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Rowman and Littlefield will publish “Dead Air” in hardcover and ebook on November 19.

“Exploring the War of the Worlds: 1938 Radio Broadcast” will be presented on October 30 at 6 p.m. by Jason Rimkus, media coordinator for Kenosha Community Media.

Broadcast Bash 2024 and a guided tour of Grover Mill, New Jersey, will take place on October 26-27 at the “War of the Worlds” invasion site.

Jorge Arriagada worked primarily in the film industry, composing music for more than 160 movies since 1977.

Warner Archive Collection’s factory-pressed Blu-ray disc features the 68-minute edit of “Journey Into Fear,” which was released to U.S. theaters in February 1943.

The 85-year-old director of the “Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now” put his stamp of approval on four iconic films airing on Turner Classic Movies this month.

British writer-director Sam Judd is raising money for his film short, “My Friend Orson Welles,” through online crowdfunding at greenlit.com.

The acclaimed actress co-starred in the Orson Welles-directed 1960 London stage production of “Rhinoceros” and appeared with him three years later in the movie “The V.I.P.s.”

Beatrice Welles, the youngest daughter of filmmaker Orson Welles, has shared a 2-minute clip from the previously lost “American Heritage Vol. 1 – Selections from George Ade, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain,” which was filmed by her father in 1970.

“American Heritage Vol. 1,” a 1972 direct-to-video program of dramatic readings by Orson Welles, has been acquired by his estate in hopes of an eventual commercial re-release.

Milton Lawson, the creator of the Orson Welles inspired graphic novel, said the length of the publication delay was unknown and beyond his control.

Just in time for the 75th anniversary of the Carol Reed post-war classic, Titan Books is publishing “The Third Man: The Official Story of the Film” on October 1.

“The Other Side of the Wind” had its long-awaited premiere at the Venice and Telluride film festivals during Labor Day weekend 2018.

“The Third Man” starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles had its world premiere at the Ritz Cinema in Hastings, England, on September 1, 1949.

The event at the Truman Library will include a reception, film screening and conversation with director Danny Wu and executive producer Laura Williams, who is the niece of civil rights icon Isaac Woodard.

Carol Reed’s post-war classic “The Third Man” will mark the 75th anniversary of its world premiere with a special showing in Vienna on Sunday night, September 1.

“Dead Air: The Night that Orson Welles Terrified America” by Willliam Elliot Hazelgrove will be published by Rowman and Littlefield on November 19.

The 12-week online course, “The Other Side of the Shadow,” is led by author and film scholar Matthew Asprey Gear and examines the director’s film and television work.

The Orson Welles-directed thriller in which he starred with then-wife Rita Hayworth is part of the Locarno retrospective “The Lady with a Torch – A Centenary of Columbia Pictures.”

“Journey Into Fear,” directed by Norman Foster, is a new 1080p HD master from a 4K scan of safety preservation master positives at the Library of Congress.