War of the Worlds-Radio broadcast by Orson Welles?

Question

Can anyone provide a simple summary of the BROADCAST of War of the Worlds, not the book. Thanks!

Answer 1

Traciixoxo The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds.



The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast was presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested to many listeners that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 'sustaining show' (it ran without commercial breaks), thus adding to the dramatic effect. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated. In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage. The program's news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast, but the episode launched Orson Welles to fame.





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Answer 2

I think he basically was a artist over the radio. He would tell stories over the radio. One day he told a story about how aliens were landing where his broadcast was and people thought it was real.basically he had a fake broadcast on aliens were landing and attacking us and people thought it was real.

Answer 3

regardless of dissimilar disclaimers in the process the printed that it replaced into basically a dramatization, some say that mass hysteria broke out - enormously interior the climate of recent Jersey the place the progression supposedly got here approximately. Others say that, nonetheless many have been apprehensive, the hysteria replaced into blown out of share. nonetheless censured, neither Welles nor CBS replaced into extremely penalized. in actuality Welles equipped his profession on the stunt. there's a sturdy article in Wiki approximately it (below). -a guy named duh