Orson Welles' War of the Worlds - Part 2 of 6

[faltat2]

*sigh* He didn't try to "troll" anyone, it wasn't meant for people to take seriously, just a story

[capricechild92]

Orson is genius. Freaky scared from a radio..

[thearmyofgreatness]

Scary shit

[CescoPisicoli]

hahaha so funny how they trolled people by going right back to the music...lol

[Truth118]

4:40 "Ladies and gentlemen this is trippy!"

[Enraged10]

@Truth118 I think he said "teriffic"

[QuestionManfacebook]

The birth of Pirate Radio

[deathroman13]

I wish they had these kind of broadcasts right now.

This is amazing to listen to :)

[CescoPisicoli]

@deathroman13 there is a podcast that has these real old-time radio shows on it. Can't remember the name but a lil searching u can find it.

[deathroman13]

@CescoPisicoli

Thank you :)

[russ117044]

Like it or not, back in the day, this was "entertainmant". No internet, no television, dvd, cd, mp3 or mtv! But we made it! I was born too layte :(

[BryceThomaggity]

5:30 - *People leaning in closer to the radio*

6:07 - "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

[owlfail123117]

wow bro this is kind of creepy

[joemanYT]

I can see how this could have spooked some people.

[TheCGIMaster]

*Tunes in*

Me: Let's see whats on tonight...

*Fourty Minutes Later*

Me: HONEY GET MAH FUCKIN TOMMY GUN!

[smichelle65]

4:08 = two sound men holding a microphone and a mason jar inside a toilet and slowly turning the lid (really!)

[horsegerbil]

I'm getting anxious just listening to this. Geez. O_o

[duraldehunter]

hundreds of people killed themselves cause of this

[TheMexOfAmerica]

@duraldehunter No they didn't :P

[duraldehunter]

@TheMexOfAmerica well thats what i heard at least 20 people did i know someone did



[sithzerikai]

@TheMexOfAmerica he's right your wrong

[plasticspastic201]

@duraldehunter No they didnt. FOOL

[sithzerikai]

@plasticspastic201 he's right you're wrong

[plasticspastic201]

@sithzerikai Nope. No one at all killed themselves over this. It is an urban myth. Grow a brain. Thanks.

[Qain89]

@duraldehunter The best halloween joke ever!!!

[Ejay1001]

@duraldehunter Though there WAS a mass panic due to this broadcast, there is no recorded incidence of a person commiting suicide directly because of this. I don't know where you got that information from, but I didn't know one could be gullible enough to believe such a distortion of the truth.

[Phantom95music]

if i met death, i'd tell him "ill trade you justin bieber for Orson Welles" if someone could direct something SOOO chilling to make people scared as hell (which they were) then they are clearly worth staying in the realms of the living :)

[ossimlz]

@richardcwood1 Damn you're old.

[ADHR26]

I wanna know how they made this sound so real (ie: the sound effects, the panic in the peoples voices,ect.)

[aunghous]

Lol took the guy 25 seconds to go from Nyc 11 miles north .

[Nathanwmang]

I wonder how the general population would react to this today if it actually occurred. I think major cities will be destroyed by some of the idiots who inhabit them.

[Venom7619]

Lol we aussies if we'd heard it we'd be like "Fucking Bullshit Mate"

[Nathanwmang]

@Venom7619 in 1938 you'd shit yourselves 'mate'. =P

[videodads]

@richardcwood1 80what..? 80 bananas to face upside down? 80 matches? what did you turn 80 of?

[ziggadooling]

@videodads years old you retard, he turned 80 years old.

[xxXSlashNSmashXxx]

Its not that hard to see how people could have confused this with being real if they werent listening from the beggining of it.

[thebritish25]

Did they mobilize the US Military because of this ??

[Isle0fRed]

i dont find it scary, however, i can understand it being the 30s and when people only owned a radio

[thebritish25]

@Isle0fRed And you have to remember Sci-Fi did not really come in untill the 1950s

[ghostwhiskey]

this was crazy....he even did dead air,if i was alive then id a had a heartatacck.did some commit suicide?mr.wells was a genious

[ps2dude13]

@ghostwhiskey

yes, some people commited suicide

[ghostwhiskey]

@ps2dude13 yeah i know,crazy fucker hahahahahahaaaa

[ghostwhiskey]

@richardcwood1 damn,how oldare u now?

[spacenoise5]

it is still scary today.

[VolkgartenBySquirrel]

I lived in Los Angeles when we had the Cuban missle crisis, which prompted some of the same kind of panic, with some people being really taken up by the news. Some people were actually hoarding and digging personal shelters, and there was lots of soul saving going on. Weird, strange, loco.

[RockinRick18]

This givesme the chills! The broadcast is so detailed, so realistic, I almost believed it!

I pity those poor people who started listening after the disclaimer... =[

[VolkgartenBySquirrel]

@RockinRick18 I think it was 'about 20 yards on my left-' that did it.

[DJSpazzmatrazz]

@RockinRick18

I know! That'd suck to think was real the whole time, i would've had a heart attack. O.O"

[fromthesidelines]

Orson Welles and his cast didn't go home right after the broadcast, 'Dino'. They were detained at the Columbia Broadcasting Builidng while police questioned them about what had happened. After a few hours, they were allowed to go home. President Roosevelt wasn't "scared", although he was a bit concerned about what had happened...

[fromthesidelines]

The number that Bernard Herrmann (as "Bobby Milette") is playing at :26 was a popular song at the time called "Love Locked Out", co-written by Ray Noble...the 2:00 mark was when most radio listeners were switching away from NBC's "CHASE & SANBORN HOUR" {Bergen and "McCarthy" had just finished their opening comedy spot, and a commercial or musical number immediately followed}, most of them spinning their radio dials, and some of them heard the "remote from Grovers Mill" for the first time.

[verily59]

The media has shown that it is a powerful force that does influence people. Many believe without question and this was in the 30's.

[zwayd]

that was creepy even by to days standers

it must been real scary in 1938

[DinoAndCoasterGuy333]

Actually, it was. In my third period Language Arts class, (6th Grade,)our teacher, Mrs. Whittemore, had the whole original War of the Worlds Radio airring. Because we didn't have enough time in class to listen to the whole thing, we listened to part of it. Mrs. Whittemore said it had a great effect on the listeners. They thought they were really being attacked by Martians. Even the President got scared (,I think). I even think the police pulled up at Orson Welle's door after the broadcast.

[PatriotTexas]

@DinoAndCoasterGuy333 I read somewhere the people in the hills actually got their guns and prepared for war. There was some weather balloons among a few airplanes shot at as I recall.

[spamdude060]

@zwayd Do doubt so many audiences in '38 were scared shitless and believed the play was real!