WAR of the WORLDS1!

Wasn't it a radio broadcast? That scared the shit out of people a long time ago cause they thought it was real when it was just a story. Thats just what i heard. Someone want to enlighten me on this.

 
orson wells made it a radio show... i think
Correct. Welles broadcast it in '33 or '34 from a big station in NJ, and it scared the **** out of people at the time. That's not surprising as radio was the primary means that people got their information from - it would be like if CNN and Fox told everyone a week after 9/11 that they staged the whole thing.

The first movie version was in the mid '50s, and such it has a very strong anti-Communist subtext to it...but it's one of those cult classics that still holds value, a lot like "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

 
Correct. Welles broadcast it in '33 or '34 from a big station in NJ, and it scared the **** out of people at the time. That's not surprising as radio was the primary means that people got their information from - it would be like if CNN and Fox told everyone a week after 9/11 that they staged the whole thing.
The first movie version was in the mid '50s, and such it has a very strong anti-Communist subtext to it...but it's one of those cult classics that still holds value, a lot like "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
Yeah, people commmited ******* because of that broadcast...it really does sound like a real broadcast. On top of that, they'd name real streets...that would scare the hell out of me if I heard my street being named.

 
Yeah, people commmited ******* because of that broadcast...it really does sound like a real broadcast. On top of that, they'd name real streets...that would scare the hell out of me if I heard my street being named.

holy crap, what did they say ALIENS were coming down MAIN ST.

must be a main st in every town..

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Remember people thought that Godsend was real, it had a website people would visit and belive that humans were being cloned. God how gulbial and rediculously STUPID can a person get.

Ya, I remember that.. White people are just nuts.. They were scared of just about everyone in those times.. Even more they still kind of are..

The History of the USA is sooo pathetic in this country.. makes me want to puke..

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holy crap, what did they say ALIENS were coming down MAIN ST.must be a main st in every town..

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I think he even named specific streets in the NY/NJ area...if I remember right. Still, if I lived on Main St. and he said that I'd crap my pants.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif It still sounds so much like a regular local broadcast.

 
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