The War of the Worlds - The Remix Project

About this film

On October 30, 1938, one of the most controversial and infamous media broadcast occured when Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air performed their adaptation of H.G. Welles' classic science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds." Their radio play generated mass hysteria across America, convincing millions of people that an invasion from Mars was coming to their cities and towns, thus becoming known as "The Panic Broadcast." Today, as a tribute to this radio broadcast, I decided to do a re-imagining of it thorugh the use of sound effects gathered from numerous sources, along with accompanying background music to give a modern twist to this classic broadcast. You may recognize effects from the 1950's motion picture adaptation of the novel, along with Star Wars, the CBS Special Prensentation sounder, WCBS station ID, fake commercials from South Park, Ren and Stimpy, and even the famous Wilhem yell. There are even old news clips that pertain to UFOs, including ABC's report on the Roswell UFO crash and CBS's report on the Battle of Los Angeles from 1942. Background music was used for many of the segments. If you enjoy the music very much, I encourage you to support the artist a…

Directors & creators

WarriorChief54

Subjects

old time radio; remixes; war of the worlds

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