From: Alex Michael Bonnici (albonnici_at_vol.net.mt)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2007 - 17:09:49 PST
Hello Gang,
Here is something I just had to share with you: a version of an animated War of the Worlds which is truly Andersonsque.
Toyman Studios' The War of the Worlds in Stop Motion Doll-o-Vision!
This is an internet video clip of a Gerry Anderson (of Fireball XL 5 and Thunderbirds fame) style version of the War of the Worlds. They took the whole of the 1938 version of the Orson Welles infamous radio broadcast and created an Andersonsque animated full length presentation of it, Truly amazing and awesome to the max. Well worth watching again and again. Parts 1 and 2 of this feature link video are on the same page.
Enjoy,
Alex
http://www.needcoffee.com/updates/2007/03/02/toyman-studios-the-war-of-the-worlds-in-stop-motion-doll-o-vision/
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.
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