THE NIGHT AMERICA TREMBLED (1957)

The Night America Trembled
Episode aired Sep 9, 1957
1h
S10 E1
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles' Mercury Players performed a radio play version of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Some people in the unsuspecting public took the broadcast as a real report about a Martian invasion. In this television play of twenty years later, several fictional storylines present the story of the 1938 broadcast and the panic it caused. Edward R. Mu... Read all
Director: Tom Donovan
Writers: Nelson Bond, Fletcher Markle
Stars: Edward R. Murrow, Alexander Scourby, Robert Blackburn

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THIS EPISODE OF STUDIO ONE WAS PRODUCED IN KINESCOPE

Kinescope /ˈkɪnɨskoʊp/, shortened to kine /ˈkɪniː/, also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program made by filming the picture from a video monitor.
Typically, the term can refer to the process itself, the equipment used for the procedure (a 16 mm or 35 mm movie camera mounted in front of a video monitor, and synchronized to the monitor's scanning rate), or a film made using the process. Kinescopes were the only practical way to preserve live television broadcasts prior to the introduction of videotape in 1956. A small number of theatrically released feature films have also been produced as kinescopes.