Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1981 compilation album by Jeff Wayne, highlights of the 1978 concept album, retelling the story of "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells. It was released by Columbia Records. In order to cater to casual consumers who liked the music of "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds" but did not want to sit through all the dialogue, Columbia Records issued a single-disc abridged version. It focused on the
The War of the Worlds (1953 film) for Pal productions: "Destination Moon" and "When Worlds Collide". "The War of the Worlds" won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was later selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. An effort was made to avoid the stereotypical flying saucer look of UFOs: The Martian war machines (designed by Al Nozaki) were instead 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 later to construct the alien spacecraft