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martian.html Forrester and others founded the War of the Worlds (WOW) Commemorative Committee in 1986 to prepare a fitting celebration for the fiftieth anniversary of that famous broadcast. The bronze monument, which was sculpted by Jay Warren, depicts a skyscraper-high Martian war machine in the upper right corner; in the left center, a brilliant, twenty-three year-old Orson Welles stands in front of a microphone, and in the lower two-thirds, a fairly typical family listens to the broadcast on the radio. Most people forget that Martian war machines did, in fact, invade our living rooms on October 30th, 1938, through the popular medium of radio, and a young Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre players were responsible. www.towson.edu /~flynn/martian.html

War of the Worlds, The (1953) While The War of the Worlds, an updated adaptation of H.G. Wells’ 19th-century novel of the same name, has its share of deficiencies, it still remains the cornerstone of 1950s alien invasion/science-fiction films, primarily due to the top-notch, imaginative special effects and its pessimistic vision of an Earth invaded by a technologically superior alien force. The War of the Worlds then segues into a heavy-handed message about the need to rely on (and hope for) divine intervention (complete with church bells and choral voices) and a literal deus ex machina ending outside a Christian church. The War of the Worlds opens in similar fashion to Invaders From Mars and the other 1953 alien invasion film, It Came From Outer Space, with a meteor-like object falling from the skies and landing in a more or less isolated here. encyclopedia.merendi.com /reviews/qLiLkuTHtdvDcLVy

War of the Worlds: How Orson Welles Drew the Nation into a Shared IIlusion The performance that evening was an adaptation of the science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, about a Martian invasion of the earth. One might say that War of the Worlds and the game show scandal foreshadowed the age of simulation that was still to come. People packed the roads, hid in cellars, loaded guns, even wrapped their heads in wet towels as protection from Martian poison gas, in an attempt to defend themselves against aliens, oblivious to the fact that they were acting out the role of the panic-stricken public that actually belonged in a radio play. www.transparencynow.com /welles.htm   (1228 words)

War of the Worlds: The Computer Games Ambrosia Software, Inc. which transforms the game into a War of the Worlds game with Martian War Machines to battle, featuring music from the 1953 movie "The War of the Worlds". War of the Worlds and related imagery are Copyright by Paramount. Rage Software (UK) released a strategy game based on Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. www.war-of-the-worlds.org /Games/Computers.shtml   (1228 words)

War Of The Worlds: The Night That Panicked America This is a truly amazing drama, recounting (with an acceptable degree of artistic license), the behind the scenes making of The War Of The Worlds broadcast and the panic that ensues. Also featured is the legendary (though surely apocryphal) assault by residents of Grover's Mill on a water tower, in the mistaken belief that it was a Martian war machine. This time he throws a dart at a map in the studio office, but the flavor is certainly authentic. www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk /night.htm   (876 words)

The Flick Filosopher War of the Worlds He takes off with his kids -- teenager Robbie (Justin Chatwin: SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Taking Lives) and preteen Rachel (Dakota Fanning: Hide and Seek, Man on Fire) -- after the Martian tripods start turning up and heat- The Martian heat ray pulverizes its victims, just boils them away to gray ash, which Ray gets covered with as he's running from the scene (he went to see what was going on, because that's what people do: they gotta see). It cemented me to my seat and made me shake with horror: this is all about how we don't want to see these kinds of nightmares and yet cannot look away from them. www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2005/warofworlds.shtml   (703 words)

Wikipedia: The War of the Worlds Martian Mania: The True Story of "The War of the Worlds", (1998) Since then, The War of the Worlds has entered popular culture, with a vast number of books, films, TV series and comic books using themes from this book, whether acknowledged or not. The War of the Worlds Invasion - 1938 radio broadcast and more Web Site www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/t/th/the_war_of_the_worlds.html   (703 words)

War of the Worlds: How Orson Welles Drew the Nation into a Shared IIlusion The performance that evening was an adaptation of the science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, about a Martian invasion of the earth. War of the Worlds: How Orson Welles Drew the Nation into a Shared IIlusion One might say that War of the Worlds and the game show scandal foreshadowed the age of simulation that was still to come. www.transparencynow.com /welles.htm   (703 words)

Study Guide for H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds Wells' treatment of it as an old and nearly-exhausted world was commonplace at the time he was writing, and his adoption of this view influenced much later Martian fiction. Most of these were written in a semi-documentary fashion; and Wells borrowed their technique to tie his interplanetary war tale to specific places in England familiar to his readers. It was his tragedy that his most successful predictions were of destructive technologies, and that he lived to experience the opening of the atomic age in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/science_fiction/warofworlds.html   (2447 words)

GRW SCRIPT: Mercury Theatre We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian. In view of the gravity of the situation, and believing that radio has a responsibility to serve in the public interest at all times, we are turning over our facilities to the state militia at Trenton. www.genericradio.com /show.php?id=3e128b5a5d82a7fc   (6260 words)

MSJ-Jeff Wayne-War of the Worlds Musically, this is a pop song with progish influences, and is ended by the Martian howl and other side effects. The piece is essentially a conversation between the narrator (a journalist) and artillery-man. We find that the Martians have built a fighting machine and fought their way through the gathered resistance. A sign of the times in which it was recorded, disco influences appear at various points in the album. www.musicstreetjournal.com /wayne.html   (873 words)

Eve Of The War The monthly comic and eventual graphic novel, titled Jeff Wayne's The War Of The Worlds, will be based on the memorable artwork and storyline in Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of The Worlds, adapted from the novel by HG Wells. Striker 3D lands War of the Worlds Comics Deal First comic to be launched with release of Spielberg movie in 2005. Striker 3D, run by the Striker strip creator Pete Nash, acquired the rights from New York-born composer Jeff Wayne, now living in Hertfordshire, who released the legendary War of the Worlds musical album in 1978 and which has hardly been out of the charts since. www.calibra.eclipse.co.uk /eve/comic.htm   (1071 words)

The War of the Worlds (radio) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The War of the Worlds, which famously frightened many in the audience into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. Many people missed or ignored the opening credits of the program, and in the atmosphere of growing tension and anxiety in the days leading up to World War II, took it to be an actual news broadcast. Approximately two thirds of the 50-minute play was a contemporary retelling of the events of the novel, presented as a series of news bulletins in documentary style. www.mssv.net /realityart/wikiwotw.html   (1613 words)

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 1998 computer game based on The War of the Worlds (the original book) not only featured remixed music from the album and Martian war machines based on the illustrations throughout the album booklet, but was actually called Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds was a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne and others, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H. The War of the Worlds starred Richard Burton as the narrator-protagonist, Justin Hayward (of The Moody Blues), and David Essex. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(musical)   (604 words)

Strategy Gaming Online - Reviews : War of the Worlds For those who haven’t heard of it (yeah, right), The War of the Worlds is a classic science fiction novel written by H.G. Wells. The war map is a map of Britain, and is divided up into regions or sectors. Though the plot has obviously been tampered with somewhat (in the original the humans don’t put up much of a fight) the atmosphere is all there, from the original Martian fighting machines, to a remixed version of the musical soundtrack, to an intro closely matching the storyline of the musical. www.strategy-gaming.com /reviews/war_of_the_worlds/index.shtml   (1211 words)

Guardian Unlimited Special reports Spielberg and Cruise plan new War of Worlds The night in 1938 when Orson Welles broadcast a radio version of The War of the Worlds that fooled a nervous population into believing the Martians really had landed. In 1953, a film version was made starring Gene Barry and Les Tremayne which used Wells's tale of the invasion of earth by Martian war machines to exploit contemporary anxieties about the cold war and the Soviet threat. While HG Wells was an enthusiastic supporter of many of the film adaptations of his work, the likely attitude that Orson Welles might have had to another director taking one of the works with which he became most closely associated, can only be a matter of conjecture. www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,1171975,00.html   (1211 words)

Fringe: War of the Worlds War of the Worlds is unlikely to scare people out of the water (or theatres) like Jaws did (though Tom Cruise's latest publicity antics might), but it's sure to attract crowds, and for the simple fact that it offers us a chance to be voyeurs to an apocalypse of sorts. Or so it would seem, if the first thirty minutes of War of the Worlds is any indication. Thus begins an incredible journey of sorts, with Ray, Robbie, and Rachel dodging martians and men, doing their best to stay alive whilst enduring the family drama that accompanies teenage sons and creepy Dakota Fanning daughters. www.fringeblog.com /archives/2005/06/29/war_of_the_worlds   (1042 words)

Star Seeker Movies: "War of the Worlds" (2005) The following year came "War of the Worlds," a story of a Martian invasion of Earth made even more famous by Orson Welles' authentic sounding Mercury Theater radio broadcast which created a panic in the United States in 1938. The War of the Worlds, the science fiction classic by H.G. Wells, has been the definitive alien invasion story ever since it was written in 1898. I knew immediately we couldn't do War of the Worlds as conceived." If the film does go forward, the setting will probably be changed back to Victorian England rather than being set in modern day Seattle. starseeker.com /films/warworld.htm   (1042 words)

The War of the Worlds In more recent years, The War of the Worlds was transformed into television and comic book series. In the early '50s, George Pal's movie version of The War of the Worlds updated it to that time and moved it to America, but kept the essential story of the human race helpless before a seemingly invincible foe. I had already built a model of a Martian warmachine as it is depicted in the Classics Illustrated comic book when a rock-opera version of the story gave me the idea for a more ambitious model project. myspace1889.topcities.com /models/war-wotw.html   (1042 words)

War Of The Worlds: The Radio Broadcast Similarly, the cult movie Buckaroo Banzai posits that the broadcast was cover for a real invasion, a theme also taken up in the War Of The Worlds television series episode "Eye For An Eye", in which a group of old timers from Grover's Mill reminisce about fighting off the vanguard of the Martian invasion. With so many channels of up to the minute news available, from cable, radio and the now the Internet, how could anyone make such a mistake, but then many people heard only a few minutes of the War Of The Worlds broadcast, or indeed not at all, and blind panic then took over. In 1938, did the American public panic when they tuned into a radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds, and just how guilty was Orson Welles of staging the play with that very intent in mind? www.btinternet.com /~jd.gosling/wotw/radio.htm   (1042 words)

The War of the Worlds CED Web Page Like the Martians in the movie, Hollywood seems to have a habit of doing things in threes, so War of the Worlds (Paramount) was followed by two more special effect extravaganzas, This Island Earth (Universal) in 1955, and Forbidden Planet (MGM) in 1956. The makers of "The War of the Worlds" took advantage of the press color TV was getting in the early 1950's by incorporating the technology into the plot of the movie. "The War of the Worlds" is also the earliest color science fiction movie released on CED. www.cedmagic.com /featured/war-worlds/war-of-the-worlds.html   (1042 words)

War of the Worlds Martian Panic Sixty Years Later (Skeptical Inquirer November 1998) War of the Worlds Martian Panic Sixty Years Later (Skeptical Inquirer November 1998) On the night of February 12, 1949, another radio play based on The War of the Worlds resulted in pandemonium in Quito, Ecuador, with tens of thousands of panic-stricken residents running into the streets to escape Martian gas raids. While it may be true that you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, as the "War of the Worlds" panics and other mass scares attest to, you need only fool a relatively small portion of people for a short period to create large-scale disruptions to society. www.csicop.org /si/9811/martian.html   (1042 words)

War Of The Worlds: The Movie The War Of The Worlds is one of those films that genuinely deserves to be called a classic, but it had a long and difficult journey to the screen. War Of The Worlds: The Movie ( George Pal 1953). Of course most of the original novel is jettisoned for one reason or another, be it the prohibitive cost of setting the movie in England (it was naturally moved to California) or the insistence of studio executives that the hero of the movie had to fall in love with a readably available starlet. www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk /war%20of%20the%20worlds%20george%20pal%201953.htm   (1042 words)

Buy War Of The Worlds (PC CDROM) - TSS cd cdrom game and PC software, bargain software, budget software, discount software with the best prices! 22,000 titles available! In Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds, you initiate the conflicts! Escaping from their dying red planet, Martian forces unleash a sinister attack on the United Kingdom convinced that with the fall of the mighty empire, Earth and the blood of her inhabitants will be theirs for the taking! Control the technologically advanced Martians or the more numerous humans - either way, strategy is paramount www.rochnet.net /acatalog/WarOfTheWorlds.htm   (1042 words)

Strategy Gaming Online - Reviews : War of the Worlds Overall War of the Worlds is a decent game that could have been better. Though the plot has obviously been tampered with somewhat (in the original the humans don’t put up much of a fight) the atmosphere is all there, from the original Martian fighting machines, to a remixed version of the musical soundtrack, to an intro closely matching the storyline of the musical. The nature of the turn based section and the time taken the construct units (measured in days) is of course prohibitive to a multiplayer game, but a different set of rules, sacrificing some of the game’s realism for practicality, could have been incorporated fairly easily. www.strategy-gaming.com /reviews/war_of_the_worlds/index.shtml   (1042 words)

War of the Worlds review on GameBlitz - Game Search Engine GT Interactive's The War of the Worlds is based on Jeff Wayne's 1978 musical version of H.G. Wells' century-old novel on a Martian invasion of Earth. Some players have completed War of the Worlds without hassles, others have hit a brick wall after hours of switching in and out of battle mode without problems. But it doesn't seem to matter because the struggle between these two traditional sci-fi rivals is well-balanced and the game can develop into an absorbing series of attacks and counter-attacks, with attacks at any time of the day or night and some territories changing hands regularly. www.gameblitz.com /worlds.htm   (1042 words)

War of the Worlds: The Computer Games Ambrosia Software, Inc. which transforms the game into a War of the Worlds game with Martian War Machines to battle, featuring music from the 1953 movie "The War of the Worlds". War of the Worlds and related imagery are Copyright by Paramount. Rage Software (UK) released a strategy game based on Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. www.war-of-the-worlds.org /Games/Computers.shtml   (202 words)

Action! Classics: The War of the Worlds System and d20 System stats for the major characters, the Martians and Martian equipment, allowing you to incorporate The War of the Worlds into your adventure roleplaying game using the Action! Classics: War of the Worlds book, by authors H.G. Wells and Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed., is based on the original science-fiction classic novel by H.G. Wells. Read what others are saying about The War of the Worlds... www.goldrushgames.com /wotw.html   (570 words)

War of the Worlds Online - Your Source for the Martian Invasion since 2002 War of the Worlds martians, HG Wells, Orson Welles, Jeff Wayne musical version, Jeff Wayne CGI movie 2007 2005. War of the Worlds Online - Your Source for the Martian Invasion since 2002 Remastered War of the Worlds, Richard Burton, Justin Hayward, War of the Worlds www.waroftheworldsonline.com Rob Kinder Message Boards, Fan community War of the Worlds www.waroftheworldsonline.com   (91 words)

Martian Tripod New Set WoW-1 Martian Tripod from the War of the Worlds. This version of the tripod stands 9.2 inches tall and is 6 inches across the base, and is a scale 55 feet tall. Since the legs are formed from nesting aluminum tubing you can adjust the length of the legs as you desire. www.tin-soldier.com /tripod.htm   (96 words)

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