Archive for October 30th, 2008
War of the Worlds 2.0
Thursday, October 30th, 2008In 1938, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater on the Air troop staged a Martian invasion the night before Halloween, nearly destroying civilization with their voices and sound effects in a period of about an hour. For the still relatively new medium of radio, the panic that spread across the country was a sobering expression [...]