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00:00:00The program you're about to see is a recreation of the War of the Worlds panic broadcast of
00:00:061938. It is based on fact. All interruptions for news bulletins are simulated, and certain
00:00:13names, characters, and incidents are changed in the interests of dramatization.
00:00:21In the late years of the 1930s, we were witness to our world gripped in the first agonies
00:00:26of invasion and war. No section of the earth seemed free from these terrors, or from the
00:00:34nightmares of what was to come. Nightmares that for the first time were brought vividly
00:00:39into every home by the force of a new medium, radio.
00:01:09There's troops out at this moment marching into Wall Square. They've hatched a cease
00:01:14combat.
00:01:16I have been alerted.
00:01:18This time is no place for treason or treachery. We will destroy the nation.
00:01:26Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva!
00:01:38And America listened to the distant thunder brought by this medium wanting desperately
00:01:43to believe that they were secure from the lightning that was to come.
00:01:48It is October 30th, 1938, 623 Eastern Standard Time.
00:01:55An invasion is being planned by a small group, and this man is part of it.
00:02:02Not the invasion one might expect, but an unwitting invasion of the mind that will send
00:02:06a panicked nation fleeing out into the streets.
00:02:10In exactly one hour and thirty-seven minutes, the nightmare will begin.
00:02:16A fitting night has been picked.
00:02:18It is Halloween Eve.
00:02:19We're late.
00:02:20The world's late.
00:02:21Yeah.
00:02:22Force has come in yet?
00:02:23Save it for yourself.
00:02:24What's the show tonight?
00:02:25Our version of War of the Worlds.
00:02:26War.
00:02:27H.G. Wells.
00:02:28Ain't there enough war on the radio as it is?
00:02:29No, this is a different kind of war.
00:02:30Different?
00:02:31How different?
00:02:32Either got Germans, Japanese, or Italians.
00:02:33No, we're different.
00:02:34We got Martians in here.
00:02:36Now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.
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00:11:46More reverb!
00:11:47Push it lower!
00:11:48Yeah!
00:11:49The Martians have just landed.
00:11:52Ah!
00:11:53Here we are.
00:11:58To Newark, New Jersey, 7.15, Eastern Standard Time.
00:12:11New Jersey, 7.15, Eastern Standard Time.
00:12:14Mark, Mary, get up here!
00:12:17I can't get up here!
00:12:20No, I didn't say something to you!
00:12:23I said get up here!
00:12:41They'll be up in a minute.
00:12:48It's not their fault.
00:12:53Sure.
00:12:59They're playing Halloween.
00:13:02They're just kids.
00:13:06Twenty-eight.
00:13:09Twenty-eight.
00:13:12You look forty, don't tell me about kids.
00:13:18Will you at least wait till they're asleep?
00:13:24Everything for them.
00:13:27Right to the bitter end.
00:13:39You weren't fast enough!
00:13:45Sheila, I love you, but I could have the blue chair next time, didn't you?
00:13:49No, I didn't say he has a chair.
00:13:53But you promised me the doll.
00:13:59Shut up! Shut up once and for all!
00:14:02Take that thing off your face!
00:14:05Give him the chair, Sheila. Go in and wash your hands.
00:14:09And don't use both those towels.
00:14:12Hank's supper's ready.
00:14:18Sheila, I love you, but I could have the blue chair next time, didn't you?
00:14:21No, I didn't say he has a chair!
00:14:24What if I never gave you my holiday?
00:14:27My blue chair!
00:14:40Honey, go get a rag and we'll put the milk in.
00:14:54I just think maybe we should wait for a while.
00:14:57Yeah, but why? Why? Now, come on!
00:15:00We've already got the license and we got our blood tests and everything,
00:15:03and now out of the blue you're telling me that you don't want to get married anymore?
00:15:07Oak Park, Illinois. Twenty-six minutes to wear time.
00:15:10I mean, I'm supposed to be at the dorm right now, studying for an exam,
00:15:14so please, please tell me what's going on here.
00:15:19I mean, you know that there's a war just around the corner. Do you realize that?
00:15:24I mean, there'll be a conscription. I'll be called the problem.
00:15:27You could possibly bring the war into our problems now.
00:15:30What problem? Why should we wait?
00:15:35She's not asking you to wait. She's asking you to call it off.
00:15:40Father!
00:15:42I guess that's not at all what I want, see?
00:15:45Linda, you would be doing Stefan a favor if you were to tell him the real truth
00:15:50and stop beating about the bush.
00:15:53Truth?
00:15:56Do me a favor? What? Why? What truth?
00:15:59The truth is I will not give Linda permission to marry you.
00:16:03The truth is you are a Catholic.
00:16:08A Catholic?
00:16:09Surely that's not an unnatural position to assume for a Protestant minister.
00:16:13As Linda is well aware.
00:16:17Linda.
00:16:20Linda, in the three years I've known you, I've never known you to go to church once.
00:16:23It doesn't make any difference. You can't explain anything to him.
00:16:26Linda, that is not the point.
00:16:29You're of age, you know. You're old enough to make your own views.
00:16:33Now, I just want to know, does it make any difference to you that I'm Catholic?
00:16:39It makes a difference to him.
00:16:41I'm not marrying him.
00:16:44Young man, I will not have my daughter marry a papist.
00:16:50Wait, a papist? A papist?
00:16:55Who do you think you are, Martin Luther?
00:16:58The fact is you just don't want to let your daughter go. That's what's at stake here.
00:17:01You don't want her to marry anyone, right?
00:17:03Linda, come in to supper.
00:17:21North Hill, San Francisco.
00:17:29Stay tuned. In 15 minutes, it's Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater's own dramatization of H.G. Welles' War of the Worlds.
00:17:37Must we?
00:17:38I want to hear it. This is one of my favorite programs.
00:17:41Sure. Madeline's taking me over the world and you want to listen to fantasy.
00:17:45Mr. Matlock doesn't think he's mad.
00:17:47Mr. Matlock doesn't think he's mad. He doesn't think he's mad.
00:17:49We take you now by remote broadcast from Marvin Catwell in London, England.
00:17:54This is Marvin Catwell speaking to you directly from London, England.
00:18:00Neville Chamberlain, Britain's Prime Minister, is just about to begin a critical speech...
00:18:06Must we?
00:18:08Oh, I'm sorry, sir.
00:18:09I thought that perhaps since it was of world importance, some of the guests might be interested.
00:18:14To that? I think not.
00:18:17These people have heard enough of this wartime scare bugaboo during the day.
00:18:23They say, sir, there may be a final Hitler ultimatum from tonight's speech.
00:18:27Hitler ultimatum? Nonsense. Absolutely ridiculous.
00:18:31These people understand that he simply wants living room for his people. That's all.
00:18:39He saved them from economic disaster, the Bolshevik threat.
00:18:44He's lifting them up by their bootstraps.
00:18:49It's 7.49. Eleven minutes to airtime.
00:18:55Good evening, Mr. Wells.
00:18:57Good evening, sir.
00:19:03How do you know what goes on out there? We go first class.
00:19:11Here they are, revised Q-shoots.
00:19:18Right.
00:19:19Paul, I've been working on the boy...
00:19:21I understand, Clarence. I'm sorry.
00:19:23No, I really have it down good. I really have it.
00:19:25Here, why don't I do some of it for you?
00:19:27Look, it's from the network. Norman says you cannot do Roosevelt.
00:19:31Well, it's an insult. That's what it is. I'll talk to Orson about it. We'll see what he has to say.
00:19:35Secretary of Interior would be acceptable to continuity.
00:19:38The Secretary of the Interior? I don't know what he looks like.
00:19:41Might be a bit of a snob.
00:19:44There's no way on this one, Orson.
00:19:46Norman says he's given us all he's going to give us.
00:19:57It's all right.
00:19:59Secretary of the Interior.
00:20:01What does he sound like?
00:20:03He's a bit of a snob.
00:20:05He's a bit of a snob.
00:20:07He's a bit of a snob.
00:20:09Secretary of the Interior.
00:20:11What does he sound like?
00:20:13Orson said he sounds like Roosevelt.
00:20:22I think we'll have a good one tonight.
00:20:24Looks like another big night for Charlie McCarthy.
00:20:27Please stand by.
00:20:39Please stand by.
00:20:46The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents
00:20:50Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the air
00:20:53in a radio play by Howard Koch
00:20:55suggested by the H.G. Welles novel
00:20:57The War of the Worlds.
00:21:10Ladies and gentlemen, the director of the Mercury Theatre
00:21:13and star of these broadcasts,
00:21:15Orson Welles.
00:21:19We know now that in the early years of the 20th century
00:21:24this world was being watched closely
00:21:27by intelligence and intelligence alone.
00:21:30The world was being watched closely
00:21:33by intelligence and intelligence alone.
00:21:36This world was being watched closely by intelligences
00:21:40greater than man's
00:21:42and yet as mortal as his own.
00:21:45We know now that as human beings
00:21:47busied themselves about their various concerns
00:21:50they were scrutinized and studied
00:21:53perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope
00:21:56might scrutinize the transient creatures
00:21:59that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
00:22:02With infinite complacence
00:22:04people went to and fro over the earth
00:22:06about their little affairs
00:22:08serene in the assurance of their dominion
00:22:10over this small, spinning fragment of solar driftwood
00:22:15which by chance or design
00:22:18man has inherited out of the dark mystery of time and space.
00:22:23Yet across an immense ethereal gulf
00:22:26minds that are to our minds
00:22:28as ours are to the beasts in the jungle
00:22:32intellects, vast, cool and unsympathetic
00:22:37regarded this earth with envious eyes
00:22:40and slowly and surely
00:22:42drew their plans against us.
00:22:46In the 38th year of the 20th century
00:22:49came the great disillusionment.
00:22:51It was near the end of October.
00:22:53Business was better.
00:22:55The forces were stronger.
00:22:57More men were back at work.
00:23:00Hey, that's all right.
00:23:01Let me have some of that action you get through with me.
00:23:06There you go.
00:23:09What's in that machine that's got you so excited about, buddy Joe?
00:23:13Ain't them candies. That's the door.
00:23:18More scale was over.
00:23:20More men were back at work.
00:23:22The sales were picking up.
00:23:31There you go.
00:23:37You gonna sulk all night on account of I won't let you go over there and fight Germans?
00:23:49More men were back at work.
00:23:51On this particular evening, October 30th
00:23:55the Crossley service estimated
00:23:57that 32 million people were listening in on radios.
00:24:00...reported over Nova Scotia
00:24:02causing a low-pressure area to move down rather rapidly
00:24:05over the northeastern states.
00:24:13Stephan! Stephan!
00:24:16Stephan!
00:24:27Stephan!
00:24:36...causing a low-pressure area to move down
00:24:38bringing the forecast of rain accompanied by winds of light-gale force.
00:24:42Maximum temperature 66, minimum 48.
00:24:45This weather report comes to you from the Government Weather Bureau.
00:24:48We now take you to the Meridian Room in the Hotel Park Plaza in downtown New York
00:24:53where you'll be entertained by the music of Raymond Raquello and his orchestra.
00:25:13Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:25:15From the Meridian Room in the Park Plaza in New York City
00:25:18we bring you the music of Raymond Raquello and his orchestra.
00:25:22With a touch of the Spanish, Raymond Raquello leads off with La Paloma.
00:25:38I hate that music.
00:25:40I hate that music.
00:25:42Harrison, would you please put something on the radio?
00:25:45Yes, miss.
00:25:46Oh, all this is awful.
00:25:47Margarita, would you please get these out of my life now?
00:25:50Kelly!
00:25:51No, I mean it.
00:25:52I mean, this isn't the kind of music I'd recommend for a party.
00:25:54Don't you all agree?
00:26:01Oh, I love it.
00:26:02It's so awful.
00:26:03I absolutely love it.
00:26:05Come on, put those down and dance with me.
00:26:08Come on.
00:26:10Now.
00:26:12Come on.
00:26:19What the devil is she doing?
00:26:22Anyway, the players were there for over a month, you know,
00:26:25and they said that at least the passes made the trains run on time.
00:26:30Kelly, what are you doing?
00:26:32Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music
00:26:33to bring you a special bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News.
00:26:37Twenty minutes before eight central time,
00:26:39Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois,
00:26:43reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas
00:26:47occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars.
00:26:49Daddy, what's a little gas?
00:26:50The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen
00:26:52and moving toward the Earth with enormous velocity.
00:26:55Professor Pearson of the Observatory of Princeton
00:26:57confirms Farrell's observation
00:26:59and describes the phenomenon as, quote,
00:27:01like a jet of blue flame shot from a gun, unquote.
00:27:05We now return you to the music of Ramon Mariano
00:27:08playing for you in the Meridian Room of the Park Plaza Hotel,
00:27:11situated in downtown New York.
00:27:26I thought you gave up smoking.
00:27:28How would you know?
00:27:36I want to know where you're going.
00:27:39I don't know.
00:27:40I know where I can find a job.
00:27:44Oh, I don't believe that.
00:27:46I don't believe one word you've said to me.
00:27:49I want the kids to hear this.
00:27:54Sure you got everything?
00:27:59How about this, Mr. Free Spirit?
00:28:03You ought to be invited.
00:28:05I don't remember hearing that.
00:28:07That night in the car at the Palace Theatre.
00:28:09I don't remember hearing that.
00:28:12Where were you?
00:28:21How do you remember that?
00:28:24How do I remember?
00:28:32How do I remember?
00:28:51I just turned it on.
00:28:53Honest.
00:28:55I just turned it on.
00:29:03How many times have we told you?
00:29:05Your mother and me.
00:29:06That when you go to sleep,
00:29:08there's no way you can sleep. Understand that?
00:29:10Because you're...
00:29:13Your sister.
00:29:21You go to sleep now, huh?
00:29:23No more radio.
00:29:40In a few moments, we will take you to the Princeton Observatory
00:29:43at Princeton, New Jersey.
00:29:45We return you until then to the music of Ramon Recallo
00:29:48and his orchestra.
00:29:53We are ready to take you to the Princeton Observatory at Princeton,
00:29:56where Carl Phillips, our commentator,
00:29:58will interview Professor Richard Pearson, famous astronomer.
00:30:01We take you now to Princeton, New Jersey.
00:30:09Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:30:11This is Carl Phillips,
00:30:13CEO of the Princeton Observatory,
00:30:15and I'm delighted to welcome you
00:30:17to the Princeton Observatory.
00:30:19Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:30:21This is Carl Phillips.
00:30:23Daddy, must we listen to this?
00:30:25I'm standing in a large, semi-circular room.
00:30:28This is such a bore. Come on in. Let's get some fresh air.
00:30:31Through this opening, I can see a sprinkling of stars
00:30:34that cast a kind of frosty glow
00:30:36over the intricate mechanism of the huge telescope.
00:30:39The ticking sound you hear is the vibration of the clockwork.
00:30:43Professor Pearson stands directly above me on a small platform,
00:30:46peering through the giant lens.
00:30:48I ask you to be patient, ladies and gentlemen,
00:30:50during any delay that may arise during our interview.
00:30:53Besides his ceaseless watch of the heavens,
00:30:56Professor Pearson may be interrupted
00:30:58by telephone or other communications.
00:31:00During this period, he is in constant touch
00:31:03with the astronomical centers of the world.
00:31:06Professor, may I begin our questions?
00:31:08At any time, Mr. Phillips.
00:31:10Professor, would you please tell our radio audience
00:31:12exactly what you see as you observe
00:31:14the planet Mars through your telescope?
00:31:16Nothing unusual at the moment, Mr. Phillips.
00:31:18A red disk swimming in a blue sea.
00:31:21Transverse stripes across the disk.
00:31:23Quite distinct now because Mars happens to be
00:31:26at the point nearest the Earth.
00:31:28In opposition, as we call it.
00:31:30In your opinion, what do these transverse stripes signify,
00:31:33Professor Pearson?
00:31:34Not clouds, I can assure you, Mr. Phillips,
00:31:37although that's the popular conjecture
00:31:39of those who imagine Mars to be inhabited.
00:31:42From a scientific viewpoint,
00:31:44the stripes are merely the result
00:31:46of atmospheric conditions peculiar to the planet.
00:31:48And you're quite convinced, as a scientist,
00:31:50that living intelligence as we know it
00:31:52does not exist on the planet Mars?
00:31:54I should say the chances against it are a thousand to one.
00:31:56How do you account for these gas eruptions
00:31:58occurring on the surface of the planet
00:32:00at regular intervals?
00:32:01Mr. Phillips, I cannot account for it.
00:32:05By the way, Professor, for the benefit of our listeners,
00:32:08how far is Mars from the Earth?
00:32:10Approximately 40 million miles.
00:32:12Well, that seems a safe enough distance.
00:32:14Just a moment, ladies and gentlemen.
00:32:17Someone has just handed Professor Pearson a message.
00:32:19While he reads it, let me remind you
00:32:21that we are speaking to you from the observatory
00:32:23in Princeton, New Jersey,
00:32:24where we are interviewing the world-famous astronomer,
00:32:27Professor Pearson.
00:32:28One moment, please.
00:32:30Professor Pearson has passed me a message
00:32:32which he has just received.
00:32:33Professor, may I read the message
00:32:35to the listening audience?
00:32:36Certainly, Mr. Phillips.
00:32:38Ladies and gentlemen, I shall read you a wire
00:32:40addressed to Professor Pearson
00:32:41from Dr. Gray of the National History Museum, New York.
00:32:44Of course I don't agree with everything Hitler does,
00:32:46but you've got to understand his position,
00:32:48especially considering who he is.
00:32:50Seismograph.
00:32:51Registered shock of almost earthquake intensity
00:32:54occurring within a radius of 20 miles of Princeton.
00:32:57Please investigate.
00:32:58Signed, Lloyd Gray, Chief of Astronomical...
00:33:00What's that about Princeton?
00:33:01Professor Pearson, could this occurrence
00:33:03possibly have something to do with the disturbance
00:33:05observed on the planet Mars?
00:33:07Hardly, Mr. Phillips.
00:33:09This is probably a meteorite of unusual size,
00:33:12and its arrival at this particular time
00:33:14is merely a coincidence.
00:33:17However, we shall conduct a search
00:33:19as soon as daylight permits.
00:33:21Thank you, Professor.
00:33:22Ladies and gentlemen, for the past ten minutes
00:33:24we've been speaking to you
00:33:25from the observatory at Princeton,
00:33:27bringing you a special interview
00:33:28with Professor Pearson, noted astronomer.
00:33:31This is Carl Phillips speaking.
00:33:32We now return you to our New York studio.
00:33:36Charlie McCarthy!
00:33:40Oh, now see what you did?
00:33:42You made me miss the opening.
00:33:44He'll be back.
00:33:49I don't care, I ain't gonna listen to that.
00:33:53Now, if you're at home,
00:33:54comes a special announcement
00:33:55from Trenton, New Jersey.
00:33:57It's reported that at 8.50 p.m.
00:34:00Mr. McCarthy.
00:34:01Mr. McCarthy.
00:34:02Mr. McCarthy.
00:34:03Mr. McCarthy.
00:34:04Mr. McCarthy.
00:34:05Mr. McCarthy.
00:34:06Mr. McCarthy.
00:34:07Mr. McCarthy.
00:34:09Hey, turn that back.
00:34:11Or forward.
00:34:12Let's hear that report.
00:34:15A huge flaming object,
00:34:17believed to be a meteorite,
00:34:18fell on a farm in the neighborhood
00:34:20of Grover's Mill, New Jersey,
00:34:2122 miles from Trenton.
00:34:23The flash in the sky was visible
00:34:25within a radius of several hundred miles,
00:34:27and the noise of the impact
00:34:28was heard as far north as Elizabeth.
00:34:30We've dispatched a special mobile unit
00:34:32to the scene,
00:34:33and we'll have our commentator,
00:34:34Mr. Phillips, give you a word description
00:34:36as soon as he can reach there
00:34:37from Princeton.
00:34:39In the meantime, we take you
00:34:40to the Hotel Martinet in Brooklyn,
00:34:42where Bobby Mallette and his orchestra
00:34:44are offering a program of dance music.
00:34:47♪
00:35:08We take you now to Grover's Mill, New Jersey.
00:35:14Ladies and gentlemen,
00:35:15this is Carl Phillips again
00:35:16at the Willman Farm,
00:35:17Grover's Mill, New Jersey.
00:35:18Professor Pearson and myself
00:35:19may be 11 miles from Princeton
00:35:21in 10 minutes.
00:35:22Well, I hardly know where to begin
00:35:25to paint for you a word picture
00:35:26of the strange scene before my eyes,
00:35:29like something out of a modern
00:35:30Arabian Nights.
00:35:32Well, I just got here.
00:35:33I haven't had a chance to look around yet.
00:35:35I guess that's it.
00:35:36Yes, I guess that's the thing.
00:35:39In front of you,
00:35:40half buried in a vast pit,
00:35:42must have struck a terrific force.
00:35:44The ground is covered with splinters
00:35:46of a tree it must have struck
00:35:47on its way down.
00:35:48What I can see of the object itself
00:35:50doesn't look very much like a meteor,
00:35:52or at least not the meteors I've seen.
00:35:54It looks more like a huge cylinder.
00:35:56It has a diameter of,
00:35:58what would you say, Professor Pearson?
00:36:00About 30 yards.
00:36:02About 30 yards.
00:36:03The metal on the sheath is,
00:36:05well, I've never seen anything like it.
00:36:07The color is sort of a yellowish white.
00:36:09Curious spectators now are pressing
00:36:11close to the object in spite of the efforts
00:36:13of the police to keep them back.
00:36:15They're getting in front of my line of vision.
00:36:17Would you mind standing on one side, please?
00:36:22While the policemen are pushing the crowd back...
00:36:26I guess that's about enough of that.
00:36:27No, leave that.
00:36:29I thought you wanted to hear Charlie McCarthy.
00:36:31Oh, never mind Charlie McCarthy for once, will you?
00:36:34Go get the tables.
00:36:35Something's happening right in our own backyard.
00:36:37Ain't you interested?
00:36:39Closer and louder, please.
00:36:41Louder, please.
00:36:43Uh, yes, sir.
00:36:45All while I was listening to the radio,
00:36:47it was kind of drowsing
00:36:49that the professor fellow was talking about morms.
00:36:52So I was half dozing...
00:36:54Yes, Mr. Wilmer. Then what happened?
00:36:56Does anyone know a name Wilmer?
00:36:58Listening to the radio...
00:37:00Wilmer means Wilson.
00:37:01Can't figure how he missed that.
00:37:03First off, I heard something.
00:37:05And what did you hear?
00:37:06A hissing sound.
00:37:08We didn't see it, neither.
00:37:11Kind of like a Fourth of July rocket.
00:37:13Then what?
00:37:14Oh, I turned my head out the window,
00:37:16and when I swore I was to sleep and dreamless,
00:37:19I seen a kind of greenish streak, and then...
00:37:21Oh, a zingo.
00:37:22Something smacked the ground.
00:37:24Knocked me clear out of my chair.
00:37:25Well, were you frightened, Mr. Wilmer?
00:37:27Oh, I ain't quite sure.
00:37:29I reckon I was kind of riled.
00:37:31Thank you, Mr. Wilmer, thank you.
00:37:33Oh, you want me to entertain you some more?
00:37:34No, that's quite all right.
00:37:35That's a pleasure.
00:37:36Ladies and gentlemen,
00:37:37you've just heard Mr. Wilmer, owner of the barn,
00:37:40I wish I could convey the atmosphere,
00:37:42the background of this fantastic scene.
00:37:45Hundreds of cars are parked in a field in back of us.
00:37:48Police are trying to rope off the roadway
00:37:50leading into the farm, but it's no use.
00:37:52They're breaking right through.
00:37:53Their headlights throw an enormous spot
00:37:55on the pit where the object's half buried.
00:37:57Some of the more daring souls are venturing near the edge.
00:38:00Their silhouettes stand out against the metal sheet.
00:38:03One man wants to touch the thing.
00:38:04He's having an argument with a policeman.
00:38:07Get away from there!
00:38:08You can't tell me where I am!
00:38:11I like you.
00:38:13Yeah, I do that.
00:38:15I mean, I'll let you know where I am.
00:38:17Ladies and gentlemen,
00:38:18there's something I haven't mentioned in all this excitement,
00:38:20but it's becoming more distinct.
00:38:22Perhaps you've caught it already on your radio.
00:38:24Listen.
00:38:31Do you hear it?
00:38:32It's a curious humming sound
00:38:34that seems to come from inside the object.
00:38:36I'll move the microphone nearer.
00:38:38Here.
00:38:41There's nothing to be frightened about.
00:38:42They just fill those things up, you know.
00:38:44Can you hear it now?
00:38:45Oh, Professor Pearson?
00:38:46Yes, Mr. Phillips.
00:38:47Can you tell us the meaning
00:38:48of that scraping noise inside the thing?
00:38:50It's possibly the unequal cooling of its surface.
00:38:53Still think it's a meteor, Professor?
00:38:55I don't know what to think.
00:38:57The metal casing is definitely...
00:38:59It is just a radio show,
00:39:01so when are you going to tell them?
00:39:04Well, I'll tell them as soon as they ask me.
00:39:10Just a minute.
00:39:11Something's happening.
00:39:12Ladies and gentlemen, this is terrific.
00:39:14This end of the thing is beginning to flake off.
00:39:17The top is beginning to rotate like a screw.
00:39:20The thing must be hollow.
00:39:34SCRAPING NOISE
00:39:52Oh, get back in there!
00:39:54Get back!
00:40:00SCRAPING NOISE
00:40:04SCRAPING NOISE
00:40:14SCREAMING
00:40:18Ladies and gentlemen,
00:40:19this is the most terrifying thing I've ever witnessed.
00:40:22Oh, my God!
00:40:24Some men staring out of the hollow top.
00:40:26Some men or some...
00:40:28...peering out of that black hole,
00:40:30two luminous disks.
00:40:32The eyes, it might be a face.
00:40:34It might be...
00:40:36Good heavens!
00:40:38Something's wriggling out of the shadow like a grey snake.
00:40:42Now it's another one.
00:40:44And another.
00:40:45They look like tentacles to me.
00:40:47There, I can see the thing's body.
00:40:49Oh, it's large as a bear,
00:40:51and it glistens like wet leather.
00:40:54But that face...
00:40:56It's indescribable.
00:41:00I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it.
00:41:03The eyes are black and gleam like a serpent.
00:41:06The mouth is V-shaped with saliva...
00:41:09SCREAMING
00:41:11...seem to quiver and pulsate.
00:41:13The monster, or whatever it is, can hardly move.
00:41:15It seems weighed down by possibly gravity or something.
00:41:19The thing's raising up.
00:41:21The crowd falls back.
00:41:22They've seen enough.
00:41:24This is the most extraordinary experience.
00:41:26I can't find words.
00:41:28I'm pulling this microphone with me as I talk.
00:41:31I'll have to stop the description
00:41:33until I've taken a new position.
00:41:35Hold on, will you please?
00:41:36I'll be back in a minute.
00:41:48My God, Hank.
00:41:50What is it? What's happening?
00:41:52Nothing to see.
00:41:53Just take it easy now.
00:41:55It's just probably one of those things from...
00:41:58But didn't you hear what he said?
00:42:00I heard what he said.
00:42:01Well, what's happened?
00:42:05We are bringing you an eyewitness account
00:42:07of what's happening on the Wilmoth Farm,
00:42:09Grovers Mill, New Jersey.
00:42:20Let's see what else.
00:42:22Don't touch that dial!
00:42:23Maybe they know more about it on another station.
00:42:39Turn it back!
00:42:40They don't even know it's happening.
00:42:41Wait a minute, will you?
00:42:43Walter, come on.
00:42:46Okay.
00:42:47Yeah, Peter, get one of those...
00:42:49Ladies and gentlemen,
00:42:51we now return you to Carl Phillips at Grovers Mill.
00:42:56Ladies and gentlemen...
00:42:58Am I on?
00:43:00Ladies and gentlemen,
00:43:01here I am, back to the stone wall
00:43:03that adjoins Mr. Wilmoth's garden.
00:43:05From here, I get a sweep of the whole scene.
00:43:07I'll give you every detail as long as I can talk,
00:43:09as long as I can see.
00:43:11More state police have arrived.
00:43:13They're drawing up a cordon in front of the pit,
00:43:15about 30 of them.
00:43:16No need to push the crowd back now.
00:43:17They're willing to keep their distance.
00:43:19The captain is conferring with someone.
00:43:21We can't quite see who.
00:43:23Oh, yes, I believe it's Professor Pearson.
00:43:25Yes, it is.
00:43:26Now they've parted.
00:43:27The professor moves around one side,
00:43:29studying the object
00:43:30while the captain and two policemen
00:43:31advance with something in their hands.
00:43:33I can see it now.
00:43:34It's a white handkerchief tied to a pole.
00:43:37A white...
00:43:38Those creatures know what that means,
00:43:40what anything means.
00:43:42Wait!
00:43:43Something's happening!
00:43:46A hump shape is rising...
00:43:48Shut that thing off!
00:43:49What do you think, Joey?
00:43:51What's that?
00:43:52There's a jet of flame springing from that mirror.
00:43:55And it leans right at the advancing men
00:43:58and strikes them head-on.
00:44:04All right, buddy.
00:44:05What's going on in there?
00:44:07Huh?
00:44:09Don't you know what's happening?
00:44:11Come on, come on.
00:44:12You'll have to move the car.
00:44:13There's no park no longer.
00:44:14Listen! Listen!
00:44:22Now the whole field's caught fire!
00:44:25Well, that's just regular programming.
00:44:28The fire's spreading everywhere!
00:44:31It's spreading everywhere!
00:44:33It's coming this way!
00:44:35It's coming this way!
00:44:37It's coming this way!
00:44:39About 20 yards to my right!
00:44:55Let's go.
00:44:59Ladies and gentlemen, due to circumstances beyond our control,
00:45:02we are unable to continue the broadcast from Grover's Mill.
00:45:08Welcome to that point of the Astronomical Society.
00:45:11In the meantime, we have a late bulletin from San Diego, California.
00:45:14Professor Indell Coffer, speaking at a dinner of the California Astronomical Society,
00:45:18expresses the opinion of the Astronomical Society
00:45:21that the Earth may not be formed
00:45:23if there are volcanic disturbances from the surface of the planet.
00:45:27We continue now with our piano interlude.
00:45:38Columbia Broadcasting System.
00:45:40What?
00:45:42Why, not that I know of.
00:45:44I believe it's only a play.
00:45:46That's right, it's just a play.
00:45:49That's what's on our program schedule.
00:45:51You're welcome.
00:45:59Ladies and gentlemen, I've just been handed a message
00:46:02that K.K. Rowling is going to be a star.
00:46:05Ladies and gentlemen, I've just been handed a message
00:46:07that came in from Grover's Mill by telephone.
00:46:09At least 40 people, including six state troopers,
00:46:12lie dead in a field east of the village of Grover's Mill,
00:46:15their bodies burned and distorted beyond all possible recognition.
00:46:18The next voice you hear will be that of Brigadier General Montgomery Smith,
00:46:22commander of the state militia at Trenton, New Jersey.
00:46:27Over here. Over here.
00:46:29Yeah.
00:46:31I have been requested by the governor of New Jersey
00:46:34to place the counties of Mercer and Middlesex
00:46:37as far west as Princeton and east to Jamesburg under martial law.
00:46:41No one will be permitted to enter this area
00:46:44except by special pass issued by state or military authorities.
00:46:57Head for cover. It's on the radio. Quick!
00:47:05All members of the state militia are proceeding from Trenton to Grover's Mill.
00:47:09I'm only in the evacuation...
00:47:11I'm going to have a bad nightmare.
00:47:13I want to sleep in your room.
00:47:16Oh, it's all right. It's all right.
00:47:21I understand.
00:47:23No.
00:47:25The strange creatures, after unleashing their deadly assault,
00:47:28crawled back in their pit and made no attempt
00:47:30to prevent the efforts of firemen to recover the bodies
00:47:32and extinguish the fire.
00:47:34Let's get out of here!
00:47:41Ladies and gentlemen, I've just been informed
00:47:43that we have finally established communication
00:47:45with an eyewitness of the tragedy.
00:47:47Professor Pearson has been located at a farmhouse near Grover's Mill
00:47:50where he's established an emergency observation post.
00:47:53As a scientist, he will give you his explanation of this calamity.
00:47:57The next voice you hear will be of Professor Pearson,
00:48:00brought to you by Direct Wire.
00:48:02Professor Pearson.
00:48:04Of the creatures in the rocket cylinder at Grover's Mill,
00:48:07I can give you no authoritative information,
00:48:09either as to their nature, their origin,
00:48:11or their purposes here on Earth.
00:48:14Of their destructive instrument,
00:48:16I might venture some conjectural explanation.
00:48:24It's all too evident that these creatures have scientific knowledge
00:48:27far in advance of our own.
00:48:31They are able to generate an intense heat
00:48:34in a chamber of practically absolute non-conductivity.
00:48:37This intense heat they project in a parallel beam
00:48:40against any object they choose
00:48:43by means of a polished parabolic mirror of unknown composition,
00:48:46much as the mirror of a lighthouse projects a beam of light.
00:48:51And that is my conjecture of the origin of the heat ray.
00:48:55Thank you, Professor Pearson.
00:49:00Ladies and gentlemen, here is a bulletin from Trenton.
00:49:02It is a brief statement informing us that the charred body of Carl Phillips
00:49:05has been identified in a Trenton hospital.
00:49:08We have received a request from the militia at Trenton
00:49:11to place at their disposal our entire broadcasting facilities.
00:49:16In view of the gravity of the situation
00:49:19and believing that radio has a definite responsibility
00:49:22to serve in the public interest at all times,
00:49:25we are turning over our facilities to the state militia at Trenton.
00:49:29Well, it's about time they got the military involved.
00:49:36Mr. Matlock.
00:49:39We take you now to the field headquarters of the state militia
00:49:42near Grover's Mill, New Jersey.
00:49:45I need some artillery at the end of this line!
00:49:56This is Captain Lansing.
00:49:58The signal cortest of the state militia now engaged in military operations
00:50:02in the vicinity of Grover's Mill.
00:50:05Situation arising from the reported presence of certain individuals
00:50:09of unidentified nature is now under complete control.
00:50:12The cylindrical object, which lies in a pit directly below our position,
00:50:17is surrounded now on all sides by eight battalion...
00:50:20Daddy, what's the matter?
00:50:22You go to sleep.
00:50:24Why is Mommy crying?
00:50:26Oh, Mommy has a headache. That's why Mommy's crying.
00:50:28I can't go to sleep. I'm afraid my bad dream will come back.
00:50:32Oh, no, you know why?
00:50:34You come in the other room with Daddy.
00:50:36You sleep on the couch, huh?
00:50:43Hey.
00:50:44Everything's gonna be all right.
00:50:47Everywhere it's an interesting outing for the troops.
00:50:49We've got an exact uniform crossing back and forth now in front of the lights.
00:50:53You know, it's almost like a real war.
00:50:55What?
00:50:57Oh, yeah. Yeah, there appears to be some slight smoke in the woods
00:51:00bordering the mills now.
00:51:02How are we gonna fight these things just with our shotguns?
00:51:05You just keep your eyes peaceful.
00:51:07Don't you worry about that heat ray.
00:51:10First, let's just find him.
00:51:12Then we'll give them something to worry about.
00:51:15You looking for a fight?
00:51:18Mr. Matlock, sir, please.
00:51:20Harrison, don't get involved in things you don't understand.
00:51:33Say, have you been listening to the radio?
00:51:40What are you doing?
00:51:43What are you gonna do?
00:51:45I don't know what to do.
00:51:47You know the piercers down the hall?
00:51:49They're putting everybody in the car.
00:51:51They figure they'll be safer across the river in New York.
00:51:54They're going to New York?
00:51:55We're leaving here now.
00:51:56What do you mean, we're leaving here now?
00:51:57Me too.
00:51:58We're leaving here now. I'm gonna pack up the kids.
00:52:00Honey, you don't feel good right now.
00:52:01You better lie down. You don't feel...
00:52:03It's like...
00:52:04What is it?
00:52:05You know Pete, the handyman?
00:52:07He says it's the Germans.
00:52:09It's the Germans?
00:52:11It's the Germans?
00:52:12Wait a minute.
00:52:13I see something on the top of the cylinder.
00:52:15No, nothing but a shadow.
00:52:17Well, troops are on the edge of the Wilmers Farm.
00:52:20We have 7,000 armed men closing in on an old metal tower.
00:52:27Wait a minute.
00:52:29That wasn't a shadow.
00:52:31Something moving.
00:52:33Solid metal.
00:52:34Kind of a shield-like affair rising up out of the cylinder.
00:52:38Going higher and higher.
00:52:40Standing on legs.
00:52:41Actually rearing up on a sort of metal framework.
00:52:44Now it's reaching above the trees.
00:52:47Here's Dr. Ellis.
00:52:49Hold on.
00:52:57Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make.
00:53:00Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes
00:53:04lead to the inescapable assumption that those strange beings who landed in the Jersey farmlands tonight
00:53:09are the vanguard of an invading army from the planet Mars.
00:53:12The battle which took place tonight at Grover's Mill
00:53:14descended in one of the most startling defeats ever suffered by an army in modern times.
00:53:197,000 men armed with rifles and machine guns
00:53:22pitted against a single fighting machine of the invader from Mars.
00:53:25120 known survivors.
00:53:27The rest strewn over the battle area from Grover's Mill to Flanesboro
00:53:31crushed and cradled to death under the metal feet of the monster
00:53:34or burned to cinders by its heat ray.
00:53:36The monster is now in control of the middle section of New Jersey
00:53:39and has effectively cut the state through its center.
00:53:42Communication lines are down from Pennsylvania to the Atlantic Ocean.
00:53:45Call Chief Lawrence at the police station.
00:53:47Yes, sir.
00:53:48Discontinued except routing some of the trains through Allentown and Phoenixville.
00:53:52Highways to the north, south, and west are clogged with frantic human traffic.
00:53:56Police and army reserves are unable to control the mad flight.
00:53:59By morning, the fugitives will have swelled Philadelphia, Camden, and Trenton
00:54:04to twice their normal population.
00:54:06At this time, martial law prevails throughout New Jersey and...
00:54:09Hey, Orville, it is a radio program, ain't it?
00:54:12It ain't no radio show. Now shut up, will you?
00:54:15The Secretary of the Interior.
00:54:18Citizens of the nation,
00:54:20I shall not try to conceal the gravity of the situation
00:54:27that confronts the country,
00:54:30nor the concern of your government...
00:54:34It's Roosevelt.
00:54:36What's that idiot doing now?
00:54:38...of its people.
00:54:40However, I wish to impress upon you,
00:54:44private citizens and public officials...
00:54:47There is no answer, sir.
00:54:48...all of you,
00:54:50the urgent need of calm and resourceful action.
00:54:57Fortunately, this formidable enemy is still confined to a comparatively small area,
00:55:06and we may place our faith in the military forces to keep them there.
00:55:14In the meantime, placing our faith in God,
00:55:19we must continue the performance of our duties,
00:55:23each and every one of us,
00:55:26so that we may confront this destructive adversary
00:55:31with a nation united, courageous,
00:55:35and consecrated to the preservation of human supremacy on this earth.
00:55:42I thank you.
00:55:45You have just heard the Secretary of the Interior speaking from Washington.
00:55:49Bulletins too numerous to read are piling up in the newsroom here.
00:55:52We are informed that the central portion of New Jersey is blacked out from radio communication
00:55:56due to the effect of the heat ray upon power lines and electrical equipment.
00:56:03Here is a special bulletin from New York.
00:56:05It was received from the English, French, and German scientific bodies offering assistance.
00:56:10Astronomers report continued gas outbursts at regular intervals on the planet Mars.
00:56:17Majority vote opinion.
00:56:19Their apparent objective is to block the resistance from Mars.
00:56:29Hey, boy, wait. You stopped me, boy. We got to get out of here.
00:56:31I just want to find out where the fire is heading.
00:56:33I don't know. I don't know.
00:56:35I don't know.
00:56:37I just want to find out where the fire is at.
00:56:39Fire? Are you serious?
00:56:41Yeah, you see, you were going about 80 miles.
00:56:43Are you crazy? Don't you know what's happening?
00:56:45Ain't you hurt? Just listen.
00:56:47To blow up second invading unit before cylinder can be opened and the Martian fighting machine ready.
00:56:52Martians, yeah.
00:56:54They've landed on Earth. New Jersey is under Martial Law.
00:56:57I'm serious.
00:56:58Just listen. Just listen.
00:56:59The foothills of the Wachung Mountains.
00:57:01Another bulletin from Langham Field, Virginia.
00:57:04Scouting planes report enemy machines...
00:57:06Now, will you let me go? I got to get back to the farm.
00:57:09You again.
00:57:11I got to get out of here. We got a favorite now.
00:57:16Hold it.
00:57:23That's a radio play, old buddy.
00:57:31Now turn around.
00:57:34Oh, hell, I know it was a radio play.
00:57:38...adjacent villages to give you direct reports in the zone of the advancing enemy.
00:57:42First, we take you to the battery of the 22nd Field Artillery, located in the Wachung Mountains.
00:57:53Range, 32 meters.
00:57:56Projection, 39 degrees.
00:57:59Fire!
00:58:04140 yards to the right, sir.
00:58:07Shift range, 31 meters.
00:58:10Projection, 37 degrees.
00:58:13Fire!
00:58:19I hit Sarah. We got a tripod on one of them. They've stopped.
00:58:22Come on. Come on.
00:58:24Get us a train of repair.
00:58:26No, honey, you can't take doors, I'm afraid.
00:58:29Projection, 27 degrees.
00:58:31Harry's a goby. You're not a goby.
00:58:34You gotta be kidding.
00:58:36They're letting off the smoke.
00:58:38Well, how could they?
00:58:40A black smoke, sir, moving this way.
00:58:42Well, what do you want me to do?
00:58:43It's moving fast.
00:58:45Oh, okay. All right, I'll see what I can do.
00:58:48Paul, we got trouble.
00:58:50Listen, people are taking this thing seriously.
00:58:52That's ridiculous.
00:58:53Well, we got to do something about it.
00:58:54Well, we'll give them a disclaimer.
00:58:56Where?
00:58:57Well, where else? At the station break.
00:59:0023 meters.
00:59:0223 meters.
00:59:05Projection, 22 degrees.
00:59:0722 degrees.
00:59:16Harrison, don't just stand there. Call someone.
00:59:30Mr. Matlock. Mr. Matlock, perhaps we're reacting precipitously.
00:59:33What are you talking about?
00:59:34Perhaps we should try to understand them.
00:59:36Understand them?
00:59:37The Martians. They may have been forced into this classical living space.
00:59:42You're mad.
00:59:43Perhaps they could even try to help us.
00:59:46Pull us up by our bootstraps, so to speak.
00:59:52Projection, 22 degrees.
00:59:53Maybe they could even help us to get the trains to run on time.
01:00:01Pull us up by our bootstraps, so to speak.
01:00:08Army bombing plane V843 off Bayonne, New Jersey.
01:00:11Lieutenant Voigt, commanding eight bombers.
01:00:13Reporting command of Fairfax Langham Field.
01:00:15Let's see what's going on, Paul.
01:00:17Go ahead.
01:00:19This is Voigt, reporting command of Fairfax Langham Field.
01:00:22Enemy tripod machines are now in sight.
01:00:25Reinforced by three machines from the Morse Town cylinder.
01:00:29Six now all together.
01:00:30One machine partially crippled.
01:00:32The lead hit by shell from army gun.
01:00:36Where, damn it? Where?
01:00:39Guns now appear silent.
01:00:41A heavy black fog is hanging close to the earth now.
01:00:45Extreme density, nature unknown.
01:00:48No sign of heat ray.
01:00:50Enemy now turns east.
01:00:52Crossing Bazaig River into Jersey Marshes.
01:00:55Another straddles the Pulaski Skyway.
01:00:58They're on the skyway.
01:01:00They're pushing down a high tension power station now.
01:01:03Machines are close together.
01:01:06We are ready to attack.
01:01:07Planes circling, ready to strike.
01:01:13A thousand yards and we'll be over the French.
01:01:20Eight hundred yards.
01:01:23Linda!
01:01:25Linda!
01:01:26Hey!
01:01:28Linda!
01:01:40Four hundred.
01:01:45Two hundred.
01:01:53Linda!
01:01:55Is that me?
01:01:56You're here.
01:01:57Do you know?
01:01:58Oh, my God!
01:01:59Linda, no!
01:02:01Come on, we gotta get out of here.
01:02:03By the sacred place.
01:02:04Safe!
01:02:05This is our home.
01:02:06This is the safest place.
01:02:08No harm can come to you.
01:02:10No harm? The Martians are taking over.
01:02:12Martians? No, no.
01:02:14They are the angels of darkness.
01:02:16The forces of evil.
01:02:17We're getting married.
01:02:18What?
01:02:19We're getting married right now.
01:02:20Now?
01:02:21Now, I love you, we're getting married.
01:02:23Under the resurrection there shall be no marriage
01:02:26or giving of hands unto marriage.
01:02:28You'll be like the angels.
01:02:29I love you.
01:02:30Please.
01:02:32Stephan.
01:02:33We wrestle not against flesh and blood.
01:02:35Okay, the first church we found, okay?
01:02:36Are you coming with us?
01:02:37Against the forces of darkness.
01:02:39Talk to him.
01:02:40There will be war and ruin.
01:02:42But take ye no heed.
01:02:44There shall no harm come to us.
01:02:46For I see it now.
01:02:48Alpha and Omega.
01:02:50It is the beginning and the end.
01:02:53It is the revelation.
01:02:55Let it come down.
01:02:56Let it come down like buckets of blood.
01:02:59There shall be a new heaven and a new earth.
01:03:02Let it come down, oh give it to us.
01:03:04Give it to us, oh Lord.
01:03:05No, no, no.
01:03:07This is my home, my sanctuary.
01:03:09There is no sanctuary, no antichrist.
01:03:11This is an invasion from Mars.
01:03:13No.
01:03:21If it's war, then what is this?
01:03:26They're spraying us with flames.
01:03:282,000 feet.
01:03:30Engines giving out now.
01:03:32No chance to release bombs.
01:03:35Only one thing left.
01:03:37Drop on them, plane and all.
01:03:42We are diving on the first one.
01:03:44Do you understand?
01:03:45We're helpless against them.
01:03:46Listen.
01:03:47Listen.
01:03:48Give me that.
01:03:49This is the end of the world.
01:03:50No, no.
01:03:51It's not the end of the world.
01:03:52It's the end of our world.
01:03:53They're going to be all right.
01:03:54They'll still be here when they're done with us.
01:03:56Get in.
01:03:57No man was made in God's image.
01:04:00These are mechanical monsters, bugs.
01:04:03Maybe God is a mechanical bug.
01:04:05Would you get in?
01:04:06No.
01:04:07No.
01:04:08No.
01:04:09No.
01:04:10No.
01:04:11No.
01:04:12No.
01:04:13No.
01:04:14No.
01:04:15No.
01:04:16No.
01:04:17No.
01:04:18No.
01:04:19Father.
01:04:20No.
01:04:21Come on.
01:04:22Come on.
01:04:26Not bugs.
01:04:27Sanctuaries.
01:04:29Reverend Davis.
01:04:30Father.
01:04:31Reverend Davis.
01:04:32Come on.
01:04:33Come on.
01:04:34He's coming.
01:04:35Come on.
01:04:36Come on.
01:04:37What?
01:04:38Father.
01:04:41You have to keep that up at the house.
01:04:45This is Bayona Jersey calling Langham Field.
01:04:47This is Bayona Jersey calling Langham Field.
01:04:48Come in, please.
01:04:49You want me to broadcast this?
01:04:51No, we've had no calls from the airport.
01:04:53It's the Mercury Theater.
01:04:54That's correct.
01:04:55No, there's no need to call the police.
01:04:57It's just a play.
01:04:58Good evening.
01:04:59Can I be broadcasted?
01:05:00You're welcome.
01:05:01Can I be broadcasted?
01:05:02Broadcasting systems.
01:05:03Disconnected on that.
01:05:04It's a play called War of the Worlds.
01:05:06Sorry, I can't give you that information.
01:05:08You're welcome.
01:05:09They all like that the world is coming to an end.
01:05:11What in the hell are they doing up there?
01:05:13This is Bayona Jersey calling Langham Field.
01:05:15This is Bayona Jersey calling Langham Field.
01:05:16This is Bayona Jersey calling Langham Field.
01:05:18Come in, please.
01:05:19Come in, please.
01:05:20This is Langham Field.
01:05:21Go ahead.
01:05:22Eight army bombers in engagement with enemy tripod machines over Jersey Flats.
01:05:26Engines incapacitated by heat rays.
01:05:28All crash.
01:05:31One enemy machine destroyed.
01:05:32Enemy now in the stockroom.
01:05:34This is Bayona Jersey warning.
01:05:36Poisonous black smoke pouring in from the Jersey Flats.
01:05:39They'll see you tell us when the gas is here.
01:05:41They used to use birds for poison gas detection.
01:05:45Automobiles is at 7-23-24.
01:05:48Exploding congested areas.
01:05:51Smoke now spreading over Raymond Boulevard and P.V.
01:05:54Raymond Boulevard?
01:05:55Mommy!
01:05:59Hold on!
01:06:04You okay?
01:06:05Yeah.
01:06:11Step on the brake, Daddy.
01:06:13Hold on, everybody.
01:06:14Hold on.
01:06:28We'll get it.
01:06:29All right, look.
01:06:30We're getting out of the car.
01:06:32I want everybody to hurry up.
01:06:33Leave everything here.
01:06:34Hurry up now.
01:06:35Take it easy.
01:06:36Hurry up.
01:06:37Come on, come on.
01:06:38Let's go.
01:06:39Everybody out.
01:06:40Don't take everything.
01:06:41Don't take...
01:06:42Take the food.
01:06:43Come on.
01:06:44You don't need this.
01:06:45Mom, you don't need this.
01:06:46Come on.
01:06:47Take it easy.
01:06:49Calling C-3PO.
01:06:512X4L calling C-3PO.
01:07:11Father.
01:07:15Hey!
01:07:19Hey!
01:07:22Okay.
01:07:24Okay, outside.
01:07:25Outside.
01:07:332X2L calling 8X3R.
01:07:36Come in, please.
01:07:392X2L calling 8X3R.
01:07:43Come in, please.
01:07:45This is 8X3R coming back at 2X2L.
01:07:49How's reception?
01:07:51How's reception?
01:07:52Okay, please.
01:07:55Where are you, 8X3R?
01:07:58What's the matter?
01:08:00Where are you?
01:08:04I am speaking from the roof of Broadcast Building, New York City.
01:08:07The bells you hear are ringing to warn the people to evacuate the city as the Martians approach.
01:08:11Estimated in the last two hours, three million people have moved out along the roads to the north.
01:08:15Hutchinson River Parkway was kept open and motor traffic is still moving along nicely.
01:08:20Avoid bridges to Long Island, hopelessly jammed.
01:08:23All communication with Jersey Shore closed ten minutes ago.
01:08:26No more defenses.
01:08:27Army wiped out.
01:08:28Artillery, Air Force, everything wiped out.
01:08:30This may be the last broadcast.
01:08:33We'll stay here to the end.
01:08:34People, as you can hear, are holding service below.
01:08:41Now, I look down the harbor.
01:08:44All manner of boats overloaded with fleeing population pulling out from the docks.
01:08:50The streets are jammed.
01:08:52Noise in the crowds like New Year's Eve.
01:08:55But...
01:08:56Enemy now in sight above the Palisades.
01:08:58Three, four, five.
01:09:00Great machines.
01:09:02The first one is crossing the river.
01:09:03I can see it from here.
01:09:04Wading the Hudson like a man wading through a brook.
01:09:07Seems to be timed.
01:09:08There's faith.
01:09:10Now the first machine reaches the shore.
01:09:14Oh, no.
01:09:16All right, thanks.
01:09:19That was the switchboard.
01:09:20Now the police are starting to call.
01:09:21I can't talk now.
01:09:22We're running almost two minutes over.
01:09:24Well, where's that disclaimer?
01:09:25I forgot.
01:09:26I didn't have enough time to finish it.
01:09:27Oh, all right, all right.
01:09:28I'll take care of it.
01:09:31My God, how did he think this was real?
01:09:33You're not going to scrub the second half of the show.
01:09:35I don't know.
01:09:37Austin's not going to like the display.
01:09:49Looking over the city.
01:09:51The steel college head is even with the skyscrapers.
01:09:55He waits for the others.
01:09:56They rise like a line of new towers on the city's west side.
01:10:00They're lifting their metal hands.
01:10:04Smoke is coming out.
01:10:06Black smoke drifting over the city.
01:10:09People in the streets see it now.
01:10:12They're running towards the East River.
01:10:14Thousands of them dropping in like rats.
01:10:17And now the smoke is spreading faster.
01:10:19It has reached Times Square.
01:10:22People trying to run away from it, but it's no use.
01:10:27They are falling like flies.
01:10:29And now the smoke is crossing 6th Avenue, 5th Avenue.
01:10:32100 yards away.
01:10:3550 feet.
01:11:02It's too low.
01:11:03Too low at the CQ.