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Sep 6, 2005 · War of the Worlds: Music Inspired By by Hollywood Sound Orchestra, Orson Welles released in 2005. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards ...
May 6, 2015 · War of the Worlds formed a kind of crucible for Orson Welles, out of which the wunderkind of the New York stage exploded onto the national scene as a multimedia genius and trickster...
- The Broadcast
- The Ensuing National ‘Panic’
- Newspapers’ Role in The Panic
- Where Did The Idea Come from?
- Ways The Broadcast Seemed Convincing
- Press Conference
- Did Orson Welles Intend The Broadcast to Be So Realistic?
Relatively few Americans were listening to CBS and heard the announcement that Welles and his cast members were presenting an original dramatisation of the science fiction novel. Channel-surfing listeners stumbling across the programme without having heard the disclaimer at the start were therefore thrust into the drama, leaving some believing Amer...
Fear and anxiety were prevalent in the 1930s, following the impact of the Depression, the gathering crisis in Europe and the Hindenburg disaster, broadcast over the airwaves just one year before. Despite the programme stating that it was a dramatisation, thousands of anxious and confused listeners believed it to be real. Police departments, newspap...
During the Depression, radio had diverted advertising revenue from print, damaging the newspaper industry. Seeing a chance to strike back and discredit their growing rival source of news, the newspaper industry gleefully collected the sporadic reports of confusion, suicide attempts, heart attacks and exoduses from major metropolitan areas generated...
Welles’s CBS series Mercury Theatre on the Airwas low-budget without a sponsor. It broadcast fresh adaptations of literary classics, but for Halloween week in 1938, Welles came up with the idea of doing a radio broadcast where it would seem that a crisis was actually happening, “broadcast in such a dramatised form as to appear to be a real event ta...
Welles considered the rehearsals a disaster, believing the only way to save the show was to lengthen the fake news bulletins in its first act. Consequently, the station break in War of the Worlds would come about two-thirds of the way through. No-one picked up on the fact that listeners who tuned in late would have to wait nearly 40 minutes to hear...
Amongst threats of lawsuits, CBS hastily arranged a press conference the next morning, where Welles put on a display of remorse and shock at the public reaction. He repeatedly denied that he’d ever intended to deceive his audience, stating “I can’t imagine an invasion from Mars would find ready acceptance” and claimed that The War of the Worldshad ...
Instead of ending his career, War of the Worlds catapulted Welles to Hollywood, where he went on to make Citizen Kane. Given the benefits Welles gained, many found it hard to believe that he regretted the broadcast and his resulting celebrity. His response to questions over his intentions changed over time, from claims of innocence to playful hints...
- Amy Irvine
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." The source discs for the recording are unknown.
Oct 30, 2013 · The CBS program, penned by “Casablanca” screenwriter Howard Koch, opened serenely with the dulcet dance music of “Ramon Raquello and his orchestra.”. Then, an actor portraying an announcer ...
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Sep 15, 2020 · He later explained in his book, This is Orson Welles, that the approach used in the radio program was inspired by Ronald Knox's radio hoax, Broadcasting the Barricades, about a riot...
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...
