11/9/2022 0 Comments Regular show the movie transcriptFrom the Meridian Room in the Park Plaza in New York City, we bring you the music of Ramón Raquello and his orchestra. FADES)ĪNNOUNCER THREE: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We now take you to the Meridian Room in the Hotel Park Plaza in downtown New York, where you will be entertained by the music of Ramón Raquello and his orchestra. This weather report comes to you from the Government Weather Bureau. A slight atmospheric disturbance of undetermined origin is reported over Nova Scotia, causing a low pressure area to move down rather rapidly over the northeastern states, bringing a forecast of rain, accompanied by winds of light gale force. for the next twenty-four hours not much change in temperature. On this particular evening, October 30, the Crosley service estimated that thirty-two million people were listening in on radios.ĪNNOUNCER. In the thirty-ninth year of the twentieth century came the great disillusionment. Yet across an immense ethereal gulf, minds that to our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle, intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. With infinite complacence people went to and fro over the earth about their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their dominion over this small spinning fragment of solar driftwood which by chance or design man has inherited out of the dark mystery of Time and Space. We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. ORSON WELLES: We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own. Wells.ĪNNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen: the director of the Mercury Theatre and star of these broadcasts, Orson Welles. ORSON WELLES AND MERCURY THEATRE ON THE AIRĪNNOUNCER: The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air in The War of the Worlds by H.
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