Is it just me, or does the music seem to become sadder at about the point we get to Jupiter? Like we're getting a sense of the Martians' increasing desperation?
MegaFafnir ............Yes , indeed , I believe that you are absolutely correct ! Perhaps a harbinger of the catastrophe that will soon be unveiled and befall the earth in this film...........
Yeah I think that’s the idea, it’s doing in a few short moments what other films of the novel, even the 70s musical album failed to do, in painting the picture of the Martians invasion being an example of what any race with the technology to do so would do if faced with extinction and a dying planet. And to the point, how similar it will be for us when the planet becomes uninhabitable through natural changes like the sun dying. In the cosmic perspective, the Martian invasion of Earth was just the latest example of another civilisation in the universe trying to save itself, when for us stuck by our technological limitations on Earth, from our perspective it was end of the world, with the prospect of us all becoming Martian chow. So yeah the music here does make me pity the Martians, and the same theme returns as the survivors in the church at the end approach the downed Martian machine with an arm of a Martian struggling to pull itself out, and knowing what we know about them coming from a dying planet wanting to do whatever they could to survive, for all their cruelty towards us, you do feel sorry for them, if you consider the material conditions.
I have to say ,I've seen just about every sci-fi movie ever made,but no beginning intro ever gave me ,and still gives me goose bumps every time I see it...👍👍
I think that trumpeting intro of "...weapons of super science..." with the Paul Frees narration was meant to wake up the audience that the movie is starting. The Paramount intro was standard for news shorts and was used by Martin Scorsese in the movie "The Aviator" about Howard Hughes.
I was referring to the Cedric Hardwick narration of the planets and the underscore during these scenes. But, I also love the Paul Frees narration as well.
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, but still they come.
I absolutely love this movie. This is what made me such a big WOTW fan. I'm reading the book, I own the late '80s television series on DVD, I've even heard the 1938 radio adaptation by Orson Welles.
This movie proves itself tou do not need CGI just skills to put out an amazing movie and sadly this is sci fi which makes this movie way better then the shit that comes out today
I always wondered why they left out Venues. I know in early Sci-Fi pulp novels and comic books they depicted Venues as a Earth like planet. Maybe real science still wasn’t sure what was going on under all those clouds when they made this movie.
Greatest score and greatest music for that unforgetable film. The compositor was Leith Stevens and the soundtrack is available ont many download platforms.
Hey MarkH -- thanks for that opening -- great film that took SyFi a leap forward much like 2001 did a decade later. BTW, just a point for cinema accuracy, the leader countdown that was used on these classic films was always the "Academy" leader, not the SMPTE Universal leader which you simulate in your logo. The Academy leader started at "Picture Start" and then started the countdown with number 11, then counted down to #3 and stopped -- no number 2 or 1. The last two seconds were in total black. This was so if a projectionist was a tad late on making the change-over, the audience wouldn't see a a countdown number but would just see a second or two of black. And for those who are real sticklers for accuracy, I know, those countdown numbers were not spaced to represent seconds, but footage.
Absolutely superb score by Leith Stevens , archival film sequence prior to main theme expertly blended in . Grabs your attention immediately , truly a captivating narrative by Sir Cedric Hardwicke . In addition to the tight direction provided by the most capable Byron Haskin . Overall , a truly first rate intro in which to begin this masterful film! I must wholeheartedly express my gratitude for the upload Sir...........
American ingenuity, They worked with what they had in the 50s. If it weren't for movies like War of the worlds we would never get to the CGI sploogefest films like the Avengers.
Superb intro upload! I especially enjoyed the narrative towards the end, eloquently spoken by Sir. Cedric Hardwick, and the music by Leith Stevens, who also later on in 1956, provided the film score and cues for "World without End".......excellent indeed!
I love this movie; although it works better as it's own thing instead of for itself in the sense of it not being entirely accurate to the book of the same name. It often does take turns and leaps away from the source material; definitely a fun (yet somewhat) scary and fun movie to watch with your kids or watch for nostalgia and entertainment; however if you're looking for an accurate telling of the story that we know and love; this movie is not really for you.
It's like a lot of adaptations which were just loosely based. The Shining by Kubrick had a lot of changes from the book, but who cares? And the book was largely about English colonialism, where England was now being taken out the way England takes out weaker powers. Not the most interesting for an A budget movie. There really were only 3 big sci fi films of the 50's using massive budgets like this after all.
There was an adaptation made just before Spielberg’s shit remake. Pendragon Pictures version is a page by page retelling of the novel. The effects are ghastly, and the sepia tone looks like it’s being viewed through panty hose.
During the sequence showing the planets the Martians considered migrating to, at the end I was like: "What about Venus"? But I suppose it's more or less like Jupiter, covered with volcanoes. So oh well LOL
Just to nit-pick a bit Mark about your impressive logo (very nicely done, btw), which uses a likeness of film with sprockets (you know that stuff that 99% of all cinemas today DON'T use) a nice touch. The the countdown that you also use to represent the leader at the head of all film reels -- thing is, you make a small mistake that many people fall into who haven't actually worked with theatrical film prints -- the count down on real film leaders never goes down to the number 1. The original count-down leader which most projectionists nicknamed the "Academy" leader and which was used my almost all studios from the beginning of the sound era to the early 70s when the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) introduced a never version -- the "Universal" Leader. The two were very similar, but the new SMPTE leader contained more standardized information and addressed the needs of the television branch of the industry, although many movie studios never really switched over to it and just kept using the Academy Leader all the way until the end of the film era. All this just to point out that neither of those leaders count down to #1. The Academy leader stops at #3; the Universal leader counts down to #2, but none go to #1 and that is because the leader keeps the last seconds in total black so that if the projectionist was a bit late on the change-over from one reel to the next (most features were shipped on between 6 and as many as 12 eighteen to twenty minute reels depending on the length of the movie), the audience would just see a second or two of black instead of count down numbers -- much better. Check it out: ruclips.net/video/q7jP2B9ydIE/видео.html Thanks for this opening sequence and for keeping the reference to our great film legacy alive. Quite frankly, I don't know what the graphics industry is going to do in another ten to twenty years when they need images to represent cinema...in a generation or two, the majority of the population will never have even seen a piece of sprocketed film! How are they going to graphically represent movies then?! Lots of ones and zeros I guess.
I think the reason Venus was left out was because we knew practically nothing about it in 1953, but it didn't stop the filmmakers from showing us what they thought Jupiter looked liked. They present Jupiter as a planet with a solid surface when in fact it is just a big ball of gas.
I loved this film, but it shows how little they knew about the planets. First it shows Mars with ice and snow. Then it says Jupiter with volcanoes. Jupiter is a gas giant and so is Saturn, so there would be no place to land. How come they never mentioned Venus? We know now that Venus is uninhabitable because of the nun away green house effect with temperatures above 700 degrees.
Venus was mentioned indirectly. "Of all the planets that the Martians could see & study" omits Venus because of cloud-cover. As for knowledge of the planets, remember this was 1953...
Back in the 1950s the scientists knew nothing about gas giant planets. They believed both Saturn and Jupiter were solid and even did the physics of how much you would weigh in such immense gravity of such a planet. Science is not an exact science and climate change will be proven to be yet another wrong-science of science.
See this is why we need weapons not to fight each other but defend our planet from creatures that want to take it from us I say if we are going to build weapons let's atleast use them right
Your comment makes no sense because an advanced alien race would have weapons and defense mechanisms that would make *our* weapons look like toys...just like our most advanced weapons do so compared to the weapons of primitive people. And if an alien ship can travel through space, then there would be no chance the atomic bomb can harm them since the aliens would have advanced technology that would protect their ships from collisions with certain bodies in space (collisions that would cause so much more devastation than the atom bomb).
Think back to when the Spanish invaded South America, and enslaved the Incas, and destroyed their people. The Incas thought the Spanish were gods (at first)...
Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic: geez that's a metaphor for the inhabitants of the towns I live next to around here. The affluent 5-10% who care about only their status, money, possessions, and statements. We see them enjoying their foodie experiences, as they partake of their favorite restaurants. To shop, even for food, you must dress the part, else you will be judged remorselessly by the "Karens", who will dispatch you quickly and sharply, if you don't meet their arbitrary standards.
Best opening of all classic sci fi's..Still gives me goose bumps.
SUPER SCIENCE
Such an iconic opening. The science is old, but the movie will never age.
Is it just me, or does the music seem to become sadder at about the point we get to Jupiter? Like we're getting a sense of the Martians' increasing desperation?
MegaFafnir ............Yes , indeed , I believe that you are absolutely correct ! Perhaps a harbinger of the catastrophe that will soon be unveiled and befall the earth in this film...........
Yeah I think that’s the idea, it’s doing in a few short moments what other films of the novel, even the 70s musical album failed to do, in painting the picture of the Martians invasion being an example of what any race with the technology to do so would do if faced with extinction and a dying planet. And to the point, how similar it will be for us when the planet becomes uninhabitable through natural changes like the sun dying.
In the cosmic perspective, the Martian invasion of Earth was just the latest example of another civilisation in the universe trying to save itself, when for us stuck by our technological limitations on Earth, from our perspective it was end of the world, with the prospect of us all becoming Martian chow.
So yeah the music here does make me pity the Martians, and the same theme returns as the survivors in the church at the end approach the downed Martian machine with an arm of a Martian struggling to pull itself out, and knowing what we know about them coming from a dying planet wanting to do whatever they could to survive, for all their cruelty towards us, you do feel sorry for them, if you consider the material conditions.
Is it just me or is "cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility" one of the most beautiful lines ever spoken?
I have to say ,I've seen just about every sci-fi movie ever made,but no beginning intro ever gave me ,and still gives me goose bumps every time I see it...👍👍
richard V. the beginning has Excellent Music as well as a VERY unique and special Voice, representative of SERIOUS attention.
@@JamesBond-ml3zp
The reporter in the bunker just before they drop the A bomb is the voice.
This was actor and announcer Paul Frees. He appears just before the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Martians.
"Venus was so awful it wasn't even considered"
I love the fact that in 1953 they still thought that Jupiter and Saturn had solid surfaces when in fact they are nothing more than giant balls of gas.
Venus has an atmosphere of sulfuric acid and has a temperature of around 900 F both day and night, even hotter than Mercury
Yep where do you think women come From?? Lol
@Old Iron To be fair, they wasnt even a satellite in orbit before Sputnik in 1957. So they are excused for not knowing.
@@TheZombieman87 true but Venus was discovered without the use of satellites and uses of a telescope by Galileo in 1610
The ferocious main title notwithstanding, I love the music during the narration..it spells irony, doom..prophetic.
I think that trumpeting intro of "...weapons of super science..." with the Paul Frees narration was meant to wake up the audience that the movie is starting. The Paramount intro was standard for news shorts and was used by Martin Scorsese in the movie "The Aviator" about Howard Hughes.
I was referring to the Cedric Hardwick narration of the planets and the underscore during these scenes. But, I also love the Paul Frees narration as well.
A truly superb intro, for a film!!!!!!!........
2:31 I like how they show a Martian city in the background.
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said.
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, but still they come.
Those chords!
Dm Dm A7,
A7 A7 Dm
No Nathaniel!
They haven’t seen the Heat Ray yet...
Classic Sci-fi at its very best!
I absolutely love this movie. This is what made me such a big WOTW fan. I'm reading the book, I own the late '80s television series on DVD, I've even heard the 1938 radio adaptation by Orson Welles.
Considered one of the best science fiction movies ever made. Thank you for posting the intro....
@Ha A I don't think it's meant as a joke. The original "Day the Earth Stood Still" was great, too...
This movie shows you dont need CGI to make an amazing movie.
Braden Rich CGI ruins most movies
This movie proves itself tou do not need CGI just skills to put out an amazing movie and sadly this is sci fi which makes this movie way better then the shit that comes out today
Sir Cedric Hardwicke The BEST Voice for this into, 2nd. to none!!!
frantic517 ) this is one of the dumbest things ever said.
I always wondered why they left out Venues. I know in early Sci-Fi pulp novels and comic books they depicted Venues as a Earth like planet. Maybe real science still wasn’t sure what was going on under all those clouds when they made this movie.
Favorite sci-film. Had nightmares as a kid. Scary. Great SPFX.
Greatest score and greatest music for that unforgetable film. The compositor was Leith Stevens and the soundtrack is available ont many download platforms.
This is always been my favorite part of the movie
Hey MarkH -- thanks for that opening -- great film that took SyFi a leap forward much like 2001 did a decade later.
BTW, just a point for cinema accuracy, the leader countdown that was used on these classic films was always the "Academy" leader, not the SMPTE Universal leader which you simulate in your logo. The Academy leader started at "Picture Start" and then started the countdown with number 11, then counted down to #3 and stopped -- no number 2 or 1. The last two seconds were in total black. This was so if a projectionist was a tad late on making the change-over, the audience wouldn't see a a countdown number but would just see a second or two of black. And for those who are real sticklers for accuracy, I know, those countdown numbers were not spaced to represent seconds, but footage.
It's criminal that Paramount hasn't posted this film to Blu Ray....
In France, is it called Bleu Ray? (Just asking)...lol
They should do a Blu-Ray of this Film, that's so true. I hope that they will think about this soon as they can...
It's a masterpiece !
@@CLASSICALFAN100 No...I'm French and they say Blu-Ray too.
Sir Cedric Hardwicke had one of those captivating voices - just amazing.
Absolutely superb score by Leith Stevens , archival film sequence prior to main theme expertly blended in . Grabs your attention immediately , truly a captivating narrative by Sir Cedric Hardwicke . In addition to the tight direction provided by the most capable Byron Haskin . Overall , a truly first rate intro in which to begin this masterful film! I must wholeheartedly express my gratitude for the upload Sir...........
Does that mean you like it?...lol
This movie got me hooked into sci-fi! Good work at posting this.
How the hell did they pull those special effects off in 1953?
American ingenuity, They worked with what they had in the 50s. If it weren't for movies like War of the worlds we would never get to the CGI sploogefest films like the Avengers.
Like, who needs the Avengers **AT ALL**? Or, the 2005 War of the Worlds re-make? (Nobody...)
Japanese-american imagination, namely Al Nozaki, and incredible feats of hard work.
Superb intro upload! I especially enjoyed the narrative towards the end, eloquently spoken by Sir. Cedric Hardwick, and the music by Leith Stevens, who also later on in 1956, provided the film score and cues for "World without End".......excellent indeed!
So here the description of Venus is given to Jupiter, which has no surface...the only bad thing in this wonderful Movie !
0:57 credits begin.
The 1953 War Of The Worlds movie vs the 1954 Gojira movie, which one fills you with more dread?
"Seeuuuper science " just sounds cool.
MrAJdude57
The opening narrator had a great voice.
I love this movie; although it works better as it's own thing instead of for itself in the sense of it not being entirely accurate to the book of the same name. It often does take turns and leaps away from the source material; definitely a fun (yet somewhat) scary and fun movie to watch with your kids or watch for nostalgia and entertainment; however if you're looking for an accurate telling of the story that we know and love; this movie is not really for you.
It's like a lot of adaptations which were just loosely based. The Shining by Kubrick had a lot of changes from the book, but who cares? And the book was largely about English colonialism, where England was now being taken out the way England takes out weaker powers. Not the most interesting for an A budget movie. There really were only 3 big sci fi films of the 50's using massive budgets like this after all.
There was an adaptation made just before Spielberg’s shit remake. Pendragon Pictures version is a page by page retelling of the novel. The effects are ghastly, and the sepia tone looks like it’s being viewed through panty hose.
I die a little inside every time I remember those warship models were melted down for a freakin' Boy Scout copper drive...
Were learning about aliens in english so im here
During the sequence showing the planets the Martians considered migrating to, at the end I was like:
"What about Venus"?
But I suppose it's more or less like Jupiter, covered with volcanoes.
So oh well LOL
Isaac Asimov had a early short story in which visitors from Venus are misunderstood, and are thought to come from **Venice** (no fooling!)...
Just to nit-pick a bit Mark about your impressive logo (very nicely done, btw), which uses a likeness of film with sprockets (you know that stuff that 99% of all cinemas today DON'T use) a nice touch. The the countdown that you also use to represent the leader at the head of all film reels -- thing is, you make a small mistake that many people fall into who haven't actually worked with theatrical film prints -- the count down on real film leaders never goes down to the number 1.
The original count-down leader which most projectionists nicknamed the "Academy" leader and which was used my almost all studios from the beginning of the sound era to the early 70s when the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) introduced a never version -- the "Universal" Leader. The two were very similar, but the new SMPTE leader contained more standardized information and addressed the needs of the television branch of the industry, although many movie studios never really switched over to it and just kept using the Academy Leader all the way until the end of the film era.
All this just to point out that neither of those leaders count down to #1. The Academy leader stops at #3; the Universal leader counts down to #2, but none go to #1 and that is because the leader keeps the last seconds in total black so that if the projectionist was a bit late on the change-over from one reel to the next (most features were shipped on between 6 and as many as 12 eighteen to twenty minute reels depending on the length of the movie), the audience would just see a second or two of black instead of count down numbers -- much better. Check it out: ruclips.net/video/q7jP2B9ydIE/видео.html
Thanks for this opening sequence and for keeping the reference to our great film legacy alive. Quite frankly, I don't know what the graphics industry is going to do in another ten to twenty years when they need images to represent cinema...in a generation or two, the majority of the population will never have even seen a piece of sprocketed film! How are they going to graphically represent movies then?! Lots of ones and zeros I guess.
**SPROCKETS TO THE MOON!!**...lol
@AndyMarquisLIVE with great expensive difficulty, which is what makes these guys saintable geniuses
Anyone notice they left out Venus?
I think the reason Venus was left out was because we knew practically nothing about it in 1953, but it didn't stop the filmmakers from showing us what they thought Jupiter looked liked. They present Jupiter as a planet with a solid surface when in fact it is just a big ball of gas.
It wasn't left out. The narrator said, "Of all the worlds that the Martians could see, and study..."
@@CLASSICALFAN100 but these are martians. They should be more evolved than us to know the planet Venus.
They still thought Venus still had a possibility of life back then until the first satellites examined them
That's because in the books after the invasion of Earth failed the martians settled on venus.
Can someone upload the entire film on RUclips? I love this movie.
Why not? Other movies have been uploaded in their entirety. Not every movie, but quite a few movies are on RUclips without any problem.
The guy at the beginning sounds like the guy from Mondo Topless
i would prefer the one when the tripods had legs
we learning. bout alien
Starts at 2:01
Paramount holds the rights to this movie. They're active on RUclips, and will throw the hammer down if they see one of their movies here.
never noticed they missed venus in the intro?
I loved this film, but it shows how little they knew about the planets. First it shows Mars with ice and snow. Then it says Jupiter with volcanoes. Jupiter is a gas giant and so is Saturn, so there would be no place to land. How come they never mentioned Venus? We know now that Venus is uninhabitable because of the nun away green house effect with temperatures above 700 degrees.
Venus was mentioned indirectly. "Of all the planets that the Martians could see & study" omits Venus because of cloud-cover. As for knowledge of the planets, remember this was 1953...
@@CLASSICALFAN100 the year Venus was discovered was 1610. Through Galileo's telescope.
Back in the 1950s the scientists knew nothing about gas giant planets. They believed both Saturn and Jupiter were solid and even did the physics of how much you would weigh in such immense gravity of such a planet. Science is not an exact science and climate change will be proven to be yet another wrong-science of science.
reminds me of superman
hello
But, why are other movies allowed to be shown? Don't their studios also "throw the hammer down"?
Who else is here for a class lesson
See this is why we need weapons not to fight each other but defend our planet from creatures that want to take it from us I say if we are going to build weapons let's atleast use them right
Your comment makes no sense because an advanced alien race would have weapons and defense mechanisms that would make *our* weapons look like toys...just like our most advanced weapons do so compared to the weapons of primitive people. And if an alien ship can travel through space, then there would be no chance the atomic bomb can harm them since the aliens would have advanced technology that would protect their ships from collisions with certain bodies in space (collisions that would cause so much more devastation than the atom bomb).
Think back to when the Spanish invaded South America, and enslaved the Incas, and destroyed their people. The Incas thought the Spanish were gods (at first)...
why are there no full movie about this
Because the copyright nazis move in and close it down as soon as one is put up.
Paramount pictures are very active on RUclips they terminated accounts with full movies on here.
they wouldnt do if i put a full movie up
+daminmancejin bet me they would trust me
wait till i get a laptop i will do it....lol
Music ?
Leith Stevens does the music for this film.
the book is the best
In the book, it's strange that the action takes place in a small town, rather than in London...
It's also told from the lone protagonist
@@CLASSICALFAN100 it is also in London too
me from english
Me to
chess
Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic: geez that's a metaphor for the inhabitants of the towns I live next to around here. The affluent 5-10% who care about only their status, money, possessions, and statements. We see them enjoying their foodie experiences, as they partake of their favorite restaurants. To shop, even for food, you must dress the part, else you will be judged remorselessly by the "Karens", who will dispatch you quickly and sharply, if you don't meet their arbitrary standards.
Too bad the color is all fucked up - the real film looks way more realistic than this.