There was a scholar in Ann Arbor who had posted ALL of the Mercury Theater
programs at one point; I used it in order to source an excerpt of "Dracula"
for a radio Halloween broadcast I did one year. I haven't seen it lately,
so I guess someone must have gotten to her. But it was really a well done
site, a model
of redistributing OTR for scholarly purposes.

Dave Lewis


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Chris J Brady <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> I believe that the original broadcasts are available on various OTR
> websites for free. I guess Google is your fiend to find them. Chris B.
>
> --- On Wed, 10/4/13, Mark Durenberger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > From: Mark Durenberger <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] old thread -- War of the Worlds
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Wednesday, 10 April, 2013, 14:14
> > Nice film transfer!
> >
> > An interesting anecdote is that Mercury Theater was usually
> > carried "live" so it appeared in most of the West at a
> > much-earlier time of day...may not have been quite so
> > alarming in the daylight hours 'out there.'
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mark Durenberger
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Tom Fine
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 7:20 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [ARSCLIST] old thread -- War of the Worlds
> >
> >
> http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2012/10/24/AT&T-Archives-War-of-the-Worlds-Operators-Interviewed
> >
> > AT&T operators remember the swamped phone lines as the
> > nation went into full freakout.
>