Grovers Mill

[Mickey Richaud]

75 years ago today!

Question for the day:
Would it happen today?

 

[NutmegCT]

Happens every day people read things online! "I saw it on the internet!"

Last night I watched a great program on PBS, on the infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/worlds/

Welles thought the screenplay was really boring; he didn't even get the script until three days before the broadcast. Desperately tried to liven things up. At the last minute they added ideas from a similar broadcast of the same year: "news bulletins", "on the scene descriptions", burned corpses, and the best idea - SILENCE. The guy playing the radio journalist even studied the radio transcription of the Hindenburg disaster (1937) to get the right sound of fear and horror.

At the appropriate moment in the live broadcast, Welles actually held up his arms to keep everyone totally silent, implying the on the scene radio journalist was dead.

CBS had been receiving so many calls about "is this true?", the admin told the tech guys to interrupt the broadcast and remind the listeners the show was just fiction. But the tech guys were afraid to interrupt Welles - who was known as the brilliant "enfant terrible" of radio.

Edit: think of what we were hearing in the news during 1938: Europe close to war, Nazi storm troopers invading other countries, and Roosevelt's voice in the Fireside Chats.

Wow.

 

[aeronca65t]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g

 

[Mickey Richaud]

And my favorite (Part 1):

 

[JPSmit]

I had that album - was also a favourite

 

[Mickey Richaud]

I had that album - was also a favourite

Still have mine. Love that Jeff Wayne got Burton to revise his narration. And the music is classic Moody Blues.

Playing in the background as I type!

 

[Guest]

I have to agree with Tom, I've been seeing more and more fearful people because of the internet not to mention the media. Even TV shows are pumping folks full of "fearful" things to come, so much so, it makes a fella wonder if it's intentional in preparation of something down the road...ooooop, here we go again....


(AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!) :grin:

 

[NutmegCT]

I have to agree with Tom, I've been seeing more and more fearful people because of the internet not to mention the media. Even TV shows are pumping folks full of "fearful" things to come, so much so, it makes a fella wonder if it's intentional in preparation of something down the road...ooooop, here we go again....


(AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!) :grin:

Actually - I think the media are pumping "fearful things", because it draws us in and sells advertising!

Back in the Dark Ages, when I was just a lad, Halloween was a mostly religious event (All Souls Eve). Now we buy costumes that get more hideous and scary every year!

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Back in the Dark Ages, when I was just a lad, Halloween was a mostly religious event (All Souls Eve). Now we buy costumes that get more hideous and scary every year!

Yeah - did you see Basil's? Check out his avatar.

 

[sd80mac7204]

(AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!) :grin:

" This landing is gonna get pretty interesting."


" Define "interesting"."

"[deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?"

 

[Guest]

Back in the Dark Ages, when I was just a lad, Halloween was a mostly religious event (All Souls Eve). Now we buy costumes that get more hideous and scary every year!

And now we have cornography

https://api.ning.com/files/l4G*fyI0...3VaoGJF7nrB6IboLNjCCgKT7/EY_3330_1_YO2012.jpg

 

[NutmegCT]

" This landing is gonna get pretty interesting."


" Define "interesting"."

"[deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?"

One of my favorites: "Please let me die peacefully in my sleep, like my uncle. Not screaming in terror like his passengers."

:lol:

 

[Guest]

" This landing is gonna get pretty interesting."


" Define "interesting"."

"[deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?"

Air America?

 

[DNK]

 

[Guest]

Thanks Don, I knew it sounded familiar but couldn't remember.


"And we shall call this land.......'This Land'...". :laugh: