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Happy Hallowe\u2019en! If you want to mess with your kids\u2019 heads, put this old radio play on speakers without warning them, but don\u2019t let them see the screen. Speakers only.<\/p>\n
It is Mercury Theater On the Air\u2019s 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds with Orson Wells at the helm of it. No commercials or breaks, no explanations, just actors and sound effects, and much more effective than any of those movies that have been made about this matter.<\/p>\n
There was a disclaimer broadcast at the beginning of this show, but if people tuned in a few minutes late, they\u2019d have missed the disclaimer and became \u2013 well, concerned. Some people did leave New Jersey for “safer” places.<\/p>\n
As the Smithsonian article says, some people became upset, called police stations, newspaper offices and radio stations to find out what was going on. But the panics reported in the press were mostly exaggerations, like that’s anything new, right?<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180\/<\/a><\/p>\n And here it is, in its entire silly glory with Orson Wells in charge. He sold no wine before its time.<\/p>\n