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  1. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › infamous-war-worlds-radioThe Infamous "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast Was a...

    May 6, 2015 · War of the Worlds formed a kind of crucible for Orson Welles, out of which the wunderkind of the New York stage exploded onto the national scene as a multimedia genius and trickster...

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  3. www.history.com › news › inside-the-war-of-the-worlds-broadcastInside 'The War of the Worlds' Radio Broadcast | HISTORY

    Oct 30, 2013 · The CBS program, penned by “Casablanca” screenwriter Howard Koch, opened serenely with the dulcet dance music of “Ramon Raquello and his orchestra.”. Then, an actor portraying an announcer ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama) - Wikipedia

    "The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898) that was performed and broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938, over the CBS Radio Network.

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  6. www.historyhit.com › culture › war-of-the-worlds-the-mostWar of The Worlds: The Most Infamous Radio Broadcast in History

    Feb 10, 2023 · In perhaps the most notorious event in American broadcast history, on 30 October 1938, 23-year-old Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air performed a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds.

  7. archive.org › details › war-of-the-worlds_mixdown3War of the Worlds Remastered 1938 Broadcast - Archive.org

    Jun 16, 2020 · A remastered Orson Welles Mercury Theater radio play "War of the Worlds" broadcast from 1938. I did a remastering, restoration in late 2018, but that was done from previously released copies of the broadcast. I was able to secure an unheard, cleaner copy from a private collector of old radio shows.

  8. www.allmusic.com › album › war-of-the-worlds-music-inspired-byWar of the Worlds: Music Inspired By - Hollywo... | AllMusic

    Sep 6, 2005 · War of the Worlds: Music Inspired By by Hollywood Sound Orchestra, Orson Welles released in 2005. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards ...

  9. www.nationalgeographic.com › science › article'War of the Worlds': Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic - National...

    Jun 17, 2005 · It was not. 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...