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and the Mercury Theater on the air in

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the War of the World by H.G Webb

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ladies and gentlemen the director of the

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Mercury Theater and star of these

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broadcasts Orson Welles

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we know now that in the early years of

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we know now that as human beings visit

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themselves about their various concerns

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they were scrutinized and studied

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transient creatures that swarm and

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and fro of the earth about their little

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which by chance or design man is

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raquelo and his orchestra

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good evening ladies and gentlemen from

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the Meridian room in the Park Plaza

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Hotel in New York City we bring you the

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music of Raymond raquelo and his

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program of dance music to bring you a

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Intercontinental radio news at 20

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uh red disc swimming in a blue sea

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news Dorado Canada Professor Morris of

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cylinder has a diameter of um what would

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you say what's the diameter of this

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yellowish white this curious Spectators

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now are pressing close to the object in

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closer please ladies and gentlemen this

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drowsy a professor fellow is talking

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about Mars so I was half Chosen and half

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yes yes this woman and then what

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happened well as I was saying I was

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listening to the radio kind of halfway

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yes Mr Willis and then you saw something

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not first off I heard something and what

289
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did you hear uh hissing sound like this

290
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uh kind of like a Fourth of July rocket

291
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yes then what I turned my head out the

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window and would have sworn I was to

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sleep and dreaming yes I've seen a kind

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of greenish streak and then zingle

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something smacked the ground knocked me

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clear out of my chair well why are you

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frightened Mr Wilbert well I ain't quite

298
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sure I reckon I was kind of riled well

299
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thank you Mr Wilma thank you very much

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you want me to tell that's quite all

301
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right that's funny ladies and gentlemen

302
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you've just heard Mr Wilmot owner of the

303
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farm where this thing has fallen I wish

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I could convey the atmosphere the

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background of this fantastic scene

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hundreds of cars have parked in a field

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in back of us and the police are trying

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to rope off the roadway leading into the

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farm but it's no use they're breaking

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right through cars headlights throw an

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enormous Spotlight on the pit where the

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objects have buried now some of the more

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daring stories now are Century near the

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one man wants to touch his thing he's

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having an argument with the policeman

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now the policeman wins

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Now ladies and gentlemen there's

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something I haven't mentioned in all

319
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this excitement but it's becoming more

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distinct perhaps you've caught it

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do you hear it it's a curious humming

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sound that seems to come from inside the

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object I'll uh move the microphone

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now we're not more than 25 feet away can

325
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you hear it now uh Professor Pearson yes

326
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can you tell us the meaning of that

327
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scraping noise inside the thing

328
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possibly the unequal cooling of its

329
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surface I say do you still think it's a

330
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meteor professor

331
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what do you think

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the metal casing is definitely

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extraterrestrial uh not found on this

334
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Earth friction with the Earth's

335
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atmosphere usually tears holes in a

336
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meteorite this thing is smooth and

337
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you can see it's still interested

338
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something's happening

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ladies and gentlemen this is terrific

340
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this end of this thing is beginning to

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flake off

342
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top is beginning to rotate like a screw

343
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ladies and gentlemen this is the most

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someone calling someone else something I

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can see

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turning out of that black hole through

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luminous discs for the eyes this might

348
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be a face might be almost Heavens

349
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nothing breaking out of the Shadow like

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a gray snake now it's another one and

351
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another one and another one they look

352
00:15:25,610 --> 00:15:24,000
like tentacles to me oh yeah I can see

353
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the thing's body now it's large and as

354
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large as a bear it's Crystal it's like

355
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wet leather but that's space ladies and

356
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gentlemen Indescribable but I can hardly

357
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force myself to keep looking at it so

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hopefully eyes are black and they Lean

359
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Like A serp in the mountains that's kind

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of v-shapeless saliva dripping from its

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rimless lips has seen its those

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quiverance pulsating monster or whatever

363
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it is and hardly move he's weighed down

364
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by possibly gravity or something with

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things

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rising up now and the crowd falls back

367
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it's been plenty that's supposed to

368
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start your experience they can tell I'm

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like can't find words pull this

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microphone with me as I talk them I have

371
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to stop the description so I can take a

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new position hold on will you please

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[Music]

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we are bringing you an eyewitness

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account of what's happening on the

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[Music]

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we now return you to Carl Phillips at

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ladies and gentlemen ladies and

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gentlemen ladies and gentlemen here I am

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back of a stone wall that joins Mr

381
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Wellness Garden from here I get a sweep

382
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of the whole scene I'll give you every

383
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detail as long as I can talk as long as

384
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I can save it more State Police have

385
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arrived they're throwing up a cordon in

386
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front of the pit uh 30 of them no need

387
00:16:59,449 --> 00:16:57,480
to push the card back now they're

388
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willing to keep their distance the

389
00:17:03,889 --> 00:17:01,800
captain's inferring with someone can't

390
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quite see who oh yes I believe it's

391
00:17:07,250 --> 00:17:05,880
Professor Pearson yes it is now now

392
00:17:08,569 --> 00:17:07,260
they've parted and the professor moves

393
00:17:10,429 --> 00:17:08,579
around one side

394
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studying the object while captain and

395
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two policemen Advanced with something in

396
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their hands I can see it now it's the

397
00:17:19,130 --> 00:17:15,900
white hacks of tied to a poll

398
00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:19,140
flag of truce those preachers know what

399
00:17:23,990 --> 00:17:22,260
that means what anything means wait a

400
00:17:26,689 --> 00:17:24,000
minute something's happening

401
00:17:28,370 --> 00:17:26,699
pump shape is rising out of the pit

402
00:17:30,669 --> 00:17:28,380
and then they got a small beam of light

403
00:17:33,770 --> 00:17:30,679
against a mirror

404
00:17:34,850 --> 00:17:33,780
what's that there's a gender flame

405
00:17:36,710 --> 00:17:34,860
spring from the mirror and at least

406
00:17:38,210 --> 00:17:36,720
right at the advancing men

407
00:17:40,789 --> 00:17:38,220
strike some head-on

408
00:17:41,930 --> 00:17:40,799
Lords are turning into flames not the

409
00:17:43,150 --> 00:17:41,940
whole field started by the words of

410
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surprises

411
00:17:47,330 --> 00:17:45,539
thanks for the automobiles spreading

412
00:17:53,270 --> 00:17:47,340
everywhere coming this way down to about

413
00:17:56,510 --> 00:17:54,650
ladies and gentlemen due to

414
00:17:58,130 --> 00:17:56,520
circumstances beyond our control we are

415
00:18:00,169 --> 00:17:58,140
unable to continue the broadcast from

416
00:18:01,630 --> 00:18:00,179
Grover's Mill evidently there's some

417
00:18:04,370 --> 00:18:01,640
difficulty with our field transmission

418
00:18:06,350 --> 00:18:04,380
however we will return to that point at

419
00:18:08,029 --> 00:18:06,360
the earliest opportunity in the meantime

420
00:18:10,549 --> 00:18:08,039
we have a late bulletin from San Diego

421
00:18:11,870 --> 00:18:10,559
California Professor indelkoffer

422
00:18:14,510 --> 00:18:11,880
speaking at a dinner of the California

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Astronomical Society expressed the

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opinion that the explosions on Mars are

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undoubtedly nothing more than severe

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00:18:22,130 --> 00:18:20,940
volcanic disturbances on the surface of

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the planet

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00:18:30,409 --> 00:18:25,540
we continue now with our piano interlude

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[Music]

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I've just been handed a message that

431
00:18:42,169 --> 00:18:39,179
came in from Grover's Mill by telephone

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00:18:44,570 --> 00:18:42,179
that's one moment please

433
00:18:47,750 --> 00:18:44,580
at least 40 people including six state

434
00:18:49,850 --> 00:18:47,760
troopers lie dead in a field east of the

435
00:18:51,890 --> 00:18:49,860
village of Grover's Mill their bodies

436
00:18:53,870 --> 00:18:51,900
burned and distorted beyond all possible

437
00:18:55,549 --> 00:18:53,880
recognition

438
00:18:57,250 --> 00:18:55,559
the next voice you hear will be that of

439
00:18:59,690 --> 00:18:57,260
Brigadier General Montgomery Smith

440
00:19:03,470 --> 00:18:59,700
commander of the state militia at

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00:19:08,210 --> 00:19:06,169
I have been requested by the governor of

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00:19:10,370 --> 00:19:08,220
New Jersey to place the counties of

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00:19:13,669 --> 00:19:10,380
Mercer and Middlesex as

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00:19:16,070 --> 00:19:13,679
as far west as Princeton and East to

445
00:19:18,289 --> 00:19:16,080
James burgundy martial law

446
00:19:20,930 --> 00:19:18,299
no one will be permitted to enter this

447
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area except by a special pass issued by

448
00:19:25,310 --> 00:19:23,220
state or military authorities

449
00:19:27,789 --> 00:19:25,320
four companies of State militia are

450
00:19:31,070 --> 00:19:27,799
proceeding from Trenton to Grover's Mill

451
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and will Aid in the evacuation of homes

452
00:19:35,930 --> 00:19:33,380
within the range of military operations

453
00:19:37,610 --> 00:19:35,940
thank you

454
00:19:39,590 --> 00:19:37,620
you have just been listening to General

455
00:19:41,450 --> 00:19:39,600
Montgomery Smith commanding the state

456
00:19:43,130 --> 00:19:41,460
militia at Trenton in the meantime

457
00:19:45,230 --> 00:19:43,140
further details of the catastrophe at

458
00:19:46,909 --> 00:19:45,240
Grover's Mill are coming in the strange

459
00:19:48,890 --> 00:19:46,919
creatures after unleashing their deadly

460
00:19:50,510 --> 00:19:48,900
assault crawl back in their pit and made

461
00:19:52,190 --> 00:19:50,520
no attempt to prevent the efforts of the

462
00:19:54,409 --> 00:19:52,200
firemen to recover the bodies and

463
00:19:55,789 --> 00:19:54,419
extinguish the fire the combined Fire

464
00:19:57,289 --> 00:19:55,799
Departments of Mercer County are

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00:19:58,730 --> 00:19:57,299
fighting the Flames which Menace the

466
00:20:00,529 --> 00:19:58,740
entire Countryside

467
00:20:02,270 --> 00:20:00,539
we have been unable to establish any

468
00:20:04,070 --> 00:20:02,280
contact with our mobile unit at Grover's

469
00:20:05,450 --> 00:20:04,080
Mill but we hope to be able to return

470
00:20:07,370 --> 00:20:05,460
you there at the earliest possible

471
00:20:12,710 --> 00:20:07,380
moment in the meantime we take you to

472
00:20:15,710 --> 00:20:14,090
ladies and gentlemen I have just been

473
00:20:17,029 --> 00:20:15,720
informed that we have finally

474
00:20:19,070 --> 00:20:17,039
established communication with an

475
00:20:20,870 --> 00:20:19,080
eyewitness of the tragedy Professor

476
00:20:22,730 --> 00:20:20,880
Pearson has been located at a farmhouse

477
00:20:24,409 --> 00:20:22,740
near Grover's Mill where he has

478
00:20:26,990 --> 00:20:24,419
established an emergency observation

479
00:20:29,150 --> 00:20:27,000
post as a scientist he will give you his

480
00:20:30,770 --> 00:20:29,160
explanation of the Calamity the next

481
00:20:32,750 --> 00:20:30,780
voice you hear will be that of Professor

482
00:20:38,210 --> 00:20:32,760
Pearson brought to you by direct wire

483
00:20:42,710 --> 00:20:41,210
of the creatures in the rocket cylinder

484
00:20:44,990 --> 00:20:42,720
at drove his Mill

485
00:20:47,270 --> 00:20:45,000
I can give you no authoritative

486
00:20:50,870 --> 00:20:47,280
information either to their nature their

487
00:20:52,909 --> 00:20:50,880
origin or their purposes here on Earth

488
00:20:56,450 --> 00:20:52,919
of their destructive instrument I might

489
00:20:58,370 --> 00:20:56,460
venture some conjectural explanation

490
00:21:00,710 --> 00:20:58,380
for one of a better term I shall refer

491
00:21:03,529 --> 00:21:00,720
to the mysterious weapon as a heat ray

492
00:21:05,510 --> 00:21:03,539
or to evident that these creatures have

493
00:21:07,070 --> 00:21:05,520
scientific knowledge far in advance of

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00:21:09,470 --> 00:21:07,080
Our Own

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00:21:11,570 --> 00:21:09,480
it's my guess that in some way they are

496
00:21:12,710 --> 00:21:11,580
able to generate an intense heat in a

497
00:21:15,529 --> 00:21:12,720
chamber of practically absolute

498
00:21:17,330 --> 00:21:15,539
non-conductivity this intense heat they

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00:21:19,070 --> 00:21:17,340
project in a parallel beam against any

500
00:21:20,930 --> 00:21:19,080
object they choose by means of a

501
00:21:22,430 --> 00:21:20,940
polished parabolic mirror of unknown

502
00:21:24,230 --> 00:21:22,440
composition

503
00:21:27,409 --> 00:21:24,240
much as the mirror of a lighthouse

504
00:21:29,750 --> 00:21:27,419
projects a beam of light

505
00:21:33,529 --> 00:21:29,760
that is my conjecture of the origin of

506
00:21:37,310 --> 00:21:35,570
thank you Professor Pearson

507
00:21:39,230 --> 00:21:37,320
ladies and gentlemen here is a bulletin

508
00:21:40,850 --> 00:21:39,240
from Trenton it is a brief statement

509
00:21:42,890 --> 00:21:40,860
informing us that the charred body of

510
00:21:44,450 --> 00:21:42,900
Carl Phillips has been identified in the

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00:21:45,890 --> 00:21:44,460
Trenton Hospital

512
00:21:47,390 --> 00:21:45,900
now here's another bulletin from

513
00:21:49,070 --> 00:21:47,400
Washington D.C

514
00:21:51,289 --> 00:21:49,080
the office of the director of the

515
00:21:52,970 --> 00:21:51,299
national Red Cross reports 10 units of

516
00:21:54,230 --> 00:21:52,980
Red Cross emergency workers have been

517
00:21:56,090 --> 00:21:54,240
assigned to the headquarters of the

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00:21:57,710 --> 00:21:56,100
state militia stationed outside of

519
00:21:59,210 --> 00:21:57,720
Grover's Mill New Jersey

520
00:22:02,029 --> 00:21:59,220
there's a bulletin from State Police

521
00:22:03,730 --> 00:22:02,039
Princeton Junction the fires at Grover's

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00:22:06,470 --> 00:22:03,740
Mill and vicinity are now under control

523
00:22:07,970 --> 00:22:06,480
Scouts report all quiet in the pit and

524
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there is no sign of Life appearing from

525
00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:09,600
the mouth of the cylinder

526
00:22:13,090 --> 00:22:11,340
Now ladies and gentlemen we have a

527
00:22:16,070 --> 00:22:13,100
special statement from Mr Harry McDonald

528
00:22:17,690 --> 00:22:16,080
vice president in charge of operations

529
00:22:19,730 --> 00:22:17,700
we have received a request from the

530
00:22:21,590 --> 00:22:19,740
state militia of Trenton to place at

531
00:22:22,970 --> 00:22:21,600
their disposal our entire broadcasting

532
00:22:24,830 --> 00:22:22,980
facilities

533
00:22:26,690 --> 00:22:24,840
in view of the gravity of the situation

534
00:22:28,430 --> 00:22:26,700
and believing that radio has a

535
00:22:30,409 --> 00:22:28,440
responsibility to serve in the public

536
00:22:32,270 --> 00:22:30,419
interest at all times

537
00:22:35,510 --> 00:22:32,280
we are turning over our facilities to

538
00:22:37,190 --> 00:22:35,520
the state militia Trenton

539
00:22:39,470 --> 00:22:37,200
we take you now to the field

540
00:22:43,250 --> 00:22:39,480
headquarters of the state militia near

541
00:22:46,850 --> 00:22:45,049
this is Captain Lansing of the signal

542
00:22:48,710 --> 00:22:46,860
car attached to the state militia now

543
00:22:50,570 --> 00:22:48,720
engaged in military operations in the

544
00:22:52,490 --> 00:22:50,580
vicinity of Grover's Mill

545
00:22:54,289 --> 00:22:52,500
situation arising from the reported

546
00:22:55,730 --> 00:22:54,299
presence of certain individuals of

547
00:22:57,950 --> 00:22:55,740
unidentified nature is now under

548
00:23:00,049 --> 00:22:57,960
complete control

549
00:23:01,690 --> 00:23:00,059
the cylindrical object which lies in a

550
00:23:03,890 --> 00:23:01,700
pit directly below our position

551
00:23:05,570 --> 00:23:03,900
surrounded on all sides by eight

552
00:23:07,250 --> 00:23:05,580
battalions of Infantry

553
00:23:08,870 --> 00:23:07,260
without heavy field pieces but

554
00:23:09,950 --> 00:23:08,880
adequately armed with rifles and machine

555
00:23:12,770 --> 00:23:09,960
guns

556
00:23:15,649 --> 00:23:12,780
all cause for alarm if such cause ever

557
00:23:17,270 --> 00:23:15,659
existed is now entirely unjustified

558
00:23:18,770 --> 00:23:17,280
things whatever they are do not even

559
00:23:19,789 --> 00:23:18,780
venture to poke their heads above the

560
00:23:21,710 --> 00:23:19,799
pit

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00:23:23,810 --> 00:23:21,720
I can see their Hiding Place plainly in

562
00:23:26,029 --> 00:23:23,820
the glare of the searchlights here

563
00:23:27,590 --> 00:23:26,039
with all their reported resources these

564
00:23:29,570 --> 00:23:27,600
creatures can scarcely stand up against

565
00:23:31,190 --> 00:23:29,580
heavy machine gun fire

566
00:23:32,630 --> 00:23:31,200
anyway it's an interesting outing for

567
00:23:34,850 --> 00:23:32,640
the troops

568
00:23:36,770 --> 00:23:34,860
I can make out their cocky uniforms

569
00:23:39,830 --> 00:23:36,780
Crossing back and forth in front of the

570
00:23:41,990 --> 00:23:39,840
lights looks almost like a real war

571
00:23:43,490 --> 00:23:42,000
there appears to be some slight smoke in

572
00:23:46,310 --> 00:23:43,500
the woods bordering the millstone River

573
00:23:49,190 --> 00:23:46,320
probably fire started by campers

574
00:23:51,409 --> 00:23:49,200
well uh we ought to see some action soon

575
00:23:53,750 --> 00:23:51,419
one of the companies is deploying on the

576
00:23:55,610 --> 00:23:53,760
Left Flank a quick thrust and it'll all

577
00:23:58,370 --> 00:23:55,620
be over oh wait a minute I

578
00:24:00,590 --> 00:23:58,380
see something on top of the cylinder

579
00:24:01,850 --> 00:24:00,600
no no it's nothing but a shadow now the

580
00:24:03,710 --> 00:24:01,860
troops are on the edge of the Wilma's

581
00:24:06,049 --> 00:24:03,720
Farm seven thousand armed men closing in

582
00:24:07,250 --> 00:24:06,059
on an old metal tube a tub rather well

583
00:24:08,270 --> 00:24:07,260
wait that wasn't a shadow it's something

584
00:24:10,549 --> 00:24:08,280
moving

585
00:24:12,470 --> 00:24:10,559
solid metal kind of a shield-like affair

586
00:24:14,090 --> 00:24:12,480
rising up out of the cylinder it's going

587
00:24:17,029 --> 00:24:14,100
higher and higher

588
00:24:18,710 --> 00:24:17,039
but it's it's standing on legs actually

589
00:24:20,810 --> 00:24:18,720
rearing up on a sort of metal framework

590
00:24:27,710 --> 00:24:20,820
now it's reaching above the trees and

591
00:24:30,950 --> 00:24:29,390
ladies and gentlemen I have a grave

592
00:24:32,930 --> 00:24:30,960
announcement to make

593
00:24:34,490 --> 00:24:32,940
incredible as it may seem both the

594
00:24:35,990 --> 00:24:34,500
observations of Science and the evidence

595
00:24:37,970 --> 00:24:36,000
of our eyes

596
00:24:39,710 --> 00:24:37,980
lead to the inescapable assumption that

597
00:24:41,810 --> 00:24:39,720
those strange beings who landed in the

598
00:24:43,490 --> 00:24:41,820
Jersey farmlands tonight

599
00:24:46,970 --> 00:24:43,500
are the Vanguard of an invading Army

600
00:24:50,750 --> 00:24:49,010
the battle which took place tonight at

601
00:24:52,310 --> 00:24:50,760
Grover Mills has ended in one of the

602
00:24:54,289 --> 00:24:52,320
most startling defeats ever suffered by

603
00:24:56,090 --> 00:24:54,299
an Army in modern times

604
00:24:58,130 --> 00:24:56,100
seven thousand men on with rifles and

605
00:24:59,510 --> 00:24:58,140
machine guns pitted against a single

606
00:25:00,909 --> 00:24:59,520
fighting machine of the Invaders from

607
00:25:03,169 --> 00:25:00,919
Mars

608
00:25:05,029 --> 00:25:03,179
120 known survivors

609
00:25:07,549 --> 00:25:05,039
the restroom over the battle area from

610
00:25:08,930 --> 00:25:07,559
Grover's Mill to Plainsboro crushed and

611
00:25:10,190 --> 00:25:08,940
trampled to death under the metal feet

612
00:25:13,430 --> 00:25:10,200
of the monster

613
00:25:14,930 --> 00:25:13,440
are burned to Cinders by its heat ray

614
00:25:16,370 --> 00:25:14,940
the monster is now in control of the

615
00:25:17,870 --> 00:25:16,380
middle section of New Jersey and has

616
00:25:18,770 --> 00:25:17,880
effectively cut the state through its

617
00:25:20,330 --> 00:25:18,780
Center

618
00:25:22,669 --> 00:25:20,340
communication lines are down from

619
00:25:24,409 --> 00:25:22,679
Pennsylvania to the Atlantic Ocean

620
00:25:25,970 --> 00:25:24,419
railroad tracks a torn in service from

621
00:25:26,810 --> 00:25:25,980
New York to Philadelphia discontinued

622
00:25:28,070 --> 00:25:26,820
except

623
00:25:30,649 --> 00:25:28,080
rooting some of the trains through

624
00:25:32,510 --> 00:25:30,659
Allerton and Phoenixville

625
00:25:34,669 --> 00:25:32,520
highways to the north south and west of

626
00:25:36,409 --> 00:25:34,679
clogged with frantic human traffic

627
00:25:38,570 --> 00:25:36,419
police and Army Reserves are unable to

628
00:25:39,950 --> 00:25:38,580
control the Mad flight

629
00:25:41,810 --> 00:25:39,960
I'm warning the fugitives will have

630
00:25:43,970 --> 00:25:41,820
swelled Philadelphia Camden and Trenton

631
00:25:46,070 --> 00:25:43,980
it is estimated to twice their normal

632
00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:46,080
population

633
00:25:50,390 --> 00:25:47,520
martial law prevails throughout New

634
00:25:51,890 --> 00:25:50,400
Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania

635
00:25:53,570 --> 00:25:51,900
at this time we take you to Washington

636
00:25:55,250 --> 00:25:53,580
for a special broadcast on the National

637
00:25:59,750 --> 00:25:55,260
Emergency

638
00:26:04,970 --> 00:26:02,090
citizens of the nation

639
00:26:06,830 --> 00:26:04,980
I shall not try to conceal the gravity

640
00:26:07,970 --> 00:26:06,840
of the situation that confronts the

641
00:26:10,730 --> 00:26:07,980
country

642
00:26:13,310 --> 00:26:10,740
nor the concern of your government in

643
00:26:14,450 --> 00:26:13,320
protecting the lives and property of its

644
00:26:15,830 --> 00:26:14,460
people

645
00:26:18,529 --> 00:26:15,840
however

646
00:26:20,990 --> 00:26:18,539
I wish to impress upon you

647
00:26:25,130 --> 00:26:21,000
private citizens and public officials

648
00:26:27,710 --> 00:26:25,140
all of you the urgent need of calm and

649
00:26:31,070 --> 00:26:27,720
resourceful action

650
00:26:33,830 --> 00:26:31,080
fortunately this formidable enemy is

651
00:26:35,029 --> 00:26:33,840
still confined to a comparatively small

652
00:26:38,269 --> 00:26:35,039
area

653
00:26:41,149 --> 00:26:38,279
and we may place our faith in the

654
00:26:43,070 --> 00:26:41,159
military forces to keep them there

655
00:26:45,409 --> 00:26:43,080
in the meantime

656
00:26:48,409 --> 00:26:45,419
placing our faith in God

657
00:26:50,870 --> 00:26:48,419
we must continue the performance of our

658
00:26:53,990 --> 00:26:50,880
duties each and every one of us

659
00:26:56,769 --> 00:26:54,000
so that we may confront this destructive

660
00:26:59,810 --> 00:26:56,779
adversary with a nation United

661
00:27:02,690 --> 00:26:59,820
courageous and consecrated to the

662
00:27:04,010 --> 00:27:02,700
preservation of human Supremacy on this

663
00:27:06,649 --> 00:27:04,020
Earth

664
00:27:08,450 --> 00:27:06,659
I thank you

665
00:27:10,610 --> 00:27:08,460
you have just heard the Secretary of the

666
00:27:12,710 --> 00:27:10,620
Interior speaking from Washington

667
00:27:13,909 --> 00:27:12,720
is too numerous to read are piling up in

668
00:27:15,590 --> 00:27:13,919
the studio here

669
00:27:17,269 --> 00:27:15,600
we're informed that the central portion

670
00:27:18,830 --> 00:27:17,279
of New Jersey is blacked out from Radio

671
00:27:20,570 --> 00:27:18,840
communication due to the effect of the

672
00:27:21,470 --> 00:27:20,580
heat ray upon power lines and electrical

673
00:27:23,090 --> 00:27:21,480
equipment

674
00:27:24,950 --> 00:27:23,100
here's a special bullet in New York

675
00:27:27,289 --> 00:27:24,960
cables have been received from English

676
00:27:28,730 --> 00:27:27,299
French and German scientific bodies

677
00:27:30,529 --> 00:27:28,740
offering assistance

678
00:27:32,330 --> 00:27:30,539
astronomers report continued gas

679
00:27:34,549 --> 00:27:32,340
outbursts at regular intervals on the

680
00:27:35,630 --> 00:27:34,559
planet Mars the majority voiced the

681
00:27:38,330 --> 00:27:35,640
opinion that the enemy will be

682
00:27:39,830 --> 00:27:38,340
reinforced by additional rocket machines

683
00:27:41,390 --> 00:27:39,840
there have been several attempts made to

684
00:27:44,269 --> 00:27:41,400
locate Professor Pearson of Princeton

685
00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:44,279
who has observed Martians at close range

686
00:27:46,970 --> 00:27:45,840
it is fairly was lost in the recent

687
00:27:48,769 --> 00:27:46,980
battle

688
00:27:50,330 --> 00:27:48,779
field Virginia

689
00:27:52,370 --> 00:27:50,340
scouting planes report three Martian

690
00:27:53,630 --> 00:27:52,380
machines visible above Treetops moving

691
00:27:55,909 --> 00:27:53,640
north towards Somerville with population

692
00:27:57,289 --> 00:27:55,919
fleeing ahead of them the heat ray is

693
00:27:59,570 --> 00:27:57,299
not in use although advancing at Express

694
00:28:01,490 --> 00:27:59,580
train speed Invaders picked their way

695
00:28:02,930 --> 00:28:01,500
carefully they seem to be making a

696
00:28:04,789 --> 00:28:02,940
conscious effort to avoid destruction of

697
00:28:06,289 --> 00:28:04,799
cities and Countryside however they

698
00:28:08,029 --> 00:28:06,299
stopped to uproot power lines Bridges

699
00:28:09,430 --> 00:28:08,039
and railroad tracks their apparent

700
00:28:11,750 --> 00:28:09,440
objective is to crush resistance

701
00:28:13,430 --> 00:28:11,760
paralyzed communication and disorganize

702
00:28:14,930 --> 00:28:13,440
Human Society

703
00:28:16,190 --> 00:28:14,940
here is a bulletin from Basking Ridge

704
00:28:17,690 --> 00:28:16,200
New Jersey

705
00:28:19,789 --> 00:28:17,700
Hunters have stumbled on a second

706
00:28:21,350 --> 00:28:19,799
cylinder similar to the first embedded

707
00:28:22,850 --> 00:28:21,360
in the Great Swamp 20 miles south of

708
00:28:24,769 --> 00:28:22,860
Morristown

709
00:28:26,510 --> 00:28:24,779
Army Field pieces are proceeding for the

710
00:28:28,130 --> 00:28:26,520
cylinder can be opened and the fighting

711
00:28:29,450 --> 00:28:28,140
machine rigged they are taking up a

712
00:28:31,669 --> 00:28:29,460
position in the foothills of Watchung

713
00:28:33,710 --> 00:28:31,679
mountains another fear another another

714
00:28:35,510 --> 00:28:33,720
Bolton from Langham field Virginia

715
00:28:37,010 --> 00:28:35,520
scouting plans report enemy machines now

716
00:28:38,450 --> 00:28:37,020
through a number increasing speed

717
00:28:40,010 --> 00:28:38,460
northward kicking over houses and

718
00:28:41,690 --> 00:28:40,020
freezing their evidence haste to form a

719
00:28:44,029 --> 00:28:41,700
conjunction with their allies south of

720
00:28:45,470 --> 00:28:44,039
Morristown machines also cited by

721
00:28:47,810 --> 00:28:45,480
telephone operator east of Middlesex

722
00:28:49,430 --> 00:28:47,820
within 10 miles of Plainfield

723
00:28:51,409 --> 00:28:49,440
here's a boaten from Winston seal Long

724
00:28:52,970 --> 00:28:51,419
Island a fleet of army bombers carrying

725
00:28:55,130 --> 00:28:52,980
heavy explosive flying North in pursuit

726
00:28:57,590 --> 00:28:55,140
of enemy scouting planes act as guides

727
00:28:58,909 --> 00:28:57,600
they keep the speeding enemy in sight

728
00:29:00,830 --> 00:28:58,919
just a moment please ladies and

729
00:29:03,169 --> 00:29:00,840
gentlemen we've uh We've run special

730
00:29:04,730 --> 00:29:03,179
wires to the artillery line and adjacent

731
00:29:06,470 --> 00:29:04,740
villages to give you direct reports from

732
00:29:08,390 --> 00:29:06,480
the zone of the advancing enemy

733
00:29:10,669 --> 00:29:08,400
first we take you to the battery of the

734
00:29:15,169 --> 00:29:10,679
22nd field artillery located in the

735
00:29:21,049 --> 00:29:17,690
Range 32 meters

736
00:29:22,789 --> 00:29:21,059
32 meters Perfection 39 degrees

737
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:22,799
39 degrees

738
00:29:28,010 --> 00:29:23,730
fire

739
00:29:30,830 --> 00:29:28,020
[Music]

740
00:29:32,630 --> 00:29:30,840
140 yards to the right side your frames

741
00:29:37,909 --> 00:29:32,640
31 meters

742
00:29:38,770 --> 00:29:37,919
37 degrees

743
00:29:44,930 --> 00:29:38,780
fire

744
00:29:49,549 --> 00:29:47,810
but the tripod of one of them

745
00:29:51,289 --> 00:29:49,559
stop

746
00:29:54,590 --> 00:29:51,299
the others are trying to repair Rick get

747
00:29:56,630 --> 00:29:54,600
the range shift 50 30 meters 30 meters

748
00:30:00,610 --> 00:29:56,640
projection 27 degrees

749
00:30:00,620 --> 00:30:04,730
[Music]

750
00:30:09,830 --> 00:30:07,130
see the philantha

751
00:30:11,810 --> 00:30:09,840
letting off a smoke what is it

752
00:30:13,789 --> 00:30:11,820
Electric

753
00:30:16,010 --> 00:30:13,799
moving this way

754
00:30:21,230 --> 00:30:16,020
flying close to the ground

755
00:30:25,370 --> 00:30:23,210
get ready to file

756
00:30:26,870 --> 00:30:25,380
shift to 24 meters

757
00:30:30,529 --> 00:30:26,880
24 meters

758
00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:30,539
projection 24 degrees 24 degrees

759
00:30:36,769 --> 00:30:32,310
well

760
00:30:39,350 --> 00:30:36,779
[Music]

761
00:30:45,289 --> 00:30:39,360
there can see sir

762
00:30:45,299 --> 00:30:52,370
23 meters

763
00:30:52,380 --> 00:31:10,690
attitude

764
00:31:16,310 --> 00:31:14,690
I'm a bombing Flame v843 Off Bayonne New

765
00:31:18,169 --> 00:31:16,320
Jersey Lieutenant both commanding eight

766
00:31:19,850 --> 00:31:18,179
bombers reporting to Commander Fairfax

767
00:31:21,889 --> 00:31:19,860
Langham field

768
00:31:23,750 --> 00:31:21,899
this is both reporting to Commander

769
00:31:26,529 --> 00:31:23,760
Fairfax Langham field

770
00:31:28,549 --> 00:31:26,539
enemy tripod machines now in sight

771
00:31:31,070 --> 00:31:28,559
reinforced by three machines from the

772
00:31:33,470 --> 00:31:31,080
Morristown cylinder six all together

773
00:31:35,269 --> 00:31:33,480
one machine partially crippled the

774
00:31:37,250 --> 00:31:35,279
leaves hit by shell from army Gunn and

775
00:31:39,529 --> 00:31:37,260
Watchung mountains

776
00:31:41,870 --> 00:31:39,539
guns now appear silence

777
00:31:45,169 --> 00:31:41,880
a heavy black fog hanging close to the

778
00:31:49,070 --> 00:31:45,179
Earth of extreme density nature unknown

779
00:31:53,990 --> 00:31:51,649
anime now turns East Crossing Passaic

780
00:31:56,389 --> 00:31:54,000
River into the Jersey marshes another

781
00:32:00,950 --> 00:31:56,399
settles the Pulaski Skyway

782
00:32:05,870 --> 00:32:02,810
and pushing down a high tension power

783
00:32:08,690 --> 00:32:07,310
machines are close together now and

784
00:32:14,930 --> 00:32:08,700
we're ready to attack

785
00:32:22,130 --> 00:32:16,850
a thousand yards and we'll be over the

786
00:32:22,140 --> 00:32:27,649
800 yards

787
00:32:33,710 --> 00:32:29,560
600.

788
00:32:39,889 --> 00:32:33,720
[Music]

789
00:32:39,899 --> 00:32:43,730
200.

790
00:32:47,690 --> 00:32:45,470
there they go

791
00:32:49,010 --> 00:32:47,700
the giant arm raised

792
00:32:51,769 --> 00:32:49,020
Green Flash

793
00:32:54,909 --> 00:32:51,779
[Music]

794
00:32:57,889 --> 00:32:54,919
ing us with flame two thousand feet

795
00:33:00,350 --> 00:32:57,899
engines are giving out no chance to

796
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:00,360
release bombs only one thing left drop

797
00:33:04,850 --> 00:33:03,050
on the plane and all

798
00:33:08,950 --> 00:33:04,860
[Music]

799
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:16,190
now the engine's gone hey

800
00:33:19,549 --> 00:33:18,110
this is Bayonne New Jersey calling

801
00:33:26,389 --> 00:33:19,559
Langham field

802
00:33:28,490 --> 00:33:26,399
ahead eight army bombers and engagement

803
00:33:31,630 --> 00:33:28,500
with enemy tripod machines over Jersey

804
00:33:35,409 --> 00:33:31,640
Flats engines incapacitated by heat ray

805
00:33:37,970 --> 00:33:35,419
all crashed one enemy machine destroyed

806
00:33:42,350 --> 00:33:37,980
enemy now discharging heavy black smoke

807
00:33:47,389 --> 00:33:44,750
this is Newark New Jersey this is New

808
00:33:49,450 --> 00:33:47,399
York New Jersey warning poisonous black

809
00:33:53,389 --> 00:33:49,460
smoke pouring in from Jersey marshes

810
00:33:54,889 --> 00:33:53,399
reaches South Street gas mask useless

811
00:33:59,049 --> 00:33:54,899
urged population to move into Open

812
00:34:02,810 --> 00:33:59,059
Spaces automobiles use Route 7

813
00:34:04,970 --> 00:34:02,820
23-24 avoid congested areas

814
00:34:15,129 --> 00:34:04,980
smoke now spreading over over Raymond

815
00:34:20,089 --> 00:34:18,530
come in please this is 8x3r coming back

816
00:34:25,669 --> 00:34:20,099
at 2x2l

817
00:34:39,609 --> 00:34:28,669
where are you at x3r

818
00:34:45,829 --> 00:34:43,070
I'm speaking from the proof of

819
00:34:48,589 --> 00:34:45,839
broadcasting building I'm speaking from

820
00:34:50,510 --> 00:34:48,599
the roof of broadcasting Building New

821
00:34:52,730 --> 00:34:50,520
York City the

822
00:34:54,950 --> 00:34:52,740
those who hear Are Ringing to warn the

823
00:34:57,470 --> 00:34:54,960
people to evacuate the city as

824
00:34:59,810 --> 00:34:57,480
the Martian's approach

825
00:35:01,730 --> 00:34:59,820
estimated in last two hours three

826
00:35:02,630 --> 00:35:01,740
million people have moved out along the

827
00:35:05,089 --> 00:35:02,640
roads

828
00:35:07,430 --> 00:35:05,099
to the north

829
00:35:10,310 --> 00:35:07,440
Hutchinson River Parkway still kept open

830
00:35:12,829 --> 00:35:10,320
for motor traffic

831
00:35:15,109 --> 00:35:12,839
avoid Bridges to Long Island hopelessly

832
00:35:17,270 --> 00:35:15,119
jammed

833
00:35:18,650 --> 00:35:17,280
all communication with Jersey Shore

834
00:35:21,170 --> 00:35:18,660
closed

835
00:35:23,870 --> 00:35:21,180
ten minutes ago

836
00:35:26,630 --> 00:35:23,880
no more defenses

837
00:35:28,310 --> 00:35:26,640
our army is wiped out

838
00:35:29,990 --> 00:35:28,320
artillery

839
00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:30,000
Air Force

840
00:35:36,890 --> 00:35:32,640
everything wiped out

841
00:35:40,490 --> 00:35:36,900
this may be the Last Broadcast

842
00:35:42,589 --> 00:35:40,500
we'll stay here to the end

843
00:35:46,310 --> 00:35:42,599
people are holding service here below us

844
00:35:51,530 --> 00:35:49,190
now I look down the harbor oh

845
00:35:53,450 --> 00:35:51,540
all manner of boats

846
00:35:57,710 --> 00:35:53,460
overloaded with fleeing population

847
00:36:02,329 --> 00:35:59,690
streets are all jammed

848
00:36:03,589 --> 00:36:02,339
noise in crowds like New Year's Eve and

849
00:36:06,050 --> 00:36:03,599
City

850
00:36:07,849 --> 00:36:06,060
wait a minute they

851
00:36:09,770 --> 00:36:07,859
the enemy is now inside above the

852
00:36:13,849 --> 00:36:09,780
Palisades five

853
00:36:19,310 --> 00:36:17,030
first one is crossing the river I can

854
00:36:21,470 --> 00:36:19,320
see it from here waiting

855
00:36:23,870 --> 00:36:21,480
waiting the Hudson like a man waiting

856
00:36:26,329 --> 00:36:23,880
through a brook

857
00:36:29,630 --> 00:36:26,339
uh bulletin is handed me

858
00:36:31,190 --> 00:36:29,640
Martian cylinders are falling all over

859
00:36:34,730 --> 00:36:31,200
the country

860
00:36:36,829 --> 00:36:34,740
one outside of Buffalo one in Chicago

861
00:36:40,550 --> 00:36:36,839
St Louis

862
00:36:42,470 --> 00:36:40,560
seem to be timed and spaced

863
00:36:44,870 --> 00:36:42,480
now the first machine reaches the shore

864
00:36:53,930 --> 00:36:44,880
he

865
00:36:57,050 --> 00:36:53,940
skyscrapers

866
00:36:59,329 --> 00:36:57,060
he waits for the others

867
00:37:01,730 --> 00:36:59,339
they rise like a line of new towers on

868
00:37:05,150 --> 00:37:01,740
the city's west side

869
00:37:07,670 --> 00:37:05,160
now they're lifting their metal hands

870
00:37:10,910 --> 00:37:07,680
this is the end now

871
00:37:13,130 --> 00:37:10,920
slope comes out black smoke drifting

872
00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:13,140
over the city

873
00:37:17,150 --> 00:37:15,660
people in the street see it now

874
00:37:18,650 --> 00:37:17,160
they're running toward the East River

875
00:37:21,770 --> 00:37:18,660
thousands of them

876
00:37:23,569 --> 00:37:21,780
dropping in like rats

877
00:37:25,569 --> 00:37:23,579
now the Smoke's spreading faster it's

878
00:37:27,890 --> 00:37:25,579
reached Times Square

879
00:37:29,870 --> 00:37:27,900
people are trying to run away from it

880
00:37:34,190 --> 00:37:29,880
but it's no use they

881
00:37:39,530 --> 00:37:36,370
now the smokes Crossing Sixth Avenue

882
00:37:42,490 --> 00:37:39,540
[Music]

883
00:37:48,230 --> 00:37:46,670
uh a hundred yards away

884
00:37:59,730 --> 00:37:48,240
it's

885
00:37:59,740 --> 00:38:19,630
[Music]

886
00:38:27,829 --> 00:38:23,510
2x2l calling say kill

887
00:38:32,990 --> 00:38:27,839
your x2l calling say kill

888
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,829
and anyone on the air

889
00:38:36,839 --> 00:38:40,609
in there anyone on the air

890
00:38:40,619 --> 00:38:44,150
isn't there anyone

891
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:51,530
2x2l

892
00:38:55,250 --> 00:38:53,630
you are listening to a CBS presentation

893
00:38:57,770 --> 00:38:55,260
of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater

894
00:39:01,190 --> 00:38:57,780
on the air in an original dramatization

895
00:39:02,750 --> 00:39:01,200
of the War of the Worlds by H.G Wells

896
00:39:04,750 --> 00:39:02,760
the performance will continue after a

897
00:39:07,670 --> 00:39:04,760
brief intermission this is the Columbia

898
00:39:10,210 --> 00:39:07,680
broadcasting system

899
00:39:12,530 --> 00:39:10,220
The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells

900
00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:12,540
starring Orson Welles and the Mercury

901
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:14,710
Theater on the air

902
00:39:40,069 --> 00:39:36,710
[Music]

903
00:39:42,349 --> 00:39:40,079
as I set down these notes on paper

904
00:39:45,829 --> 00:39:42,359
I'm obsessed by the thought that I may

905
00:39:49,250 --> 00:39:47,569
I've been hiding in this empty house

906
00:39:51,589 --> 00:39:49,260
near Grover's Mill

907
00:39:52,970 --> 00:39:51,599
a small island of daylight cut off by

908
00:39:54,710 --> 00:39:52,980
the black smoke from the rest of the

909
00:39:56,690 --> 00:39:54,720
world

910
00:39:58,730 --> 00:39:56,700
all that happened before the arrival of

911
00:40:01,790 --> 00:39:58,740
these monstrous creatures in the world

912
00:40:03,950 --> 00:40:01,800
now seems part of another life

913
00:40:05,630 --> 00:40:03,960
a life that has no continuity with the

914
00:40:08,329 --> 00:40:05,640
present

915
00:40:09,290 --> 00:40:08,339
furtive existence of the Lonely derelict

916
00:40:11,870 --> 00:40:09,300
who

917
00:40:13,970 --> 00:40:11,880
pencils these words on the back of some

918
00:40:14,930 --> 00:40:13,980
astronomical notes bearing the signature

919
00:40:17,150 --> 00:40:14,940
of

920
00:40:19,490 --> 00:40:17,160
Richard Pearson

921
00:40:20,870 --> 00:40:19,500
look down at my blackened hand

922
00:40:25,970 --> 00:40:20,880
s

923
00:40:27,530 --> 00:40:25,980
of October 20th

924
00:40:29,390 --> 00:40:27,540
glimpsed through his telescope and

925
00:40:31,550 --> 00:40:29,400
orange splash of light on a distant

926
00:40:33,829 --> 00:40:31,560
planet

927
00:40:37,790 --> 00:40:33,839
my wife

928
00:40:39,589 --> 00:40:37,800
my colleagues my students my books

929
00:40:43,010 --> 00:40:39,599
my Observatory

930
00:40:47,930 --> 00:40:44,690
my world

931
00:40:47,940 --> 00:40:51,230
did they ever exist

932
00:40:56,450 --> 00:40:54,230
am I Richard Pearson

933
00:41:00,170 --> 00:40:56,460
what day is it

934
00:41:02,329 --> 00:41:00,180
do days exist without calendars

935
00:41:07,310 --> 00:41:02,339
this time passed when there no human

936
00:41:11,210 --> 00:41:09,410
writing down my daily life I tell myself

937
00:41:13,310 --> 00:41:11,220
I shall preserve human history between

938
00:41:15,230 --> 00:41:13,320
the dark covers of this little book that

939
00:41:17,089 --> 00:41:15,240
was meant to record the movements of the

940
00:41:20,990 --> 00:41:17,099
stars but

941
00:41:22,910 --> 00:41:21,000
right I must live and to live I must eat

942
00:41:27,170 --> 00:41:22,920
find moldy bread in the kitchen and an

943
00:41:33,170 --> 00:41:30,349
keep watch at the window

944
00:41:36,589 --> 00:41:33,180
time to time I catch sight of a

945
00:41:39,170 --> 00:41:36,599
Martian above the black smoke

946
00:41:40,490 --> 00:41:39,180
still holds the house in its black coil

947
00:41:42,770 --> 00:41:40,500
but

948
00:41:45,230 --> 00:41:42,780
thanks there's a hissing sound and

949
00:41:46,849 --> 00:41:45,240
suddenly I see a martian mounted on his

950
00:41:49,010 --> 00:41:46,859
machine

951
00:41:51,650 --> 00:41:49,020
spraying the air with a jet of steam as

952
00:41:53,990 --> 00:41:51,660
if to dissipate the smoke I watch in a

953
00:41:56,569 --> 00:41:54,000
corner is this huge metal legs nearly

954
00:41:59,930 --> 00:41:56,579
brush against the house

955
00:42:02,630 --> 00:41:59,940
exhausted by Terror I fall asleep

956
00:42:07,609 --> 00:42:04,970
morning

957
00:42:09,890 --> 00:42:07,619
Sun streams in the window

958
00:42:11,870 --> 00:42:09,900
black cloud of gas is lifted and the

959
00:42:13,430 --> 00:42:11,880
scorched Meadows to the north look as

960
00:42:14,810 --> 00:42:13,440
though a black snowstorm had passed over

961
00:42:16,970 --> 00:42:14,820
them

962
00:42:19,190 --> 00:42:16,980
I Venture from the house I make my way

963
00:42:20,930 --> 00:42:19,200
to a road no traffic here in their

964
00:42:22,849 --> 00:42:20,940
wrecked car baggage overturned a

965
00:42:25,010 --> 00:42:22,859
blackened skeleton

966
00:42:26,870 --> 00:42:25,020
push on North

967
00:42:29,750 --> 00:42:26,880
some reason I feel safer trailing these

968
00:42:33,530 --> 00:42:29,760
monsters and running away from them

969
00:42:39,770 --> 00:42:37,970
I've seen the Martians feed

970
00:42:41,990 --> 00:42:39,780
should one of their machines appear over

971
00:42:45,349 --> 00:42:42,000
the top of trees I'm ready to fling

972
00:42:49,670 --> 00:42:47,390
come to a chestnut tree

973
00:42:52,790 --> 00:42:49,680
October

974
00:42:58,069 --> 00:42:56,030
oh my pockets let's keep alive

975
00:43:00,650 --> 00:42:58,079
two days I wander in a vague Northerly

976
00:43:03,950 --> 00:43:00,660
direction through a desolate world

977
00:43:07,550 --> 00:43:03,960
finally I noticed a living creature

978
00:43:09,230 --> 00:43:07,560
a small red squirrel in a beech tree I

979
00:43:12,770 --> 00:43:09,240
stare at him and wonder

980
00:43:15,349 --> 00:43:12,780
he stares back at me

981
00:43:17,870 --> 00:43:15,359
I believe at that moment the animal and

982
00:43:21,710 --> 00:43:17,880
I shared the same emotion

983
00:43:24,829 --> 00:43:21,720
the joy of finding another living being

984
00:43:26,510 --> 00:43:24,839
push on North I find dead cows in a

985
00:43:29,329 --> 00:43:26,520
brackish field beyond the charred ruins

986
00:43:30,890 --> 00:43:29,339
of a dairy in a silo remain standing

987
00:43:32,390 --> 00:43:30,900
guard over the Wasteland like a

988
00:43:35,990 --> 00:43:32,400
lighthouse

989
00:43:39,170 --> 00:43:37,609
let's try The Silo perch as a weather

990
00:43:45,109 --> 00:43:39,180
the arrow

991
00:43:50,030 --> 00:43:47,329
next day I come to a city

992
00:43:51,770 --> 00:43:50,040
City Vaguely Familiar in its Contours

993
00:43:54,650 --> 00:43:51,780
yet it's building strangely dwarfed and

994
00:43:56,450 --> 00:43:54,660
leveled off as if a giant had sliced off

995
00:43:59,390 --> 00:43:56,460
its highest towers with a capricious

996
00:44:03,530 --> 00:43:59,400
sweep of his hand

997
00:44:10,130 --> 00:44:06,710
Newark undemolished but humbled by some

998
00:44:12,170 --> 00:44:10,140
whim of the advancing Martians

999
00:44:13,490 --> 00:44:12,180
presently with an odd feeling of being

1000
00:44:15,349 --> 00:44:13,500
watched I got sight of something

1001
00:44:17,329 --> 00:44:15,359
crouching in a doorway I mean to step

1002
00:44:21,950 --> 00:44:17,339
towards

1003
00:44:26,450 --> 00:44:25,430
man armed with a large knife stop

1004
00:44:28,010 --> 00:44:26,460
thank you

1005
00:44:31,550 --> 00:44:28,020
where do you come from

1006
00:44:37,190 --> 00:44:34,250
from many places

1007
00:44:39,170 --> 00:44:37,200
a long time ago from Princeton Princeton

1008
00:44:42,530 --> 00:44:39,180
huh

1009
00:44:47,569 --> 00:44:42,540
that's near Grover's milk yes

1010
00:44:51,349 --> 00:44:50,030
there's no food here this is my country

1011
00:44:54,109 --> 00:44:51,359
all this in the town down the river

1012
00:44:56,030 --> 00:44:54,119
there's only food for one

1013
00:44:58,670 --> 00:44:56,040
which way are you going

1014
00:45:01,670 --> 00:44:58,680
I don't know

1015
00:45:05,150 --> 00:45:01,680
I guess I'm looking

1016
00:45:06,950 --> 00:45:05,160
for people what was that

1017
00:45:08,089 --> 00:45:06,960
should we hear something just saying

1018
00:45:12,589 --> 00:45:08,099
no

1019
00:45:17,150 --> 00:45:15,230
alive bird

1020
00:45:18,710 --> 00:45:17,160
you get to know that birds have shadows

1021
00:45:20,870 --> 00:45:18,720
these days

1022
00:45:24,349 --> 00:45:20,880
we're in the open here

1023
00:45:28,250 --> 00:45:24,359
let's crawl in the doorway here and talk

1024
00:45:30,710 --> 00:45:28,260
have you seen any martians no

1025
00:45:32,690 --> 00:45:30,720
they're going over to New York

1026
00:45:34,670 --> 00:45:32,700
night the skies alive with their lights

1027
00:45:36,170 --> 00:45:34,680
just as if people were still living in

1028
00:45:39,829 --> 00:45:36,180
it

1029
00:45:43,550 --> 00:45:42,050
five days ago a couple of them carried

1030
00:45:45,589 --> 00:45:43,560
something big across the flats from the

1031
00:45:47,990 --> 00:45:45,599
airport

1032
00:45:52,849 --> 00:45:48,000
I think they're learning how to fly fly

1033
00:45:52,859 --> 00:45:56,990
and it's all over with Humanity

1034
00:46:02,089 --> 00:45:59,870
stranger there's still you and I

1035
00:46:04,490 --> 00:46:02,099
two of us left yeah

1036
00:46:06,050 --> 00:46:04,500
they got themselves in solid

1037
00:46:06,829 --> 00:46:06,060
they wrecked the greatest country in the

1038
00:46:08,510 --> 00:46:06,839
world

1039
00:46:10,430 --> 00:46:08,520
those green stars they're probably

1040
00:46:12,349 --> 00:46:10,440
falling somewhere every night they've

1041
00:46:14,150 --> 00:46:12,359
only lost one machine

1042
00:46:16,130 --> 00:46:14,160
there isn't anything to do we're done

1043
00:46:17,990 --> 00:46:16,140
we're licked

1044
00:46:19,790 --> 00:46:18,000
where were you you're in a uniform yeah

1045
00:46:22,490 --> 00:46:19,800
what's left of it I was in the militia

1046
00:46:24,829 --> 00:46:22,500
National Guard that's good there wasn't

1047
00:46:26,930 --> 00:46:24,839
any War any more than there's war

1048
00:46:30,770 --> 00:46:26,940
between men and ants yes but we're

1049
00:46:33,530 --> 00:46:30,780
eatable ants I found that out

1050
00:46:35,990 --> 00:46:33,540
what did they do to us I said it all out

1051
00:46:38,030 --> 00:46:36,000
right now we're caught as we wanted

1052
00:46:39,650 --> 00:46:38,040
a martian only has to go a few miles to

1053
00:46:40,970 --> 00:46:39,660
get a crowd on the Run

1054
00:46:42,710 --> 00:46:40,980
but they won't keep on doing that

1055
00:46:44,329 --> 00:46:42,720
they'll begin catching a systematic like

1056
00:46:45,650 --> 00:46:44,339
keeping the best and storing this in

1057
00:46:48,290 --> 00:46:45,660
cages and things

1058
00:46:49,790 --> 00:46:48,300
they haven't begun on us yet begun not

1059
00:46:51,829 --> 00:46:49,800
begun

1060
00:46:53,750 --> 00:46:51,839
all that's happened so far is because we

1061
00:46:55,550 --> 00:46:53,760
don't have sense enough to keep quiet

1062
00:46:57,109 --> 00:46:55,560
bothering them with guns and such stuff

1063
00:47:00,650 --> 00:46:57,119
and losing our heads and Russian orphan

1064
00:47:02,390 --> 00:47:00,660
crowds uh instead of our rushing around

1065
00:47:03,650 --> 00:47:02,400
blind we gotta fix ourselves up fix

1066
00:47:05,870 --> 00:47:03,660
ourselves up according to the way things

1067
00:47:08,569 --> 00:47:05,880
are now cities Nations civilization

1068
00:47:10,490 --> 00:47:08,579
progress but if that's so

1069
00:47:12,170 --> 00:47:10,500
what is there to live for well there

1070
00:47:13,790 --> 00:47:12,180
won't be any more concerts for a million

1071
00:47:15,290 --> 00:47:13,800
years or so and no nice little dinners

1072
00:47:17,089 --> 00:47:15,300
at restaurants

1073
00:47:18,290 --> 00:47:17,099
if it's Amusement you're after I guess

1074
00:47:21,290 --> 00:47:18,300
the game's up

1075
00:47:22,670 --> 00:47:21,300
what is the left life that's what I want

1076
00:47:24,710 --> 00:47:22,680
to live

1077
00:47:27,349 --> 00:47:24,720
and so do you

1078
00:47:29,050 --> 00:47:27,359
we're not going to be exterminated

1079
00:47:34,849 --> 00:47:29,060
and I don't mean to be caught either

1080
00:47:40,130 --> 00:47:37,790
what are you gonna do I'm going on

1081
00:47:42,050 --> 00:47:40,140
right under their feet

1082
00:47:45,050 --> 00:47:42,060
I got a plan

1083
00:47:45,950 --> 00:47:45,060
we man as men we're finished we don't

1084
00:47:47,750 --> 00:47:45,960
know enough

1085
00:47:49,790 --> 00:47:47,760
we got to learn plenty before we get a

1086
00:47:51,710 --> 00:47:49,800
chance we've got to live and keep free

1087
00:47:54,349 --> 00:47:51,720
what we learn see

1088
00:47:56,930 --> 00:47:54,359
I've sought it all out see

1089
00:47:58,849 --> 00:47:56,940
me the rest well it isn't all of us that

1090
00:48:00,950 --> 00:47:58,859
are made for wild beasts that's what it

1091
00:48:03,109 --> 00:48:00,960
got it that's what it gotta be

1092
00:48:05,450 --> 00:48:03,119
that's why I watched you

1093
00:48:06,589 --> 00:48:05,460
watched you all those little office

1094
00:48:08,450 --> 00:48:06,599
workers that used to live in these

1095
00:48:10,609 --> 00:48:08,460
houses they'd be no good they haven't

1096
00:48:12,710 --> 00:48:10,619
any stuff in them

1097
00:48:14,030 --> 00:48:12,720
they used to run run off to work I've

1098
00:48:15,109 --> 00:48:14,040
seen hundreds of them running to catch

1099
00:48:16,730 --> 00:48:15,119
their commuters train in the morning

1100
00:48:18,950 --> 00:48:16,740
afraid that you can if they didn't

1101
00:48:21,050 --> 00:48:18,960
running back at night afraid they

1102
00:48:23,030 --> 00:48:21,060
wouldn't be in time for dinner lives

1103
00:48:24,230 --> 00:48:23,040
insured and a little invested in case of

1104
00:48:26,089 --> 00:48:24,240
accidents

1105
00:48:29,530 --> 00:48:26,099
and on Sundays

1106
00:48:31,609 --> 00:48:29,540
worried about the hereafter

1107
00:48:34,490 --> 00:48:31,619
martians there'll be a godsend for those

1108
00:48:37,490 --> 00:48:34,500
guys nice roomy cages good food careful

1109
00:48:39,230 --> 00:48:37,500
breeding no worries after a week or so

1110
00:48:41,690 --> 00:48:39,240
of chasing around the fields on empty

1111
00:48:43,370 --> 00:48:41,700
stomachs they'll come and be glad to be

1112
00:48:45,829 --> 00:48:43,380
caught you've thought it all out haven't

1113
00:48:47,870 --> 00:48:45,839
you sure you bet I have

1114
00:48:49,490 --> 00:48:47,880
that isn't all

1115
00:48:50,450 --> 00:48:49,500
these martians are going to make pizza

1116
00:48:52,490 --> 00:48:50,460
summer

1117
00:48:54,650 --> 00:48:52,500
train them to do tricks

1118
00:48:57,470 --> 00:48:54,660
who knows gets Sentimental Over the pet

1119
00:49:00,290 --> 00:48:57,480
boy who grew up and had to be killed

1120
00:49:02,390 --> 00:49:00,300
yeah and some Maybe

1121
00:49:05,390 --> 00:49:02,400
they'll train to hunt us I know it's

1122
00:49:08,390 --> 00:49:05,400
impossible yes they will there's men who

1123
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,930
comes after me by

1124
00:49:17,870 --> 00:49:14,589
the meantime

1125
00:49:19,730 --> 00:49:17,880
you and I and others like us

1126
00:49:22,849 --> 00:49:19,740
where are we to live from the Martians

1127
00:49:24,530 --> 00:49:22,859
on the earth I got it all figured out

1128
00:49:26,450 --> 00:49:24,540
we live underground

1129
00:49:28,250 --> 00:49:26,460
I've been thinking about the sewers

1130
00:49:30,290 --> 00:49:28,260
under New York they're miles and miles

1131
00:49:32,569 --> 00:49:30,300
of them the main ones are big enough for

1132
00:49:34,670 --> 00:49:32,579
anybody and they're sellers vaults

1133
00:49:37,190 --> 00:49:34,680
underground storerooms Railway tunnels

1134
00:49:38,990 --> 00:49:37,200
subways

1135
00:49:40,490 --> 00:49:39,000
you begin to see her

1136
00:49:44,329 --> 00:49:40,500
we'll get a bunch of strong men together

1137
00:49:47,870 --> 00:49:44,339
no weakness that rubbish out

1138
00:49:49,970 --> 00:49:47,880
as you meant me to go all right

1139
00:49:54,410 --> 00:49:49,980
give you a chance didn't I

1140
00:49:57,530 --> 00:49:56,270
you gotta make safe places for us to

1141
00:49:59,690 --> 00:49:57,540
stay and see

1142
00:50:01,730 --> 00:49:59,700
at all the books we can

1143
00:50:04,010 --> 00:50:01,740
science books

1144
00:50:06,109 --> 00:50:04,020
that's where men like you come in see

1145
00:50:09,470 --> 00:50:06,119
we raid the museums

1146
00:50:11,089 --> 00:50:09,480
we'll even spy on the Martians

1147
00:50:12,410 --> 00:50:11,099
may not be so much we have to learn

1148
00:50:13,849 --> 00:50:12,420
before

1149
00:50:15,829 --> 00:50:13,859
listen

1150
00:50:17,809 --> 00:50:15,839
just imagine this

1151
00:50:20,150 --> 00:50:17,819
four or five of their own Fighting

1152
00:50:22,430 --> 00:50:20,160
Machines suddenly start off heat Rays

1153
00:50:25,790 --> 00:50:22,440
right and left not a martian in them not

1154
00:50:27,950 --> 00:50:25,800
a martian in them see but men men who've

1155
00:50:30,170 --> 00:50:27,960
learned the way how

1156
00:50:31,490 --> 00:50:30,180
may even in our time

1157
00:50:33,349 --> 00:50:31,500
gee

1158
00:50:35,690 --> 00:50:33,359
imagine having one of them lovely things

1159
00:50:38,329 --> 00:50:35,700
with the teeth Ray wide and free we'd

1160
00:50:41,150 --> 00:50:38,339
turn it on martians we turn it on men

1161
00:50:43,430 --> 00:50:41,160
we'd bring everybody down on their knees

1162
00:50:44,510 --> 00:50:43,440
that's your plan

1163
00:50:46,550 --> 00:50:44,520
you

1164
00:50:48,589 --> 00:50:46,560
me

1165
00:50:50,450 --> 00:50:48,599
a few more of us

1166
00:50:53,329 --> 00:50:50,460
we'd own the world

1167
00:50:54,950 --> 00:50:53,339
I see hey

1168
00:50:56,809 --> 00:50:54,960
what's the matter

1169
00:51:00,049 --> 00:50:56,819
where you going

1170
00:51:00,059 --> 00:51:04,670
bye stranger

1171
00:51:08,210 --> 00:51:06,349
well after parting with the artillery

1172
00:51:10,910 --> 00:51:08,220
and I came at last the Holland Tunnel

1173
00:51:12,530 --> 00:51:10,920
entered that silent tube

1174
00:51:14,569 --> 00:51:12,540
anxious to know the fate of the great

1175
00:51:16,490 --> 00:51:14,579
City on the other side of the Hudson

1176
00:51:18,950 --> 00:51:16,500
cautiously I came out of the tunnel and

1177
00:51:21,710 --> 00:51:18,960
made my way up Canal Street

1178
00:51:24,049 --> 00:51:21,720
reach 14th Street and there again we'll

1179
00:51:26,930 --> 00:51:24,059
black powder and several bodies and an

1180
00:51:29,930 --> 00:51:26,940
evil ominous smell from the gratings of

1181
00:51:33,650 --> 00:51:29,940
the cellars of some of the houses I

1182
00:51:36,410 --> 00:51:33,660
wandered up through the 30s and 40s

1183
00:51:38,930 --> 00:51:36,420
stood alone on Times Square

1184
00:51:40,670 --> 00:51:38,940
outside of a lean dog running down 7th

1185
00:51:42,589 --> 00:51:40,680
Avenue with a piece of dark brown meat

1186
00:51:44,990 --> 00:51:42,599
in his jaws and pack of starving

1187
00:51:47,210 --> 00:51:45,000
mongrels at his heels made a wide circle

1188
00:51:48,950 --> 00:51:47,220
around us though he feared I might prove

1189
00:51:50,930 --> 00:51:48,960
a fresh competitor

1190
00:51:52,490 --> 00:51:50,940
walked up Broadway in the direction of

1191
00:51:56,270 --> 00:51:52,500
that

1192
00:51:58,609 --> 00:51:56,280
windows

1193
00:52:00,230 --> 00:51:58,619
displaying their mute wears to empty

1194
00:52:02,210 --> 00:52:00,240
sidewalks

1195
00:52:03,410 --> 00:52:02,220
that's the Capitol Theater

1196
00:52:05,329 --> 00:52:03,420
silent

1197
00:52:07,190 --> 00:52:05,339
dark

1198
00:52:09,950 --> 00:52:07,200
Pastor Shooting Gallery were a row of

1199
00:52:13,370 --> 00:52:09,960
empty guns faced an arrested line of

1200
00:52:16,069 --> 00:52:13,380
wooden ducks near Columbus Circle

1201
00:52:18,530 --> 00:52:16,079
I noticed models of 1939 Motor Cars in

1202
00:52:20,210 --> 00:52:18,540
the showrooms facing empty streets

1203
00:52:21,710 --> 00:52:20,220
over the top of the General Motors

1204
00:52:23,990 --> 00:52:21,720
building I watched a flock of black

1205
00:52:26,270 --> 00:52:24,000
birds circling in the sky

1206
00:52:28,250 --> 00:52:26,280
hurried on

1207
00:52:29,450 --> 00:52:28,260
suddenly I caught sight of the hood of a

1208
00:52:30,890 --> 00:52:29,460
Martian machine

1209
00:52:32,809 --> 00:52:30,900
standing somewhere in Central Park

1210
00:52:34,730 --> 00:52:32,819
gleaming in the late afternoon sun an

1211
00:52:36,890 --> 00:52:34,740
insane idea

1212
00:52:39,410 --> 00:52:36,900
I I rushed recklessly across Columbus

1213
00:52:41,390 --> 00:52:39,420
Circle and into the park I I climbed a

1214
00:52:43,910 --> 00:52:41,400
small hill above the pond at 60th Street

1215
00:52:46,490 --> 00:52:43,920
and from there I could see standing in a

1216
00:52:49,609 --> 00:52:46,500
silent row along the mall 19 of those

1217
00:52:52,490 --> 00:52:49,619
great metal Titans their cowls empty

1218
00:52:53,990 --> 00:52:52,500
their steel arms hanging listlessly by

1219
00:52:56,150 --> 00:52:54,000
their sides

1220
00:52:58,430 --> 00:52:56,160
I looked in vain for the monsters that

1221
00:53:00,410 --> 00:52:58,440
inhabit those machines

1222
00:53:02,750 --> 00:53:00,420
suddenly my eyes were attracted to the

1223
00:53:04,309 --> 00:53:02,760
immense flock of black birds that hover

1224
00:53:05,390 --> 00:53:04,319
directly below me they circle to the

1225
00:53:08,089 --> 00:53:05,400
ground

1226
00:53:10,670 --> 00:53:08,099
and there before my eyes

1227
00:53:13,190 --> 00:53:10,680
Stark and silent

1228
00:53:15,349 --> 00:53:13,200
lay the Martians with the hungry birds

1229
00:53:16,309 --> 00:53:15,359
pecking and tearing Brown shreds of

1230
00:53:19,250 --> 00:53:16,319
Flesh

1231
00:53:21,290 --> 00:53:19,260
from their dead bodies

1232
00:53:22,910 --> 00:53:21,300
later when their bodies were examined in

1233
00:53:24,790 --> 00:53:22,920
Laboratories it was found that they were

1234
00:53:26,990 --> 00:53:24,800
killed by the

1235
00:53:28,370 --> 00:53:27,000
putrefactive and disease bacteria

1236
00:53:31,370 --> 00:53:28,380
against which their systems were

1237
00:53:34,970 --> 00:53:33,890
slain after all man's defenses had

1238
00:53:37,549 --> 00:53:34,980
failed

1239
00:53:41,630 --> 00:53:37,559
by the humblest thing that God

1240
00:53:46,549 --> 00:53:44,270
before the cylinder fell there was

1241
00:53:49,010 --> 00:53:46,559
a general persuasion that through all

1242
00:53:51,589 --> 00:53:49,020
the Deep of space

1243
00:53:54,650 --> 00:53:51,599
no life existed beyond the petty surface

1244
00:53:57,109 --> 00:53:54,660
of our minute sphere

1245
00:53:59,390 --> 00:53:57,119
now we see further

1246
00:54:01,790 --> 00:53:59,400
dim and wonderful is the vision I've

1247
00:54:04,370 --> 00:54:01,800
conjured up in my mind of Life spreading

1248
00:54:06,530 --> 00:54:04,380
slowly from this little seed bed of the

1249
00:54:09,950 --> 00:54:06,540
solar system throughout the inanimate

1250
00:54:13,329 --> 00:54:09,960
vastnesses of sidereal space but

1251
00:54:15,950 --> 00:54:13,339
a remote dream Maybe

1252
00:54:17,510 --> 00:54:15,960
that the destruction of the Martians is

1253
00:54:20,450 --> 00:54:17,520
only a reprieve

1254
00:54:24,130 --> 00:54:20,460
to them and not to us

1255
00:54:29,569 --> 00:54:26,450
strange it now seems to sit in my

1256
00:54:31,730 --> 00:54:29,579
peaceful study Princeton

1257
00:54:32,809 --> 00:54:31,740
writing down this last chapter of the

1258
00:54:34,970 --> 00:54:32,819
record

1259
00:54:36,410 --> 00:54:34,980
begun at a deserted Farm in Grover's

1260
00:54:39,049 --> 00:54:36,420
Mill

1261
00:54:41,990 --> 00:54:39,059
strange to watch children

1262
00:54:44,089 --> 00:54:42,000
playing in the streets

1263
00:54:46,210 --> 00:54:44,099
strange to see young people strolling on

1264
00:54:49,430 --> 00:54:46,220
the green where the new spring grass

1265
00:54:51,109 --> 00:54:49,440
heals the last black scars of a bruised

1266
00:54:54,170 --> 00:54:51,119
Earth

1267
00:54:56,270 --> 00:54:54,180
strange to watch the sightseers

1268
00:54:58,250 --> 00:54:56,280
enter the museum where the dissembled

1269
00:55:01,130 --> 00:54:58,260
parts of a Martian machine are kept on

1270
00:55:06,049 --> 00:55:03,349
strange when I recall a time when I

1271
00:55:11,089 --> 00:55:07,849
Brighton

1272
00:55:13,190 --> 00:55:11,099
clean-cut hard

1273
00:55:15,770 --> 00:55:13,200
and silent

1274
00:55:29,930 --> 00:55:15,780
under the dawn of that last

1275
00:55:29,940 --> 00:55:35,870
foreign

1276
00:55:38,750 --> 00:55:37,430
this is Orson Welles ladies and

1277
00:55:40,490 --> 00:55:38,760
gentlemen

1278
00:55:42,349 --> 00:55:40,500
out of character

1279
00:55:44,569 --> 00:55:42,359
to assure you that the war of the world

1280
00:55:46,190 --> 00:55:44,579
has no further significance

1281
00:55:47,870 --> 00:55:46,200
than as the holiday offering it was

1282
00:55:49,790 --> 00:55:47,880
intended to be

1283
00:55:51,470 --> 00:55:49,800
the Mercury theater's own radio version

1284
00:55:53,809 --> 00:55:51,480
of dressing up in a sheet and jumping

1285
00:55:55,609 --> 00:55:53,819
out of a bush and saying boo

1286
00:55:58,250 --> 00:55:55,619
starting now we couldn't soap all your

1287
00:56:00,170 --> 00:55:58,260
windows and steal all your garden Gates

1288
00:56:01,430 --> 00:56:00,180
by tomorrow night so we did the best

1289
00:56:03,589 --> 00:56:01,440
next thing

1290
00:56:06,890 --> 00:56:03,599
we annihilated the world before your

1291
00:56:08,870 --> 00:56:06,900
very ears and utterly destroyed the CBS

1292
00:56:10,549 --> 00:56:08,880
you will be relieved I hope to learn

1293
00:56:12,530 --> 00:56:10,559
that we didn't mean it

1294
00:56:14,630 --> 00:56:12,540
and that both institutions are still

1295
00:56:16,490 --> 00:56:14,640
open for business

1296
00:56:18,049 --> 00:56:16,500
so goodbye everybody and remember please

1297
00:56:20,510 --> 00:56:18,059
for the next day or so the terrible

1298
00:56:22,190 --> 00:56:20,520
lesson you learned tonight

1299
00:56:24,950 --> 00:56:22,200
that grinning

1300
00:56:26,450 --> 00:56:24,960
glowing globular Invader of your living

1301
00:56:28,430 --> 00:56:26,460
room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin

1302
00:56:30,230 --> 00:56:28,440
patch and if your doorbell rings and

1303
00:56:37,730 --> 00:56:30,240
nobody's there

1304
00:56:41,690 --> 00:56:39,770
tonight the Columbia broadcasting system

1305
00:56:43,370 --> 00:56:41,700
and its Affiliated stations Coast to

1306
00:56:46,130 --> 00:56:43,380
Coast has brought you the War of the

1307
00:56:48,049 --> 00:56:46,140
World by H.G Wells the 17th in its

1308
00:56:50,150 --> 00:56:48,059
weekly series of dramatic broadcasts

1309
00:56:52,549 --> 00:56:50,160
featuring Orson Welles and the Mercury

1310
00:56:54,470 --> 00:56:52,559
Theater on the air next week we present

1311
00:56:57,069 --> 00:56:54,480
a dramatization of three famous short