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The book, The Panic Broadcast, was first published in 1970. [63] The best-selling album was a sound recording of the broadcast titled Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, "released by arrangement with Manheim Fox Enterprises, Inc." [64] [65] The source discs for the recording are unknown. [66]
Local play remembers radio’s ‘War of the Worlds,’ a 1938 drama that incited alien panic. David Burke. ... The setting for the radio drama is the 10th anniversary of the original broadcast ...
The Night That Panicked America is an American made-for-television drama film that was originally broadcast on the ABC network on October 31, 1975. The telefilm dramatizes events surrounding Orson Welles' famous — and infamous – War of the Worlds radio broadcast (based on the 1898 novel of the same name by English author H. G. Wells) of October 30, 1938, which had led some Americans to ...
As this is a sustaining program and has no commercial interruptions, Welles centers the first two-thirds of the broadcast in the serious style of a series of news bulletins interrupting a live musical broadcast. This approach results in panic in various parts of the United States, although later research suggests its level has been exaggerated. [2]
On Oct. 30, 1938 — 86 years ago — the famous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast predicted modern America. The America of 2024. And that's no hoax.
As the Mercury's second theatre season began in 1938, Welles and John Houseman were unable to write the Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcasts on their own. For "Hell on Ice" (October 8, 1938), the 14th episode of the series, they hired Howard E. Koch , whose experience in having a play performed by the Federal Theatre Project in Chicago led him ...
The film centers on the panic created when The Mercury Theater on the Air presented a radio adaptation of an 1897 H. G. Wells science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds. In spite of many pre-broadcast promotions describing the play, and several statements during the program itself, the 1938 broadcast, which featured simulated news reports ...
The year 1938 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Larry Niven Orson Welles tells reporters that no one connected with the broadcast had any idea that it would cause panic (October 31, 1938).