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Going to Listen to the War of the Worlds Radio Play.
3 years ago
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Well I've decided to Listen to the War of the Worlds Radio Play by Orson Welles that was recorded on October/30th/1938.
Orson Welle's Radio Play on War of the Worlds was losely base on H.G. Well's Novel of War of the Worlds, Orson Wanted to make the story take place in the 1938 New Jersey since he'd believed that some people weren't very interest in H.G. Wells version where it takes place in the English Country Side in the late 1890's, So Orson decided to update the story by having the Martians crash land in America until one of his co-worker bought in a Map of New Jersey after getting lost there, they would pick Grovers Mill as the Landing site and some of the other performers used Ideas from News Bulletin & Other Radio programs like Archibald MacLeish and many others who's Ideas would imspire them, there was a rule where they can't real names & places so they created characters in their place and they had an Actor who potryed FDR's Voice and was told not to but did it anyway and people were easly fooled by it and panicked, And they used records sound effects and used props to make it sound like its real and one of their props was a pickle jar to make it sound like the Martians are unscrewing the lid to their cylinder, And one of the most best tricks in the book that Orson did was making the microphone go silence after making it look like that the Martians killed everyone, and they used News Bulletin which would later be banned from Radio shows after CBS would get into trouble for using News Bulletins in the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Play by Orson Welles, And in the Aftermath CBS decided to regulate themselves promising everyone that they'll never do it again and I'm gonna get to the Radio Play Now.
So here's a Link to the Raido Play on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g
Orson Welle's Radio Play on War of the Worlds was losely base on H.G. Well's Novel of War of the Worlds, Orson Wanted to make the story take place in the 1938 New Jersey since he'd believed that some people weren't very interest in H.G. Wells version where it takes place in the English Country Side in the late 1890's, So Orson decided to update the story by having the Martians crash land in America until one of his co-worker bought in a Map of New Jersey after getting lost there, they would pick Grovers Mill as the Landing site and some of the other performers used Ideas from News Bulletin & Other Radio programs like Archibald MacLeish and many others who's Ideas would imspire them, there was a rule where they can't real names & places so they created characters in their place and they had an Actor who potryed FDR's Voice and was told not to but did it anyway and people were easly fooled by it and panicked, And they used records sound effects and used props to make it sound like its real and one of their props was a pickle jar to make it sound like the Martians are unscrewing the lid to their cylinder, And one of the most best tricks in the book that Orson did was making the microphone go silence after making it look like that the Martians killed everyone, and they used News Bulletin which would later be banned from Radio shows after CBS would get into trouble for using News Bulletins in the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Play by Orson Welles, And in the Aftermath CBS decided to regulate themselves promising everyone that they'll never do it again and I'm gonna get to the Radio Play Now.
So here's a Link to the Raido Play on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g
