Orson Welles' War of the Worlds: 1938 Vintage Radio Drama Rediscovered
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- Step back in time to experience the historic adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, as the radio broadcast by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air that shook the nation. This video combines the original audio from that fateful night on October 30, 1938, with visually compelling scenes depicting key moments of the story. Learn fascinating facts about this groundbreaking broadcast that fooled a nation into believing an alien invasion was underway. Explore the genius of Orson Welles, the power of storytelling, and the impact of the most infamous radio drama in history. Perfect for history buffs, radio enthusiasts, and fans of classic science fiction. If you enjoyed this journey, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more captivating content!
Orson Welles meets HG Wells: • From War of the Worlds...
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My Mom & Dad were dating at the time of that broadcast. They told me people were out in the streets going crazy. When she and my Dad got to her house, her Mom told her it was just a radio show. She heard it from the beginning.😅
Thank you for this beautiful share. I think it was announced at the beg, mid, end that it was just a radio show, but that message did not reach everyone. Welles admitted that he intentionally broadcast the show like a news broadcast as a kind of experiment to prove that "you can't believe everything you hear." Thank you again for your story and for listening.
Imagine CNN broadcasting the nuclear bombardment alert signal just for funsies.
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Nobody would believe them.
@@frankblack7801 - Oh, I think we’ve learned that a LOT of people will believe almost anything. That’s why any tv or radio show that can possibly be seen as real has a major warning throughout the broadcast.
I never heard this before but if I only had a radio and heard this I would be freaking out too...this is really good
Read the book. That's truly terrifying 😮
@@judikingsman6132 The original 1953 movie version, which I first saw on VHS, was the first to make a big impact on me.
Professor Person, the renowned astronomist sounds awfully like Orson Wells. Even an absolute imbecile wouldn't fall for this radio play as an invasion from Mars
@@mikebasil4832It's still the best version filmed to date.
Thank you so much. it was just like i was there. so well done. Ordom Welles was truly a phenomen.
i’m older now. i understand why he felt it was useless. and allowed himself to fade out. probably still wanting to live and start over to make the world a better place. he actually had to do a commercial for peas and he couldn’t do it the way he wanted. they kept telling him to emphasize this and do this way. he walked out angry as hell. very intelligent people get ged up and feel down. so much he wanted to do and couldn’t. my Dad felt betrayed, too.
“Getting old isn’t for sissies.” Bette Davis
Thank you very much for joining and for your thoughtful comment. He was a giant, way ahead of his time. I'm discovering more about him. What a gifted human being...and he and Rita Hayworth were married.
Still brilliant. Thank you
This story is certainly a most haunting example of how vulnerable many people might be to the media.
One of the reasons he simulated the news broadcast back then was to show listeners that they shouldn't believe everything they hear. This was when radio was new usurping printed newspaper. Thanks so much for listening!
@@YesterHear You’re welcome.
Ive had a recording of this for years. Listen to it every now and then.
Hopefully more will listen to this now you have uploaded it
Thank you for visiting. I'm starting to learn about Orson Welles only recently. He was so ahead of his time.
always enjoyable to listen to, is good
I appreciate your feedback. Thanks mucho!
My mother and her father sat in his car to listen to this live. She would have been about 12 at the time.
It speaks volumes to the talent of the actors and just how easy it is to get a group of people to believe what they hear. This must have been terrifying back then. I wonder if this could happen in today’s technology.
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Orson Welles revealed later that one of his reasons to simulate actual news broadcast as the production was to demonstrate that "you can't believe everything you hear," especially with the trend of this "new technology" called the radio that was usurping the printed newspaper. What a gifted storyteller. Thank you for listening!
I was told about the broadcast by my parents, uncles, etc., when I was young. It caused a considerable impact in my area. There's a book that's fairly easy to find, "Invasion from Mars- A Study in the Psychology of Panic" by Dr. Hadley Cantrell. It came out in 1940. A modern book, "Waging the War of the Worlds" by John Gosling is well worth finding from 2007.
I loved this!
Character actor Ray Collins, who died in 1965, is best remembered for his portrayal of LAPD Lieutenant Arthur Tragg on that classic TV courtroom drama series, "Perry Mason"!
This is awesome, thanks
Glad you like it! Thank you!
Orson did a great job portraying Richard Pierson.
I remember watching the original movie on a black and white TV in the 70's. I first heard this version on a radio station, Halloween night 1998. It was great then and still today. I liked it so much I found a cassette, ( remember those) of the entire unabridged story. H. G. Wells and Orson Wells were both masters in their fields.
Ah, cassette tapes. I used to have one queued in my boombox waiting for the right song to come on, so I can add to my mixtape. Good times. Thank you very much for joining!
Peoria Plague 1970 is an excellent radio broadcast that is similar to this story but the enemies are a strange kind of zombies .
Will have to look that up. Thank you for the suggestion and for listening!
Why do they refer to this as a hoax? It was a radio play and was announced as such. There was no deception and the fact that it is a fictional drama is too obvious. Some people are just dumb.
Thanks so much for tuning in. At the time, newspaper was the medium for the mass. Radio was new technology. Orson Welles took the opportunity to broadcast the production similar to actual news, in part to show "you can't believe everything you hear."
Most know about this yet have heard nobody ever speak of the false nuclear attack that as a little boy I'd believed & freaked out over as a little boy. This was late 70s or probably early 80s. They'd news broadcasting & everything
Check the movie Countdown to Looking Glass, it might be the movie you're referring to. It's available here on YT for free.
"The Day After," 1983.
The US is hit with nuclear strikes and this particular story centers on a small, rural Kansas town and their struggles in the Nuclear Winter that ensues.
My father was Commander of Palmyra Island, the last stop for the US bombers carrying loaded and armed atomic weapons that were going to be dropped onto Bikini and Christmas Islands (Palmyra, Bikini and Christmas were and still are just Pacific Atolls. The inhabitants of Christmas are currently coming back to reestablish their homes).
These were the last of the above-ground tests, as the world was getting antsy, regarding the fallout circulating the world, ie "On The Beach," book (author Neville Shute) and the subsequent movie.
My growing up years, until Dad retired from the USAF, was filled with the terror of Dad's job (also his tales as a fighter pilot and test pilot), and my school teachers constant chatter to all us school kids, regarding protocols for Duck-and-Cover and the very possibility of certain death.
I was 35, when The Day After was broadcast (the same time ?? the infamous Daisy Girl commercial came out). All schools and city councils, across the nation, were on high alert, materials were given out to all schools for after-broadcast discussion and Therapists were at the ready, everywhere, to try and deal with frightened people like me.
When the movie got to the part of the townspeople watching the ICBMs fly over, I became hysterical and called my mother (by then, my parents were divorced, after 30 years) and I was a basket case on the phone. She was so disgusted with me and told me to turn off the TV.
I did.
Mom had had to deal with me for years over my inability to deal with nuclear war and matters related to that very possibility.
To this day, I have not watched The Day After. Nor do I want to, even though I have come to terms with its possibility and very real inevitability, if we allow il duce minus45 (djt) back into the Oval Office... A little late--yes--but, at least, I could stop nightmaring about it all the time.
Shalom and GOD Bless you all.
--jana, sun antonio, tejas
April 26, 2024
Brilliant radio show, outstanding in the field of Martians booooooooooooooooo
I remember these old radio shows, they were just brilliant when radio was enjoyable to listen to.
Thank you for tuning in. Orson Welles was masterful in his productions and acting. Genius.
Or newspapers greatest...
Different times but still hard to believe people actually believed this was happening, looking at people today they would probably also believe it🙄
Thank you for tuning in! Radio was a new medium at the time, so it might have taken some adjusting from newspapers.
It wasn't a hoax, it was just a radio drama, no one meant it to be taken seriously. It was the listeners who caused the panic. They lacked the ability to think critically. Thank goodness that is no longer the case...😏
Thank you for tuning in! Realizing how new radio was vs print/newspaper, Orson Welles mentioned one of the many reasons for production was that he wanted to demonstrate "you can't believe everything you hear."
It wasn’t a hoax.
Thank you listening!
And today, the fine line has been washed away, Reagan made sure of that.
There's so much out there, it's challenging even for scholars to agree. Thank you so much for joining in.
Imagine CNN brosdcasting the nuclear bombardment alert signal just for funsies.
Yikes, how fast and the way information travel these days...that could be catastrophic. Thank you for listening!
Why must you interrupt this with ads? Despicable!
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Didn't mind the add keep the good work up
@@dockaos924 Thank you very much for your kind, encouraging words! Beaker....good times with the Professor and Kermie.
57:54 the squirrel. 🥲 it's sad--the only time we'll ever unite as a world is if Earth is attacked by aliens...from outer space.
It seems to be heading in that direction as we speak, hah.
He looked at me… I looked at him… man I felt that 😂
I also liked the 50th Anniversary production of WOTW starring Jason Robards as Pierson, along with Doug Edwards, Steve Allen, and others.