Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel, broadcast by CBS on 30 October 1938, staged partly as a series of breaking news bulletins reporting a Martian landing in New Jersey. Newspaper accounts of mass panic were greatly exaggerated, a point modern scholarship stresses, but the broadcast became the standing exhibit for the power of the medium and the question of listener trust.
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AwardHugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation 1 Connections
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The 1938 broadcast is the classic illustration of the model; how large the panic really was is disputed
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Directed and narrated by Welles for the Mercury Theatre on the Air; Howard Koch wrote the script.
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1. The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama) (Wikipedia)
Article body: hugo award for best dramatic presentation
At the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention in August 2014, a Retrospective Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, 1938" was bestowed upon the broadcast.
The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama), Introduction section
"The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air which was broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938 over the CBS Radio Network.
In Group: Radio Anthology Dramas, Lead
was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.- Release Year: 1938
- Country: United States
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