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21. März 2007 |
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War of the Worlds - Hörspiel von O. Welles nach H.G. Wells
Original mit englischer Untertitelung zum Mitlesen |
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A wave of mass hysteria seized thousands of radio listeners between 8:30 and 9:30 o‘clock last night when a broadcast of a dramatization of H. G. Wells‘s fantasy, „The War of the Worlds,“ led thousands to believe that an interplanetary conflict had started with invading Martians spreading wide death and destruction in New Jersey and New York.
The broadcast, which disrupted households, interrupted religious services, created traffic jams and clogged communications systems, was made by a radio character, „The Shadow,“ ... This time at least a score of adults required medical treatment for shock and hysteria. In Newark, in a single block at Heddon Terrace and Hawthorne Avenue, more than twenty families rushed out of their houses with wet handkerchiefs and towels over their faces to flee from what they believed was to be a gas raid. Some began moving household furniture. Throughout New York families left their homes, some to flee to near-by parks. Thousands of persons called the police, newspapers and radio stations here and in other cities of the United States and Canada seeking advice on protective measures against the raids. The program was produced by Mr. Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air over station WABC and the Columbia Broadcasting System‘s coast-to-coast network. |
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