Handling machine (The War of the Worlds) claws. Handling machines appear in the 2005 Pendragon Pictures' adaptation "H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds"; these machines have six legs and a jointed tail and closely resemble a scorpion. No handling machine is seen in any other film adaptation. Crab-like walkers appear in The Asylum's modernized "War of the Worlds" film and are the Martian fighting-machines, not handling-machines. The novel's tripod appearance is absent from the film. Handling machine (The War of the Worlds) The Handling machine is one of the fictional machines used by the Martians in H. G. Wells' science fiction novel "The War of the
The War of the Worlds (radio drama) the 1938 performance of "The War of the Worlds" in the CBS studio, using the script as a framework for a series of factual narratives about a cross-section of radio listeners. No member of the "Mercury Theatre" is named. The courts ruled against Welles, who was found to have abandoned any rights to the script after it was published in Cantril's book. Koch had granted CBS the right to use the script in its program. "As it developed over the years, Koch took some cash and some credit," wrote biographer Frank Brady. "He wrote the story of how he created