Special Effects for "War Of The Worlds" (1953)
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2011
- Fascinating and very informative documentary about the making of special and visual effects for one of the best and most influential motion pictures in the movie history - George Pal's "War Of The Worlds" (1953). The documentary refers to the making of innovative special effects and giving background information by providing some illuminating facts about the production. Commentaries by actress Ann Robinson (Sylvia Van Buren), special effects historian Bob Burns, assistant director Mickey Moore and amongs them, a few words from two times Academy Award Winner - visual effects designer Robert Skotak from 4-Ward Productions, Inc., who participated in creation of such modern classics and visually astonishing films as "Aliens" (1986), "The Abyss" (1989) and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991).
This cut is from the video documentary "The Sky Is Falling: Making "War Of The Worlds" (1995).
www.imdb.com/title/tt0480941/ 
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The martian war machines in this film are still the most awesome looking ships I have ever seen. This movie still rocks!
Not bad for 1953!
What about the tripods in the 2005 version?
They were more impressive on Robinson Crusoe On Mars, without the goose-necked ray-gun
@@MsXizan Not bad for NOW.
I have 3. Occasionally have to reglue a part. The plastic is different stuff
This movie was so good even for 1953. In terms of special effects, script and story, acting, and directing. Its just so good. It was ahead of its time. The kind of movie you can watch over and over.
The ambition of it is remarkable. This movie practically invented the modern alien invasion film. Absolutely amazing!
@Marvel Fan dude, the movie was made in the 50s, of course the effects aren't always gonna age well
@@MegaCrocosaurus92 It was the book this movie is based which invented modern alien invasion film.
I remember when I was about 10 years old. Our family went to New York to visit my father's older sister who lived on Long Island. My father took us to Times Square and playing was "The War of the Worlds." The photo of the theater brought up what I recall of that time. I asked my father if we could see the movie. He looked at his watch and said, "The prices have changed." The matinee price was out at the time. I had to wait something like 2 years before the film got to our local theater. It was always one of my favorite sci-fi films of all time.
Well, it's science fiction, OF COURSE it was ahead of its time. That's the definition of science fiction. You wouldn't say it was behind its time, would you?
Ann Robinson aged extremely well. And at 93, she lives on. Gene Barry died at age 90, but will live on forever in film.
For 1953 those effects were truly amazing.
This movie for 1953 is outstanding for it's special effects. It puts many of those today using CGI to shame.
The problem with CGI is that there is Too much of it. The CGI effects today doesn't look realistic. Looks less real than the special effects 70 years ago.
Wouldn't go that far, you can clearly see the buildings are models. The Tom cruise version has much better effects
The sound effects in this movie were incredible. The eerie sound the tripods made when they moved and the sounds when they fired their ray guns were so good.
This movie along with The Day the Earth Stood Still are both groundbreaking and timeless. Much better than today's sci fi efforts
These FX were excellent, todays are excellent. One builds on the other. The effects of today would not exist without these people, same people with a love of the art of SFX, just another generation.
Don't forget Forbidden Planet too.
Don’t forget Forbidden Planet!
It's not just the effects that made them great. They had terrific scripts and were well acted and directed. They also let the imagination work! That is so important for such films. Today, everything is thrown in your face. One does not need imagination.
Why make it a competition? There's plenty of amazing modem sci-fi with incredible digital effects.
If you can't say something nice about one thing without shitting on another, then don't speak.
I love how Ann Robinson says "No computer had to do that!"
You are using a computer every day: your phone. 😂
This movie scared the crap out of me as a kid in the early 1960s. Still holds up today. Love it.
I saw it when it was released, and it scared the crap out of me too. All kinds of space invasion movies were coming out at that time. I loved them all, but this was one of the best.
1953... little to no computers and yet still intrigues and sends shivers down your spine.
Well no computers they had access to. The ones that did exist( like the Univacs) filled rooms.
An incredible film that will always be the ultimate alien invasion film. Ann Robinson & Gene Barry had great chemistry and the story that they were a part of makes this one of the best Sci Fi movies of all time.
Agent 86 yes they are great films but have become quite outdated with some of the sci fi films now and the effects we can do always got these old guys hating on cgi when there is actually a lot of good films with them even the 2005 war of the worlds had great special effects in it
It just goes to show that good design lives forever. Those flying machines are still beautiful and elegant today. I never tire of seeing the 1953 War of the Worlds. The later one with Tom Cruise was pale in comparison.
I know this might be unfair, but i think this one pales in comparison to the Spielberg film. I really love this movie and the effects are incredible for it's time, but the newer one is closer to the book and the characters are better imo.
SoundsOfMars 2000-Except for that damn kid! The other thing that bothered me was no matter Cruise drove that minivan it was obstacle free. Even when the airliner was knocked out of the sky, with all that debris around the house, there was still a clear lane for Tom!
@@tiggersboy Yes, it has flaws. I really hate that Tom Cruise plays the role of the lead character, he breaks my immersion. Also, how the hell did Robbie survive?!
@@tiggersboy Which kid do you mean? Do you mean Rachel? I didn't find her annoying like everyone else did. She acted just like a kid would have during an alien invasion.
@@timrosswood4259 It's too bad that the 2005 movie is stupid, with logical inconsistencies that boggle the mind the moment you give them any kind of thought beyond a superficial level. The aliens had to - HAD TO - land in some kind of mother ships for credibility's sake, because the replacement methodology for their arrival would require them to be clairvoyant over "millions of years", and even THAT makes no sense. Why send fighting machines to battle creatures that didn't even exist yet when you sent them? And who buried them, and why? If you landed on the planet when there were no humans, or extremely primitive human ancestors at the very least, in order to bury the machines, why not just invade it then? Spielberg didn't want to fall back on the "trope" of aliens landing, but for the aliens to have watched us for millions of years, when they could have teleported to vehicles they didn't even know they would need long before they needed them when they sent them, is inconceivably, flabbergastingly moronic. Spielberg set Friedman and Koepp an impossible task, and it just doesn't work.
I love the special effects guy and his daughter. How lovely, and what an experience for a 12 year old.
What I love about the Tom Cruise version of the film apart from the jacket which I bought from Wested Leather, is that Ann Robinson and Gene Barry played the grandparents which I thought was a great nod to the original film.
I was 10 when I saw this film in its first re-release to theaters in 1958. Trust me when I say that the effect on all of us kids who saw it was electrifying, scary, and absolutely impressive! A major afternoon at the movies! Nozaki's manta-like war machines were spectacularly alien then, and after 70 years, they manage somehow in 2022 to exude that same timeless strangeness and malevolence.
Agreed. And the sounds the alien weapons made were out of this world too!
Charlie Gomora also created the Salt Vampire and the original Gorn for Star Trek TOS!
this movie definitely deserved to win an oscar for best visual effects it's both a great story with ground breaking visuals, sound effects, and mother ships that look so amazing
@@runidjurhuus3937 yes
Oscars wins don't indicate quality.
For me is the most spectacular
film of science fiction for all time
thanks mister pal for you movies
I love the soldier pushing the burning papers off of the table while a guy is running around on fire.
That's dedication!
Not sure how true but that stuntman supposedly suffered severe burns because the fire blew in his face
The alien encounter still freaks me out to this day. That scream it makes! :(
[Reeeees in Martian]
War of the Worlds, The Thing From Another World, Body Snatchers and The Day The Earth Stood Still are my all-time favorite and always will be - what I consider the definitive classic sci-if’s. Todays stuff can’t touch ‘em.
Agree but would add This Island Earth. Who doesn’t want to build their own interocitor !!!
*It Came from Outer Space.* - Not great with special effects but set a mark of it's own. The professor from Gilligan's Island was in the movie.
@@JamminClemmons yes. Russell Johnson. He was in This Island Earth also.
I’ve watched them on the tv when I was a kid. Now I have war of the worlds.the thing and the day the earth stood still on dvd. I would get them out and watch them. I know the made reboots of these movies and watched them, but I like the originals.
Don't forget Forbidden Planet!!
5:10 Such a shame that the original martian ships got melted down. They should have ended up in the Smithsonian.
+Catzilla check out the ships in ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS - directed by Haskin!
Encore1234567890 definitely. When I’m reading _War of the Worlds_ or _Massacre of Mankind_ , I can’t help but picture the 1953 ships whenever the Martian flying machine makes an appearance.
The sleazo Canadians made fiberglass copies for their TV series from 1988
@wayne pitty MOST movie props were just pitched after a movie was made. The films were tossed after the initial run. The idea of TV and re-runs never occurred to a studio. Almost all of 20th Century Fox's productions of the 1930s were simply thrown out by the studio, lost forever.
@Dennis Mitchell Forrest J Ackerman
This is my all time favorite Sci Film. Much better then any remake made today.
I agree with WOTWs, but you cannot argue that ALL remakes are bad? The Thing was an incredible remake.
This is why its still watchable today
The first time l saw this movie was in 1967 on NBC Tuesday Night Movie. I was over at a friend's house and we watched it together. Unfortunately, we had to watch it in black & white, but we still enjoyed the movie. I still enjoy it, 46 years later.
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You can tell that she tried not to say "scared the piss out of me" right there, lol.
This was an amazing movie for it's time and I remember it scared the crap out of me as a kid.
One of my favorite movies!! Hard to believe it was shot in 1953….
A true classic.
I love the sound that came out of the alien crafts glowing green wing tip weapons, definitely out of this world!
Ann Robinson...American actress and stunt horse rider, perhaps best known for her work in the science-fiction classic The War of the Worlds and in the 1954 film Dragnet, in which she starred as a Los Angeles police officer opposite Jack Webb and Ben Alexander
Born: May 25, 1929 (age 93 years).
Who else thinks the little Martians remind you of ET? Especially the shot where the guy is running away.
Loved this movie as a kid, probably on its second-run. I was only six when it came out. Still love it today.
Ann should be reassured. The version I saw a couple of years ago had her favorite scene restored. The one with Gene's tie reminding her of her uncle. I believe I also saw the other one she said had been cut. The one where Gene is shaking her.
Finally gave it a full, uninterrupted watch and...wow. It had no rival in terms of special effects until Star Wars. Definitely deserves a watch by anyone else from younger generations who can appreciate historical context.
One of the top 10 science-fiction movies ever made, in my opinion. When I saw it as a kid in the 1970's, it both amazed and terrified me. It is so creative and yet so believable. One of the great aspect is that the aliens have this three eyes structure, which they replicated in their machines! What great sci-fi!
i just love the behind the scenes specials to these great films.war of the world is one of the greatest classic sci-fi films of all time,right up there with the day the earth stood still.
I'm only twenty-six and have seen every ****ing horror movie you can imagine from hostel to saw to all sorts of Japanese horror movies, but this was my worst nightmare, no; my WORST night-terror when I was a child. I can never shake the dread I feel when those machines on the march. they are in my deepest nightmares to this day, hunting me down without mercy.
Me too its shit me up.
For me it was the Flying Monkeys from wizard of Oz. I'm 52 and they creep me out to this day...
@@erikhafer1415 .....I was terrified of the flying monkeys also. It was made worse by my dad - who would tease me and my
brothers with " the monkey face spookers will get you" ! I woke up more than once - in the middle of the
night - screaming that the monkey face spookers were coming to get me !
My dad was a sci fi freak and I remember seeing this which was 20 years old before I was born, lol.
Will forever remain one of the greatest Sci Fi movies of all time.
Every scifi movie needs extras with Bob Burns!
He always exaggerates in his interviews.
The Martian character, even though on screen for less than a few minutes, was an obvious influence for Spielberg's E.T.
The scene where she reminisces about her Uncle Matthew must have been restored, because I remember it.
The Martian "Swan Ship" is the most graceful, beautiful and frightening weapon of war ever created.
This makes me emotional. Such an amazing movie and such amazing people made it happen ♥️
Picture still holds up. One of my favs as a boy.
This was the first movie that I had ever seen in color way back in the 1960s! To this day every time this film is on I watch it on TV and I have it on DVD and recorded on my DVR . I sit with my grandchildren now and tell them how scary it was to watch this movie as a kids, they just laugh and say papa you were scared of this? Kids are so desensitized now days.
As a young boy seeing it in the theatre I recall this being filmed in 3-D. When the alien machine first blasts those men left to guard the “meteor” the shower of sparks was directed at the movie audience to great effect.
@Artie B. Rockin' I saw that movie too. Time can play games with your brain. Looking at the old photo of the theatre marque I see no reference to 3D. I stand corrected…thank you for your response.
Thanksgiving afternoon around 1982, watching channel 11, on the old giant TV that sat on the floor like a tank...great movie memories
Best sci fi sound ever those heat rays have.
3 electric guitars on reverb in reverse.
@@JAMESLEVEE really, cool, thanks.
I always imagined it was the sped up sound of a hard-starting Chevy
This movie along with the original The Thing and The Day the Earth Stood Still are my absolute favorite SciFi flix. Loved them as a kid watching them with my older brother and Dad on a SciFi n Horror show that would come out at midnight on Fridays called Project Terror and I still love even to this day.
Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, and When World's Collide were also on my list of favorites!
It was and still is one of my favorite movies from that era.
Gotta love that era of sci fi
I used to get horrible nightmares when I was a kid after watching that movie but I kept watching it every time it came on. A true classic. Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
I always found the sound to be the best part of the film. The ships emerging from the ditch, heat ray sweeping around. One of Speibergs MANY mistakes in his version was not using this sound somewhere.
Practical effects FTW!
I must agree with you all. I've been watching this movie in awe & admiration since I was a little guy in the 50's. They did a brilliant job on this film that will always stand the test of time. Even with what we know about particle beams & plasma bolts,etc nowadays. Pretty darn close. I have it on DVD with this making of in it's entirety on it. I'll have a book coming out soon on Kindle Fire where I try to follow in HG's & George Orwell's footsteps. I'll have to go some to equal this kind of brilliance...
We didn't have micro computers & CGI back then. remember that before criticising. And modern remakes of it pale by comparison. This is brilliant by the old standards of moviemaking. And the new one doesn't use the same machines, but modern adaptations of the ones in the book I have by HG.
Still one of my favorites.
I was a 4 year old when it was released so never saw this until it came to TV but, I loved that film.
I was already aware of the book as my family read classic literature to us so I was brought up with such stuff. I had read much of Wells’s work by the time I saw War Of The Worlds and The Time Machine.
This is my all time favorite Si Fi movie, so Glad, I saw this! Thanks for the first special people who made the special effects at that time.
i admire the suit driver actors . period . takes a special kind of person to do that.
That was a great documentary. I finally know who designed my all-time favorite "spaceship'" hull.
Debs husband says this is one of the great all time classics! A great movie from start to finish!
One of my favorite movies of all time. I was an 80s kid and despite all the movies out at the time I still rented this every chance I got. This is what got me interested in HG Wells and WotW. I've read the book multiple times. The 2005 adaptation was pretty good but this is the best one. I had no idea they originally wanted the walking tripods but couldn't afford it so they went with flying machines. I always tell people that it's not terribly off because at the end of the original book they found flying machine prototypes that the Martians were working on but never finished before they got sick.
In the book there is mention of a working flying machine
I was 5 years old in 1970 when my parents let me watch this for the first time. It scared the living sh*t out of me. I think it's the only movie to ever do so. But it also hooked me on sci-fi, especially space-related sci-fi. It was and is an amazing film.
Just got this movie on 4k and I absolutely love it
This is truly a great film. Truly. It was not, however, the first scifi film. There was A Trip to the Moon in 1902 by by Georges Méliès, and also Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS in 1927. Additionally there were all the Buck Rogers films, from 1939. Perhaps War of the Worlds really opened Hollywood's eyes to the financial potential of the genre, but it was not the first in its genre. That said, it is indeed a masterwork which perhaps paved the way for this sector of the industry.
Great movie way ahead of its time
When movies were movies! Love these guys! Used to watch these movies on Chiller Theater on Friday nights in West Liberty, Ohio (WLW Cincinnati). The only days when TV was on all night long. And, they played the National Anthem at night and in the morning.
Chiller Theater doesn't exist here out West
A movie decades ahead of its time.
One of my favorite movies of all time.
30 years later, when they decided to make another War Of The Worlds movie, people would say shit like "the tom cruise version beats the 2043 version by a mile"
You don't have to wait 30 years. Now that the book's finally public domain and Jeff Wayne's stranglehold on the international rights is kaput, the BBC will be remaking it later this year in the original Victorian-Edwardian setting. So there'll be a more book-leaning version to have for comparison.
Quite frankly I hate the Tom Cruze version. Just like the Keanu Reeves version of The Day The Earth Stood Still,I hated it. There’s nothing like the original.
Probably in early 60’s, the local movie theater showed WOTW on the big screen for a Saturday afternoon kids matinee. I believe that is the moment I became a SF fan. Still, a great movie.
I loved this movie when I was growing up (still do). Because of that, there is no movie I’ve repeatedly viewed throughout my life than this one.
Still, one of the absolute best films in depicting an alien invasion! The Martian war machines were ominous as they 'glided' over the various sets. The menacing, metallic 'shrouds' with their cobra-necked heat rays were in many ways, strangely beautiful and terrifying! To make the machines even more frightening was the eerie, green glow that illuminated the central viewports, the three electronic leg ports and the twin winingtips... essential 'attention' grabbers that solidified "WOTW' status as a science fiction classic!
Good, smart work like this holds up. It's always a fun to tag along.
Still the best Sifi film ever alien ships never been beaten for effect
Am I the only one who was a little sad during the evacuation sequence? I don't know if I was sad during it or scared, but they were probably going for horror for this movie likely.
It shows the tragedy of war moreso than films that focus on action shots.
Great seeing all the talented people who put this together. Hard work!!!
It shows what sci-fi films could be if a major studio with a big enough for good special effects were behind but sci-fi films in the 50's weren't profitable
This has always been one of my favorite movies. I have every version I could find of this movie, including a copy of Orson Welle's radio broadcast.
I saw this in the ‘80s when I was a little kid and it gave me nightmares for years! Never forgot those three-color eyes on stalks and for the longest time I thought one was going to come out of the shower drain or from under my bed!
A great film with fantastic effects! You can see the wires above the spaceships though.
One of my favorite movies ❤
Why isn't this classic film out on blu ray ?
All these years later I still think it's damn good movie.
Liked, subscribed and belled. *Excellent documentary!* 👍👌🖖👏
Love this movie. It is sit on the edge of your seat, wondering what’s next. Bravo !
One of greats !!👏👏👍🏻👍🏻
My favourite film of all time👽👽👽
One of my favorite movies. Loved it when I was a kid in the 60s.
Cool. Thanks for sharing.
I read some time back that it was originally going to be filmed in 3-D but they didn't have the money. I could see why with all the amazing SFX. If you closely watch the film you can see 3-D camera positions. It would have been amazing in 3-D.
Thanks
I'm 63 now in 2020. I believe I may have been around 10 (1967) when I first saw this film. It was scary for a 10 year old. I watched the movie several times thereafter and looked forward to see it. The special effects were outstanding for a picture made in 1953. Same for Forbidden Planet. I saw the Tom Cruise movie as well and of course Mr. Spielberg did a fine job. The second movie was darker with more humanity throughout I think. I liked both and both great movies for their timeframe.
Fantastic!!! : )
Aw man, those saucers should've been in a museum... not wasted just because they were copper.
Remember seeing as youngster, was awesome then still awesome now!⭐⭐⭐
Wonderful!...
I wonder how much of the design of the Klingon battlecruisers from Star Trek TOS was inspired by the Martian ships in this film. If you take the "cobra head" periscope weapon and reposition it on the front of the ship pointing forward and add warp nacelles at the tips of the "manta ray" body, you have the basic contours of the Klingon design.
"War Of The Worlds" is Probably the Best Sci fi film made in the 50's
This movie is a classic.