We have supersonic jet and rocket flight now, and use ultrasound heat in physical therapy, and use other ultrasound frequencies for breaking up kidney stones. The inventor in this episode was essentially right: sounds that we can't hear are possible and can be useful. And we know that whales and elephants communicate somehow with very low frequencies; so it's conceivable that certain frequencies outside our threshold of conscious hearing could communicate something.But anything unseen or untraceable that doesn't just communicate, but also conveys power to an individual or entity--now you're talking about something dangerous. The scientists who eventually developed the atomic bomb never originally imagined creating something that could cause horrific devastation, human suffering, and long-lasting radioactive pollution. I don't think we can really blame this violin-maker for tinkering with sound in a way that had unforeseen results. It was just a horn, a special horn that he was working with. Maybe someday, physicists will destroy the universe as we know it by tinkering with unseen particles in a Hadron collider. You can't really blame people for wanting to know how things work, or asking "what if...?"This series is very crude, but sometimes it makes you think. And the episodes are short, and not too gory or scary, so they're OK to watch at bedtime. Gives your unconscious/subconscious something to do besides think about your routine in the morning.

Obviously the writing, directing, and acting in most of these shows was pretty bad more often than not. Despite this, many of the scripts would be re-written and turn out much better when re-done by The Twilight Zone and The Outter Limits programs a few years later. This particular episode--The Horn-- had an interesting concept in that sound waves can affect the emotions of individuals. In real life this has proven to be true in limited ways. Sub-sonic waves (below the threshhold of normal hearing) for instance are well-known to cause fear and uneasiness in people. They were used during WWII in a few occurrences. A more entertaining use found it's way into old movie houses during the 1950s. Speakers capable of producing these very low frequencies (too low to hear but still producing the effect of fear) were often used during horror movies to make the audiences more frightened. Of course, since they required special speakers, it wasn't an effect that could be produced on TV broadcasts.

I was waiting for them to ignore the moral implications of mind control, especially after they mentioned controlling the moral of troops. Glad to see, even in the 50s, someone involved with the show (or the writer himself) had a moral compass and included this caution near the end. http://www.superhappyfuntimestore.com for art, folding fans and unique gift items.

Not terrible, but the script is just weak...any story that flat out ignores the FIRST idea people would have about something is just ridiculous.A guy shows you an object than can control people's thoughts or emotions. The very first thing you with think is
1) Who can I seduce/control
2) What happens when someone uses this against me?It doesn't take 2 months or even 2 minutes to think that through, so we have a 5 min story stretched out to 20 minutes, and that's just weak.

Stephen Elliot, (Lippet) played in the (1981 movie) Arthur staring Dudley Moore. He played the bullying millionaire (would-be father in law) of 'Susan'.This is such a creative little episode. As the acting is the soul focus, because no special effects were available, being that the budget was only suitable for radio.
For Tales Of Tomorrow began as a Radio Show back in 1953 with shows like Dimension X. And it was always excellent acting; especially when listening to ‘When Radio Was’ with Stan Freberg.