The War of The Worlds by pauline https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w en-us 2017-03-15 15:23:25 UTC 2024-10-14 06:06:33 UTC hello@padlet.com The War of The Worlds powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160283838 2017-03-15 15:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160283838 The radio is one aspect of progress. It’s an innovation able to inform people and at the same time to influence them. To illustrate this with an example, we can talk of Orson Welles and his radio broadcast based on the war of the worlds fiction. powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160284367 2017-03-15 15:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160284367 Orson Welles was an American artist, at the same time a director, an actor, a producer and a scriptwriter, and also a stage director. powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160284924 2017-03-15 15:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160284924 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160286011 2017-03-15 15:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160286011 Orson Welles was fascinated by the theatre, particularly by Shakespeare’s work. He was only 22 when he decided to establish a theatre company named the Mercury theatre with John Houseman; Agnes Moorehead et Joseph Cotten . The company produced theatrical presentations, radio programs and motion pictures. powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160286790 2017-03-15 15:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160286790 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160287387 2017-03-15 15:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160287387 After the successes of the Mercury Theatre, CBS Radio invited Orson Welles to create a summer show for 13 weeks. As a consequence Orson Welles created The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was a radio series of live radio dramas. The series began July 11, 1938. powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160288328 2017-03-15 15:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160288328 The episodes of this series deal with an adaptation to the radio of dramatic novels. Some examples of episodes are: Dracula (by Bram Stoker), The Count of Monte Cristo (by Alexandre Dumas) Or Oliver Twist (by Charles Dickens). powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160288560 2017-03-15 15:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160288560 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160289087 2017-03-15 15:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160289087 However, the most famous episode is undoubtedly the “War of the Worlds” (by H.G. Wells) on Halloween night 1938. The War of the Worlds is a science-fiction novel. It deals with an alien invasion. powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160289535 2017-03-15 15:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160289535 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160289816 2017-03-15 15:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160289816 In his show, Welles decided to place the story in the present. As a consequence, this broadcast was really realistic. Indeed, he pretended he was a presenter interrupting the broadcast. powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160290107 2017-03-15 15:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160290107 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160291225 2017-03-15 15:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160291225 That's why, after the show, newspapers related scenes of panic and massive riots through the United States, which would have been caused by the episode of Welles and his false announcement of alien attack. powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160291730 2017-03-15 15:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160291730 Some witnesses told they felt the physical symptoms, such as the smell of gases of the Martians. Moreover, a survey explains that many people would have answered yes to the question: Did you panic during the Radio program? powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160291940 2017-03-15 15:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160291940 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160293264 2017-03-15 15:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160293264 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160293978 2017-03-15 15:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160293978 This event proved that Radio can have a very big influence on its audience. That’s why the Press was worried of the importance of the Radio after the transmission. Thanks to this radio show, the influence of Radio was shown to everybody. powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160294546 2017-03-15 15:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160294546 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160295646 2017-03-15 15:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160295646 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160296145 2017-03-15 15:58:59 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160296145 However the panic would have been, according to some authors, considerably exaggerated over the years, and by Orson Welles himself. powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160296760 2017-03-15 16:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160296760 Besides, the War of the Worlds broadcast allows Orson Wells to become famous in the whole country. It opened the doors of Hollywood powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160296991 2017-03-15 16:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160296991 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160297603 2017-03-15 16:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160297603 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160299069 2017-03-15 16:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160299069 This is an extract of The War of The Worlds broadcast Listen from 1'56''. You can hear the interruption of the program by Welles. That's when people just began to panic because they thought it was real... powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160300199 2017-03-15 16:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160300199 You can listen to the entire Dracula broadcast: The first 18 seconds correspond to the presentation of the broadcast. Then, Welles tells the story. We can notice that although it's just a radio, we can hear different musics and voices which make the story funnier or more nerve-racking. powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160327922 2017-03-15 17:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160327922 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160328810 2017-03-15 17:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160328810 To conclude , Orson Welles and his broadcast are important actors in the radio history. They prove that radio can be realistic because according to some people and Welles, many mericans believed that they were attacked by aliens. Moreover the radio can influence people. Despite it was wrong, many people believed only what radio said. So, I think that this event has contribued to show the importance and the influence of the radio. powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160334474 2017-03-15 17:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160334474 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160337206 2017-03-15 18:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160337206 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160337735 2017-03-15 18:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160337735 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160338572 2017-03-15 18:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160338572 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160339092 2017-03-15 18:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160339092 George Orson Welles Interviewed By Journalists After The War Of The Worlds Broadcast powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160339324 2017-03-15 18:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160339324 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160340518 2017-03-15 18:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160340518 powatt https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160346619 Cassandre Notteau  Ts4]]> 2017-03-15 18:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/powatt/zum4fdzjj36w/wish/160346619