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On Sunday, October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater troupe stepped before the microphones at the Columbia Broadcasting System’s New York studio and per-formed an adaptation of H.G. Wells’s science fiction work, The War of the Worlds. The book was 40 years old: a product of the late Victorian era. Millions of Americans were well-familiar with the story of Martians invading earth. But what Welles and the Mercury players presented to a nearly nationwide audience that Hallowe’en eve bore little resemblance to the spirit of the original work. Author Howard Koch turned in a script that owed more to on-the-spot news reports like the Hindenburg disaster than a decades-old British novel. After input from Welles, the Mercury Theater presented the Martian invasion as it happened, before listeners’ very ears. Startlingly realistic news reports interrupted dance band remotes. An eyewitness correspondent described alien machines attacking people in New Jersey, and was then apparently killed on air, himself. Military officials gave accounts of troops engaging Martian machines. And someone who sounded an awful lot like President Roosevelt asked Americans to “place their faith in God” to preserve human civilization. The “news” portion of the Mercury’s adaptation lasted about 35 minutes, but the impact reverberated far beyond the next day’s news cycle. The broadcast and sup-posed “panic” that it caused is so culturally important that the program was placed on the National Recording Registry in 2002. Yet, it impossible to hear the complete show exactly as it was presented in 1938. Commercial reissues are all incomplete, and even a recent restoration by an archive features a recording that’s missing bits here and there. Working primarily from a set of recordings made for Welles in 1938, Winner and Jones have reconstructed every second of the broadcast, and returned the sound to something approaching what Orson Welles heard through his earphones in a CBS studio 80 years ago.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Video Editor"]},"value":{"en":["Nathan Georgitis"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e2018 marks the 80th anniversary of the most infamous radio broadcast from the network era. On Sunday, October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater troupe stepped before the microphones at the Columbia Broadcasting System\u0026rsquo;s New York studio and per-formed an adaptation of H.G. Wells\u0026rsquo;s science fiction work, The War of the Worlds. The book was 40 years old: a product of the late Victorian era. Millions of Americans were well-familiar with the story of Martians invading earth. But what Welles and the Mercury players presented to a nearly nationwide audience that Hallowe\u0026rsquo;en eve bore little resemblance to the spirit of the original work. Author Howard Koch turned in a script that owed more to on-the-spot news reports like the Hindenburg disaster than a decades-old British novel. After input from Welles, the Mercury Theater presented the Martian invasion as it happened, before listeners\u0026rsquo; very ears. Startlingly realistic news reports interrupted dance band remotes. An eyewitness correspondent described alien machines attacking people in New Jersey, and was then apparently killed on air, himself. Military officials gave accounts of troops engaging Martian machines. And someone who sounded an awful lot like President Roosevelt asked Americans to \u0026ldquo;place their faith in God\u0026rdquo; to preserve human civilization. The \u0026ldquo;news\u0026rdquo; portion of the Mercury\u0026rsquo;s adaptation lasted about 35 minutes, but the impact reverberated far beyond the next day\u0026rsquo;s news cycle. The broadcast and sup-posed \u0026ldquo;panic\u0026rdquo; that it caused is so culturally important that the program was placed on the National Recording Registry in 2002. Yet, it impossible to hear the complete show exactly as it was presented in 1938. Commercial reissues are all incomplete, and even a recent restoration by an archive features a recording that\u0026rsquo;s missing bits here and there. Working primarily from a set of recordings made for Welles in 1938, Winner and Jones have reconstructed every second of the broadcast, and returned the sound to something approaching what Orson Welles heard through his earphones in a CBS studio 80 years ago.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/776/small/open-uri20200923-3617-kuv3w1_1600916076.jpg?1600901686","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29855/file/97776","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 2 - open-uri20200923-3617-kuv3w1.mp4"]},"duration":2070.18667,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/776/small/open-uri20200923-3617-kuv3w1_1600916076.jpg?1600901686","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29855/file/97776/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29855/file/97776/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/097/776/original/open-uri20200923-3617-kuv3w1.mp4?1600901672","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":2070.18667,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29855/file/97776","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29855/file/256158","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - ARSC_conf_2018_Winner_Jones_audio.mp3"]},"duration":2045.41906,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29855/file/256158/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29855/file/256158/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/256/158/original/ARSC_conf_2018_Winner_Jones_audio.mp3?1730836653","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":2045.41906,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1143/collection_resources/29855/file/256158","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}