Orson Welles: The 'alien invasion' that fooled America - BBC News

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @elis6299
    @elis6299 Год назад +36

    They don’t make them like Orson anymore; what a dazzling intellect! I suggest watching some interviews with him - fantastic storyteller with a very eventful life.

  • @luzcannon9753
    @luzcannon9753 Год назад +31

    How insightful. If only we would use his approach to the radio(in not believing whatever is fed to us) to the internet nowadays.

  • @joermnyc
    @joermnyc Год назад +11

    “Anything that came from that new machine was believed” sadly that’s still true.

  • @gazza124561
    @gazza124561 Год назад +8

    Wow , he nailed today's truth

  • @titteryenot4524
    @titteryenot4524 Год назад +9

    This immortal quote from _The Third Man_ may not be necessarily historically true, but it’s still brilliant: “In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

  • @markfrench9004
    @markfrench9004 Год назад +7

    I never knew there were people hiding out some 5 weeks after the event,

  • @godlike5178
    @godlike5178 Год назад +8

    wow, this is deep
    favorite part: "some hymn of praise to the American cornfields"
    That man certainly knew how to tell a story

  • @DanielDeSaintMalo
    @DanielDeSaintMalo Год назад +4

    Not just the United States were affected. The United States is the most known case of panic howeven in Ecuador some people really believe it and they made other portions of the society believe them.

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 Год назад +2

    Orson Welles was not to blame, only the same sort of fools, who still believe everything they read or hear. He nails it here.

  • @mrdando
    @mrdando Год назад +4

    I have this event on cd. Very believable

  • @tigertiger1699
    @tigertiger1699 Год назад +1

    Bang on

  • @fabiolamadonna5277
    @fabiolamadonna5277 4 дня назад +1

    ORSON WELLS E A INVENÇÃO DE ALIENS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂... SERES HUMANOS ADORAM O SOBRENATURAL.

  • @niniimuka
    @niniimuka Год назад +2

    True today,as it was true then.

  • @public.public
    @public.public Год назад +2

    The Martians landed in Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction.

  • @Idiron
    @Idiron Год назад +1

    Amazing

  • @GrandpaVince
    @GrandpaVince Год назад +3

    Those pesky aliens met their match when good old mulder and skully investigated them

  • @PlanetImo
    @PlanetImo Год назад +1

    Oh wow!

  • @damanimcclain2065
    @damanimcclain2065 Год назад +2

    And spawned some of the greatest movies ever thanks wells

  • @Thedrop83
    @Thedrop83 Год назад +4

    Very rare genius

  • @1969kodiakbear
    @1969kodiakbear Год назад

    SpaceX and Tesla. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

  • @savethecoconutgroveplayhou548
    @savethecoconutgroveplayhou548 24 дня назад

    Why did Orson suddenly grow a British accent? Why do many celebrities do so?

  • @auro1986
    @auro1986 Год назад +1

    bbc, when are they actually coming?

  • @DemiurgeRulesOK
    @DemiurgeRulesOK Год назад +1

    "...exactly what would have happened if the world had been invaded..."
    (What would have happened if aliens specifically domiciled on Mars had built warring craft and had flown them towards the Earth, then breached the hostile atmosphere and landed softly on the face of the planet to wage war, that is) 😁
    I wonder if Orson Wells had been having a quiet laugh to himself when he uttered those words.
    Still, what he said regarding the "magic box" (or the radio box) was profound.
    Another well known person around that era but across the Atlantic was George Orwell (Eric Blair) who would often strenuously allude to the power of progressively newer technology as a propaganda mechanism or as a weapon of mass influence.
    He used it (radio) effectively himself to assert a concept and (almost surreptitiously) provide some insight in relation to political influences and how easily people can be taken in simply by powerfully backed or powerful words.

  • @ben-san120
    @ben-san120 Год назад

    Must of been hell

  • @thembill8246
    @thembill8246 Год назад +1

    The impact of this was greatly exaggerated as propaganda by newspapers who were against the implementation and widespread of radio. Nobody tried to kill themselves.
    They also announced the very clearly more than once during the show that it was a presentation of the story, and It didn't even have that good of listener numbers in the first place compared to basically every other show that was on at the time.

  • @NoWindNoSunNoPower
    @NoWindNoSunNoPower Год назад +2

    Few in the UK is fooled by the current alien invasion.

    • @RightAwayProductions005
      @RightAwayProductions005 Год назад +1

      Well the War Of The Worlds was an advanced alien race, yet racists dont really seem to fit the ‘advanced’ bit

    • @NoWindNoSunNoPower
      @NoWindNoSunNoPower Год назад

      @@RightAwayProductions005 But. But. But. They're all scientists, doctors and engineers.

    • @RightAwayProductions005
      @RightAwayProductions005 Год назад

      @@NoWindNoSunNoPower Yeah, your point?

  • @inthem-a-king
    @inthem-a-king Год назад +1

    The Genius who cried Wolf 😄

  • @Bungle-UK
    @Bungle-UK Год назад +1

    Britain is currently experiencing an alien invasion.

    • @metalicminer6231
      @metalicminer6231 Год назад

      A Jewish invasion, fiat currency.

    • @public.public
      @public.public Год назад +1

      Except it isn't.
      It is just a radio play adapted from a book by H G Wells.
      If you are having difficulty differentiating fact from fiction
      you may well need some theraputic assistance?

    • @public.public
      @public.public Год назад

      @@metalicminer6231 Try explaining what you are jabbering on about
      or quite reasonably stand accused of being bonkers?
      Yes the fiat monetary system is a problem for everyone except the billionaires who effectively own it
      but where did you get the idea that all billionaires are of only one religion?

    • @metalicminer6231
      @metalicminer6231 Год назад

      @@public.public All wars are Bankers wars, the second world war was funded by the BIS in Basel Switzerland, an enclave free from prosecution..you do realise it's meant to be against the religious beliefs of Christians and Muslims not to pay usary... just ponder it..

    • @Bungle-UK
      @Bungle-UK Год назад

      @@public.public It certainly is….illegal aliens arrive each day with their medieval belief system.

  • @TheDane_BurnAllCopies
    @TheDane_BurnAllCopies Год назад +2

    It is still a bad thing to say, that it is this radio show that stop’s disclosure..🙄

  • @homewall744
    @homewall744 Год назад +1

    You can fool all of the people some of the time. Government force proves fools can be fooled all the time.

  • @L.LGodwill
    @L.LGodwill Год назад

    Because modern military ammunition has a shelf life ; Not more than nine years; This means that it must be made for a specific task , and it should not be stored randomly . It means waiting for an event to happen ?

    • @retnavybrat
      @retnavybrat Год назад +1

      Which has what to do with Orson Welles discussing the 1938 "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast?

  • @pstar7224
    @pstar7224 Год назад +3

    Misinformation 😂😂😂is not a new phenomenon

  • @YouTubemessedupmyhandle
    @YouTubemessedupmyhandle Год назад

    Why are you covering this on the posts but not the Covid enquiry?

  • @3321far
    @3321far Год назад +1

    The first deep fake, with early 20th century technology. And...... Oh My God! Russian paratroopers have just landed in Atlanta, AAARGGHHH!

  • @fn0rd99
    @fn0rd99 6 месяцев назад

    baloney

  • @amritsaluja5267
    @amritsaluja5267 Месяц назад +1

    Last genius

  • @AWayOfLiving84
    @AWayOfLiving84 8 месяцев назад

    🌏🕵🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @ghostface4245
    @ghostface4245 Год назад +1

    4rr p@les^tine

  • @Arend85
    @Arend85 Год назад

    An alien invasion is actually happening in our world today. It is just not happening in a way that people think it would. It is a covert invasion, happening behind the scenes without the use of military force.
    As a former abductee, I strongly suggest reading the Allies of Humanity briefings to learn more about this. These briefings are available to read free online.

    • @alakani
      @alakani Год назад +2

      Meh. If they figured out interplanetary travel, then they have no need for anything on Earth or any reason to fear or harm Humans. And they can't possibly be worse than my boss. I hope they're hot

    • @Arend85
      @Arend85 Год назад

      @@alakani Very immature and incorrect assumption. This world with its wealth in natural and biological resources is extremely valuable to others. We live on a gem of a planet in a universe full of barren worlds. That is why they are here and that is basically what they are.. aggressive resources explorers.
      The fact that they are technologically advanced doesn't mean that they do no longer need resources of any kind. It actully is just the opposite.