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A young Orson Welles. Photo from Assim Era Hollywood.com.
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A ‘Tripod’ from the 2005 Film adaptation, War of the Worlds.
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The cover of a 2001 print of The War of the Worlds, featuring a ‘Tripod’ from the novel. Photo from Internet Speculative Fiction Database.org.
Martian Tripods. Artwork by Peter Goodfellow (1978)