Ai Illustration fun for Halloween - 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast

[Midnight Audiophile]

This is a video I put together using Ai generated illustrations from DALL•E 2 and upscaled with Gigapixel Ai, just in time for October 30, the date of the original broadcast in 1938. Ai art is an interesting resource that's just now coming into it's own for art directors and creators. To me it's like a snapshot of the state of technology much like looking at video game graphics in the early years. A few years from now I think it will be quite astounding. I spent $50 creating the images and was completely new to the process.

 

[JSmith]

Funny you mention this... I have the original record collection of the broadcast and was thinking of listening to it tonight.

I wonder if the younger members know what it is all about... yes, people though it was real;

Orson Wells Induces Mass Hysteria through Radio Broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" : History of Information

Orson Wells Induces Mass Hysteria through Radio Broadcast of

www.historyofinformation.com

The Infamous "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast Was a Magnificent Fluke

Orson Welles and his colleagues scrambled to pull together the show; they ended up writing pop culture history

www.smithsonianmag.com

JSmith

 

[Midnight Audiophile]

Yeah, that was definitely a big moment in cultural history. I think it paved the way for the UFO and alien abduction claims that came soon after beginning with Kenneth Arnold and Roswell in the '40s.

I tried to get a decent audio version. The one is found is a stereo rebroadcast of the original.