The war of the worlds
2002
Book On CD
On October 30, 1938, fear and panic gripped America as regular radio programming was seemingly interrupted by reports of a Martian invasion in Grover's Mill, New Jersey. Orson Welles' dramatization of H.G. Wells' science fiction classic The war of the worlds demonstrated the power of radio's "theatre of the imagination" and catapulted the 23-year-old impresario to national stardom. Hear the original, uncut radio broadcast that terrified a nation.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781570195501
- 1570195501
Description:
- 1 audio disc (approximately 60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- digital recording
Other Title: Mercury Theatre on the air (Radio program)
Notes:
- Compact disc.
- Responsibility from container.
- Complete & unedited.
- Digitally restored and remastered.
- "The most famous radio broadcast of all time!"--Container.
- Produced and directed by Orson Welles.
- Starring Orson Welles, with Frank Readick, Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar and others.
- Originally broadcast October 30, 1938 on The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
Publisher or Distributor Number: 27992
Control Number: 652678
Publisher: Cedar Knolls, NJ : Radio Spirits, [2002]