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"The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898) that was performed and broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938, over the CBS Radio Network.
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...
Dec 16, 2010 · Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Radio Broadcast 1938 - Complete Broadcast. The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre...
Oct 29, 2009 · “The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles's hyper-realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth—is broadcast on the radio, causing panic among some.
On 30 October 85 years ago, the population of the US was – according to Orson Welles – overwhelmed by mass panic, terrified by the all-too-real broadcast of his alien-invasion drama The War of ...
Oct 30, 2013 · Take a look back at the Orson Welles radio drama “The War of the Worlds,” the most famous broadcast in radio history.
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.
On Halloween night of 1938, Orson Welles brought to the airwaves the now-classic H. G. Wells’s fantasy War of the Worlds (1898). Many tuned in late, missing the announcement that the program was fiction.
Oct 26, 2023 · The October 30, 1938 broadcast is available here on streaming audio, along with a transcript of the Howard Koch radio play and an account of the press conference following the CBS broadcast, as well as some of the letters to the FCC found in the National Archives.
Oct 31, 2023 · The New York Times' coverage of events after the 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds in America, with Orson Welles at the microphone.
