The program's news-bulletin format was described as deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the broadcasters and calls for regulation by the Federal Communications Commission.

"The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898). Tout bêtement car la presse ne voulait pas manquer une occasion de discréditer la radio, qui était en train d’attirer vers elle tous les revenus publicitaires, au détriment des publications papier…. About 98% of respondents said they were listening to other radio programming (The Chase and Sanborn Hour was by far the most popular program in that timeslot) or not listening to the radio at all.

Glissant presque insensiblement de la fonction récitante à la fonction narrative, le discours revient au jour présent de la diffusion (30 octobre 1938) en le décrivant au passé. [2] Nevertheless, the episode secured Welles's fame as a dramatist. When have I ever lied to you?" Ihm selbst ging es in seinen Romanen um die Darstellung einer Zweiklassengesellschaft im Zusammenspiel mit der Industrialisierung und nicht um eine propagandistische symbolische Bedrohung des Nationalsozialismus oder der roten Gefahr aus dem Osten und dessen Bekämpfung.

L'indicatif sonore du Mercury Theatre retentit : il s'agit du thème orchestral du Concerto pour piano nº 1 de Tchaïkovski.

The episode became famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners.[2]. Amazon.de - Kaufen Sie La Guerre des Mondes günstig ein.

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C'est l'époque où la presse, inquiète de l'ampleur que la radio prend à ses dépens, perd en même temps que des lecteurs les recettes afférentes de la publicité.

Its estimate of the program's audience is more than twice as high as any other at the time. Thus they believed the Welles production even though it was specifically stated that the whole thing was fiction".

What did we know of the fatal stampede in a Jersey hall? However, late on that Sunday night, CBS contacted KOY and KTUC owner Burridge Butler and instructed him not to air the program the following night.

Il est possible que Cantril ait abusivement interprété l'effroi des personnes, sentiment compréhensible à l'écoute d'un feuilleton à suspense, comme des personnes « paniquées » qui auraient pris la fiction pour la réalité[2]. So many more mad things with the remake which I will not go into here. The announcer introduces Orson Welles: We know now that in the early years of the 20th century, this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own.

Pourquoi une telle exagération ? [1]:391, 398, To create the role of reporter Carl Phillips, actor Frank Readick went to the record library and played the recording of Herbert Morrison's radio report of the Hindenburg disaster over and over. anyone?". Personne, ou presque, n’a été dupé par l’émission. It is very clearly the blueprint for Independence Day (I have just watched them back to back). Further shrinking the potential audience, some CBS network affiliates, including some in large markets such as Boston's WEEI, had pre-empted The Mercury Theatre on the Air, in favor of local commercial programming.

The program's format was a simulated live newscast of developing events. Vor allem der damals aufwendige Einsatz von, 2 Personen fanden diese Informationen hilfreich, Klassischer…Alien-Invasionsfilm (kein Spoiler), Rezension aus Deutschland vom 23. I didn’t know what it was called at the time but when it was re-made in 2005 with Tom Cruise I found out then.

[57], In a study published in book form as The Invasion from Mars (1940), Princeton professor Hadley Cantril calculated that some six million people heard "The War of the Worlds" broadcast. Wells expressed good-natured skepticism about the actual extent of the panic caused by "this sensational Halloween spree," saying: "Are you sure there was such a panic in America or wasn't it your Halloween fun? Il décide alors de se pencher sur un sujet de science-fiction.