“The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles's realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth—is broadcast on the radio on October 30, 1938. Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells’s 19th-century science fiction novelTheWar of...
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Mercury Theatre on the Airand broadcast on the Columbia Broadcasting System on Sunday, October 30, 1938 from 8:00 to 9:00 P. M.* * *ANNOUNCER The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air in "The War of the Worlds"...
Reexamines Orson Welles' 1938 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast. Career background of Welles; Overview of the program format and how it was initiated; Response of the press on the broadcast.HeyerPaulEBSCO_AspCanadian Journal of Communication...
Orson Welles---the infamous "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast that inspired nationwide mass hysteria. I imagine the recording (mostly the guitar solo) to be full of sound clips from the broadcast, as well as the sounds of people screaming and rioting. I'm not sure if Orson Welles was...
Orson Welles’s legendary 1938 “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast wreaks hilarious havoc on this small New Jersey town.
Orson Welles was an American film, radio, and theatre actor, director, writer and producer most well-known for his 1938 'The War of the Worlds' radio broadcast that became legendary for causing widespread panic when listeners thought the world was being invaded by aliens. He was born George ...
Orson Welles was the actor and director behind The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, the Mercury Theatre stage productions, and the movies Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight and The Other Side of the Wind.
His War of the Worlds radio broadcast during the Mercury Theatre on the Air series became one of the most famous incidents of mass panic in history as many radio listeners believed Welles was reading a shocking news bulletin that featured alien invasions when really he was reciting theH.G. We...
Welles parlayed the public attention from "The War of the Worlds" broadcast of 1938 into a Hollywood contract that gave him his independence as a filmmaker, and resulted in his landmark debut filmCitizen Kane(1941). LikeCharlie Chaplin, Welles' skill as writer-producer-director-actor could be...