Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds) who believed, based on the outside dimensions of the cylinders, they carried no more than five tripods per cylinder. The original conceptual drawings for the fighting machines, drawn by Warwick Goble, accompanied the initial appearance of "The War of the Worlds" in "Pearson's Magazine" in 1897. When Wells saw these pictures, he was so displeased that he added the following text for the novel's hardcover appearance: The Martian fighting machines designed by Albert Nozaki for George Pal's 1953 Paramount film "The War of the Worlds" barely resemble the same machines in the H. G. Wells novel. The novel's fighting machines
The War of the Worlds (1953 film) machines have a quality of real terror, their sinister apparitions, prowlings and pulverisings are spectacularly well done, and the scenes of panic and destruction are staged with real flair". Richard L. Coe of "The Washington Post" called it "to put it gently, terrific," and "for my money, the 'King Kong' of its day". "The War of the Worlds" won an Academy Award for Special Effects (it was the sole nominee that year). Everett Douglas was nominated for Film Editing, while the Paramount Studio Sound Department and Loren L. Ryder were nominated for Sound, Recording. "The War of the Worlds" still