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NEW YORK (AP)-"We did
'Dracula,' and it seemed to me that
during 'Dracula,' I had high hopes that
people would react as they do in a
movie of that kind," a troubled Orson
Welles said not long after CBS' "Mer-
cury Theater of the Air" triggered
mass panic with a show called "War of
the Worlds."
"And I don't know that they did,"
Welles told reporters. "So I had given
up . . . You have no idea how many
people are listening, or what they're
thinking."
"War of the Worlds," based on H.G.
Wells' science fiction classic, was
broadcast Oct. 30, 1938. In the program,
the actor had simulated a radio
newscaster reporting an invasion from
outer space.
clearly than any other previous
program, the reach and impact of
radio.
"People ran into the streets and ar-
med themselves against the invading
Martians that millions believed were
actually here," Dick Cavett recalls in a
segment from "On the Air," a Home
Box Office presentation on the history
of radio in America.
The program, the second in an HBO
series called "Remember When," will
be offered subscribers of the pay-cable
network five times in June, beginning
Monday.
"Since its very beginning," says
Cavett, host of public TV's continuing
"Dick Cavett Show," "radio had been
filling the theater of our minds with
word-pictures of real-life disaster. We
kne thvwre, a-ndwenWla
presented his invasion from Mars in
newscast format, we believed that,
too."
Assembling film for the "On the Air"
production was a mammoth task that
fell to Nancy Kapitanoff, senior resear-
cher for Bruce Cohn Productions and
the "Remember When" series.
"In the earliest days," she says,
"everyone was excited about the new
medium, and everyone wanted to take
moving pictures of radio people at
work. It didn't take them long to lose
that kind of interest, and that's where
our problems began."
Often, however, the pursuit of film
led the researchers through some
curious twists and turns.
The "unsinkable" Titanic played a
significant role in broadcast history, for
No one, Kapitanoff recalls, could
produce film of the Titanic at sea, so
she turned to the movie on the disaster,
"A Night to Remember," for dramatic
footage, and went after stock film of old
ocean liners. There, midway through a
rather uninspiring reel, was a shot of
the fated ship.
No program on the history of radio
would be complete without a shot of
Edward R. Murrow on the air from
London, during the Nazi Blitz. Ap-
parently, no one at CBS through of
filming the medium's best-known war
correspondent at work.
Kapitanoff was about to give up that
search when someone located a brief
clip of Murrow-in the Imperial War
Museum in London.
Clergy take
on activist
role again
for the 80s
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years has been fighting resolutions
from minority shareholders that the
company consider converting their
production to peaceful purposes.
"Such repetitive proposals to MDC's
management and shareholders,
espousing the same basic cause, are not
in the best interests of the company or
the majority of its shareholders," Mc-
Donnell Douglas responded in a
statement last month.
The statement also said that to quit
building warplanes would be "neither
practical or necessary."
LEWIS LIKEWISE was unyielding at
the General Dynamics annual meeting.
"We intend to continue building the
Trident submarine," he told the
minority shareholders. "We feel it's an
extremely important part of our
national defense."
Some clergymen see a polarization
developing that will encourage ac-
tivism.
FATHER JOSEPH Callahan of the
Holy Cross Fathers of Bridgeport,
Conn., said the large corporations "en-
tertained us and our ideas. Now they're
tired of us."
Father Edward O'Donnell, a
spokesman for the Archdiocese of St.
Louis, described the mood among many
clergymen as "frustration."
"And as people deal with something
they consider immoral, they want to do
something direct to curb it," he added.
SISTER MARY Anne McGivern of
the Clergy and Laity Concerned in St.
Louis said, "I believe companies are
becoming more confrontationable.
General Dynamics is pressing charges
now - they wouldn't when I satin there
three years ago. And McDonnell
Douglas used to meet with us regularly,
but they won't now."
Heinonen, in a telephone interview
from New York, said, "With the
amount of money and attention being
spent on war, it makes people feel they
have nothing to lose by taking more ex-
treme steps."
Father Callahan said, "The first
thing this administration is going to do
is polarize us more and make things
clearer. That's a plus for us."
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