[Dixielandjazz] Freberg Radio vs. TV

[Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon]

It's interesting to note that Welles wasn't the first to create a national
panic via radio.  It's often been conjectured that he had read the
transcript of Ronald Knox's "Broadcasting the Barricades", a 1926 BBC
broadcast in which he convinced most of the listening public (not many in
those early days) that a riot was taking place in Trafalgar Square and that
the Prime Minister or somesuch had been lynched.  There was much the same
fallout from that broadcast that took place in 1938 over here.

Sorry for the off-topicness...,
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Etc,

Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon, Vicar-general
North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession)
Archdiocese of California
www.naorc.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
> [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com]On Behalf Of Steve
> Barbone
> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 2:37 PM
> To: DJML
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Freberg Radio vs. TV
>
>
> Much of what Freberg talked about was before the spectacular advances in
> movie graphics. For example, (and I think he may have used this example as
> well as the 1000 lb cherry that Dave talked about).
>
> Orsen Wells' radio broadcast of War of The Worlds and the
> "Martian Invasion"
> (1939?) created a huge panic in the USA among folks who thought
> it real. Yet
> when they made the movie, it was fairly benign. The graphics didn't impart
> anywhere near the same emotions.
>
> Imagine what Speilberg et al, could do with War of The Worlds Today.
>
> Perhaps the same is true in music these days. Hasn't the visual image
> overtaken the sound only presentation? Don't people go to see the show as
> well as hear it these days?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve barbone
>
>
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