Salü Christian
Ich habe dich ganz vergessen und bin beim Stöbern in alten Treads wieder darauf gestossen. Im Falle, dass du nicht dahintergekommen
bist, was das für ein Tonausschnitt war! Mir kam das eben spontan in den Sinn als ich Fabienne´s Tread las.
Now they´re lifting their metal hands. This is the end now. Smoke comes out... black smoke, drifting over the city. People in the
streets see it now. They´re running towards the East River... thousands of them, dropping in like rats.
Now the smoke´s spreading faster. It´s reached Times Square. People are trying to run away from it, but it´s no use. They´re falling
like flies. Now the smoke´s crossing Sixth Avenue... Fifth Avenue... a... a hundred yards away... it´s fifty feet...
(BODY FALLS)
(SOUNDS OF CITY IN TURMOIL, FOGHORNS, WHISTLES... )
OPERATOR FOUR
2X2L calling CQ... 2X2L calling CQ... 2X2L calling CQ... New York. Isn´t there anyone on the air?
Isn´t there anyone on the air?
Isn´t there anyone... 2X2L...
CBS ANNOUNCER (INTERRUPTS THE ACTUAL RADIO PLAY)
You are listening to a CBS presentation of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air in an original dramatization of ´The War of the
Worlds´ by H. G. Wells. The performance will continue after a brief intermission. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Und hier das ganze Script, des wohl berühmtesten Hörspiels in der Radiogeschichte.
http://members.aol.com/jeff1070/script.html
Weitere Hintergrundinformation:
http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/
Gruss Alfred
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