So how did so many people actually believe that Martians were invading? For starters, we didn’t have a clear idea of what was on the surface of Mars yet. The space age was still decades away. So for ...
The night before Halloween 1938, 87 years ago, a radio broadcast by filmmaker and actor Orson Welles sent shockwaves through the world. The hauntingly fictional tale detailed an alien invasion on ...
Long before Donald Trump used the term “fake news” to complain about coverage he didn’t like, Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Welles’ 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The War ...
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Did Orson Welles really convince the world that aliens were invading?
There might not be a more misunderstood moment in the 20th century than Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the ...
Seventy-five years ago, on Oct. 30, 1938, mere hours before Halloween began, millions of Americans got the fright of a lifetime: Orson Welles, 23 at the time, performed a radio dramatization of H.G.
“The best of the postwar American science-fiction films; the Martian machines have a quality of real terror, their sinister apparitions, prowlings and pulverisings are spectacularly well done, and the ...
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War Of The Worlds: How Orson Welles Scared A Nation
It was the night before Halloween, October 30, 1938. Radios glowed in living rooms across America as families settled in for what they thought was another quiet Monday broadcast. At 8 p.m. ET, CBS’s ...
Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the U.S. heard a startling report of mysterious creatures and ...
On Oct. 30, 1938 — 86 years ago — the famous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast predicted modern America. The America of 2024. And that's no hoax. The broadcast, of course, was. But the lesson of the ...
In 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...
Long before Donald Trump used the term "fake news" to complain about coverage he didn't like, Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Welles' 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The War ...
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