon....Schmidt, Reginald Fessenden
Andrew Leman...Alvarenga, Pitkins, William Beebe
John A. McKenna....Captain Waldron, Traube
Jesse Merlin....Klenze
Grinnell Morris....Boatswain, Withers
Kevin Stidham...Geoffrey Malins
Josh Thoemke...Announcer
Time Winters...Collet, Müeller
and featuring
Annie Abrams....Various Cetaceans
Felix Salinger....German Background Walla
Written by Sean Branney & Andrew Leman
Based on "The Temple" by H.P. Lovecraft
Original Music by Troy Sterling Nies
Paintings by Darrell Tutchton
Prop Inserts by Andrew Leman
Figurine by Jason Hendricks
Portuguese Language Consultant: Miguel de Sousa
German Language Consultant: Felix Salinger
Submarine Consultant: Michael Jabaley
Recorded, in part, at Horse Latitudes Studio by Marco Moir and Riley Wallace
Produced by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman
Script, Liner Notes & More
Geoffrey Malins (1886–1940) was an English photographer and filmmaker who produced motion pictures for the Gaumont Film Company. They sent him to Belgium at the beginning of WWI to shoot footage of the Belgian army in action. He was subsequently appointed by the British War Office as an official army cameraman with an honorary rank of Lieutenant. Along with his assistant John McDowell he produced footage that would become the internationally sensational film The Battle of the Somme. He wrote a book about his experiences as a pioneering war documentarian, and was knighted in 1918 for his valor.
After the war he made a number of feature films, and took part in two attempts to circumnavigate the globe, one by air and one by motorcycle. His flying attempt did not get any further from London than India, but along with partner Charles Oliver he did succeed in motorcycling around the world in 1926/27, and published the story of the adventure in the 1931 book Going Further. Below are Malins (in the saddle) and his companion on their motorcycle with its amphibious sidecar. Note the prominent name "Temple" on the side. Coincidence? Or allusion to his classified wartime experiences aboard the U-29?
William Beebe (1877–1962) was an extremely accomplished naturalist, explorer, adventurer and conservationist. After an early start as an ornithologist for the New York Zoological Society, he refocused his attention to marine biology, and along with inventor Otis Barton led the team that created the bathysphere in the 1930s. He wrote a number of books about his daring undersea adventures, including Half Mile Down, which tells the story of his record-setting dives off the coast of Bermuda.
He changed gears again to study tropical insects in Trinidad and Tobago. He is now regarded as one of the founders of the field of ecology, and as an innovative thinker about evolution.
Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932) was a Canadian-born inventor in the fields of radio and sonar, who developed the groundwork for AM radio broadcasting. He was the first to transmit a human voice by radio (in 1900!), and the first to achieve transatlantic two-way radiotelegraphy. He claimed to have been the first person to broadcast entertainment and music programming, although that claim has not been firmly established.
After obtaining a classical education, Fessenden went to work for Thomas Edison and learned quickly about electrical engineering, eventually being promoted repeatedly up the Edison ranks. Inspired by the work of Marconi, he began to experiment with radio in the 1880s, and invented his own improvements to Marconi's designs.
After the sinking of the Titanic, governments and shipping companies became very interested in developing devices to detect icebergs and other marine hazards, and Fessenden went to work for the Submarine Signal Company and developed his eponymous oscillator for that purpose (shown in the picture above). By the time WWI started, Fessenden had left radio work behind and volunteered his services to the Canadian government to develop technology to detect enemy artillery and submarines. He laid the foundation for what would become sonar technology during the second World War. He eventually acquired over 500 patents for his many inventions. He had a reputation for being a temperamental genius, and could apparently be quite a jerk.
For your enjoyment, we present free PDF downloads of the final recording script and liner notes of "The Temple". Note: this script is only for use for reading along with Dark Adventure Radio Theatre®; no publication or performance of the script may be made without written consent of the HPLHS.
