So for the occasion, I decided to rewatch the telemovie, "The Night That Panicked America", especially after listening again to the original radio broadcast this morning.
It's also the 30th of my first listening to it on WIBR-AM when I switched between the radio (which had a clear signal) to stereo (which had static making it impossible to hear) back to radio for the last news "bulletins" and the final monologue of Welles. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" as adapted by Howard Koch for the program "Mercury Theater on the Air". Today is the 71st anniversary of Orson Welles' radio production of H.
WHICH BOOK ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN 1938 MOVIE
A senator from Iowa said that he has prepared a bill for the next session of Congress with the same purpose.On October 30th, 1938, exactly 70 years ago tomorrow, the Martians attacked.Or at least many people thought they did.A radio broadcast by Orson Welles took place that night.The radio version of H.G.Wells' The War of the Worlds was being played on the radio and they made it as realistic as possible.People, who hadn't heard the beginning of that play took it all seriously.They really thought the Martians had invaded the Earth.Joseph Sargent's The Night That Panicked America is a made-for -television movie from 1975.There are some known names in this movie.Tom Bosley,as remembered from Happy Days playing Howard Cunningham, plays Norman Smith.Meredith Baxter, as remembered from Family Ties playing Elyse Keaton, plays Linda Davis.John Ritter, who we lost way too soon, plays Walter Wingate.Michael Constantine plays Jess Wingate.Eileen Brennan is Ann Muldoon.Paul Shenar plays Orson Welles.This movie gives a very good portrayal of those events.Something like this couldn't probably happen today.We know too much now.Our world is filled with knowledge, I could say even too much.If we didn't have all the knowledge, we'd all be escaping the Martians. The Federal Communications Commission has begun an inquiry with a view to preventing the repetition of such a terrifying event. The wireless audience was fooled to a considerable extent in spite of repeated announcements during the broadcast that the drama was purely fictional. A man ran into an Indianapolis church screaming "New York is destroyed.
In parts of Atlanta, Georgia, the inhabitants thought the end of the world had arrived. In some cases people told the police and newspapers that they had seen the "invasion". The entire audience leapt to its feet and the cinema emptied within a few minutes. Reports of a gas attack spread so quickly in New Jersey because of the broadcast that doctors and nurses offered their services and hospitals treated many people for "shock".Ī man burst into a cinema at Orange, New Jersey, shouting warnings. Residents of New Jersey covered their faces with wet cloths as a protection against poisonous gases and fled their homes carrying their most valuable possessions. Thousands of telephone calls poured into the wireless station and police headquarters.
Many people tuning in to the middle of the broadcast jumped to the conclusion that there was a real invasion. Martians were also observed moving towards New York.
Then there was an account of how the meteor opened and Martian warriors emerged and began killing local citizens with mysterious death-rays. The music was resumed, but was soon interrupted again for a report that a meteor had struck New Jersey. The programme began with music by a New York City hotel dance band, which was interrupted suddenly by a Columbia news announcer who reported that violent flashes on Mars had been observed by Princeton University astronomers.
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