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War of the Worlds by the Star Trek Cast

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the genres-collide dept.

eDavidLu writes "Here is a radio remake of The War of the Worlds. From the promo: 'Join actors from Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation as they recreate this classic radio thriller. The breathless pace and convincing details make it clear why the 1938 broadcast of an eyewitness report of an invasion from Mars caused a nationwide panic in 1938. Originally performed by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre of the Air, War of the Worlds is truly the mother of all space invasions, offering a rare combination of chills, thrills and great literature.' My local NPR station KPCC broadcast this show last Saturday night, and the streaming audio for the entire program is available for one week only on their site. I was going to submit this story for Halloween eve, but KPCC was in the middle of a fund drive. Now that the fund drive is over, the slashdotting can begin. If you like this type of programming, remember to contribute to your local NPR station." Update: 11/05 17:53 GMT by Z : Edited for jerks. Thanks, guys. Seriously. Way to be responsible members of the internet community.

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  1. This is over 10 years old by aarku · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is from 1994.

  2. Re:wow by McFadden · · Score: 4, Informative

    I thought it quite a considerate move considering that by definition, a slashdotting means bye bye website for at least a few hours. How is that going to help people trying to make donations?

  3. Re:Who has the original? by luguvalium2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.mercurytheatre.info/

  4. How to download the stream and convert to mp3 by curmi · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want to download the stream, convert to mp3, and then play on your iPod/iTunes/whatever, check out this link. And Mac OS X users should look at this.

    Oh - and the original 1938 broadcast can be found here.

  5. Re:url for capturing stream? by MynockGuano · · Score: 3, Informative

    That file downloads some 20051029.smil, which has the file rtsp://archivemedia.publicradio.org/5559/kpcc/news /shows/latw/2005/10/20051029_latw.rm in it. This one can be fed to mplayer.

  6. That's my favorite myth, too. by Errandboy+of+Doom · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The next day, newspapers across the country carried stories of terrorized people hiding in basements, panic flight from New Jersey and New York, stampedes in theaters, heart attacks, miscarriages, and even suicides. During the months that followed, these stories were shown to have little if any substance, yet today the myth of War of the Worlds stampedes and suicides persists as part of American folklore.

    -Prof. David L. Miller, Introduction to Collective Behavior and Collective Action.

    Here's the passage online.

  7. Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad by bobintetley · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was the cutting edge of science when the book was first published in 1898 (the discovery of viruses and the common cold being relatively new).

    It's public domain now and you can read the original book here, along with HG Wells complete works (which I highly recommend - he's the grandaddy of science fiction).

  8. DO NOT CLICK THE LA THEATER WORKS LINK! by DiamondGeezer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some slimeball has hacked the LA theater Works website and put a picture of Mr Goatse on it. Well done idiots. *slow hand clap*

    --
    Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
  9. Re:Who has the original? by ggvaidya · · Score: 3, Informative
    NOT the copyright holders actually. From TLA:

    Who owns the copyright on these shows?

    Copyright on old radio shows is an extremely hazy area. Nobody seems to know who owns the rights to these broadcasts, and a good argument could be made that they're public domain. A couple obnoxious individuals over the years have claimed that they own the rights to certain shows and have threatened to sue collectors and webmasters that have made episodes of the shows available. Tellingly, they've never actually taken anyone to court, and have only relied on bluster to assert their ownership.

    For further exploration of these issues, please see the OTR Law Journal. Please don't write me asking how to get clearance to use The War of the Worlds in your project; I'm sorry, I just don't know.
  10. It could get much worse by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 3, Funny
    Some slimeball has hacked the LA theater Works website and put a picture of Mr Goatse on it

    I was happily surfing porn sites, and in the midst of an otherwise lovely thumbnail gallery, there was Mr Goatse.

    Worse...it was a different shot of him, so we've only seen the beginning of this horror.

    I quickly closed the window, but it wasn't quick enough to prevent the horror, as it is hard to act quickly when surfing with only one hand...

  11. Bah, No wonder. by Dog+and+Pony · · Score: 4, Informative

    $ HEAD http://latw.org/audio/detail.aspx?title=War%20Of%2 0The%20Worlds:%20Invasion%20From%20Mars
    200 OK
    Cache-Control: private
    Connection: close
    Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:55:14 GMT
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
    Content-Length: 17505
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    Client-Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:52:51 GMT
    Client-Peer: 66.77.245.167:80
    Client-Response-Num: 1
    Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=wq0hme4534e45b55owp5vmi0; path=/
    X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322
    X-Powered-By: ASP.NET