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May 6, 2015 · Orson Welles (arms raised) rehearses his radio depiction of H.G. Wells' classic, The War of the Worlds.The broadcast, which aired on October 30, 1938, and claimed that aliens from Mars had invaded ...
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- A. Brad Schwartz
- The War of The Worlds!
- Spreading Outrage
- Ready For The Show
- The Man
- Prepping For The Big Night
- Serious Consequences
- Proof of The Gag
- Ready to Fight
- Explaining The Situation
Orson Welles' Oct. 30, 1938 broadcast of "War of the Worlds," based on the English author H.G. Wells tale of a Martian invasion, startled many listeners who thought Martians were really attacking. Here are some photos relating to the historic broadcast. Here Welles, an American actor, director and producer, stands with British author H.G. Wells fol...
Part of the furor over Welles' radio broadcast was its apparent authenticity. To recreate "War of the Worlds"(originally a book set in England), Welles "interrupted" a music performance and used actors to stage news reports from an apparent Martian invasion in Grover's Mill, New Jersey. This surprised some listeners who missed the broadcast's openi...
The "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast was part of Welles' "Mercury Theater on the Air" program on CBS, which broadcast from Radio City in New York. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, the program was a relatively low-budget affair that had been running for 17 weeks. At the time of the broadcast, it didn't have a sponsor. In this image, Welles ...
Since the broadcast was scheduled for near Halloween, Welles was reportedly looking for something different with "War of the Worlds." After discussions with producers, he settled on a mock-news format, with exciting bulletins interrupting a dance music program. He used his genius to create a realistic enough production of H.G. Well's "The War of th...
Performing "War of the Worlds" wasn't a last-minute affair. The actors and crew worked on the program for weeks before launching their performance on Oct. 30. This image from Oct. 10, 1938, shows Orson Welles and the cast and crew rehearsing for the upcoming radio broadcast. NEXT: Serious Consequences
While thousands of radio listeners were surprised, or even frightened, by the "War of the Worlds" broadcast, others were angry. Case in point: Paul Morton, the city manager of Trenton, New Jersey. After the broadcast, Morton wrote to the Federal Communications Commission expression concern over the effects it generated on its listeners. NEXT: Proof...
On Halloween in 1938, this image of Grover's Mills, the biggest employer in Grover's Mill, was captured, proving the town indeed was not destroyed by alien invaders. The town still holds events today to commemorate the iconic radio broadcast by Welles' Mercury Theater team. NEXT: Ready to Fight?
In Grover's Mill, New Jersey, one William Dock, 76, stands at the ready, shotgun in hand, to defend himself and his town from any possible Martian invaders. Dock was one of reportedly thousands of people caught unaware of the fictional origins of Orson Welles' radio broadcast. NEXT: Explaining the Situation
Following the radio broadcast dramatizing H.G. Well's "The War of the Worlds," Orson Welles discussed with reporters the event (as seen in the image here). The show caused widespread panic and hysteria across New Jersey and the country, and went down in history as an icon of radio entertainment. Want to hear Welles' "War of the Worlds"? You can lis...
- Christine Lunsford
Oct 30, 2013 · From 'The War of the Worlds' broadcast: 'This is the end now.'. On the evening of Oct. 30, 1938, Orson Welles and his troupe went on the air to say that Martians had invaded New Jersey. Ever since ...
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In a study, published as The Invasion from Mars (1940), Princeton professor Hadley Cantril calculated around six million people heard "The War of the Worlds" broadcast.: 56 He estimated that 1.7 million listeners believed the broadcast was a news bulletin and, of those, 1.2 million people were frightened or disturbed.
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- John Houseman, Orson Welles
- October 30, 1938, 8 –, 9 pm ET
Feb 10, 2023 · In perhaps the most notorious event in American broadcast history, on 30 October 1938, 23-year-old Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air performed a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. They converted the novel into fake news bulletins describing a Martian invasion of New Jersey, which some listeners actually ...
- Amy Irvine
Oct 27, 2016 · Of the countless adaptations made of H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction classic The War of the Worlds over the ... hysteria" was the publication of a book in 1940 called The Invasion from Mars.
Jun 17, 2005 · June 17, 2005. • 7 min read. It was the day before Halloween, October 30, 1938. Henry Brylawski was on his way to pick up his girlfriend at her Adams Morgan apartment in Washington, D.C. As he ...
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