War Of The Worlds 1938 Radio Broadcast with Orson Welles
Mercury Theatre - Orson Welles - CBS
In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of this radio broadcast and Halloween, I present this vinyl rip I've made of the War of the Worlds, as done in 1938 by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre. I have included two versions here at multiple bitrates and filetypes. On one, the only editing I've done is to attach the two sides of the record. On the cleaned version, I did a minor amount of EQ and ran it through some mild cleaning processes anyone can do to remove some pops and things. I am by no means an expert, if someone takes the unedited version and cleans it better than I did, please let us know! Here is a version here on the archive that was here before mine if you prefer ALSO: Here is a very cool VR spatialized version from Archive.org user magicass98 that uses this version as a source. I highly recommend you check it out, and use those headphones! Check it out on YouTube . Thanks to magicass98 for making it and letting us know about it. From it's Wikipedia page : The War of the Worlds is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air . It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles , the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells 's novel The War of the Worlds (1898).
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.