Orson Welles apologizes for the The War of the Worlds' mass panic
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Orson Welles discusses the reported panic shortly after his famous 1938 Halloween broadcast of "War of the Worlds" which caused mass hysteria in America.
October 31st 1938
The October 30, 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells brought Welles instant fame.
The combination of the news bulletin form of the performance with the between-breaks dial spinning habits of listeners from the rival and far more popular Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy program was later reported in the media to have created widespread confusion among listeners who failed to hear the introduction, although the extent of this confusion has recently come into question.
Panic was reported to have spread (after citation from rumors) among many listeners who believed the news reports of a Martian invasion.
The myth of the result created by the combination was reported as fact around the world and disparagingly mentioned by Adolf Hitler in a public speech a few months later.
" I seriously can not believe I'm having to do this" Orson Welles
Orson Welles was the king of dry wit and sassiness 😂 but yeah, it's pretty ridiculous he had to tell people that it wasn't real.
Thanks for posting this.
This was an amazing production. People don't realize that back then it was just radio. The 30s was about just people interacting with people for entertainment. Radio was a plus. Being ahead of his time, this was like Star Wars for its time!
They did not realize, at the time, that he did the public a service, by getting them to realize they cannot believe everything somebody was saying out of a radio box, his apology might have been somewhat tongue in cheek, as it could have partly been done as an experimental broadcast, amazing how little has changed since so many people today, still just believe what their told, without question, and certainly without further research. They should have been thanking him , not condemning him.
In a later statement he admitted that he wasn't as innocent as he portrayed in this video.
Didn't he go on to say later that that was his best acting yet?
So relevant today how people are always taking the ‘noise’ as gospel !
Orson Welles was brilliant !!
As Welles points out, the broadcast was on Halloween 1938, the date of the fictional narrative was 1939 - but some missed that note.
I Know. People don't listen and then Mob Psychosis kicks in.
That and the time jumps dont add up at all. Like how in less than 10 minutes, 7000 soldiers have surrounded the cylinder in Grover's Mill.
Welles’ bafflement for a kind of American public that bought a Martian invasion broadcast wholesale is brilliantly veiled, and only breaks through visibly once or twice to my eyes. So ahead of his time.
Welles was way ahead of his time.People back then were more naïve and depended on radio like we do on the internet now.Nowadays people are not easy to impress or scare.
Bullshit, people are the same as ever. If all of a sudden you started getting feeds from Facebook, videos from reddit, and other similar sources of alien landings/war with full on video/pics. You would be freaking the fuck out too.
People are the same... the people who influence the minds of man are smarter. Scarry.
The fact that "Flat Earthers" even exist in the Westernized world prove you wrong. LOL
CSestp there was no video or pics... we live in the world of deep fakes. Even if it was a real mass murder we trust the govnt/media so little that we’d still call it fake news..... side note “aliens” are just friendly humanoids... check out the phoniex lights
LEDRavecom yes why doesn’t everyone conform... not a flat earther that’s silly but good for them for thinking outside the box they were placed in
Orson Welles was such a BABE!
he was so hot for no reason
I heard the program because I used to collect vintage radio shows on cassette and CD. The first half played like an actual music program and was interrupted by a news bulletin. It sounded very real and, if played today, would have gotten the same reaction. It wasn't until the second half, when Welles narrates from the viewpoint of a survivor.
Fucking GENIUS!
Why should he apologize for low intellect people? It was the normal weekly Mercury Playhouse presentation, and it was advertised that way. Nobody was trying to fool anyone.
DeCaprio should play him.
TOTALLY.
No. They should get an actor to play him
No. They should get an actor to play him
@@vafanapoli5396 The three of you mean someone should play DiCaprio? In agreement. Genius actor.
It would be cool to see a movie about this
I wish I had a time machine, with a reset button,
so I could visit, without messing everything up.
Wells had the most amazing voice
AAAAaaaAaaahhhhh... the french... champagne...
He says at the end of the broadcast that his intention was to "soap everyone's windows". It was a genius prank and he was LOVING the attention from all those reporters!
One of the greatest directors
Jump forward to 2024... How applicable were Orwell's words back then to today!
In 2020 people still don't understand just how powerful the media is when creating public opinion. #stayhome #itsaveslives
He's enjoying it
Why is he apologizing for other people's stupidity of thinking a radio play was real? lmao
Back then it was the equivalent of the news playing on flatscreens in public
No, people thought it's a legit news because the radio play was suddenly interrupted by a radio breaking news about an alien invasion but the radio breaking news was part of the radio play all along.
He had to know that there would be some hysteria as he had some rather lengthy pauses during the show. I've listened to it recently and its absolutely amazing how your imagination can run wild as it happened to folks back then.
yeah it’s true, you get caught up in it even now. And yes he did know l, he admitted that he was fed up with how everyone took the word on the radio as gospel
Where is the footage from? News reels?
I wish some producer will be interested to make a movie out of this incident. Whether big screen or stream.
Somebody did - The Night That Panicked America! Clips can be seen on UA-cam - can’t find the full film - I think it was a TV movie made in 1975!
He was SO BEAUTIFULLY *full of shit* in this apology, wringing his brow in a wondrously comic overstatement of earnestness and contrition. I swear he's teetering on the verge of cracking up @ the 5:57 mark when he's parenthetically reminding everyone *HG WELLS WROTE THE F(*&ING CLASSIC BOOK* ("the original for so many succeeding comic strips and adventure stories and novels"). It's SO easy to see exactly what he's doing in hindsight - I wonder who might have caught it at the time...
Arr he looks so young and vulnerable, On this film. There is just him and hes surrounded by the press.
It was a Council on Foreign Relations experiment in psychological terror, 81 years ago tonight
queenfubi with the brookings institute doing the write up
@@eddiemcdonald4720 You can protect yourself from “their” mind control plans for you by wearing hats, made of tinfoil. This will deflect the orbital mind control lasers.
@@hoodatdondar2664 or just ware a mask!
Would I be able to use parts of this audio without copyright infringements? I wouldn't be making profit from it.
Well this guy is
profit from it? News does, they make a profit from broadcasting fear!
Now they’re trying to say this never happened
I wonder why people didn't just tune to another station to hear if they were reporting the Mars invasion as well?
Robert Vertacnik i asked the same question then i had to think about how people see information on one website and get their heads wrapped around it. considering the internet is so huge, surely you’d think that the person wouldn’t become that worked up by seeing only one thing from one source.
So young and so professionnal
I agree with some of the comments made about DiCaprio should play Orson in a film, no he shouldn't at all, that is an absolute insult to orson.
Orson was a one off and a genius.
Leo DiCaprio is also a genius that will be delightful and pleasant... 🩷🫶🏼
I have the full broadcast (listening to it right now) of the radio show during this time. I wasnt even aware of Grovers Mill so interesting to see a visual with the actual radio show. Thank you for sharing.. a piece added to history. :) Whats interesting.. the media currently... intentionally "creates" news & embellishes it, for the drama or entertainment of radio but to control the thoughts of those listening. Sadly they believe anything. .. also sad.. our news today has messed up Americans trust in whats real and not. Seems nothing has changed, just a different motive.
He said it’s not his fault ppl are stupid 😤
The broadcast literally had introduced itself at the beginning as a Dramatization for Halloween and also at the end... Even in the middle there had been significant time jumps which would denote that it was a radio drama... ppl back then were just simple and gullible
Back then , definitely not now
@@Basketofcups people are extremely gullible now.
#GeorgeOrsonWells was way to advanced for the late 30's and 40's. Where talented people or genius in he's case. Wasn't appreciated. Like still now days people don't appreciate 🧬 genius. Forgetting that we have a brain 🧠.
Put Welles on the map. Great publicity
even this press conference might have been staged. I mean there's a fourth wall perspective and film isn't cheap.
He doesnt need to apologize for creating a historical moment for sci-fi horror topics.
The audio speed is off: too fast.
It’s the pitch, not the speed.
At the very end of the segment Orson Welles sums it up: I'm not to blame for people being so stupid.
CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, FOX, {and so on} are not to blame for people being so stupid. yes yes beleve EVERYTHING we tell you and act on it! put that mask on or else!
Orson
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The first mass media troll
1939 not 1938!
If I were this guy I wouldn't saying sorry I would just tell everyone their total gullible morons buying into it I mean I would apologise for scaring kids yes but adults come on?
いつヤングの、音楽が好きです
No way id of said I was sorry ..was a good show ..
Now we have coronavirus
Lol right
hard to see that boogeyman, coronavirus BUT people think its there because they were told to!
I think that the panic that followed the broadcast was unusual, you'd expect them to know what's true and what isn't.
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Yonggary AKA Reptilian back then they believed what they were told... no such thing as fake news. News was true until they were told otherwise.
Why he look and sound like Decaprio?
I'm sorry. not sorry
オソーンウエルズの動画をたくさんながして
The mass hysteria today of the corona virus is eerily similar.......
Exactly
@@juniorlongoria1297 except that the virus exists.
@@hoodatdondar2664 did you see it?
There was no mass-panic.
オソーンウエルズばかりで、はまってます
Leonardo knows very little about being married. Orson wed three times.
Why is the speed of his voice sped to be so high? This is annoying.
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Crumb crisp coating
Dr. Fauci should apologize for Corona hype/scare
You are the idiots that would have shit your pants over this broadcast, stfu
Sweet pea, Faucie didn’t kill all those people. The corona viruse and Fauci are actually separate entities but since respiratory diseases can’t talk or apologize for scaring you…maybe Fauci will! Maybe he can hug you and everything!❤
Dude was really handsome, wish he didn't go overweight.
Just wait until they pull this crap again 2020 #projectbluebeam
they did pull that crap.... coronavirus
TL:DR
Sorry. Not Sorry
If i was #GeorgeOrsonWells #NPR or #Lawyer in that time i woulded tell people to get a grip and a brain 🧠. They can use more than there 10 % of there grey mass. ✌️🫶