75 Years Ago, Last Night…Theater Of The Mind At It’s Best!
On October 31, 2013
- TV History
75 Years Ago, Last Night…Theater Of The Mind At It’s Best!
Although the ‘Mercury Theater Of The Air’ radio presentation lasted only an hour, it’s impact has lasted 75 years. Here is the Orson Wells radio adaptation of H.G. Wells ‘War Of The Worlds’ program in full.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzC3Fg_rRJM
On Halloween eve in 1938, the power of radio was on full display when a dramatization of the science-fiction novel “The War of the Worlds” scared the dayligh…
Orson Wells was truly a genius.
This morning, I went by the building where CBS once had their radio studios in the 1930’s, 485 Madison Ave. “The War of the Worlds” originated from Studio 1 on the 20th floor of this building: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/10611383724/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/10611616343/
I enjoyed the recent pbs show.
Truly one of the best publicity rewrite stunts ever: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2013/10/orson_welles_war_of_the_worlds_panic_myth_the_infamous_radio_broadcast_did.html
This should be re-staged on twitter. It would be ideal to be re-created as a succession of tweets.
I truly enjoyed the PBS Documentary on this.
CBS studio one did a live production of the broadcast and the aftermath in the early 50s. Parts of it were used in the PBS doc. Is that entire broadcast on line somewhere?