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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...
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"The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898) that was performed and broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938, over the CBS Radio Network.
Feb 10, 2023 · In perhaps the most notorious event in American broadcast history, on 30 October 1938, 23-year-old Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air performed a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds.
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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 ...
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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Jun 16, 2020 · A remastered Orson Welles Mercury Theater radio play "War of the Worlds" broadcast from 1938. I did a remastering, restoration in late 2018, but that was done from previously released copies of the broadcast. I was able to secure an unheard, cleaner copy from a private collector of old radio shows.
Dec 16, 2010 · 46K. 3.8M views 13 years ago. Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Radio Broadcast 1938 - Complete Broadcast. The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama...
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