Orson Welles Stars in Dracula 1938 | Full Vintage Radio Drama | YesterHear Classics

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Step back in time with YesterHear and relive the chilling atmosphere of the 1938 Dracula radio drama, masterfully narrated by the iconic Orson Welles. This episode is a gem from the Mercury Theatre archives, now brought to life with AI-enhanced visuals that capture the gothic essence of Bram Stoker’s legendary tale. Explore little-known facts about this historic broadcast and immerse yourself in the eerie world of gothic horror. Perfect for aficionados of classic literature, vintage radio dramas, and innovative storytelling. Subscribe to YesterHear for more haunting journeys that blend the past with the present.
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@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Hello, fellow teleporters & esteemed citizens of radio land! 📻✨As we continue dashing thru the mystical portal of space & time together, we humbly ask for your support. Please like, subscribe, comment, share YesterHear. Let’s ensure the enduring legacy & keep the magic of radio alive for generations to come! 🌟✨

@johnshields6852 2 месяца назад

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

@sherrihinton2885 Месяц назад

I too imagine that

@frankblack7801 Месяц назад

Coal or wood open fireplaces on dark winter nights 📻 Valves instead of transistors.

@RichUnclePhil Месяц назад

It’s “piqued”. Really not hard.

@kellywalker1664 28 дней назад

@@RichUnclePhilyeah, but auto"correct" makes us proofread twice.

@Mounhas 28 дней назад

Then having to take the dog out…

@ciaran5588 Месяц назад

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!!

@YesterHear Месяц назад

Hello and a big thanks from Chicago! When I conceptualize the image to accompany the audio, I try to ascertain and convey the background and mood settings, so the audience can fill in with the special effects that are their imagination. I also have a spotify podcast for pure listening without the images (link in bio). Thank you again. Be well.

@iap-ug3oy Месяц назад

I used to listen to Saturday night Theatre over 40 years ago they were great….I also saw all the Dracula movies with Peter Cushing and Bela Lugosi I am 83 now and here I am again listening to Dracula ..

@YesterHear Месяц назад

@@iap-ug3oy Thank you for visiting and for your thoughtful comment! Our family watched the same ones. Family Classics w Frazier Thomas was another great family night for us.

@Mounhas 28 дней назад

I used to listen to those plays avidly, and started again recently thanks to posters like this. I remember with frustration the signal disappearing a few minutes before the end, whilst driving.

@michaelwalker8144 Месяц назад

This is probably the greatest adaptation of Dracula ever done.

@judikingsman6132 Месяц назад

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

@rickvassell8349 Месяц назад

Same here

@2476bunny Месяц назад

i have one but the wife has that,its me and my pc games with you tube as back ground,the stories are better IE this one.

@incominghitdadirt9587 Месяц назад

I can relate. It's not what you watch, but what you don't watch (or listen to).

@tom-dev Месяц назад

Doubt it

@TheRickie41 2 месяца назад

A jewel.

@SkullyTheHypnoSkull 3 месяца назад

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

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Thank you very much. So encouraging to hear.

@Cbcw76 2 месяца назад

I have half a dozen and stopped bothering to collect them because I found I didn't listen to anything but snippets. THIS one, though, deserved all of my attention. Maybe I'm just that big o' favorite of Welles.

@tokatulu 2 месяца назад

You sir are a true Dracularin🫀💋👹

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

@@Cbcw76 I think he made this when he was only 23 yo. Undeniable talent. Thank you for visiting!

@Cbcw76 2 месяца назад

@@YesterHear I'd seen THIRD MAN in the late '70s at campus theaters. Then in ?? 1990 or so, I found a few episodes of HARRY LIME on cassette (2 ep per side, 4 total, and never in sequence... not that those needed sequences). That series - to me - was Orson's precise/exact answe to the question, "How did Harry get to be such a well-known scoundrel that he picked up where WWII dropped him? How did he know such a variety of even worse villains?" If I now had a chance to ask Orson anything, I would ask, "Have you ever thought of writing a radio series that posed the exact question to Dracula? Could you have written a radio series using Bela, say, in 1948 or 1960, giving up 30-min episodes of his life pre-Dracula as well as those 1800s episodes? Preying on Europe's villains, perhaps?" I still ;think it would be a grand idea but, in my mind, I'd want to hear Bela's voice-!!

@sherrihinton2885 Месяц назад

This is amazing

@Number4lead 2 месяца назад

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.

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

You must have heard some great events. Sometimes, I need to just close my eyes and gain clarity.

@ZENmud 2 месяца назад

Tea & crumpets >>>

@ZENmud 2 месяца назад

Pirate radio? 🎉 I listen to one 🎶 🎶🎶 often; low-powered (9 mile radius? +/-), no "host" and endless Playlist of all genres; banjo to hot 'covers' to rock to country... we're lucky. 😅

@peteywheatstraws4909 2 месяца назад

Might not have been all that cozy if you got the bad news in addition to the baseball games and "CBS Radio Mystery Theater".

@MatthewTheWolf2029 2 месяца назад

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

@YesterHear Месяц назад

Thank you for tuning in. Incredulous that he was only 23 when he dominated the airwaves. At 23, I was having a time just managing my shoelaces.

@MrGordonSims 2 месяца назад

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.

@ConkerKing 2 месяца назад

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.

@davym3195 2 месяца назад

😂

@surpenc 2 месяца назад

Whitby not whitney. Whitney in Oxfordshire nothing to see there.

@RuminatingWizard 2 месяца назад

I see what you did there

@WonHyo69 Месяц назад

True story!

@Ian-mj4pt 2 месяца назад

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 💯

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Thank you for a very kind message. I hope to visit someday myself.

@bronson1392 2 месяца назад

Listen to the Dracula soundtrack by John Williams “To Scarborough” 1979 movie

@leespiderpod 2 месяца назад

When I visited a few years ago I was surprised at how many homeless people there were

@kennethreed2186 2 месяца назад

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

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

To pair that with "The Music of the Night" from Phantom of the Opera. 🤔

@spmoran4703 2 месяца назад

Its a really good production. Orson Wells had grest talent

@michaelsmyth3935 2 месяца назад

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

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

I've watched vids of OG producers, musicians who miss vinyl. They say the sounds are deep and rich.

@NotoriousNegan 2 месяца назад

I live in America now but wanted to live in Whitby 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.

@NerdFestUK 2 месяца назад

Transylvania is a beautiful, mountainous area, and Bran Castle is a must-visit place for any Dracula fan.

@dianekiley4394 23 дня назад

Imabigd=acu)afandianekiley

@YesterHear 7 дней назад

Thank you so much for visiting!

@jeanettesdaughter Месяц назад

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

@karenbrown6348 Месяц назад

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

@YesterHear Месяц назад

Thank you for tuning in! I love FF Coppola's Dracula. The cinematography was stunning, fantastic, brilliant..

@kristinpanzica8638 Месяц назад

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

@houdinididiit 2 месяца назад

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.

@BlowinFree 2 месяца назад

Instead we have t😅dreaded vocal fry

@Hypnobunny1 Месяц назад

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

@YesterHear 7 дней назад

Thank you for visiting and for your comment! I'm discovering that Orson Welles and Agnes Moorehead were involved in almost all those radio theatres back then.

@richardjames1946 2 месяца назад

Orson Welles and Dracula, sweet 🦇

@michellelundgren6478 Месяц назад

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

@YesterHear Месяц назад

Thank you so very much for your generous comment. Glad you enjoyed it!

@jkvelasquez84 2 месяца назад

Never get tired of this story!

@josebenito15 2 месяца назад

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 👍

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Thank you for tuning in. I stumbled on some good footage of the hoopla surrounding the War of the Worlds broadcast. Will assemble those and share at some point.

@themajesticmagnificent386 2 месяца назад

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..🇬🇧🇺🇸👍

@YesterHear Месяц назад

Thank you for such a beautifully generous message. Gives me energy. 💐I absolutely agree; I find that when I'd read a really good book, the movie falls short.

@themajesticmagnificent386 Месяц назад

@@YesterHear Thank you for your very kind reply..Please keep up the good work.!

@sandarahcatmom9897 Месяц назад

I’ve always felt that when media fills in all the blanks, the imagination is stifled and the pleasure as a result, diminished.

@popeye8120 2 месяца назад

Agnes rocks!❤

@phantomstrangermedia 3 месяца назад

Thank you for uploading this great radio moment!

@YesterHear 3 месяца назад

Thank you very much for visiting and for the kind comment.

@tokatulu 2 месяца назад

Orson “bloody” Welles!👹👹👹👹

@twalatka Месяц назад

Fantastic!

@YesterHear Месяц назад

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!

@sarahmarks6743 3 месяца назад

Thank you.🙏

@YesterHear 3 месяца назад

You are so welcome! Thank you very much.

@julianwilkins1669 3 месяца назад

Thanks for your efforts this is super. Blessings to all

@YesterHear 3 месяца назад

Thank you very much. I put a lot of love into these. The intro music from Mercury on Air is a sweet echo. Brightest Blessings!

@alwizard5242 2 месяца назад

Thanks !

@YesterHear Месяц назад

You bet!

@TheAdvencherContinues2022 2 месяца назад

Dracula had hairy palms 🤣

@SFGal9 2 месяца назад

I had to rewind 2x for that. xD

@josenighthawk 2 месяца назад

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

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Stoker & Welles: A collaboration through time. ~~ by H.G. Wells 😊Thank you for tuning in!

@snakeplissken1087 2 месяца назад

More human than human... Dracula worked for the Tyrell Corporation

@josenighthawk 2 месяца назад

@@snakeplissken1087 .. LOL! .. Perfect! ... There is a thought for Riddley Scott - a Tyrell Corp Replicant who is also a Dracula (I'll watch it!)

@karenbanks5985 2 месяца назад

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❤😂😅🎉

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Your comment made my morning. Thank you and have a magical day.

@jamie6819 2 месяца назад

This channel is sick, thanks for archiving these.

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Thank you, truly. These are definitely labors of love.

@jamie6819 2 месяца назад

@@YesterHear may i ask- is that your voice for the introduction?

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

@@jamie6819 ai voice reading from my script. I also tweaked pauses etc to make it "flow" better. That 1:15 minute piece took about 3 hours from beginning to end. I'm certain someone more skilled could do it more efficiently. I'm a new kid on the block with ai and graphics. I enjoy learning, exploring, crafting. 😀

@MsMounen 2 месяца назад

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

@scotsmith2391 2 месяца назад

Don't wake her!!!

@MsMounen 2 месяца назад

@@scotsmith2391 😂

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

When art and reality intermix. 🪄

@user-tq9pv1zw6x 2 месяца назад

Interesting Perhaps that is where Stoker got the name.

@ZENmud 2 месяца назад

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! 😮 ❤😅🎉

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

I finally saw them. 😂

@Valerie-oc3kw 2 месяца назад

Stellar! Thank you for sharing

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Thank you for tuning in!

@catherine59226 2 месяца назад

I enjoyed this very much. Thank you.

@karenmcdonald7801 2 месяца назад

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

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Thanks oodles for your generous comment!

@mattterranova2654 2 месяца назад

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.

@toniroan5638 2 месяца назад

Love this ….thank you for uploading 😄

@aaronlalli3730 2 месяца назад

Love this....

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Thank you for your support!

@troyelliott390 2 месяца назад

Sharing

@user-gs5ox8bc3c Месяц назад

This was amazing! Genuinely horrifying at times.

@YesterHear 7 дней назад

Thank you very much for listening and for you kind comment. Orson Welles was a masterful storyteller.

@davidwilliams1511 2 месяца назад

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

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Thank you very very much! I appreciate your feedback and support!!!! 🎇

@cliffordnewell2445 2 месяца назад

I wish Jimmy Stewart could have played Dracula.

@SFGal9 2 месяца назад

For sure. What about Cagney, Bogart, Lorre, John Wayne, Cary Grant?

@ZENmud 2 месяца назад

Peter Lorre should have done it for Mel Brooks 😂😂😂😂

@jfrsnjhnsn 2 месяца назад

Or Dennis Weaver

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

@@ZENmud Young Dracula

@petertate8366 2 месяца назад

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

@ArchieThomas3seesea Месяц назад

Ther was a cereal ad that featured Count Chocola.

@mortishamusselwhite3048 Месяц назад

Good job!!

@YesterHear 7 дней назад

Thank you very much!

@stephenlyall7759 Месяц назад

Orson Welles. Powerhouse. Art on legs.

@YesterHear 7 дней назад

What he could do today using all this technology for his storytelling. He was already masterful without too many bells and whistles, though. Thank you very much for listening!

@istobh000 Месяц назад

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

@CowboyRobot2000 Месяц назад

"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...)

@Mikethemerciless11 26 дней назад

Wow. Agnes Moorehead is in this? I don't think she gets enough credit for her performances. If you don't know who she was, watch any episode of Bewitched when Samantha's mother shows up. That's her. She was in a great episode of The Twilight Zone, as a woman seemingly in medieval times fending off little aliens on her own. She played Mrs. Snow in Pollyanna.

@YesterHear 7 дней назад

Thank you very much for joining! I'm learning that she and Orson Welles were involved in almost all of the radio theatres back then. So fascinating.

@fincorrigan7139 3 месяца назад

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?

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Hi. Thank you for visiting! I must have listened to 50+ recordings b4 downloading this. I'm not tech savvy here at all, but I'm trying to learn on Audacity on how to "clean" old recordings.. Audacity is free. I think Adobe has a $$ program. All this AI and new technology are very new to me, but I'm trying to keep my brain active with topics I enjoy. Thank you again for dropping by.

@okee9 2 месяца назад

@@YesterHearAnother good one is Reaper, free to try, has a lot of tutorials available

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

@@okee9 I will check it out. Thanks oodles!

@ZENmud 2 месяца назад

@YesterHear my phone includes all my own ringtones, made with Audacity ❤ including a "bootleg" street concert from Genève, and a Swiss yodeling choir (about 25 women & men🎉), as well as clips from Emerson Lake and Palmer, "Casablanca" etc... people jump when my phone yodels 🔔 ❤❤

@richardtibbitts3841 2 месяца назад

@@YesterHearAudacity's noise reduction effect is pretty good, especially considering it's free. I use it all the time.

@ArchieThomas3seesea Месяц назад

Eddie Murphy starred in the movie Blackula.

@napkin_forgiven 2 месяца назад

Radio>>>TV

@feralbluee Месяц назад

utter genius. . .

@YesterHear 7 дней назад

And to think Orson Welles was 23 yo at the time. I was still trying to bunny ears my shoelaces at that age. 😂

@jasoncollins1702 2 месяца назад

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

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Thanks a bushel for tuning in!

@peteywheatstraws4909 2 месяца назад

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

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Your comment made me 😂 bc I thought the same. My tech skills are not there yet. Thanks for tuning in!

@peteywheatstraws4909 2 месяца назад

@YesterHear I cannot tell you how much restorative film and music mean to me, I was born in the States, in the 60's. It was a different world. I love the early talking films, "Dracula" w Bela Lagosi was one of my favorites. I had a friend, named James Desmond who's father was invited to sleep for a weekend in Castle Deacule, and I was, and am, envious of that opportunity.

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

@@peteywheatstraws4909 NO amount of $ can make me sleep in that castle! 😂Bela, Lon, Boris...those were family nights for us.

@paulcateiii 2 месяца назад

you have another subscriber

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Thank you for joining. A lot of these old-time shows were family night for us. Good times.

@snakeplissken1087 2 месяца назад

Dracula had a moustache?!?!

@tadmikowsky7520 2 месяца назад

Yep, it was an 8th-grade crapstache. I had one of those back in the day.. Almost 🤔😔

@larryparis925 3 месяца назад

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

@YesterHear 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much for dropping by! "Recording my own voice" severely shivers me timbers. Maybe some day...☀️

@SkullyTheHypnoSkull 3 месяца назад

RU-vid banned me for 24 hours for cyberbullying Jon Stewart and Biden, but RU-vid doesn't mind if you cyberbully ordinary people.

@MarcUK 2 месяца назад

@@YesterHear You should create an AI voice of yourself. ;-)

@marc108 2 месяца назад

There is only one Dracular ..Bela lugosi

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

and Lon Chaney Jr (Wolfman) and Boris Karloff (Mummy). I loved those movies.

@marc108 2 месяца назад

@@YesterHear and only one Van Helsing

@danielmartini3229 2 месяца назад

"Mercury Thatre"?

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Certainly is! Thank you so much for visiting.

@artofmusic303 10 дней назад

Agnes Morehead as Mina!

@YesterHear 7 дней назад

She and Orson Welles were in a majority of all the radio theatre productions. So very talented. Thank you very much for listening!

@michaelahern6821 Месяц назад

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

@YesterHear Месяц назад

😂😂Thank you for tuning in!

@michaelahern6821 Месяц назад

@@YesterHear Keith Beith has a brother named Cowden as well🤣

@joshramirez7 23 дня назад

The musical instrument noises ruin this experience, not sure why this method was popular back then.

@YesterHear 7 дней назад

😂I agree. I'm starting to isolate those sections, lower the volume, and piece them back for the new videos. Thank you very much for stopping by!

@user-jl8mp6lg4i Месяц назад

Lap…

@YesterHear 7 дней назад

Thanks for listening!

@Catonius 2 месяца назад

Ah, the French..

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

Thanks oodles for visiting!

@christineabercrombie7316 Месяц назад

Needful.

@KellyNelson-ek3yy Месяц назад

I'm tired of T. V.

@YesterHear 7 дней назад

Thank you for visiting! I find that when I close my eyes, I hear better and my imagination is richer, more vivid.

@rollerhockey69king87 2 месяца назад

OMG ❤🥲. This compared to current Hollywood

@YesterHear 2 месяца назад

It's amazing what can be done these days...and technology advances minute by minute.