What Happened to the WAR MACHINES from The War of the Worlds?
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I saw this movie in 53, I'm 84 years young.
Would love to hear the stories you have. 😁
Thank you for making me feel young, I’m only 66.
Thanks !! God bless you !!
That is so interesting! Can you tell us what your reaction to the movie was then...was it actually scary to you? Even now I still think it's creepy when the eyeball camera is creeping around .😂
I'm only 62 I feel like a kid!👨🔧@@raybod1775
I'm 68 and have watched this version many times in my life. Unlike me, it never gets old!
You're only as old as you feel :-) thanks for the support, Dan
I'm 63 & same.
The art of story telling has been lost in Hollywood. Modern movies assault the senses rather than engage the imagination. Old movies supported the story with visual effects, where modern movies are spectacular visual effects tied together by mediocre stories.
Ann Robinson is a cousin. She is one of few people still alive from the show. She is in her mid 90's. J. R.
That is amazing. I wonder if she is aware of how the film is viewed as such a classic today? I hope so…
I was 8 years old in 53 and beg and beg my mom to let me go see this movie. She refused because she said it would be to scary and cause me nightmares. But she tired of me constantly asking to see it and reluctantly took me to the Osage Theater in Bartlesville OK to see War of the Worlds. The scene where Barry and Robinson were in the partially damaged house and the Martian’s hand came reaching out towards them so terrified me I hid my face in my mother’s lap and plugged up both ears with my fingers. A woman behind us scream in horror and tossed her bag of popcorn in the air with some of it landing on my mother and me. Yeah, mom was right as I did have a couple of bad dreams the week following but all was good after that. Great movie and special effects were off the charts for that time of Hollywood movies.
Classic 🤣
Thank you for that wonderful story.
Than it worked.
The great British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke provided the opening narration, as well as a voiceover at the end. In the 2005 remake, Gene Barry and Ann Robinson had a cameo at the film’s end, playing the grandparents of the two children. As a longtime fan of the 1953 film, I thought their inclusion was wonderful. Barry died in 2009. Ann Robinson is still living at 94 years old.
War Of The Worlds and Time Machine are two of my all time fave movies. They were the staple of my childhood on any given Saturday.
Ditto from a 63 year older😜🤪👍
Ditto from a 35 year old! Had the VHS then upgraded to dvd
Would love a release in theaters today in the original format.
That would be great. WoW snd When Worlds Collide were actually rereleased to theatres after Star Wars. They would have been back in theatres around 1978. Most seem either not to know of this, or have forgotten it.
My memory of this film was me hiding behind a couch, scared witless. I was only around 5 years old, but. Still love it every time I see it.
one thing I like about the remake is that Gene Barry and Ann Robinson appear as the grandparents at the end, it's just a nice Easter Egg for fans of the original
I seriously never noticed that. Now I have to watch it again LOL thanks Dan
I didn't know that either! Thanks for sharing that.
Indeed they did.
Paul Frees also supplied the voice of the “talking rings” in George Pal’s “The Time Machine”.
George Frees supplied the voice for..
A whole lot of stuff. From Boris Badenov to the guy who narrates Charlton Heston's destruction of Earth in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", to voice over work in movies and those classic Rankin Bass features.
@@winternow2242 Yes, I realize…I researched him after seeing this video. I brought up “The Time Machine” because it was also a George Pal production.
I lived about 15 minutes from Grover Mills. That is the town the aliens showed up at on Orson Wells' radio play. They at that time welcomed the War of the World's with open arms. There was at that time a statue plaque for it. The Grover Mills coffee shop had Ann Robison at their grand opening. Even the lawn mower store put martian stickers on their mowers. Mills is near Princeton.
This is still one of my favorite sci-fi films growing up in the 70s
I grew up with the George Pal adaptation & it’s one of the reasons I got into film design. The whole look of the war machines is absolutely stunning.
When I graduated, I actually got to meet Ray Harryhausen; he was receiving an honorary doctorate at the same ceremony. We got to talk about his work & the impact it had on me.
I’ve always loved that Gene Barry & Ann Robinson have cameos in the Spielberg adaptation. They play the children’s grandparents who we see at the end of the film.
Great story! I almost went into filmmaking at Uni then transferred to Architecture. I’m now retired and still wonder if I made the right choice!
The ones that came down in Los Angeles were stripped bare of parts within an hour, and the ones in the Bay Area had their windows broken and the valuables inside stolen before they stopped sliding.
Haha!
And the aliens died of infections they got from all the poop on the streets in both cities.
The 1953 version The War of the Worlds is a classic. I love that movie.
I always found the Martian war machines to be among the most sleek and elegant looking "space craft" in all of scifi film.
So totally unique. Stands the test of time to this day :-)
If you look at the ground when the machines are moving out towards the camera, you can see little fires lighting up when the "invisible tripod legs" each take a step. It's incredible attention to detail, and I'm shocked you "experts" haven't caught that!
First time I saw this epic, those little fires had me riveted!
I knew them to be 'footprints'...
Just like when a 10KV power line touches the ground. Maybe those invisible legs are a power circuit between the machine and the ground....high voltage equals high magnetism to lift the machine.
My 15 year old son and I have seen this movie and we both loved it we finally just got to watch forbidden planet we’re on a mission to watch every classic sci-fi movie and monster movie
Forbidden Planet is awesome. I would highly recommend the Angry Red Planet and the time machine.
@@MoviesMusicMonsters we also also have seen angry red planet the day the earth stood still earth vs the flying saucer teenagers from outer space we also seen the Time Machine made in the 2000s my son loves lost in space ouuu
The Blob with Steve McQueen. That one still scares the hell out of me and I'm 70.
Also, add "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to your list.
My Father was a member of the Arizona National Guard at the time they made this movie. I know he told me about that time, but I was too young and dumb to realize how interesting it would be to me in the future. I know he drove a truck in one of the sequences, but I don't know if it ever made it to the final cut. I wish he were still around for me to ask him about it.
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One of my favorite old Science Fiction movies… When I was very young, and first saw the movie, the Martian war machines frightened me… There were street lamps on our street that resembled the energy weapon of the war machines that made me afraid to go out after dark, for about a week.. Still love seeing the movie when it gets replayed on tv… Thanks for this deep dive into War of the Worlds Dan! 👍🏻👍🏻
I first saw it in ny local video store when I was a youngling. I cheeky sat on the floor and watched it beginning to end. It is such a vibrantly beautiful telling of the classic story
I grew up with all of this. This "War of the Worlds" (in particular) and "Forbidden Planet" and then (later) "Star Trek" original, "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "Lost in Space" stoked my sci fi fever. Thank you so very much for filling in some of the gaps. Well done. Don't even get me started on "Land of the Giants" and so many more.... just start with "The Outer Limits" and "Twilight Zone" (Originals.)
I absolutely loved (and was terrified by) this movie when I was little. My parents and I had a standing deal that if WOTW came on television - school night, midnight, didn't matter - I had permission to stay up and watch it or my father would wake me up to watch it. Very special to me. And now as a grown man I really appreciate the audacity of the entire production and how genuinely shocking this must have been to audiences at the time. Things like the helplessness of Dr. Forrester trying to get equipment and supplies through streets filled with panicked people who drag him out of the truck and loot it - that was pretty heavy stuff to put in a 1953 film.
The heat ray sound is the sound the starter makes in an old Dodge pickup.
I went to the 25 Anniversary in Hollywood California and sat next to Ann Robertson and got her autograph. Gene Barry did not come, We heard he did not think it was going to be much of a celebration. I will never forget it. To this day its my favorite movie and I own it on DVD. Still have the commemorative buttons they gave out ❤ the Steven Spielberg version was not as good in my opinion. BTW my sister was an extra in the boat scene. She mentioned Spielberg suggested not to pay the extras because he thought it was a privilege for them to be in his movie. My sister was in the actors union so she got paid.
In early 2023, I was in a stage production of WotW, the movie adaptation, I played Van Buran's father, getting zapped at the end of Act 1.
Our sound effect woman had a long spring attached to two thin rods and put through a phase amp with echo, hitting the spring with a small hammer. It sound pretty close to the movie.
The audience didn't want to talk to the cast, they wanted to hit the spring with the hammer.
One of my favorite parts of this movie, was the use of the Northrop YB-49 stock test flight footage to have this aircraft drop the atomic bomb on the Martian hive outside of Los Angeles. I think we see an homage to that part of the movie in the 1996 film Independence Day, where a Northrop B-2 Spirit is deployed in much the same way.
I grew up in Toledo ohio and lived across the street from Textile leather, the had an aluminum clad siding and if you rapped your knuckles on it it sounded exactly like the USS ENTERPRISE'S photon torpedoes
Still one of my favorite scifi classics, excellent sound effects. The photon sounds was used in Star Trek.
The sound effect of the heat ray was a recording of a young Yoko Ono singing.
Well isn't the singing voice of yoko Ono dubbed from a cat stuck in a blender.
Well, you have me laughing now and I needed it. lol
Those War Of The Worlds flying machine scarred the crap out of me when I was 9... seeing the film for the first time. Every bit as scary as the saucers in Earth Vs The Flying Saucers. Now THERE'S a damn good movie, too!! As for Robinson Crusoe On Mars.... that is THE BEST damn adaptation of the classic EVER! Talk about bloody brilliant and then some! LOVED that film. And how about...
... yeah.
Enough.
I'm a Sci-Fi nerd. 😞
Paul Frees' most notable actor parts for me, besides the reporter and voiceover in War of the Worlds, was Boris Badenov in Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Santa Claus in Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer.
YES!
I remember watching this as a kid in the sixties, its still my favourite.
This movie was the first sci-fi movie I saw, and it set me for life. My all time favorite.
This movie played every Halloween when I was a kid. We would go trick or treating, then hurry back home to watch WOTW., and eat candy
Great memories :-)
I remember reading an article about the tripods a few years back, and they were going to use the light effect for the legs through the whole movie. The problem was the lights (I don't know what type they were) were so strong that they were a fire hazard. The sparkle effect is actually dust exploding in the light beam. It also set fire to the dust on the studio floor. So after the first few shots, they stopped using them.
Maybe that's what I remember reading in an article in the early 70s, rather than it being the weapon. If it is, they were using very high voltage electricity to create sparks.
I definitely remember reading the same explanation.
I saw that you can actually buy replicas of the 1953 War of the Word's war machines. They look just like the original ones. There were also other things from different old sci fi movies that you could buy. Too cool!
One of my favorite movies. Have the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray as well as a huge framed print of the movie poster. Thanks for the video.
You are so welcome :-) glad you enjoyed it, Dan
Still my number one movie of all time! At 60, I still get shivers watching the house scene! Thank you for your great insights and research!
The wet skin, interesting that one of the descriptions of the martians, famously spoken by Richard Burton for Jeff Wayne's musical version.
"Two luminous disc like eyes appeared above the rim, a huge bulk, larger than a bear, rose up slowly, glistening like wet leather, it's lipless mouth quivered and slathered and snake like tenticles writhed as clumsy body heaved and pulsated."
Hay were you peeking in my mother in laws window?
Still one of my all-time favorites! Right up there with Forbidden Planet! Can’t wait to see more of your great historical looks into the fantastic 50’s/60’s SiFi films. Thank you.
As a 45 year old... My first memory of this movie was it playing in the background of the movie Explorers.
One of the war machines was "revived" for an episode of the 1980's TV series. It was so thrilling to see one of them flying again in the 1980's setting.
Yes indeed it was :-) really cool. I'm going to look into that further.
@@MoviesMusicMonstersThey were remade out of fiberglass from the original molds. One of the 1988 models is currently in the collection of sci-fi/film historian Bob Burns. The commonly held story is that they made one with lights and movement for the series that was digitally duplicated, which is very obvious in some shots! A couple other copies have popped up over the years as well. Presumably cast from the same molds. Studio scale- about 4 feet long.
There was also an older “tripod” model from an episode that took place on a Native American reservation. That one has never surfaced.
I remember “Robinson Crusoe on Mars “and was completely blown away,the whole story line was fantastic,the orbiter,the escape pod,future Batman Adam West, the concept of aliens enslaving an entire population for mining (that in itself was intriguing,where did the aliens come from,why did they have slaves, why didn’t they arrive on earth and how did they travel through space)the aliens searching for and attempting to destroy a single escaped slave (who seem to resemble Native Americans) and the final rescue…
Yes! That was a great one 🤖👍
Converted to robotic flying vehicles. Blasting everything below them.
While not the tripods of the book or later movie, I absolutely loved the design of those ships, along with the awesome sound.
Great video on War of The Worlds, I saw this years later after seeing the remake with Tom Cruise and I gotta say that I was blown away by how amazing it was especially the alien war machines and the alien itself. It pains me to hear that they were melted down.
Yeah, a real shame. But that's just how things were in those days :-)
Boy, this movie really freightened me as a boy. I loved it...😊😊😊
One of the best, if not the best, alien invasion of Earth movies ever made! A true classic that has become timeless.
Voice actor Paul Frees had a small part in "War of the Worlds" as a news reporter. He was also seen as one of the scientists in the movie, "The Thing from another World". That voice was so unforgettable.
Yes, I remember seeing him. What a great voice for sci-fi!
Paul Frees Also made a great career as a voice actor in animations Golden Age
Paul was a major voice with Rankin Bass !
Forbidden Planet is fantastic!!
Forbidden Planet was one of the worst sci-fi flicks of all time. It was supposedly based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, which also stunk.
I first saw War of the Worlds at a theater in 1967. Pal's work remained my favorite. His Time Machine is superior in so many ways as well.
Two absolute classics 🤖👍
This version is much better than the Tom Cruise one! Low tech and all!
I was born in Boston on Aug. 27, 1953. One day I decided to look up the Boston Globe for the day I was born. Two movies were reviewed: “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, and - you guessed it - “War of the Worlds.”
As I tapped on your video I said I wish you would do the time machine! I will be looking forward to that.
It's on its way :-) probably next week. Thanks for the support, Dan
Saw this on tv when I was a kid and that crazy sound they made when they shot there lazer scared the crap out of me.
Haha me too :-)
In the 70's I read a magazine article about the sound effects on War of the Worlds. It said the heat ray was a recording of a Chrysler Starter Motor sped up and the green ray was a pipe wrench hitting a radio tower support wire. Now if I could only remember what magazine.
Fell in love with this movie in the 70's. I actually recorded the audio on cassette and would listen to it often with my eyes closed imagining the movie. Got it (and still have it) on DVD. Still have a Fangoria magazine showing how the movie was made. Thank you for this episode. Brings back great memories.
There's a Lux Radio Theater version from 1955 which adapts the 1953 film very faithfully. Stars Dana Andrews as Clayton Forrester, and Patricia Crowley as Sylvia.
It's very evident Sylvia has fallen hard for Clayton here.
This movie scared me when I watched it on television as a kid in the 1970s. Now, it’s one of my favorite movies.
I loved Robinson Caruso on Mars!!
me too!!!,,, second favorite after war of the worlds having the same prop connected the two movies....
That movie was amazing. Still holds today.
This is, by far and away, my favourite sci-fi movie of all time. It scared me so much when I saw it as a kid 😱
These machines were way ahead of their time.
Be interesting to see something on Robinson Crusoe on Mars.
Excellent job! Perhaps you can do ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS sometime ?
$2,000,000 in 1953 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $22,977,228.46 today, an increase of $20,977,228.46 over 71 years
I recall a TV series from 1988 that was a sequel to the 1953 film. Instead of dying off, the Martians went into a protective form of hibernation. The government packed the bodies in metal drums and locked them away in a warehouse for later dissection. Some of the aliens became resistant to Earth's germs, and could take human form. Each week a special team would investigate alien activity, then shut them down.
The alien probe used to terrify me as a kid. Even though I am Gen X , this is one of my favorite movies.
As a kid in the late eighties or early nineties I stumbled upon a way to perfectly recreate the heat ray sound effect.
I had a Tomy voice changer and by adjusting the frequency modification to the right setting and holding the mic near the speaker it would produce a distorted feedback that sounded exactly right.
Great movie - great vid on it.
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds added a great deal to the mystique of the story, too.
This is a great TH-cam site! 😎 BTW, Paul Frees was also the voice of Boris Badenov and Inspector Fenwick on Rocky and Bullwinkle, among about 10,000 other famous character voices! 🤣🤣🤣
Excellent stuff! Interesting fact, Paul Frees also played one of the arctic scientists in 1951s The Thing From Another World. I’d recognize that voice anywhere.
Paul Frees is one of the greatest voice actors, if not the greatest, of all time. Huge fan!
Paul Frees did so much voice work. He voiced Borris in Bullwinkle, a lot of Rankin-Bass roles, I dream of genie, etc. If you are a gen-x kid like me, you have almost certainly heard him many times!
Paul Frees as Dr. Voorhees in
The Thing from Another World.
The reason there were no major stars in the film was because George Pal wanted fresh unknown talent that would make the film more genuine, no famous actors with bigger personas than the other worldly experience he wanted people to feel from the film.
The sound of the martian death ray comes from the sound of a car engine ignition turning and was slightly sped up to a higher pitch.
That's interesting. I never heard that one. I'll have to look it up
One of my all time faves. Blew my mind as a kid & scoured the TV Guide every week in hopes of catching it (along with whatever other classics that might be offered) whenever it aired.
Recently discovered this channel & can't help but binge.
Really love your production sense. These videos are presented very professionally.
I've left this identical request in several of your other offerings, so I hope you don't regard it as spamming. Here we go again:
Please consider producing episodes of
The Invaders (Quinn/Martin 1967)
U.F.O. (Gerry & Sylvia Anderson 1970)
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What a great video, I loved this film as a kid and still do to this day!
I remember seeing the scene where the Martian machine rises and you faintly see the tripod energy beams below but if you watch closely as the machines move and attack the ground below them crackles and burns where the legs make contact so they didn't forget the idea that they are tripods and if I remember correctly this is really apparent in the scene where the machine "lands" outside the farmhouse so technically you do see the legs a few times through the film though most of the time they're invisible because they didn't add the beam effect 😊
Those special effects still stand up today. Incredible.
It's pretty impressive to say the least. I wrongly assumed that all 1950's era sci-fi movies were thickly cut cheese as far as the special effects were concerned, but I'm happy to stand corrected.
@@Klutech Yes, there are a number of great sci-fi films from the 50's; "Forbidden Planet" , "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "The Thing", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", etc.
This film features an excellent example of what an editor can do--
The military are poised and waiting. On the opposite side, the martians, waiting. The priest slowly traverses the no man’s land between them, reciting psalm 23. The tension builds, and then the martians mercilessly obliterate the priest, then Ann screams, then the General yells for the troops to open fire, and we are hit with a barrage of loud blasts, shots of destruction and chaos. At that moment, you knew that the aliens were evil, and that the humans had no chance.
Easily one of the best build ups and releases in movie history.
Excellent analysis :-)
Excellent movie.. I watched so many times as a kid. Thank you for all your trips down memory lane
Hey, you're so welcome. More to come :-) stay tuned :-) Dan
This one I actually knew but at least they were lost to a good cause. BTW, those Manta ray machines from the 1953 T-E-R-R-I-F-I-E-D me as a kid. Still creeps me out a bit...that's why I love it so.
My Dad, James Seay, was the pilot for the Flying Wing, and Dropped the H-Bomb on the War Ships....
It was a category X film in the Uk, adults only, I was circa 16 but snuck in because I was tall, having no one with me was a big mistake, it was the only film to genuinely scare me, it was so well made. That Martian eye searching the ruins did it for me, the sound as much as the visuals… ..I will never forget the scary experience…
Are you sure that ALL of them went to the scrap copper drive? I saw one of them at the Ackermansion in July of 1966, looked just like the ones in the film, the same size, and was mounted for display on three lucite legs.
I remember seeing a pic of Forry with the last machine prop back in the early 70s in Famous Monsters magazine; I might even have the copy stored away. From what Ackerman said, it was the last extant prop from the original movie, which made it special. When the Ackermansion burned down, it was lost forever.
Yes, sadly all of them were melted down.
Liked all the movies. My gramps heard it on the radio when it first happened. He said it freaked EVERYBODY OUT. people were flocking to church. His neighbor was outside with his shotgun. Cops riding around lights flashing sirens. Telling people to stay in their homes. Just the best practical joke EVER!!!
Remember they tried the same in mexico and the army was sent to investigate. And in ecuador people got so mad when they realized they had been pranked they burned down the radio station, with everyone still inside.
When I was like 10 to 14 or so I always stayed up on Friday nights for the double feature on channel 10 in Columbus, OH. I saw this movie several times on there, and it was one of my all time favorites. I bet it's been 50 years since I last saw it, but I remember it so well. I was also a big Sci Fi reader, and read all of Wells' books multiple times. Good times growing up 😊
This movie is still one of my top favorites. I never cared for any of the remakes.
Mine too. One of my earliest memories being 5 and watching it on VHS. Absolute classic.
Paul Frieze(sp?) his voice is on SO many things!
Paul Frees
@@starmnsixty1209 oh thanks
that death ray sounds like the 1960's Chrysler Corp gear reduction starter, the "Highland Park Hummingbird"
Haha I will definitely have to look that up :-)
Paul Freeze also voiced Boris of Boris and Natasha in Rocky and Bulwinkle. He made a move, the name I can't remember, about a master chef who practiced canabalism
Paul Frees as Dr. Voorhees in
The Thing from Another World.
yes, I can imagine a War of the Worlds directed by Alfred Hitchcock! what a cinematic masterpiece that would have been!
😲 that would be sooo iconic, I wish Hitchcock had some sci fi in his filmography
Completely agreed compared to what war the worlds could have been with him considering that he did the birds and the birds was just a masterpiece made out of basically nothing but a bird attack
Hello! Recently discovered this channel, and I am home recovering from hip replacement surgery and have been watching these videos! They are so good!
Thank you, Dan!
Hey there my friend, so glad these videos can bring you some enjoyment during your recovery :-) be safe and hope you recover fully soon :-) Dan
I love this movie so much that I included Martin war machines on my N-scale train layout. 😁
Love your videos sir!
I have loved this movie since i was a kid in the 70s (:
I agree about real models looking real for years as a kid i thought they build a real full size Eagle for Space 1999.
Fun fact the leading actor and actress were later in the War of the Worlds remake with Tom Cruise in the doorway with his movie pregnant ex wife.
For the love of science fiction, Paramount's 1953 film "WAR OF THE WORLDS" to me is the best superlative syfy film ever made. However, every "scrap and chit" I had collected was damaged or destroyed intentionally by somebody. Lobby photos, magazine articles, models of the "War Machines," even 8mm I had made to record proof of ownership. All gone, destroyed by people I know. There seems to be a twist of fate that wants to erase bits of history....from existence. Thanks for the post. It's extremely good. Love the film. It gave me nightmares for years at 11yrs old in the Lincoln Theater, Trenton, NJ. Even, the theater is gone now.
You can see a lot of the prop wires in the original Bewitched series, but that just adds to the fun of watching it again.
Fascinating thanks! Heartbreaking about the ships, OMG;-((
Hey thanks so much :-) I appreciate the support :-) more videos to come stay tuned, Dan
What a great movie! My sister and I first watched it on black and white TV in Australia sometime in the mid '60's and it scared the crap out of us! 🤣