《Martian Invasion》

Japanese: 《火星人襲来》 - かせいじんしゅうらい
《Martian Invasion》

Born in Wisconsin. Obsessed with theater, he formed friendships with theater people such as J. Housman and J. Cotton in New York, directed a black version of Macbeth (1936), and founded the Mercury Theater Company (1937). On October 30, 1938, Welles produced the famous radio drama The Martians Invaded America, which caused panic throughout the United States. (It was a shocking format in which a music broadcast on CBS Radio was suddenly interrupted and an emergency news report of the landing of a spaceship was broadcast.) This brought Welles, at the age of 23, into the limelight, and he was hailed as a "child prodigy," and was welcomed to Hollywood with his theater company. While making full use of innovative film techniques such as the unprecedented pan-focus shot in Citizen Kane, the Hall of Mirrors montage in The Lady from Shanghai, and the long-lasting one-scene, one-take shots in The Great Ambersons and The Black Snare, he also wrote the original story for Chaplin's The Manslayer, and as a character actor he appeared in many films other than his own, playing strong, monstrous characters that were unique to him, culminating in his portrayal of Harry Lime in C. Reed's The Third Man (1949).

From [Panic]

…A panic caused by information about the occurrence of a danger, rather than a direct perception of danger, is sometimes called an “information panic.” In October 1938, CBS Radio in the United States broadcast a radio drama called “The Martians Come,” which was based on the theme of a Martian invasion, causing serious confusion among more than one million listeners. This is a very famous example of an information panic. …

*Some of the terminology referenced in "The Martian Invasion" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… ウィスコンシン州生れ。演劇にとりつかれ,ニューヨークで,J.ハウズマン,J.コットンらの演劇人と親交を結び,黒人版《マクベス》の演出(1936),劇団〈マーキュリー劇団〉の結成(1937)を経て,1938年10月30日,アメリカ中をパニック状態に陥れた史上名高いラジオドラマ《火星人襲来》(CBSラジオの音楽放送が突然中断し,宇宙船の着陸を伝える臨時ニュースから始まるというショッキングな形式であった)によって,23歳のウェルズは一躍脚光を浴び,〈神童〉とうたわれ,劇団ごとハリウッドに迎えられることになる。《市民ケーン》における類例のない〈パンフォーカス〉撮影,《上海から来た女》の〈鏡の間〉のモンタージュ,《偉大なるアンバーソン》《黒い罠》における息の長い〈ワンシーン・ワンカット〉撮影等々,革新的な映画技法を駆使する一方,チャップリンの《殺人狂時代》の原案も彼の手になるものであり,また性格俳優として自作以外にも数々の映画に出演,C.リード監督《第三の男》(1949)のハリー・ライムを頂点とする彼ならではの強烈な〈怪物的〉キャラクターを演じている。…

【パニック】より

…危険の直接的知覚ではなく,危険の発生を知らせる情報によって引き起こされるパニックを,とくに〈情報パニック〉と呼ぶことがある。1938年10月,アメリカのCBSラジオが火星人来襲をテーマにした,O.ウェルズの《火星人襲来》というラジオドラマを放送し,100万人以上の聴取者に深刻な混乱を引き起こしたできごとがあった。これは,情報パニックの典型例としてきわめて有名である。…

※「《火星人襲来》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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