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The Complete War of the Worlds: Mars' Invasion of Earth from H. G. Wells to Orson Welles - Hardcover
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Contains the original story by H.G. Wells, and describes how Orson Welles was inspired by the tale of Martian invasion to create the radio broadcast in 1938 which frightenend over one million people.
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Relive the night Martians landed, mass-panicking a million people!; Includes Orson Welles' original 1938 broadcast of H G Wells' classic; 50,000-copy initial print run; For the first time, one book captures the story behind Orson Welles' celebrated adaptation of H G Wells' classic tale of Martian invasion with the immediacy of the panic-inducing 1938 Halloween broadcast itself. The Complete War of the Worlds tells how Welles and the Mercury Theatre drove over a million people into hysteria with the 'news reports' of Martians destroying the Earth. The wide-spread panic awakened the world to both the incredible potential and the inherent danger of mass broadcast media. Relive it all with: The original broadcast of October 30, 1938, by the Mercury Theatre Company; The Orson Welles press conference on October 31, 1938; The 1940 Interview with H G Wells and Orson Welles, plus other Interviews; Plus clips from the stage musical War of the Worlds, with Richard Burton
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- PublisherSourcebooks, Inc
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1570717141
- ISBN 13 9781570717147
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages201
- EditorHolmsten Brian, Lubertozzi Alex
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