1938 Dracula w/ Orson Welles - Full Radio Drama Revived | YesterHear  

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Imagine the family gathered around their radio on a rainy night in the 1930's, imaginations peaked. Must've been pretty cool.

This is probably the greatest adaptation of Dracula ever done.

I haven't had tv for nearly 10 years. And people wonder how I survive‼️😂❤

I'm 54 & watching from Ireland & I just subbed! I'm just about old enough to remember life while not better, was definitely simpler. In the 80's I used to listen to BBC4 plays on MW in the dark every evening. They were in 5 x 10min shows that started on Monday & finished on Friday evening. The radio signal used to fade in & out (depending on the weather!) :) Even now I'd watch a B&W film before most of the films after the 80's. With a few exceptions. But listening to a radio play is like reading a book. Except it paints a clearer picture, but you still have to fill in the colour of the story. Magic!!

Radio has always been magical too me. I guess thats the main reason I got into citizen band radio, ameture radio and ham radio. Not to mention listening to police and emergency services on scanners, and shortwave broadcasts. I can only imagine how magical it was for folks to sit in a cozy room in a comfortable chair relaxed and listening to these amazing productions coming across the air from miles away.

Brilliant adaptation. Have had this in my (cassette!) collection for many years. Young Welles had the world as his oyster at this time - fascinating to listen to his bravado and talent.

I have a collection over 100 different versions of Dracula and never heard of this one! This one is great!!!

I love the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula and really enjoyed this more detailed version of the story. So romantic ❤

Such an awesome radio drama. Especially one starring the great Orson Welles.

This is my all time favorite episodes. LOVE IT. Thank you.

I visit whitby whenever i can sometimes 2 a month with my sister. Beautiful place and full of history. This story told this way is awesome a true epic and well done . When entertainment was good not the rot what passes as such nowadays. Keep them coming if you can find more 💯

Loved this Orson Wells as always brilliant Agnes Moorhead a great actress 🥰🥰

Love Orson Welles. What an actor and director. So daring. Amazing artist. Unsurpassed. That voice!

Love the intro by none other than... Lilith!

Its a really good production. Orson Wells had grest talent

Apparently during the broadcast several people in Whitby thought the town was actually being invaded by Vampires and ran in terror through the streets until Police arrived to calm things down.

I live in America now but wanted to live in Whitney due to the book Dracula and loving the place. My dream place to visit is Transylvania. I’m sure I’ll get there some day but life took me another path and I’m not complaining.

Never get tired of this story!

My Children Of the night What beautiful Music they Make😳👿🕷️🦇🌕

There certainly is something about a good radio production that meets directly to our imagination,in a way that television or film cannot..Radio plays that hook us demand ourselves to put our own pictures to the description being told..I believe Radio listening is good for us in expanding our minds..Too much Television and films,we slump into blankly looking at and looking and watching are different..Too much looking and we cease to think straight and let the images install and think for us..We just accept,not think and in accepting so willingly we can be mislead easy..But when listening you have to work to digest what is being told to you and in so you have to think..That’s why listening to music grips us more than looking at a music video.. This production of Dracula,though partly of its time is wonderful..Wells voice is engaging and entertaining in telling the story of the count..Thank you and please keep up the great work..🇬🇧🇺🇸👍

This is amazing

Agnes rocks!❤

Thank you for uploading this great radio moment!

Fantastic!

My Father's Mother had a collection of 33 1/3 rpm vinyl that contained old radio programs.

Thanks for your efforts this is super. Blessings to all

Thank you.🙏

Orson Welles and Dracula, sweet 🦇

This is absolutely wonderful thank you so much for all your hard work it sounds so good and so good to hear these kind of stories I grew up with in white and red the books of from Boston Mass❤😂😅🎉

Wells and Radio Mercury Theater made this wonderful adaptation of Dracula before they made"The War of the Worlds" and turning America freak up. After that program Wells was offered"Carte Blanche"to go to Hollywood . So He went and shot" Citizen Kane".. The rest is History. Thanks so much for uploading this classic 👍

Dracula had hairy palms 🤣

DRACULA ... more Human, than Human, with his UNFETTERED PURE PASSION! - Passion Beyond DEATH! ... (Great Production .. thank you for uploading!)

Stellar! Thank you for sharing

Thanks !

A jewel.

This channel is sick, thanks for archiving these.

I grew up in the 70s, but I still remember the waning generation that brought us the beautiful mid Atlantic accent. God how I miss hearing it. Listen to how quickly he starts off his monologue, yet you can understand every single word and every single syllable. Crisp and precise. I don’t understand why we don’t practice it anymore.

Love this ….thank you for uploading 😄

I enjoyed this very much. Thank you.

This was amazing! Genuinely horrifying at times.

Ther was a cereal ad that featured Count Chocola.

Good job!!

Many thanks for uploading this, I had never heard this version before.

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Orson Welles. Powerhouse. Art on legs.

Great review Mike, nice to see the 22 running . Looking forward to future reviews from you .Good luck and all the best.😊

18:00 😂😂 I just noticed that there are two sets of three windows, near the center of this epic Transylvanian castle, 😂 that look like Munch's "The Scream" artwork 🎨🖼 ... and I'm screamin' here... boo! 😮 ❤😅🎉

I just found you and subscribed instantly. love it ❤ thanks

There's a Westenra buried in a churchyard near me.

Love this....

Orson “bloody” Welles!👹👹👹👹

Mercury Theater Players were Orsons group of steller actors, some would become legends in their own right thanks to two of Orson Wells' film masterpieces, Citizen Cane (1940) & Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Joseph Cotton Agnes Morehead & Ann Baxter. I wish this had the cast because its obviously not just Orson Wells. I recognize Agnes Moreheads voice and I want to say that I hear James Masons voice as well but can't confirm it.

I wish Jimmy Stewart could have played Dracula.

"Tonight's tale of Gothic mystery, horror, and suspense is brought to you by Mrs. Pell's Frozen Fish Sticks. Oh---! Oh,YES! Hmmm... They're even better when you're DEAD!" -Orson Welles (Possibly...)

Eddie Murphy starred in the movie Blackula.

I happened upon FF Coppola's Dracula. Sure enough, hair on his palms! 😂

Radio>>>TV

utter genius. . .

The audio is very clear for a 1938 recording. How was this achieved? Normally the level of hiss and noise is very distracting. Did they use spectral editing?

It would be great without the horn blasts. The equivalent of pop up ads for me.

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A hasty and largely incoherent truncation of the novel. Some good moments.

Dracula had a moustache?!?!

There is only one Dracular ..Bela lugosi

"Mercury Thatre"?

Well, an AI "voice" at the beginning, but it gets better thereafter.

Is it true Orson Wells had a brother named Tonbridge 😂😂

Lap…

Ah, the French..

Needful.

I'm tired of T. V.

OMG ❤🥲. This compared to current Hollywood