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... H.G. Wells introduced an interplanetary fantasy with spaceships, ray guns, and implacable aliens. These were original, and disquieting possibilities. ---Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Blues for a Red Planet Today marks the 75th anniversary of one of the seminal moments in mass media history, the broadcast of an adaptation of War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, which caused a panic in 1938 in, as Sagan put it, a war jittery America. The broadcast and its aftermath put the young 23 year old director of the broadcast on the map. His name: Orson Welles. Excelsior!
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:36:24 +0000

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