Yeah! When you throw in a Mars Invasion,TV,and Radio reporting it and...FEAR! Oh! and no automobiles to try too escape,because Henry Ford hasn't made the first car until 1939.I think I saw this happened in 1938.😳
This wasn't intended as a hoax. It was simply the latest episode of "Mercury Theatre on the Air," a weekly radio series of literary adaptations and historical dramas. (Think "Masterpiece 1938.") Episode One was "Dracula." Episode Two was "Treasure Island." They also did "Around the World in 80 Days" and other works of literature. This was their Halloween episode. This particular week's literary classic was "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells. The terror of the novel was that it took place in the quiet countryside of Victorian England and in bustling London--locales that were intimately familiar to Wells' British readership. To make that same terror more effective in 1938 to an American radio audience, Orson Welles' show updated the story to 1938 New Jersey and New York City and made it immediate and creepy by presenting it in a fresh, innovative, and creative way: a series of news flashes relating an unfolding real-time Martian invasion. (A stroke of genius!) They had already done "Dracula" so that was taken for Halloween. "The War of the Worlds" was the second scariest story of all time. They chose that. Orson assumed that his audience was literate and that they would be as familiar with the works of Wells as they were with his other adaptations of authors ranging from Stoker to Shakespeare. Plus there were constant breaks, reminding listeners that this was a radio play. The habit of the time was that if your regular radio show went to a commercial, you'd tune your dial to another show for a few minutes, and then go back to the program you started. The competing show was "Charlie McCarthy," a ventriloquist show (on the radio--go figure.) The listeners of Charlie McCarthy never listened to Orson Welles (too highbrow, stuffy, and artsy!) so when Charlie went to commercials, and his listeners stumbled into Welles' show, the radio invasion was in full swing; the new listeners just joining Orson Welles had no context for this surreal thing and were unexpectedly greeted with realistic-sounding news flashes of an attacking Martian space army in New Jersey, hell-bent on conquering the world. They flew into a tizzy and lost their heads! Then, they called their friends and relatives. Meanwhile, their neighbors had begun to panic! And so it started. Orson hadn't counted on his new, wider audience being illiterate and gullible. They made fools of themselves and knew it. So to save face, they labeled this program a hoax and villainized Orson. Making him the scapegoat was easier than admitting their ignorance backfired on them. It was no goof-up. That was the egg on the faces of the folks who never hung out at their local libraries and were indifferent to literature and programs like "Mercury Theatre." And Orson soon went to Hollywood--with half his Mercury cast--to film "Citizen Kane" and "Jane Eyre." The man who adapted "The War of the Worlds" for radio--Howard Koch--went on to write the screenplay for an obscure little film called, "Casablanca." Koch, in his later life, was a producer for many years of the annual Academy Awards telecast. He also wrote a book called "The Panic Broadcast" about the "War of the Worlds" Affair. Meanwhile, a few weeks later, Orson's regular audience resumed listening to him on "Campbell Playhouse"--the reincarnated "Mercury Theatre on the Air." Orson Welles was simply waaay ahead of his time. People are punished for that.
I've know about this panic since I was a kid, my parents had an old LP record of the radio program & I loved to play it. Have seen several documentaries on TV before the internet was a thing but this was my first on YT about this subject. Excellent job Shree, you nailed it! As also your video presence & clarity of voice is always appreciated. I remember the story of someone shooting at the water tower with his shotgun thinking it was the machine.
My 6th-grade teacher played this for us in 1976. We knew we were listening to a recording but it still had its chill factor. I still listen to Mercury Theater and others of its type. Thanks for sharing!
I am ten minutes into this thing, and I am blown away. I am so proud of you. I've listened to this broadcast a million times, I've seen every documentary about it, and Orson Welles, I've read books about Orson Welles, I have documentaries and books about the history of radio. But it's been two reaction channels that have completely made this come alive me. One was a reactor who played the whole broadcast and reacted to it, but edited in footage to help illustrate it and made it really come alive in a way that I'd never seen before. UNTIL NOW! You're doing the whole saga and controversy, and now YOU'RE bringing it alive in a way that's just so vivid. You really put us in that experience, in that intro. I got goosebumps! I got goosebumps when you switched to Awesome Orson! The writing, the delivery, the editing, the clips.........sensational, absolutely sensational and I have a million questions. But first let me finish the video! Holy smokes, I'm beaming with pride! But also gratitude, as a fan of Orson Welles!
Seriously, I have to keep stopping. Outstanding fu**king job. I don't even know where to start. Very thorough. I knew Chase & Sanborn was big, I didn't know that was Welles' competitor, and that his was a niche audience. (All of those radio plays he did with the Mercury Theater were fantastic! And other stuff. He did a Hamlet around then too. Les Miserables. etc) The letters! Oh my god, that letters section was fantastic! This is a fantastic video!!!!! Hey, I may email you, I've got some technical questions, a few ideas for future vids (and I can give you or direct you to the proper research materials and save you time), and can fill you on some of the archives I've built up around different research projects I've done, should you ever need them for a video you're working on. (again, to save you time!). Ok, let me finish this video. I hope you're feeling proud!
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I was about 11 or 12 when I overheard an older neighbor reminiscing about hearing the original broadcast in 1938. I was fascinated. My older brother found it on tape and made a copy for me. I listened to it until it fell apart. Today I have a copy on CD, and you can find it on the internet. I’ve been a fan of old time radio shows ever since.
SHREE, this was a fun and very informative piece!! Well done!! Of course growing up in New Jersey, I had always HEARD about this broadcast!! I do remember that I was told that my hometown was mentioned on the original broadcast!! Something to the effect of the alien or Craft or something was hovering or near 8th Street in Bayonne which I knew very well having lived there!! I always thought that was kind of cool, but I've never actually listened to the original broadcast and heard it!! I was kind of hoping that THAT was going to be part of this piece but none the less you did a great job!!!❤
Thank you so much for your feedback!! ❤ The original broadcast may get copyright claimed so I couldn't use it sparingly, but I did link it in the description 🙏
Best April Fools' prank I've heard of was done 1974 in a small town on an island in Alaska. The town was close to a extinct volcano. The pranker prepared for a long time dragging fuel like pallets and tires into the volcano crater, then he set it on fire to produce a lot of smoke. Before this he had let the town's authorities like the mayor, police, fire fighters and other that had to be in on it. besides them, the whole town thought the long sleeping mountain was waking up again and reacted accordingly. The only ones he missed tell beforehand was the coast guard that responded to the "erupting" island volcano. Every time I try to fool someone, I use to think of this and feel like it's just small potatoes. That was a prank the whole town talked about for decades.
Thanks, Shree. I loved this! Please do more of these. The story of this panic-inducing broadcast has intrigued me since I found a recording of the broadcast in my father's record collection when I was about 8 years old. Having no TV at home, I listened to that record over and over and over again. And like many of the original listeners, I sought out the book at the library and read it repeatedly. And that led to reading John Christopher's Tripods, which later showed up as a comic in Boy's Life magazine. And that led reading lots of wonderful classic science fiction throughout my childhood.
This recording was one of the first 50 recordings to be inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. So, Captain Kirk will grow up, learning about this story! :)
I’ve always been fascinated by the mass hysteria this radio broadcast caused! This was such a well done telling of what happened. You could really feel the panic! Great job! I loved this! ❤️🔥
Speaking of cinema against current events, You MUST watch and review “Without a Trace” (1983). This movie has the most emotionally powerful ending of any movie I’ve watched. It always brings me to tears each and every time I see it. It is also based on a true event at the time with some of the facts changed to make it acceptable to the cinema audience.
Something else was their basic science illiteracy. There are explosions on the planet Mars. Within ten minutes Martian spaceships are landing in New Jersey. Not even the Starship Enterprise could reach Earth that fast! The listeners never bothered to think that through--they just feaked out out like a bunch of ninnies--or bubble-headed boobies! Oh, the pain! The pain! The pain!
@ShreeNation Shree, you are interested in future videos on Hollywood scandals and bizarre history. May I please suggest some possible future topics: The Black Dahlia Murder The Death of George "Superman" Reeves The Louella Parsons/Hedda Hopper Feud The Charlie Chaplin Divorce Scandal The Red Scare and Hollywood The Errol Flynn Scandal The Casting of Scarlett O'Hara Hollywood is a strange town so there are plenty of more potential topics. Thank you!
When you think about it, the whole thing in retrospect is hilarious but it worked because it was on the radio (so people could not see) and because Welles read it as an emergency broadcast, the radio station going along and not playing commercials. The panic was not as widespread as subsequent papers led to believe but it did cause outrage and got Welles noticed nationally. Anyone who read the novel could see it was not genuine as Welles introduction was almost word for word that of the book but it also shows how easy it is to induce mass hysteria. The book is quite good and well ahead of its time though, think that at a time before the world wars, HG Wells described an invasion that killed millions of people who were disintegrated by the aliens 'heat beams'. The 2005 Spielberg adaptation starring Tom Cruise follows closely the book (including the ending) and if you like The War of the Worlds story, it's a worthy watch.
@@ShreeNation I'll Happily-Endorse the '05 "War of the Worlds" by Cruise-&-Spielberg: it's My Favorite interpretation of this Story🤩and My Mother Enjoys it too!👍
@@tomhoffman4330 Wonderful, can't wait to watch it! I even used a few seconds of the film in this video for dramatization purposes (simply because the movie kept showing up when I googled "war of the worlds" LOL)
Good video Shree....you should also do a reacton and/or review of the Academy Award winning 1953 version & the two 2005 film versions (one made by Steven Spielberg & the other made by The Asylum company) of 'The War Of The Worlds' (and perhaps comment on all changes made between each film, how they each tribute/make references to the controversial radio program & the differences from the original novel). 👍
BRAVO, MS. SHREE! You seem to have a better understanding of this historical incident then anyone else I've seen talking about it on RUclips! "War Of The Worlds" was the perfect storm for disaster in that you had the nation on the precipice of a second forthcoming world war with tensions running very high, a very new broadcast medium that people were inclined to willingly believe in with blind faith, and the machinations of an aspiring director and producer in Orson Welles, who later admitted he WANTED something like this to happen! Today, something like this would be immediately debunked on the internet, but in the Depression of the 1930's, if you heard it on the radio, it was TRUE, and everything else just fell in line behind that...EDIT: By the way, Ms. Shree, since you ARE a film reactor, there IS a movie about this for you to react to: "The Night That Panicked America" was an ABC made for TV movie depicting people's reaction to the broadcasts, and it boasts a very strong cast including Vic Morrow, Eileen Brennan, John Ritter (Three's Company), Meredith Baxter (Family Ties) and even radio legend Kasey Casem himself! This is available for free on RUclips, and I would very much love to see you spotlight this film some day! 🙂
I haven't left a comment in a while! I wanted to let you know that you did a beyond magnificent job on this video! I support your idea to do more! These suggestions are off topic, but here goes! I know you pick the films you react to via a certain criteria you have, but I'll suggest these films regardless! The 1st one is the 2015 movie Age Of Adaline with Blake Lively, 2nd the 2016 film Before I Fall and finally the 2007 movie Wind Chill with Emily Blunt! They all have a mystical and ominous theme to the story, as well as some suspenseful and dark elements! Bye and take care!
Very good and balanced report. Examine examine is the exaggerations about the event, while not denying that indeed there was a panic. I’ve been subscribed for time, but with this you’ve truly earned a fan
👏Bravo, Shree!🥰This was beyond Amazing, it was down-right Mesmerizing: You had My Undivided Attention all the way through!😇That Brilliant Mind of Yours: when You set Yourself up to-do something, You really Go All-the-Way (LOL) No pun intended!😉I could Listen to Your Beautiful Voice All Day-&-Night; and You almost had Me questioning if it all was "Really" happening!🤔If this was only Your First Episode, then I can't wait to find out where You're going next...👍 Btw, I'd previously Recommended some Animated Movies for Future Reactions, and one of those was "Transformers: The Movie" from 1986. Talking about the Impact of Orson Welles, I couldn't help but think of how He'd Iconically Voiced "Unicron" in that Animated Classic! Unicron is quite-literally the Biggest / Most Dangerous Threat to everything Living: if seeing Him isn't enough to Intimidate You (too)😯then just wait until You hear Him "speak!"👌
Your words have encouraged me to continue on since the beginning and I can't thank you enough ❤🙏🙏 Your support and love means so much to me, I am really grateful!! And omg I had no idea Orson Welles voiced a transformer!! Now I can't wait to watch it😍
Now that you are well versed on the WotW broadcast, time to watch Buckaroo Banzai 🤠, with Peter Weller (Robocop), Jeff Goldblum, and Christopher Lloyd.
Hi, Ms. Shree! I'm REALLY looking forward to your show today at 2:30! I'm very well acquainted with Orson Welles' panic broadcast of 1938, and it will be fascinating to hear your interpretations of it
I’ve always been fascinated with this story. I listened to the radio broadcast years ago in high school, and I remember just how not convincing it was from today’s standards (laser sounds being produced by flushing toilets, etc). But this was a time when people trusted the media and it at face value. I think what Orsen Welles created was a very exciting piece of interactive storytelling, and it’s unfortunate that it had the immediate effect of panic. I think most people were angry at Welles, not for anything he had done, but for how foolish they felt. Interesting how you mentioned that hysteria was associated with women at the time. Did you know that the word hysteria is in and of itself sexist? It has the same Greek origin as the word hysterectomy, and literally means uterus. Anyway, great job with this, Shree.
Wow, thank you for educating me on the word "hysteria", I had no idea! And well said, most people were angry at Welles because they felt foolish, and in my opinion the mistrust towards media had started to form. Thanks for watching!! 🙏❤
I give my 2 bits. In the mid 70's I heard of war of the worlds played by my teacher. I tried to get a tape cassest of it (was called old time radio) but it was always out. At a family meeting my grandma was saying how dumb todays kids are (gen x) so I used the radio panic about her generation scared of martians. Grandma was mad and one male family member yelled at me to get in the car. He asked me how I knew about that event. I told him about the old time radio cassests He asked to direct him tothe store. The store owner was not happy to see me. Since I always asked for that war of worlds cassest(he never had in stock). My relitive saw the other cassasts featuring other radio plays (Inner sactum, larule and Hardy ect). He said my god I havn't heard these programs in 40 years. He bought every cassest on sight. The store owener was happy. (first time I saw him 😊). We drove home and every body was happy and wanted me to play the tapes. I asked did any have a cassest player? Nope. That was my accounter with War of The Worlds.😊
You are so awesome Shree. I'd love to back you. Great Job on Orson Welles. Now 1 moment to flirt. " 1 moment later" Anyways keep it up don't let anyone stop or slow you down If anyone harasses, threatens, looks at you the wrong way. I can deal with most . Anyways .. Keep going
I had heard a lot about the consequences of that radio broadcast, but only superficially. It has been very interesting and instructive to learn concrete stories about all those events. I think you have chosen a good direction
Brilliant! I can't believe how great that was. I feel like I just lived it. You uncovered so many great anecdotes and little details, just excellent work, excellent presentation. I'm going to just write a SLIGHT correction for the last section about Welles' post-radio controversy career, I hope you don't mind: although War of The Worlds did follow him his whole life, Citizen Kane was the even bigger thing that followed him his whole life, and every film he did was compared to it.....unfavorably. And constantly asked about it. War Of The Worlds directly led to him being invited to Hollywood and given total artistic control - something that had never been done.....and wouldn't be done again! They gave him complete carte blanche to do whatever he wanted. So it definitely helped his career at first! RKO soured on Welles after Hearst blacklisted the film, which led to the whole Ambersons/It's All True saga, which is complicated and ultimately really sad. I just happened to read one of the very first issues of Playboy magazine, which was 1954, and they have a feature on Orson Welles, talking about him being a genius director, and citing both Citizen Kane and Magnificent Ambersons as two of the greatest movies yet made. They definitely talk about War Of The Worlds at some length, but the main thrust is him as director and as a movie star and as a great actor, constantly working, always in major parts, either the leads or as the villain, or as some authority figure with immediate gravitas. Jane Eyre (1943) , The Third Man, those are super classics. Moby Dick, Catch 22....the guy was in a million movies. The Stranger, which he directed, was a big hit. So he was definitely known as a great actor, and for Citizen Kane, which was topping polls as early as the 60s. it was on TV all the time, etc ec. When he went on talk shows, he'd be asked about Citizen Kane and his radio days more than anything. All his other movies, you couldn't see them! You had to hunt them down. So you're totally right: after he died, we got to see all these films we'd only heard about, like his three Shakespeare films, or The Trial (all great), or have them restored, like Touch Of Evil (fantastic film noir). So that's the only thing I think needs noting: the radio controversy definitely was a notorious thing he was always asked about, definitely in the top two things he'd be asked about (and about working in radio in general)......but he was definitely known as a great artist and a movie star, the War Of The Worlds (and Citizen Kane) being part of his legend. And Hearst killed Citizen Kane more than anything. Ok, geez, I didn't mean to write so much. FANTASTIC VIDEO! Thank you for giving me that incredible experience, I friggin' loved it. I will be rewatching this!!!
@@ShreeNation Yeah, listen, anyone who clicks on this, they already know all that Orson stuff I just wrote. What they don't know is all the stuff you uncovered and featured and presented in a really vivid way. I can't stop thinking about it! I called my uncle, who is an Orson fanatic, to tell him about it! (he wasn't home!). So.....I can't think of any higher praise than that! (PS: Hope that Patreon message wasn't too difficult to read, I have to figure out how to make paragraph breaks in that thing!)
@@TTM9691 That is so wonderful, thank you so much for sharing, hope your uncle has a good time watching :) Yes I just responded to your Patreon message, thank you so much for sharing such great and detailed information, i am truly grateful
The first time I heard Jeff Wayne's War of the World, my dad put the LP on to lull my brother and me to sleep when I was 7 or something. It scared the everloving shit out of me, I wasn't certain whether it was real, especially with the ending. I would have totally fallen for this broadcast and lost my mind probably
@@ShreeNation LOL!😂 Next Documentaries: Film Director Howard Hughes,*Albert Hitchcock (*his last name makes me laugh for some reason just like late actor Dick Smothers😂) v
Great show....ive heard Koch's name pronounced kotch and coke....he gave a talk at my college cleveland state in the 70s and he was still pissed at welles. Haw!
Great video. I learned allot on the The War Of The World scare I did not know and also some surprising facts about Orson Welles. I hope you do more videos like this because it is fun to learn this things. I hope you also listen to the 1978 rock classic album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds which great music in it like the songs/music "Forever Autumn" and "The Eve of The War" both were successful
I personally love this type of content. It's also refreshing to see people do something they actually enjoy doing. I believe a lot of people are just prone to hysterics and stupidity. I probably would've sht my pants too 💩 The story of Rudy Ray Moore is pretty interesting. There's also the Twilight Zone movie tragedy, and the Crow Tragedy as well. There's a lot of weird crazy hollyweird history. Thanks for your efforts.
Thank you so much!! Really appreciate the feedback 🙏🙏❤ Also thanks for you're suggestions, something tells me you are gonna LOVE the next episode of this series ;)
I like your reactions a lot, but this video essay is refreshing too... and you did an excellent job! As others have said, you must have put a ton of work into the research, writing, and editing. I hope you plan to do more like this!
Thank you so much!! I definitely plan to make more videos like this twice a month, all the work I put in a video like this is worth it because I get to learn so much in the process!! To see your positive feedback is all I need 🙏🙏❤
The modern day decendant of Welles War of the World's prank would have to be Phil Hendrie. Theres a new documentary about him (called "Hendrie") on Amazon and other streaming apps. Phil is a straight up genius... a one man acting and comedy troupe... hes so good at "talking to himself" as different characters (voices) that listeners really believed they were real. And Phil did more than a few WOTW-like "social experiments" where he tricked the audience into believeing something crazy was happening.. like when he did a fake "live" broadcast from Disneyland, where Phil is repeatedly tormented by a kid who keeps running up and hitting him in the crotch with a sack of ball berings 😂 Disney almost sued over that one.
This is a great video Shree, lots of excellent research behind this and the way you present yourself is extremely professional. I look forward to seeing more videos like this. My only other comment (which isn't just directed at you specifically) is that I disagree with labeling Welles' broadcast a hoax or prank. From everything I've heard and read, Welles and his crew did not intend to fool people into believing that an actual alien invasion was underway, they simply tried to make an interesting, believable, and immersive entertainment experience for their audience, and the fact that some listeners believed it (which got hyped up by the newspapers, as you said) was not their intention. If you listen to the original broadcast (which is available on RUclips), they identify the program by name at the beginning and at the midpoint break (which occurs later than expected as you state, but they do identify both "War of the Worlds" and "Mercury Theater of the Air"). Some newspaper listings of radio broadcast schedules for the day list "War of the Worlds" as the program title for Mercury Theater of the Air's broadcast that night. I don't think it's right to call it a hoax of the creators didn't intend to fool people. Anyway, enough ranting from me. Thanks again for the video, hope you are doing well, and good luck with this new series!
Thank you for the correction, yes it was definitely not a prank but a great misunderstanding by the listeners. The pinned "prank" comment is definitely not factual and only in the spirit of April Fools 😄 Even if Welles tries to say later on that he was in on the joke, or that he ended the broadcast by saying that the broadcast was intended as a Halloween scare, I don't believe the panic was intentional. Thanks for watching, so glad you enjoyed ❤🙏🙏
Can’t wait for this! Next u have to comment on the biggest goof in cinematic history. With 2017 josstice league! How short sited & knee jerk reaction can a studio be? Had they let their universe breath and give it a chance we would have had one of the best super hero universes! But nooooo, they use the death of Snyder’s daughter as an opportunity to change 80% of the film & turn it into an abomination!
@@ShreeNation if u need any info let me know. These guys comicmoviemarks put this video out a full year before the Snyder cut was even announced. ruclips.net/video/ysTtSzDaw-U/видео.htmlsi=rSCNDfw7gUEK7KJe Looking forward to this video & future ones. It’s actually pretty nuts, when u get into it. Even the sites like Collider which I used to follow until the whole Snyder cut fiasco. Denied its existence even though Zack filmed 96% of it by October 2016 & they were a full 6 months into post production when he & Debra left the production. ruclips.net/video/qYvD3fXslnI/видео.htmlsi=hf61zruUDgnv84HA
Speaking of "April's fools which is not just my birtday :>" April's Fools Day from 1986 (ger. title The Horror Party >_> ).. anyway a pretty clever horror slasher movie which is criminally underrated and forgotten.. cannot say more. Just watch it. ;)
Shree, I'm psyched to see this!!!! I'm on my way out right now, but I just want to let you know: today is the Easter holiday up here, so views are going to be down probably. Don't be discouraged if today's numbers aren't high, half of your subscribers are probably with family, etc. I'm out the door right now to see mine! So when I get home in a few hours, I'm checking this out, I'm leaving the tab up and everything. Awesome Welles! Love that guy! I can't remember if you've seen Citizen Kane yet. Ok, let me go, and I'll be talking to you again in a few hours.
No need for identification, i knew it was you from your profile picture! 😌 Thank you for the heads up, I had no idea it was Easter and should've timed it better😅 But no worries, thank you so much and I hope you enjoy the video when you get home! Happy Easter❤❤
Thank Shree and I loved this! Yes please do more of these. If you like to learn more about the man you need to go to YT channel Learning About Movies for it's video Orson Welles Seven Best and Why He's Great and YT channel Rocket Jump Film School for it's video Behind the Edit The Orson Welles Memo
shree, did you ever play the nintendo game, maniac mansion from the 1980s? a meteor crashes in the intro scene and you can buy meteor insurance in the game and there are aliens that look like tentacles in the mansion
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@@ShreeNation iirc, there's a ton of Mercury Theatre stuff on youtube, they did a pretty good version of Dracula too, thats worth a listen There used to be more on the Internet Archive as well, Around The World In 80 Days, a Sherlock Holmes one, and The Count Of Monte Cristo, I can't remember if they all have Welles, but they are all worth a listen if you're interested.
Interesting. You're getting into the information side of things along with your reactions. Not sure I need all that for a reaction, but we'll see how you approach it. :)
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Happy April Fools! Could this have been the biggest prank ever played on an entire nation? Leave your thoughts in the comments below ;)
Yeah! When you throw in a Mars Invasion,TV,and Radio reporting it and...FEAR! Oh! and no automobiles to try too escape,because Henry Ford hasn't made the first car until 1939.I think I saw this happened in 1938.😳
Well No wonder You'd picked "this" one for Today!😂You're always Thinking...👍
I'm having a tough time thinking of a deepfake that's older or bigger. This might be the OG granddaddy of them all
This wasn't intended as a hoax. It was simply the latest episode of "Mercury Theatre on the Air," a weekly radio series of literary adaptations and historical dramas. (Think "Masterpiece 1938.") Episode One was "Dracula." Episode Two was "Treasure Island." They also did "Around the World in 80 Days" and other works of literature.
This was their Halloween episode.
This particular week's literary classic was "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells. The terror of the novel was that it took place in the quiet countryside of Victorian England and in bustling London--locales that were intimately familiar to Wells' British readership. To make that same terror more effective in 1938 to an American radio audience, Orson Welles' show updated the story to 1938 New Jersey and New York City and made it immediate and creepy by presenting it in a fresh, innovative, and creative way: a series of news flashes relating an unfolding real-time Martian invasion. (A stroke of genius!)
They had already done "Dracula" so that was taken for Halloween. "The War of the Worlds" was the second scariest story of all time. They chose that.
Orson assumed that his audience was literate and that they would be as familiar with the works of Wells as they were with his other adaptations of authors ranging from Stoker to Shakespeare. Plus there were constant breaks, reminding listeners that this was a radio play.
The habit of the time was that if your regular radio show went to a commercial, you'd tune your dial to another show for a few minutes, and then go back to the program you started. The competing show was "Charlie McCarthy," a ventriloquist show (on the radio--go figure.) The listeners of Charlie McCarthy never listened to Orson Welles (too highbrow, stuffy, and artsy!) so when Charlie went to commercials, and his listeners stumbled into Welles' show, the radio invasion was in full swing; the new listeners just joining Orson Welles had no context for this surreal thing and were unexpectedly greeted with realistic-sounding news flashes of an attacking Martian space army in New Jersey, hell-bent on conquering the world. They flew into a tizzy and lost their heads! Then, they called their friends and relatives. Meanwhile, their neighbors had begun to panic! And so it started.
Orson hadn't counted on his new, wider audience being illiterate and gullible. They made fools of themselves and knew it. So to save face, they labeled this program a hoax and villainized Orson. Making him the scapegoat was easier than admitting their ignorance backfired on them. It was no goof-up. That was the egg on the faces of the folks who never hung out at their local libraries and were indifferent to literature and programs like "Mercury Theatre." And Orson soon went to Hollywood--with half his Mercury cast--to film "Citizen Kane" and "Jane Eyre."
The man who adapted "The War of the Worlds" for radio--Howard Koch--went on to write the screenplay for an obscure little film called, "Casablanca." Koch, in his later life, was a producer for many years of the annual Academy Awards telecast. He also wrote a book called "The Panic Broadcast" about the "War of the Worlds" Affair.
Meanwhile, a few weeks later, Orson's regular audience resumed listening to him on "Campbell Playhouse"--the reincarnated "Mercury Theatre on the Air." Orson Welles was simply waaay ahead of his time. People are punished for that.
I think it was a pys op to see how a populous would react to an alien intrusion. 👽 Hi Shree 👋 😊
I've know about this panic since I was a kid, my parents had an old LP record of the radio program & I loved to play it. Have seen several documentaries on TV before the internet was a thing but this was my first on YT about this subject. Excellent job Shree, you nailed it! As also your video presence & clarity of voice is always appreciated. I remember the story of someone shooting at the water tower with his shotgun thinking it was the machine.
Thank you so much, really glad you enjoyed 😇🙏🙏
My 6th-grade teacher played this for us in 1976. We knew we were listening to a recording but it still had its chill factor. I still listen to Mercury Theater and others of its type. Thanks for sharing!
Your teacher was cool AF 😎 Thanks for watching!!
I am ten minutes into this thing, and I am blown away. I am so proud of you. I've listened to this broadcast a million times, I've seen every documentary about it, and Orson Welles, I've read books about Orson Welles, I have documentaries and books about the history of radio. But it's been two reaction channels that have completely made this come alive me. One was a reactor who played the whole broadcast and reacted to it, but edited in footage to help illustrate it and made it really come alive in a way that I'd never seen before. UNTIL NOW! You're doing the whole saga and controversy, and now YOU'RE bringing it alive in a way that's just so vivid. You really put us in that experience, in that intro. I got goosebumps! I got goosebumps when you switched to Awesome Orson! The writing, the delivery, the editing, the clips.........sensational, absolutely sensational and I have a million questions. But first let me finish the video! Holy smokes, I'm beaming with pride! But also gratitude, as a fan of Orson Welles!
Seriously, I have to keep stopping. Outstanding fu**king job. I don't even know where to start. Very thorough. I knew Chase & Sanborn was big, I didn't know that was Welles' competitor, and that his was a niche audience. (All of those radio plays he did with the Mercury Theater were fantastic! And other stuff. He did a Hamlet around then too. Les Miserables. etc) The letters! Oh my god, that letters section was fantastic! This is a fantastic video!!!!! Hey, I may email you, I've got some technical questions, a few ideas for future vids (and I can give you or direct you to the proper research materials and save you time), and can fill you on some of the archives I've built up around different research projects I've done, should you ever need them for a video you're working on. (again, to save you time!). Ok, let me finish this video. I hope you're feeling proud!
Thank you so much for your feedback, I can't tell you how grateful I am 😌🙏🙏 Yes you can absolutely reach me any time you need to, via email or Instagram messages ❤
I was about 11 or 12 when I overheard an older neighbor reminiscing about hearing the original broadcast in 1938. I was fascinated. My older brother found it on tape and made a copy for me. I listened to it until it fell apart. Today I have a copy on CD, and you can find it on the internet. I’ve been a fan of old time radio shows ever since.
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SHREE, this was a fun and very informative piece!! Well done!!
Of course growing up in New Jersey, I had always HEARD about this broadcast!! I do remember that I was told that my hometown was mentioned on the original broadcast!! Something to the effect of the alien or Craft or something was hovering or near 8th Street in Bayonne which I knew very well having lived there!!
I always thought that was kind of cool, but I've never actually listened to the original broadcast and heard it!! I was kind of hoping that THAT was going to be part of this piece but none the less you did a great job!!!❤
Thank you so much for your feedback!! ❤ The original broadcast may get copyright claimed so I couldn't use it sparingly, but I did link it in the description 🙏
Best April Fools' prank I've heard of was done 1974 in a small town on an island in Alaska.
The town was close to a extinct volcano. The pranker prepared for a long time dragging fuel like pallets and tires into the volcano crater, then he set it on fire to produce a lot of smoke. Before this he had let the town's authorities like the mayor, police, fire fighters and other that had to be in on it. besides them, the whole town thought the long sleeping mountain was waking up again and reacted accordingly.
The only ones he missed tell beforehand was the coast guard that responded to the "erupting" island volcano.
Every time I try to fool someone, I use to think of this and feel like it's just small potatoes. That was a prank the whole town talked about for decades.
That is an epic prank, that would scare me for life 😂👏👏
Thanks, Shree. I loved this! Please do more of these.
The story of this panic-inducing broadcast has intrigued me since I found a recording of the broadcast in my father's record collection when I was about 8 years old. Having no TV at home, I listened to that record over and over and over again. And like many of the original listeners, I sought out the book at the library and read it repeatedly. And that led to reading John Christopher's Tripods, which later showed up as a comic in Boy's Life magazine. And that led reading lots of wonderful classic science fiction throughout my childhood.
Thank you so much, so glad you enjoyed!! 🙏🙏 Wow that is awesome that this broadcast led you into the wonderful world of science fiction ❤
Very interesting. I'm very interested in this type of content. Keep up the good work! 😊
This recording was one of the first 50 recordings to be inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. So, Captain Kirk will grow up, learning about this story! :)
Brilliant job, Shree. You must have put so much work into this, it really shows.
Thank you so much, that really means a lot ❤ All the work I've put in here is worth it if people enjoyed 🙏😌
I was just thinking about this a few hours ago
Nicee!! Hope you enjoy, I cover this event in detail 😇
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I’ve always been fascinated by the mass hysteria this radio broadcast caused! This was such a well done telling of what happened. You could really feel the panic! Great job! I loved this! ❤️🔥
Thank you so much, really happy to hear you enjoyed 😇🙏
Excited for what formatting you got for this series! Sounds very interesting! 👍👍👍
Thank you so much Criss :) Appreciate the love!!
Thanks! Great job on the vid!!
OMG thank you so much!! Really appreciate the support 🙏❤❤
Speaking of cinema against current events, You MUST watch and review “Without a Trace” (1983).
This movie has the most emotionally powerful ending of any movie I’ve watched. It always brings me to tears each and every time I see it.
It is also based on a true event at the time with some of the facts changed to make it acceptable to the cinema audience.
Great movie with Judd Hirsch, Kate Nelligan & Stockard Channing.
Thank you, will do :)
The poorly educated has always been an issue in the United States of America. Sad so many ignorant people existed and exist today.
Something else was their basic science illiteracy. There are explosions on the planet Mars. Within ten minutes Martian spaceships are landing in New Jersey. Not even the Starship Enterprise could reach Earth that fast! The listeners never bothered to think that through--they just feaked out out like a bunch of ninnies--or bubble-headed boobies! Oh, the pain! The pain! The pain!
If ignorance is bliss, why are there so many angry ignorant people?
The dihydrogen monoxide parody got a lot of panicky people up in arms.
That story just didn’t hold water.
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Shree, you are interested in future videos on Hollywood scandals and bizarre history.
May I please suggest some possible future topics:
The Black Dahlia Murder
The Death of George "Superman" Reeves
The Louella Parsons/Hedda Hopper Feud
The Charlie Chaplin Divorce Scandal
The Red Scare and Hollywood
The Errol Flynn Scandal
The Casting of Scarlett O'Hara
Hollywood is a strange town so there are plenty of more potential topics.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for your suggestions, I'd be happy to cover them in future episodes 😇🙏🙏
@@ShreeNation You're welcome! Good luck! :)
When you think about it, the whole thing in retrospect is hilarious but it worked because it was on the radio (so people could not see) and because Welles read it as an emergency broadcast, the radio station going along and not playing commercials.
The panic was not as widespread as subsequent papers led to believe but it did cause outrage and got Welles noticed nationally.
Anyone who read the novel could see it was not genuine as Welles introduction was almost word for word that of the book but it also shows how easy it is to induce mass hysteria.
The book is quite good and well ahead of its time though, think that at a time before the world wars, HG Wells described an invasion that killed millions of people who were disintegrated by the aliens 'heat beams'.
The 2005 Spielberg adaptation starring Tom Cruise follows closely the book (including the ending) and if you like The War of the Worlds story, it's a worthy watch.
Yes exactly!! Definitely reading the original book and watching the movie adaptations soon 😍
@@ShreeNation I'll Happily-Endorse the '05 "War of the Worlds" by Cruise-&-Spielberg: it's My Favorite interpretation of this Story🤩and My Mother Enjoys it too!👍
@@tomhoffman4330 Wonderful, can't wait to watch it! I even used a few seconds of the film in this video for dramatization purposes (simply because the movie kept showing up when I googled "war of the worlds" LOL)
Good video Shree....you should also do a reacton and/or review of the Academy Award winning 1953 version & the two 2005 film versions (one made by Steven Spielberg & the other made by The Asylum company) of 'The War Of The Worlds' (and perhaps comment on all changes made between each film, how they each tribute/make references to the controversial radio program & the differences from the original novel). 👍
Great idea, will do!
A+ video essay. 👍
Thank you so so much ❤❤🙏
BRAVO, MS. SHREE! You seem to have a better understanding of this historical incident then anyone else I've seen talking about it on RUclips! "War Of The Worlds" was the perfect storm for disaster in that you had the nation on the precipice of a second forthcoming world war with tensions running very high, a very new broadcast medium that people were inclined to willingly believe in with blind faith, and the machinations of an aspiring director and producer in Orson Welles, who later admitted he WANTED something like this to happen! Today, something like this would be immediately debunked on the internet, but in the Depression of the 1930's, if you heard it on the radio, it was TRUE, and everything else just fell in line behind that...EDIT: By the way, Ms. Shree, since you ARE a film reactor, there IS a movie about this for you to react to: "The Night That Panicked America" was an ABC made for TV movie depicting people's reaction to the broadcasts, and it boasts a very strong cast including Vic Morrow, Eileen Brennan, John Ritter (Three's Company), Meredith Baxter (Family Ties) and even radio legend Kasey Casem himself! This is available for free on RUclips, and I would very much love to see you spotlight this film some day! 🙂
Thank you so much, that means a lot! ❤❤🙏 And thank you for the recommendation, I will definitely look into the film as well! 😍
I haven't left a comment in a while! I wanted to let you know that you did a beyond magnificent job on this video! I support your idea to do more!
These suggestions are off topic, but here goes! I know you pick the films you react to via a certain criteria you have, but I'll suggest these films regardless! The 1st one is the 2015 movie Age Of Adaline with Blake Lively, 2nd the 2016 film Before I Fall and finally the 2007 movie Wind Chill with Emily Blunt! They all have a mystical and ominous theme to the story, as well as some suspenseful and dark elements! Bye and take care!
Thank you so much for your feedback, and for the recommendations!! 😇🙏 Age of Adaline is one of my favorite films ❤
Very good and balanced report. Examine examine is the exaggerations about the event, while not denying that indeed there was a panic.
I’ve been subscribed for time, but with this you’ve truly earned a fan
Thank you so much, that really means a lot ❤🙏🙏
👏Bravo, Shree!🥰This was beyond Amazing, it was down-right Mesmerizing: You had My Undivided Attention all the way through!😇That Brilliant Mind of Yours: when You set Yourself up to-do something, You really Go All-the-Way (LOL) No pun intended!😉I could Listen to Your Beautiful Voice All Day-&-Night; and You almost had Me questioning if it all was "Really" happening!🤔If this was only Your First Episode, then I can't wait to find out where You're going next...👍
Btw, I'd previously Recommended some Animated Movies for Future Reactions, and one of those was "Transformers: The Movie" from 1986. Talking about the Impact of Orson Welles, I couldn't help but think of how He'd Iconically Voiced "Unicron" in that Animated Classic! Unicron is quite-literally the Biggest / Most Dangerous Threat to everything Living: if seeing Him isn't enough to Intimidate You (too)😯then just wait until You hear Him "speak!"👌
Your words have encouraged me to continue on since the beginning and I can't thank you enough ❤🙏🙏 Your support and love means so much to me, I am really grateful!! And omg I had no idea Orson Welles voiced a transformer!! Now I can't wait to watch it😍
@@ShreeNation If I say it, then You know it's True😇and I Love You too!🫂
Now that you are well versed on the WotW broadcast, time to watch Buckaroo Banzai 🤠, with Peter Weller (Robocop), Jeff Goldblum, and Christopher Lloyd.
Thanks I definitely will 😇🙏🙏
How dare you disrespect John Lithgow, monkeyboy!
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Hi, Ms. Shree! I'm REALLY looking forward to your show today at 2:30! I'm very well acquainted with Orson Welles' panic broadcast of 1938, and it will be fascinating to hear your interpretations of it
Thank you so much!! I hope you have a good time 😇❤
Awesome war of the worlds video
Thanks for watching!!
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Grew up hearing about this one
Hope you enjoy the episode :)
Happy EASTER 🐰🐣
Happy Easter Shaine! Thanks for watching ❤
I’ve always been fascinated with this story. I listened to the radio broadcast years ago in high school, and I remember just how not convincing it was from today’s standards (laser sounds being produced by flushing toilets, etc). But this was a time when people trusted the media and it at face value.
I think what Orsen Welles created was a very exciting piece of interactive storytelling, and it’s unfortunate that it had the immediate effect of panic.
I think most people were angry at Welles, not for anything he had done, but for how foolish they felt.
Interesting how you mentioned that hysteria was associated with women at the time. Did you know that the word hysteria is in and of itself sexist? It has the same Greek origin as the word hysterectomy, and literally means uterus.
Anyway, great job with this, Shree.
Wow, thank you for educating me on the word "hysteria", I had no idea! And well said, most people were angry at Welles because they felt foolish, and in my opinion the mistrust towards media had started to form. Thanks for watching!! 🙏❤
Shree,I thought about a documentary on Howard Hughes,The Myth,The Man,The Director,..and his Stange Ways.
You read my mind 😉😉😉
@@ShreeNation Yep! Libra Mind(October 20th)) and a Pisces Mind are similar...and compatible.❤️😊
I give my 2 bits. In the mid 70's I heard of war of the worlds played by my teacher. I tried to get a tape cassest of it (was called old time radio) but it was always out. At a family meeting my grandma was saying how dumb todays kids are (gen x) so I used the radio panic about her generation scared of martians.
Grandma was mad and one male family member yelled at me to get in the car.
He asked me how I knew about that event. I told him about the old time radio cassests
He asked to direct him tothe store.
The store owner was not happy to see me. Since I always asked for that war of worlds cassest(he never had in stock). My relitive saw the other cassasts featuring other radio plays (Inner sactum, larule and Hardy ect). He said my god I havn't heard these programs in 40 years.
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every cassest on sight.
The store owener was happy. (first time I saw him 😊).
We drove home and every body was happy and wanted me to play the tapes. I asked did any have a cassest player?
Nope. That was my accounter with War of The Worlds.😊
Haha love that you made the store owner finally happy 😅 Thanks for sharing!
You are so awesome Shree. I'd love to back you.
Great Job on Orson Welles.
Now 1 moment to flirt.
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Anyways keep it up don't let anyone stop or slow you down
If anyone harasses, threatens, looks at you the wrong way.
I can deal with most .
Anyways ..
Keep going
Thank you so much, appreciate the love and support 😇🙏🙏
I had heard a lot about the consequences of that radio broadcast, but only superficially. It has been very interesting and instructive to learn concrete stories about all those events. I think you have chosen a good direction
Thank you so much for your feedback 😇🙏🙏
There were several warnings announcing that the broadcast was a recreation of the H.G. Wells novel.
Brilliant! I can't believe how great that was. I feel like I just lived it. You uncovered so many great anecdotes and little details, just excellent work, excellent presentation. I'm going to just write a SLIGHT correction for the last section about Welles' post-radio controversy career, I hope you don't mind: although War of The Worlds did follow him his whole life, Citizen Kane was the even bigger thing that followed him his whole life, and every film he did was compared to it.....unfavorably. And constantly asked about it. War Of The Worlds directly led to him being invited to Hollywood and given total artistic control - something that had never been done.....and wouldn't be done again! They gave him complete carte blanche to do whatever he wanted. So it definitely helped his career at first! RKO soured on Welles after Hearst blacklisted the film, which led to the whole Ambersons/It's All True saga, which is complicated and ultimately really sad.
I just happened to read one of the very first issues of Playboy magazine, which was 1954, and they have a feature on Orson Welles, talking about him being a genius director, and citing both Citizen Kane and Magnificent Ambersons as two of the greatest movies yet made. They definitely talk about War Of The Worlds at some length, but the main thrust is him as director and as a movie star and as a great actor, constantly working, always in major parts, either the leads or as the villain, or as some authority figure with immediate gravitas. Jane Eyre (1943) , The Third Man, those are super classics. Moby Dick, Catch 22....the guy was in a million movies. The Stranger, which he directed, was a big hit. So he was definitely known as a great actor, and for Citizen Kane, which was topping polls as early as the 60s. it was on TV all the time, etc ec. When he went on talk shows, he'd be asked about Citizen Kane and his radio days more than anything.
All his other movies, you couldn't see them! You had to hunt them down. So you're totally right: after he died, we got to see all these films we'd only heard about, like his three Shakespeare films, or The Trial (all great), or have them restored, like Touch Of Evil (fantastic film noir). So that's the only thing I think needs noting: the radio controversy definitely was a notorious thing he was always asked about, definitely in the top two things he'd be asked about (and about working in radio in general)......but he was definitely known as a great artist and a movie star, the War Of The Worlds (and Citizen Kane) being part of his legend. And Hearst killed Citizen Kane more than anything. Ok, geez, I didn't mean to write so much. FANTASTIC VIDEO! Thank you for giving me that incredible experience, I friggin' loved it. I will be rewatching this!!!
Thank you for the correction, really appreciate your feedback 🙏❤ I'm so glad you enjoyed, that means a lot!!
@@ShreeNation Yeah, listen, anyone who clicks on this, they already know all that Orson stuff I just wrote. What they don't know is all the stuff you uncovered and featured and presented in a really vivid way. I can't stop thinking about it! I called my uncle, who is an Orson fanatic, to tell him about it! (he wasn't home!). So.....I can't think of any higher praise than that! (PS: Hope that Patreon message wasn't too difficult to read, I have to figure out how to make paragraph breaks in that thing!)
@@TTM9691 That is so wonderful, thank you so much for sharing, hope your uncle has a good time watching :) Yes I just responded to your Patreon message, thank you so much for sharing such great and detailed information, i am truly grateful
The first time I heard Jeff Wayne's War of the World, my dad put the LP on to lull my brother and me to sleep when I was 7 or something. It scared the everloving shit out of me, I wasn't certain whether it was real, especially with the ending. I would have totally fallen for this broadcast and lost my mind probably
i hope you do more stuff like this
Thank you so much, I will definitely be posting more videos like this twice a month, along with weekly movie reactions!! 😇🙏
Yes, more please!
Absolutely!! Coming right up!! 😌🙏
Anybody notice a very,very,young Orson Wells looks like Shree's younger brother? LOL 😂😂 just an observation.
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Coincidence? 🧐
Haha now I can't unsee it 😂
@@ShreeNation LOL!😂 Next Documentaries: Film Director Howard Hughes,*Albert Hitchcock (*his last name makes me laugh for some reason just like late actor Dick Smothers😂) v
Great show....ive heard Koch's name pronounced kotch and coke....he gave a talk at my college cleveland state in the 70s and he was still pissed at welles. Haw!
Yep, got fooled. Time to hide under a rock for one day . . .
Great video. I learned allot on the The War Of The World scare I did not know and also some surprising facts about Orson Welles. I hope you do more videos like this because it is fun to learn this things. I hope you also listen to the 1978 rock classic album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds which great music in it like the songs/music "Forever Autumn" and "The Eve of The War" both were successful
I definitely will!! Thank you so much for watching, glad you had fun 😇🙏🙏
I personally love this type of content. It's also refreshing to see people do something they actually enjoy doing. I believe a lot of people are just prone to hysterics and stupidity. I probably would've sht my pants too 💩
The story of Rudy Ray Moore is pretty interesting. There's also the Twilight Zone movie tragedy, and the Crow Tragedy as well. There's a lot of weird crazy hollyweird history. Thanks for your efforts.
Thank you so much!! Really appreciate the feedback 🙏🙏❤
Also thanks for you're suggestions, something tells me you are gonna LOVE the next episode of this series ;)
I like your reactions a lot, but this video essay is refreshing too... and you did an excellent job! As others have said, you must have put a ton of work into the research, writing, and editing. I hope you plan to do more like this!
Thank you so much!! I definitely plan to make more videos like this twice a month, all the work I put in a video like this is worth it because I get to learn so much in the process!! To see your positive feedback is all I need 🙏🙏❤
Another proof for education is everything, and a right for everyone. Not just for the privileged.
The modern day decendant of Welles War of the World's prank would have to be Phil Hendrie. Theres a new documentary about him (called "Hendrie") on Amazon and other streaming apps. Phil is a straight up genius... a one man acting and comedy troupe... hes so good at "talking to himself" as different characters (voices) that listeners really believed they were real. And Phil did more than a few WOTW-like "social experiments" where he tricked the audience into believeing something crazy was happening.. like when he did a fake "live" broadcast from Disneyland, where Phil is repeatedly tormented by a kid who keeps running up and hitting him in the crotch with a sack of ball berings 😂 Disney almost sued over that one.
Wow, I gotta check out that documentary!! 😲
This is a great video Shree, lots of excellent research behind this and the way you present yourself is extremely professional. I look forward to seeing more videos like this.
My only other comment (which isn't just directed at you specifically) is that I disagree with labeling Welles' broadcast a hoax or prank. From everything I've heard and read, Welles and his crew did not intend to fool people into believing that an actual alien invasion was underway, they simply tried to make an interesting, believable, and immersive entertainment experience for their audience, and the fact that some listeners believed it (which got hyped up by the newspapers, as you said) was not their intention. If you listen to the original broadcast (which is available on RUclips), they identify the program by name at the beginning and at the midpoint break (which occurs later than expected as you state, but they do identify both "War of the Worlds" and "Mercury Theater of the Air"). Some newspaper listings of radio broadcast schedules for the day list "War of the Worlds" as the program title for Mercury Theater of the Air's broadcast that night. I don't think it's right to call it a hoax of the creators didn't intend to fool people.
Anyway, enough ranting from me. Thanks again for the video, hope you are doing well, and good luck with this new series!
Thank you for the correction, yes it was definitely not a prank but a great misunderstanding by the listeners. The pinned "prank" comment is definitely not factual and only in the spirit of April Fools 😄 Even if Welles tries to say later on that he was in on the joke, or that he ended the broadcast by saying that the broadcast was intended as a Halloween scare, I don't believe the panic was intentional.
Thanks for watching, so glad you enjoyed ❤🙏🙏
Can’t wait for this! Next u have to comment on the biggest goof in cinematic history. With 2017 josstice league!
How short sited & knee jerk reaction can a studio be? Had they let their universe breath and give it a chance we would have had one of the best super hero universes!
But nooooo, they use the death of Snyder’s daughter as an opportunity to change 80% of the film & turn it into an abomination!
Excellent idea!! I've heard of the trainwreck that was the Justice League and now I can't wait to do a deep dive, thank you ❤🙏🙏
@@ShreeNation if u need any info let me know. These guys comicmoviemarks put this video out a full year before the Snyder cut was even announced. ruclips.net/video/ysTtSzDaw-U/видео.htmlsi=rSCNDfw7gUEK7KJe
Looking forward to this video & future ones.
It’s actually pretty nuts, when u get into it. Even the sites like Collider which I used to follow until the whole Snyder cut fiasco. Denied its existence even though Zack filmed 96% of it by October 2016 & they were a full 6 months into post production when he & Debra left the production.
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love the make up miss looks cool
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Speaking of "April's fools which is not just my birtday :>" April's Fools Day from 1986 (ger. title The Horror Party >_> ).. anyway a pretty clever horror slasher movie which is criminally underrated and forgotten.. cannot say more. Just watch it. ;)
Will do! And a belated happy birthday :)
"Social media influence" is super new and dangerous, though, right? :P
Hahaha!! 😂😂🥁
Ever seen Quest for Fire? Movie about cavemen I like because I like anthropology
No i haven't, sounds interesting :)
I wouldn't call this a prank, since there was no intent to deceive. That people thought it was real came as a shock.
That is true
Shree, I'm psyched to see this!!!! I'm on my way out right now, but I just want to let you know: today is the Easter holiday up here, so views are going to be down probably. Don't be discouraged if today's numbers aren't high, half of your subscribers are probably with family, etc. I'm out the door right now to see mine! So when I get home in a few hours, I'm checking this out, I'm leaving the tab up and everything. Awesome Welles! Love that guy! I can't remember if you've seen Citizen Kane yet. Ok, let me go, and I'll be talking to you again in a few hours.
PS: I just remembered, you HAVE seen Citizen Kane. Sorry!
No need for identification, i knew it was you from your profile picture! 😌 Thank you for the heads up, I had no idea it was Easter and should've timed it better😅 But no worries, thank you so much and I hope you enjoy the video when you get home! Happy Easter❤❤
Thank Shree and I loved this! Yes please do more of these. If you like to learn more about the man you need to go to YT channel Learning About Movies for it's video Orson Welles Seven Best and Why He's Great and YT channel Rocket Jump Film School for it's video Behind the Edit The Orson Welles Memo
Wow thank you for the recommendations!! Will definitely check out these channels! 😍🙏🙏
"Ended" his career? It took him to Hollywood and into movies!
You're right; "ruined" would be better in this instance since it typecast him from a serious actor-director into being just "the horror man"
i can't talk junk, i fell for Spinal Tap being real when i was 13...
shree, did you ever play the nintendo game, maniac mansion from the 1980s? a meteor crashes in the intro scene and you can buy meteor insurance in the game and there are aliens that look like tentacles in the mansion
Ooh interesting, no I haven't played this game but it sounds fun 😍👌
Dear Shree, am trying to send you a message via your shreenation page but it won't let me submit!!
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Why don't you react to it Shree?
You could do the whole thing, it's public domain.
Great idea! I will definitely react to it sometime :)
@@ShreeNation iirc, there's a ton of Mercury Theatre stuff on youtube, they did a pretty good version of Dracula too, thats worth a listen
There used to be more on the Internet Archive as well, Around The World In 80 Days, a Sherlock Holmes one, and The Count Of Monte Cristo, I can't remember if they all have Welles, but they are all worth a listen if you're interested.
Interesting. You're getting into the information side of things along with your reactions. Not sure I need all that for a reaction, but we'll see how you approach it. :)
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