From: Alex Michael Bonnici (albonnici_at_vol.net.mt)
Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 14:15:31 PST
Hello My Fellow Wellsians,
I would like to wish you all a very Happy Wellsian
Halloween. As before in keeping with a very long tradition I always
spend my Halloween's eve listening to the famous October 30th, 1938
broadcast. For those of you who may have over looked my earlier posting
here are two great
links that will direct you to sites where you can hear the famous
broadcast using Real Player.
The sites concerned are the official web site of the town of Grover
Mills, New Jersey where Orson Welles staged the landing site of the
martian invasion of America: http://www.waroftheworlds.org/
and From Jeff Rense comes this fantastic site with pictures depicting
the Martian Invasion of New York City. I really like the scenes of the
Martian Tripods over the New York City Skyline.
http://www.rense.com/general4/hg.htm
I would also like to direct your attention to three very Wellsian
Internet Radio plays or webcasts very reminiscent to the old style
dramas very popular in 1930s and 1940s in the United States.
I am referring to the Science Fiction Channel's Seeing Ear Theatre :
http://www.scifi.com/set/
If you go to the archives section and click on to Original Playhouse:
http://www.scifi.com/set/ you
will find the three very original Wellsian radio plays I am referring
to:
The Time Machine
http://www.scifi.com/set/playhouse/timemachine/ by H.G. Wells; adapted
by Charles Potter
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
http://www.scifi.com/set/playhouse/miracles/
and finally best of all Orson The Alien! The Untold Story Behind The War
of the Worlds by Terry Bisson, Brian Smith & George Zarr and starring
Star Trek's Walter Koenig.
On October 30th, 1938 Orson Welles shocked the world with his faux
"news" broadcast of
an Alien invasion from mars; thousands of people believed the reports
and streamed into the streets,
panicked and screaming for their lives. Now, 60 years later, Seeing Ear
Theatre asks the question, "What if two real aliens were listening to
Welles' historic broadcast? And what if they, too, believed the reports
to be authentic and felt obliged to travel to Earth to help save us from
the dreaded Martians? What then, Orson?
http://www.scifi.com/set/playhouse/orson/
For some famous old time radio I would also like to direct you to a web
site about the famous Mercury Theatre: http://www.unknown.nu/mercury/
I hope you spend this Halloween enjoying these wonderful radio plays.
Bye for now,
Alex Michael Bonnici
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