Uploaded by imothra on Oct 13, 2007
Original Radio Broadcast of "War of the Worlds" from, Mercury Theatre on the Air, October 30, 1938.
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I like how close they make u feel to it..how fast they advance, Panic!!!
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this is eerie as hell.
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you cant blame people for taking this seriously...there was no internet or cnn back in those days!
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It's not an urban myth at all, it's well documented that people did panic at it
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Years ago I read a history of the broadcast and found a really neat story. A man
got totally spooked, believing that the Martians had indeed invaded New Jersey
and his house is righ in the path of their advance. He jumped in his car, driving off
like the Devil was nipping at his heels. Then he realized that he had left his dog behind.
So, he went back for the dog.expecting to be toasted by a heat ray at any moment.
I like this guy.
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@AlexanderT21 if the right people in the right places wanted to have a go I'm sure it could be pulled off man!!
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The New York scene was pretty dark O_O
Although there must have been someone near the area he was describing that looked outside and saw nothing :P
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@dannyofthededd Someone could hijack all communications (i.e. Internet, TV) and put on "found footage" (a la Cloverfield) depicting the alien attack, overriding whatever the viewer is watching/viewing. Although that could be difficult xD
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did anyone see a similar program in 1995 or around there? it was pretty scarey tuning in midway thru it.
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I've been listening to these this morning and reading some of the comments while i listen..loads of people saying how they would have known it was a hoax..people still had to use their imagination back before TV replaced radio and i can imagine they were running wild.. It sounds pretty authentic 70 years after so imagine the realistic quality of the production at the time,considering how things usually date quite badly. They would have to spend Billions to achieve something similar today
dannyofthededd 1 year ago 7
@graneadly i think to have the same impact it would have to be a million dollar synchronized multi media extravaganza..back then peoples radios and imaginations were their only window to the world... maybe summat will occur in the same vein though in the future!?!
dannyofthededd 1 year ago 2