| Posted: 18 November 2019 at 7:20am | IP Logged | 2
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How someone could hear that narration and think that they were still listening to a real time radio broadcast is a mystery to me. The broadcast clearly affirms itself as a work of fiction at the beginning, a few times in the middle, and again, all throughout the end. Another one of those cases where you have to WANT to believe you're experiencing something you really aren't.•• Since the Welles broadcast was structured as if it was a normal evening of programming, the illusion depended on when a listener tuned in. Those who came in AFTER the opening, and who were too terrified to stick around for disclaimers, bought into it as the real deal--exactly as young Orson intended. Oddly enough, it has become popular of late to dismiss the "panic", saying it never happened, despite contemporary newspaper headlines that reported on it.
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