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jeriendhalFrom the July issue of Ansible: http://news.ansible.co.uk/a216.html
Obgliatory War of the Worlds Coverage Ian Covell has a dream of seeing the version actually made in 1898: `... that alternate history in which the Lumière Bros or Edison reproduced on film the bestseller of its day -- men on stilts, disguised under tarpaulins carefully tailored to look almost like German helmets, lurching above model towns and cities, the crackle of electric guns hand-scratched on to each frame ... H.G. Wells making his usual brief guest appearance as the placard-wearing prophet: "The Millennium is at Hand, Prepare to Meet Nobody." And at the end, troops of dancing girls, representing the triumphant bacteria of Earth, gleefully pushing over Martian after Martian....'
Obgliatory War of the Worlds Coverage Ian Covell has a dream of seeing the version actually made in 1898: `... that alternate history in which the Lumière Bros or Edison reproduced on film the bestseller of its day -- men on stilts, disguised under tarpaulins carefully tailored to look almost like German helmets, lurching above model towns and cities, the crackle of electric guns hand-scratched on to each frame ... H.G. Wells making his usual brief guest appearance as the placard-wearing prophet: "The Millennium is at Hand, Prepare to Meet Nobody." And at the end, troops of dancing girls, representing the triumphant bacteria of Earth, gleefully pushing over Martian after Martian....'
