War of the worlds?

Question

War of the worlds-1938 film- True or false- it was so realistic that some people thought that invaders from Mercury had landed.

Answer 1

Many things in error. It was a radio broadcast and it was mars invading. Produced by Orsen Wells. There was allegedly seven sucides during the broadcast.

Answer 2

False it was a radio program.

Orson Welles' famous radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds was performed by Mercury Theatre on the Air as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938. The live broadcast frightened many listeners into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. Although it is sometimes stated that there were many disclaimers pointing out the fictionality of the invasion, there was only one disclaimer at the start of the broadcast, and then two close together near the end, leaving ample time in the middle for confusion and fright on the part of listeners.

Answer 3

FALSE: It was on RADIO in 1938 derived from the following:

The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel (or novella) which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_worlds

RADIO ADAPTATION:

Orson Welles' famous radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds was performed by Mercury Theatre on the Air as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938. The live broadcast frightened many listeners into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. Although it is sometimes stated that there were many disclaimers pointing out the fictionality of the invasion, there was only one disclaimer at the start of the broadcast, and then two close together near the end, leaving ample time in the middle for confusion and fright on the part of listeners.

Welles's adaptation is possibly the most successful radio dramatic production in history. It was one of the Radio Project's first studies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_%28radio%29

Answer 4

False -- well, sort of. You've got your facts a little switched around. It was a 1938 radio broadcast based on H.G. Wells' book. It did cause a bit of a panic among some folks who thought that Martians were invading. There was a disclaimer saying it was fake at the beginning of the program, and two close to the end, but that left plenty of time in the middle to scare the you-know-what out of people. Nothing too serious happened though, and most of them came out of their storm cellars feeling like fools.

Answer 5

Yes and no-- You are referring to what happened when a radio play scared people so much because they thought that Martians (people from Mars) had landed.

"This article appeared in the New York Times on Oct. 31, 1938.

A wave of mass hysteria seized thousands of radio listeners between 8:15 and 9:30 o'clock last night when a broadcast of a dramatization of H. G. Wells's fantasy, "The War of the Worlds," led thousands to believe that an interplanetary conflict had started with invading Martians spreading wide death and destruction in New Jersey and New York.

The broadcast, which disrupted households, interrupted religious services, created traffic jams and clogged communications systems, was made by Orson Welles, who as the radio character, "The Shadow," used to give "the creeps" to countless child listeners. This time at least a score of adults required medical treatment for shock and hysteria.

In Newark, in a single block at Heddon Terrace and Hawthorne Avenue, more than twenty families rushed out of their houses with wet handkerchiefs and towels over their faces to flee from what they believed was to be a gas raid. Some began moving household furniture.

Throughout New York families left their homes, some to flee to near-by parks. Thousands of persons called the police, newspapers and radio stations here and in other cities of the United States and Canada seeking advice on protective measures against the raids. "

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Answer 6

I've never heard of the movie causing a panic, but Orson Wells' radio program did.

Answer 7

False

No one cared about Mercury in those days. The real eminent threat was Mars...

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Answer 8

and if Wells'.....either H.G. or Orson's......Martians landed today, we'd have 'em in zoos inside a week.......