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celticeagle @celticeagle (189944) • Boise, Idaho 30 Oct 24

On October 30, 1938, a live broadcast of Orson Welle's radio drama "The War of the World" was presented in New York City. There were 10 actors and a 27-piece orchestra for the weekly "Mercury Theatre on the Air". Those who...

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October 30 - Let's discuss what happened on that day

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222726) • United States 30 Oct 19

Buy a Donut Day Haunted Refrigerator Night 1938 - Orson Welles broadcast his radio play of H. G. Wells' "War of the Worlds", causing some audience members in the United States to become acutely anxious. 1939 - Grace Slick was...

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People Never Learn

celticeagle @celticeagle (189944) • Boise, Idaho 30 Oct 18

On September 30,1938 Orson Welles produced and broadcast his version of War of the World on the radio. It is said that over a million people across the US panicked and really believed we were being attacked by Martians. After the...

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Ten Movies I’m Glad I Saw: Citizen Kane (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86829) • United States 2 Sep 18

And now....what you’ve all been waiting for (both of you )! Here are the classic movies that I saw, long after their releases (obviously, given that most of these were released before I was born!), and loved the...

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Do you remember this one?

celticeagle @celticeagle (189944) • Boise, Idaho 31 Oct 15

On October,30,1938 a broadcast of H.G.Wells' 1898 War of the World done by Orson Wells took place on the CBS radio station. It put some areas of the U.S. into a long period of panic and fear. In those days people listened to the...

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Citizen Kane

bibbigaadu @bibbigaadu (168) • India 3 Sep 08

I have seen it.. It's director Orson Welles is regarded as genuise and you have to watch "Making of Citizen Kane" - a film by itself. In 1998, voted #1 film of all time by the American Film Institute. Was voted the 2nd...

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War of the Worlds - in Belgium

thewatchlist @thewatchlist (652) • United States 15 Dec 06

Did anyone see this... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061214/ap_on_re_eu/belgium_independence_hoax Apparently a news agency interrupted regular broadcasting to announce that Belgium was undergoing a little bit of a revolution,...

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