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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.
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...
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 ...
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.
- Amy Irvine
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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Oct 28, 2013 · The panic inspired by Welles made War of the Worlds perhaps the most notorious event in American broadcast history. That’s the story you already know—it’s the narrative widely...
Listen to the legendary radio drama that caused a nationwide panic in 1938. Orson Welles narrates the invasion of Martians in War of the Worlds.
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- David Webb
