Interested vistors to Wellesnet may wish to take an informative survey about how best to help save the fragile footage of Orson Welles Don Quixote.
Thanks to Wellesnet member R Kadin for setting up the survey, and before taking the survey, I recommend reading Audrey Stainton's Sight & Sound article posted below, for important background information on the making of Don Quixote.
To take the survey click here: Saving Orson Welles' Don Quixote
Given the very lively discussion about the various possibities of completing Don Quixote that is ongoing on the forum, here - as requested - is the complete text of Audrey Stainton's excellent article on the filming of Don Quixote and it's subsequent editing, that appeared in Sight and Sound in 1988.
Since the first public glimpse of Orson Welles Don Quixote was presented thirty years ago this month at the Cannes film festival�less than a year after Welles had died�I thought it would be interesting to present some background material on that very first public showing.
The Don Quixote footage shown at Cannes was apparently entrusted by Ms. Kodar to Costa-Cavras, who had only a few weeks to try and make a rough assembly out of the film he received. In fact, the original screening was postponed by a week, as is noted below in the report on the showing in Variety.
Following that report, is the text of the address that Oja Kodar gave before the film was shown at Cannes, which is followed by excerpts of my 1994 interview with Oja Kodar, done after Jess Franco had completed his 1992 editing of the Quixote footage.
It should be noted, that Oja Kodar was never consulted about the editing that Jess Franco did on his version of the film, and in fact, she was so displeased with how it turned out, she has never allowed that version to be shown commercially outside of Spain.
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