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rawana
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High School - 11th Grade
In "The War of the Worlds", how many allusions are there to Canada in the broadcast?
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ladyvols1 Teacher
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Posted by ladyvols1 on Friday December 12, 2008 at 12:50 PMIn 1938 Orson Wells and the CBS radio station broadcast a hoax based on H. G Wells “War of The Worlds”. In the broadcast he makes 2 allusions to Canada. The First allusion is when he mentions “Intercontinental Radio News.” This agency was based in Canada. The second allusion was to the “Toronto, Canada: Professor Morse of McGill University.” The allusions were to give a sense of credibility to the drama. The problem was, the broadcast was too realistic and it created a massive panic in all areas that received the broadcast.
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