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Orson Welles and his genius Foley artists terrified millions of Americans during the infamous 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast by dragging a heavy jar across a wet toilet…
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The greatest mass panic in American broadcast history was partially triggered by plumbing fixtures. Radio drama relies purely on the theater of the mind, which means audio engineers have to get incredibly weird with household objects to convince an entire paranoid nation that aliens are vaporizing New Jersey.
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