Adults,
Films,
Film Screening: “War of the Worlds”
07
00
PM
08
30
PM
2018-10-04
Community Room – First Floor, Princeton, NJ, 08542
October 4, 2018
This PBS American Experience documentary examines the famous 1938 radio dramatization of “War of the Worlds.” Although most listeners understood that the program was a radio drama, the next day’s headlines reported that thousands of others plunged into panic, convinced that America was under a deadly Martian attack. Featuring interviews with film director and cinema historian Peter Bogdanovich, Welles’s daughter Chris Welles Feder and other authors and experts, as well as dramatizations of some of the thousands of letters sent to Welles by an alternately admiring and furious public, “War of the Worlds” explores how Welles’s ingenious use of the new medium of radio struck fear into an already anxious nation. 51 minutes.
The War of the Worlds series includes multiple programs marking the 80th anniversary of the broadcast. Additional events include:
10/4 Film Screening: “War of the Worlds”
10/10 Raconteur Radio: “War of the Worlds”
10/18 Author Talk: “Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s ‘War of the Worlds’ and the Art of Fake News”
10/23 Open Archive: “War of the Worlds” Fan (and Hate) Mail
10/28 Concert: War of the Worlds.80
Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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This PBS American Experience documentary examines the famous 1938 radio dramatization of “War of the Worlds.” Although most listeners understood that the program was a radio drama, the next day’s headlines reported that thousands of others plunged into panic, convinced that America was under a deadly Martian attack. Featuring interviews with film director and cinema historian Peter Bogdanovich, Welles’s daughter Chris Welles Feder and other authors and experts, as well as dramatizations of some of the thousands of letters sent to Welles by an alternately admiring and furious public, “War of the Worlds” explores how Welles’s ingenious use of the new medium of radio struck fear into an already anxious nation. 51 minutes.
The War of the Worlds series includes multiple programs marking the 80th anniversary of the broadcast. Additional events include:
10/4 Film Screening: “War of the Worlds”
10/10 Raconteur Radio: “War of the Worlds”
10/18 Author Talk: “Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s ‘War of the Worlds’ and the Art of Fake News”
10/23 Open Archive: “War of the Worlds” Fan (and Hate) Mail
10/28 Concert: War of the Worlds.80
Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
