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Post subject: Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:57 pm |
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Joined: Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:30 am Posts: 300
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Bear with me on this one.<br /><br />Earlier today while taking a customers order we bagan to talk about TWOTW. This particular customer has a keen interest in UFO related incidents. He spoke about the 1938 Orson Welles Mercury Theatre production of The War Of The Worlds and how it was played out over the radio, the effect it had and the closing down of the broadcast.<br /><br />Its what he said that interested me, see what you think - He said his theory and others of his UFO group was that the whole thing was set up by the U.S goverment with the help of the 'Mercury Theatre', a kind of 'test' to see how the public and autorities would react to a UFO scare. Wanting to make the 'test' more realistic to the listener it was left to 'Mercury' to come up with the goods - TWOTW. The panic that followed showed what a success the 'test' was but the scale of the panic was something the goverment had not counted on, so the play was stopped. Orson Welles became the scapegoat for the goverment.<br /><br />But why did they go ahead with this lavish 'test' - the late 30s gave way to UFO sighting on a large scale.<br /><br />Now, Im not a UFO fanatic so the UFO part of this is something I really cant reply to, but its sounds like a good theory.<br /><br />H_C<br /><a href='http://www.waroftheworldsonline.com' target='_blank'>http://www.waroftheworldsonline.com</a>
H_C
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Lonesome Crow
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:53 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
Joined: Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:31 pm Posts: 3365 Location: N.Humberside.UK
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Humm' I don't know, Mercury Theatre did a lot of the old classics, I have a copy of their 'Tresure Island'. so it's not surprising they would do WOTW or some other sci/fi classic.<br />The trouble with conspiracy theory groups is they start seeing conspiracies everywhere :alien32:<br /><br />Look out there's a green alien behind you, see everywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DldFBFJgWmw&feature=player_embedded
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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:10 am |
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Martian War Lord |
Joined: Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:00 pm Posts: 2870 Location: Liverpool, UK
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Also at the begining of the broadcast the audiance was informed that it was a radio play. Some missed that or forgot but they were told.<br /><br />Orson just tried something a bit new in the way they broadcast a story and it backfired.
Bah bah black sheap April diamond spheres, Rigsby, Rigsby, Eight sided Pears.
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Lonesome Crow
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 3:47 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
Joined: Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:31 pm Posts: 3365 Location: N.Humberside.UK
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Loz wrote: Also at the begining of the broadcast the audiance was informed that it was a radio play. Some missed that or forgot but they were told. Orson just tried something a bit new in the way they broadcast a story and it backfired.
It didn't backfire at all. Mercury Theatre was about to go under, CBS network was about to axe the show, until that broadcast shot them to the top of the ratings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DldFBFJgWmw&feature=player_embedded
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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:10 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
Joined: Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:00 pm Posts: 2870 Location: Liverpool, UK
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your there are yer?
Bah bah black sheap April diamond spheres, Rigsby, Rigsby, Eight sided Pears.
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Lonesome Crow
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:14 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:35 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
Joined: Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:00 pm Posts: 2870 Location: Liverpool, UK
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Yer there are yer? Is Scouse for Smart Arse. <br /><br />The little green alien behind me is my Mother! :alien5: <br /><br />Too may years on the sauce!
Bah bah black sheap April diamond spheres, Rigsby, Rigsby, Eight sided Pears.
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Lonesome Crow
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:05 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
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Loz
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:35 pm |
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Martian War Lord |
Joined: Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:00 pm Posts: 2870 Location: Liverpool, UK
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Look Lonesome do you have to draw attention to the fact that she has to heads? She is right behind me after all and she reads all the stuff here.<br />Hold on, calm down mother its only a commercial, there that's better, take your pill, relax, let it all hang out, not like that, jeez, sorry you best turn away.<br />Right Mother back in your cage.
Bah bah black sheap April diamond spheres, Rigsby, Rigsby, Eight sided Pears.
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Lonesome Crow
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:27 am |
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Martian War Lord |
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willorwell
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:24 pm |
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Joined: Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:37 pm Posts: 13 Location: Los Angeles
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Horsell_Common wrote: Bear with me on this one. Earlier today while taking a customers order we bagan to talk about TWOTW. This particular customer has a keen interest in UFO related incidents. He spoke about the 1938 Orson Welles Mercury Theatre production of The War Of The Worlds and how it was played out over the radio, the effect it had and the closing down of the broadcast. Its what he said that interested me, see what you think - He said his theory and others of his UFO group was that the whole thing was set up by the U.S goverment with the help of the 'Mercury Theatre', a kind of 'test' to see how the public and autorities would react to a UFO scare. Wanting to make the 'test' more realistic to the listener it was left to 'Mercury' to come up with the goods - TWOTW. The panic that followed showed what a success the 'test' was but the scale of the panic was something the goverment had not counted on, so the play was stopped. Orson Welles became the scapegoat for the goverment.
But why did they go ahead with this lavish 'test' - the late 30s gave way to UFO sighting on a large scale.
Now, Im not a UFO fanatic so the UFO part of this is something I really cant reply to, but its sounds like a good theory.
The UFO group needs to discuss a new topic: getting a life. The notion that the US government precipitated the Oct. 30, 1938 broadcast, or instigated it, is absurd. In nearly 30 years of fanatical familiarity with all apsects of this broadcast, including recording my own version in 1976, I have never seen any evidence for the assertions of the UFO group.
The group also needs to have speakers talk to them about the concept of "credibility." Their foolishness is for Art Bell's show. Incidentally, Welles's contract with CBS provided for CBS's indemnification of Welles for matters arising from any broadcast.
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Alland
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:32 pm |
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Joined: Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:07 am Posts: 262 Location: west-central Pennsylvanai
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The government/UFO conspiracy theory has a major hole in it: The US Government did not get involved with UFOs until after World War II was over. Specifically, they didn't get involved until 1947, when Kenneth Arnold's "flying saucer" sighting started the modern series of UFO reports. Before then, such UFO reports as there were had been written off as poor observations of natural phenomena, hoaxes, or meteors, while of course those seen during wartime or the eve of war were suspected to be secret weapons of some terrestrial power. Before Arnold's sighting, the UFO phenomenon was simply below the interest level of every government in the world.
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