Hair-raising!
Oct. 6th, 2005 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyI'm just listening to the 1938 Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio play. It's terrific! When they cut back from the action at Grover's Mill to that damn dance music, you're like "Argh!" And then when the outside broadcast SUDDENLY CUTS OFF... "Circumstances beyond our control..." This is great!
ETA: "A quick thrust and it'll all be over."
ETA: "A quick thrust and it'll all be over."
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::is predictable::
Date: 2005-10-06 09:14 am (UTC)...as Michael Jackson said to Lisa Marie on their wedding night.
Re: ::is predictable::
Date: 2005-10-06 09:31 am (UTC)Re: ::is predictable::
Date: 2005-10-06 09:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-07 02:39 am (UTC)I have an interesting play you should hear. It was done by a Peoria, Illinois radio station in 1972. It's done just like WOTW: it's treated as a regular broadcast night, with occasional news interruptions, but the premise isn't a Martian invasion...
I'll e-mail you a link. :)
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Date: 2005-10-07 03:33 am (UTC)I have heard the 1994 remake with Leonard Nimoy in the lead, which was on the radio just recently. This is in no way a consolation. (Oddly, of all the things that didn't work about the 1994 production for me the worst was the sound of the Martians' heat rays: it was such an obviously nineties sound effect that I couldn't go on believing that the story was set in the 1930s. This makes no sense - alien weaponry is under no obligation to fit in to the soundscape of the planet being invaded - but is still true.)
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Date: 2005-10-08 10:41 pm (UTC)That settles it - I need a record player so I can play all my old LPs.
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Date: 2005-10-10 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-10 01:12 am (UTC)*runs off to check*
You win ;)
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Date: 2005-10-10 01:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-10 01:16 am (UTC)