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	The War of the Worlds (radio) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This approach to radio drama had never been done before (at least not with as much continued verisimilitude), and the innovative format has been cited as a key factor in the confusion that would follow.
		Because of the panic in the 1930s and 1940s associated with this radio play, U.S. TV networks have deemed it necessary to post bulletins to their viewing audience to inform them some TV stories were in fact fictional drama, and not really happening.
		The War of the Worlds Murder[5] by Max Allan Collins was published by Berkley in 2005, blending fact and fiction for an exciting tale where Orson Welles is accused of murder and teams with The Shadow writer Walter Gibson to clear his name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio) (2970 words)

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		Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds, which famously frightened many in the audience into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress.
		In the atmosphere of growing tension and anxiety in the days leading up to World War II, many people missed or ignored the opening credits of the programme, and took it to be an actual news broadcast.
		Because of the panic caused in the 1930s and 1940s by this radio play, TV networks have deemed it necessary to post bulletins to their viewing audience to inform them some TV stories were in fact fictional drama, and not really happening.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/war_of_the_worlds__radio_.html (571 words)

	The War of the Worlds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel written by H.
		The War of the Worlds (1953 film), a 1953 movie produced by George Pál.
		War of the Worlds: New Millennium, a 2005 novel by Douglas Niles
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds (463 words)

	War of the Worlds, radio play
		For several months, the CBS radio network had been staging plays by Orson Welles, John Houseman, and their Mercury Theater on the Air.
		The similarity in tone with that of the commentary on the Hindenburg airship disaster, a year earlier, was striking – and entirely uncoincidental: Welles and his company had thoroughly studied the unforgettable recording of that event.
		Nine years after the Halloween scare, the Martians would be back – with a vengeance (see saucer flap, of 1947).
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/W/WarofWorldsradio.html (834 words)

	War of the Worlds: How Orson Welles Drew the Nation into a Shared IIlusion
		But in adapting the book for a radio play, Welles made an important change: under his direction the play was written and performed so it would sound like a news broadcast about an invasion from Mars, a technique that, presumably, was intended to heighten the dramatic effect.
		Audiences around the world discovered that they were taken in by the ultimate Hollywood illusion in which two performers faked their own talent, lip-syncing, to create the impression they were singing.
		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 (1228 words)

	The War Of The Worlds
		The premise was tested for credibility with the CBS presentation of The War Of The Worlds by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on October 30, 1938.
		War Of The Worlds, was broadcast by Mercury Theater on the Air, from a microphone in a New York studio of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
		The public believed the War Of The Worlds was real thus setting the stage for the implementation of an alien threat scenario...
	www.hourofthetime.com /warofthe.htm (1124 words)

	War of the Worlds
		The Steven Spielberg movie War of the Worlds will have had its wide public opening on June 29, at which time Mercury and Venus will be in such close conjunction that they will appear to the naked eye as one light in the sky.
		War of the Worlds is an H.G. Wells novel which was adapted as a radio play in 1938, a movie in 1953, and is now being redone once again.
		The original War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which spooked the nation on the night before Halloween, 1938, took place while dark, probing, and unnerving Pluto was at 1° of Leo—the same degree of the present-day Mercury-Venus alignment.
	www.astrofuturetrends.com /id22.html (335 words)

	War Of The Worlds: The Radio Broadcast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Incredibly, the cause of this mayhem was a dramatic presentation of The War Of The Worlds, a seminal novel written 40 years previously by H. Wells.
		The big radio networks such as NBC and CBS were only a decade old and engaged in a frenzy of experimentation, filling the airwaves with vast amounts of original material such as comedies, dramas, soaps and a fresh brand of journalism that opened the US public to a new awareness of world conflict and politics.
		Taking the radio down into the tavern below which his mother owned, he and a dozen or so patrons listened with mounting fear to the broadcast, until the men jumped up and announced they were going to get their guns and join in the defence at Grover's Mill.
	www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk /radio.htm (2071 words)

	The War of the Worlds (1953) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Second World War involved every continent on the globe, and men turned to science for new devices of warfare, which reached an unparalleled peak in their capacity for destruction.
		The story is very scary, with the indestructible Martians invaders destroying everything and everybody; the heroine screams in danger situations and looks for the arms of the hero, as usual in the movies of those years; and my only restriction refers to the religious connotation of the end of the film.
		War of the worlds 2005 VS. War of the worlds 1953
	www.imdb.com /Title?0046534 (586 words)

	The Purdue Exponent
		In 1938, Orson Welles broadcast his radio version of "War of the Worlds." On Nov. 6, the SITI Company brings its version, based on the original script, to Loeb Playhouse.
		"War of the Worlds Radio Play" is a theatrical presentation of the radio drama that first played as a Halloween thriller on Oct. 30, 1938.
		The radio play began as research for another "War of the Worlds," which was to be a biographical piece on Welles.
	www.purdueexponent.org /2001/11/05/features/index.html (469 words)

	"War of the Worlds": Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		What radio listeners heard that night was an adaptation, by Orson Welles's Mercury Theater group, of a science fiction novel written 40 years earlier: The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells.
		Thousands of people, believing they were under attack by Martians, flooded newspaper offices and radio and police stations with calls, asking how to flee their city or how they should protect themselves from "gas raids." Scores of adults reportedly required medical treatment for shock and hysteria.
		The introduction to War of the Worlds broadcast on CBS Radio emphasized that it was based on the H.G. Wells novel.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2005/06/0617_050617_warworlds.html (508 words)

	Radio's War of the Worlds Broadcast (1938)
		This step was taken by the FCC chairman in connection with last Sunday night's broadcast, "The War of the Worlds." The word "flash" was used in the broadcast to dramatize the H. Wells' imaginative story of an attack on this planet by "monsters from Mars." Many protests were received by the commission against the broadcast.
		Hadley Cantril's (1966) study of the War of the Worlds broadcast and Donald M. Johnson's (1945) study of the Phantom Anesthetist are considered to be classic studies of mass hysteria.
		Without question, listeners were frightened by the War of the Worlds broadcast; Mattoon residents were convinced their dizziness and nausea were caused by the phantom's gas; workers were hospitalized for days with rashes, rapid heart beat, and nausea during the June bug epidemic; and farmers were convinced their cattle had died in a mysterious manner.
	members.aol.com /jeff1070/wotw.html (12276 words)

	War of the Worlds 1938 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Radio drama produced by the Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast live on CBS October 30, 1938, 8-9 pm EST mono sound, 60 mins.
		The authority of radio was never greater than in the fall of 1938.
		The world listened to live broadcasts of the pact concluded in Munich Sept. 29, the return of Chamberlain to England Sept. 30 waving the agreement at the airport that he had made "peace for our time," and the German occupation of the Sudetenland October 1.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/filmnotes/waroftheworlds1938.html (1431 words)

	War Of The Worlds TV Show
		The War Of The Worlds TV show was a sci-fi series based on the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles and the 1953 movie, both of the same name.
		The writers of three of the War Of The Worlds first season episodes were credited with "pen names".
		In the final episode of The War Of The Worlds, the aliens from "Morthrai" realize that their leader is evil and they kill him.
	www.crazyabouttv.com /waroftheworlds.html (613 words)

	Wars of the Worlds
		War of the Worlds: An Historical Perspective - http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/.
		The new War of the Worlds movie being directed by Steven Spielberg - http://www.waroftheworldsfilm.com/, is supposed to be released in 2005.
		The War of the Worlds: the RPG - http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Galaxy/3773/waroftheworlds/
	www.greatnorthernaudio.com /sf_radio/wow.html (3032 words)

	War of the Worlds
		The War of the Worlds radio broadcast by the Mercury Theatre under the direction of Orson Wells caused mass hysteria across the country when first broadcast in 1938.
		Radio dramatization for the class which will be videotaped.
		Each team will collaboratively write a radio dramatization, newspaper, magazine, speech or script for a movie/tv show based on their research answering the questions for their topic.
	www.itsco.org /webquest/class/janice/index.html (1128 words)

	War of the Worlds
		It's a radio play, based on a novel, featuring one of the most recognized voices in the history of radio.
		Presented in a series of mock news reports, "War of the Worlds" was a production by radio and theater wunderkind Orson Welles, who had not yet made the leap to Hollywood.
		As people fled their homes into the streets and gathered in public places, the initial radio broadcast gave way to a whispering campaign, as frenzied people repeated and further garbled the story.
	www.rotten.com /library/hoaxes/war-of-the-worlds (1029 words)

	War of the Worlds
		With War of the Worlds [Spielberg] has made what is arguably one of the best 1950s science fiction films ever.
		War of the Worlds reinvigorates the pulse-racing thrill and unalloyed paranoia of vintage '50s sci-fi.
		Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds is huge and scary, moving and funny—another capper to a career that seems like an unending succession of captivations.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/war_of_the_worlds (1192 words)

	War of the Worlds
		Replacing the Golden Days of radio are the corporate days of radio; the big business of making more, spending less and doing anything but unsettling the apple cart of success with untried programming.
		While the radio station isn’t revealing all the actors and voices involved in the local production, they guarantee you will hear the voices of many of your friends and neighbors.
		Halloween is about having fun, and for one hour this Friday, you’ll be able to tune in the radio and hear local people having fun,” she reports.
	www.wintertexans.com /martianinvasion.htm (820 words)

	War of the Worlds: The Broadcast
		The public reaction has prompted decades of research into mass hysteria, been used as a model by the military around the world to design information warfare against enemy troops and civilian populace, and used as the most compelling reason to protect the public from the knowledge of the presence of aliens on Earth.
		From our analysis of eyewitness reports conducted on the 50th Anniversary of Orson Welles' broadcast of "War of the Worlds", it appears that in 1938 it was just a scouting mission, a group ahead of the main alien invasion to evaluate Earth's technological level and what to expect on arrival.
		Also there have been countless remakes of the radio broadcast performed by new cast members, the most notable of which have re-set the story in a modern setting and in other regions of the world.
	www.war-of-the-worlds.org /Radio (541 words)

	The War of the Worlds
		On October 30, 1938 CBS Radio was broadcasting the music of Ramon Raquello and his orchestra live from the Meridian Room at the Park Plaza in New York City.
		The original 1938 Mercury Theatre broadcast of the War of the Worlds has been archived and can now be heard on the internet at EarthStation1.com.
		Write a haiku about the War of the Worlds hoax, and submit it in the comments.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /war_worlds.html (992 words)

	War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from Orson Welles
		A coffee table book telling the story behind one of the most notorious radio broadcasts in history Orson Welles' 1938 adaptation of The War of the Worlds.
		Starring Orson Welles in the most famous radio broadcast of all time that sent the country into a frenzy and a panic.
		Strange energies are seen emanating from the planet Mars which are passed off by the world's leading scientists as natural phenomena on Mars.
	www.vintagelibrary.com /OldTimeRadio/War-of-the-Worlds.html (505 words)

	Decca Music Group - Soundtracks
		Previous adaptations include the famous Mercury Theater radio play directed by Orson Welles, a 1953 feature film directed by George Pal, a late 1980's TV series, and a series of 1970's Marvel comic book adventures featuring a post-War of the Worlds character called Killraven (also in film development).
		In a contemporary retelling of the 1898 sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds tells the story of an invasion of Earth by aliens from another world, whose powerful tripod attack vehicles are equipped with disintegration rays unstoppable by the best technology humanity has to offer.
		For War of the Worlds, John reached for something not of this earth and composed a score that you feel on your skin, even before you become aware that you are actually hearing it.
	www.deccaclassics.com /music/soundtracks/waroftheworlds.html (1117 words)

	Amazon.com: War Of The Worlds (1938 Mercury Theatre Of The Air Radio Broadcast): Music: Mercury Theatre On The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Then, of course, there is the motion picture THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953), which is a film version of the CBS Mercury Theatre On The Air script, by Howard Koch, Paul Stewart and John Houseman, originally written by H.G. Wells.
		It is, of course, the most famous radio program of all time; I daresay many members of future generations would have no idea that their ancestors actually sat around a radio once upon a time listening to dramatic presentations were it not for the unique acclaim this show continues to enjoy today.
		The FCC called in the big three radio network presidents to redefine the usage of the word "flash" over the radio, and the whole situation led the government to seek closer cooperation among radio networks in the months leading up to America's entry into World War II.
	www.amazon.com /Worlds-Mercury-Theatre-Radio-Broadcast/dp/B00002R145 (1822 words)

	Amazon.com: War of the Worlds: Music: John Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		War of the Worlds culminates with "Escape from the Basket," in which Williams methodically builds tension over close to ten minutes.
		"The War of the Worlds," Spielberg-style, is a riveting, gut-wrenching, wholly one-of-a-kind science fiction colossus that puts the viewer into the story and leaves him as clueless as the characters in the film -- no scientist to explain things, no kindly professor to assess what "probably" is happening and why, no other unrealistic explanatory device.
		For War of the Worlds, John Williams reached for something not of this earth and composed a score that you feel on your skin, even before you become aware that you are actually hearing it.
	www.amazon.com /War-Worlds-John-Williams/dp/B0009A3ZZI (1612 words)

	War of the Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Although the term "science fiction" would not be used until 1929, Wells popularized a new genre used by the magazines and newspapers and publishers of the New Journalism to attract a growing mass readership.
		Orson Welles produced the story as a radio broadcast on October 30, 1938, that caused a panic among millions of listeners who thought it was a real news bulletin during a time of growing fear of Hitler and his Anschluss in Europe.
		George Pal produced the story as a Technicolor film in 1953 during the UFO craze and the growing popularity of science fiction films in postwar Hollywood.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/filmnotes/waroftheworlds.html (620 words)

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