The War of the Worlds (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds) is a 1953 American science fiction film from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.
The film is an adaptation of the 1898 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, the first of five feature film adaptations. It is a retelling of the 1898 novel, changing the setting from Victorian era-England to 1953 southern California. Earth is suddenly and unexpectedly invaded by Martians, and American scientist Clayton Forrester searches for any weakness that can stop them.
The War of the Worlds won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and went on to influence other science fiction films. In 2011, it was selected for the United States' National Film Registry in the Library of Congress, being deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
The Martian war machines, which were designed by Al Nozaki, were made to be sinister-looking machines shaped like manta rays floating above the ground. Three Martian war machine props were made out of copper for the film. The same blueprints were used a decade late (sans neck and cobra head) to construct the alien spacecraft used in the film Robinson Crusoe on Mars, also directed by Byron Haskin; that film prop was later reported melted down as part of a scrap copper recycling drive.
Each Martian machine was topped with an articulated metal neck/arm, culminating in the cobra head heat ray projector, housing a single electronic eye that operated both like a periscope and as a weapon.
Here's an accurate and high detailed 1:72 3d model based on the movie itself, production blueprints found on the internet and photos of current replicas of the original prop.
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