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My hope remains that - as with much such "Reality (!) TV" - the trick here is that the ballyhoo and "mystery" is just a milking of the fact that they actually do already have something in hand... - Craig I think a lot of us here have had that same thought but after 79 years it's...

Emmy winner Alec Baldwin and Oscar winning director William Friedkin are joining filmmaker Joshua Grossberg in the TCM-backed hunt for the lost version of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons as an executive producer and advisor, respectively. https://www.wellesnet.com/alec-baldwin-william-fried...

Meet the Team on a Quest to Find Orson Welles' Lost Original Cut of 'The Magnificent Ambersons' -
https://filmschoolrejects.com/orson-wel ... ost-print/


The Search For the Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons​
https://www.thelostprint.com/

But the attention being given to this effort seems to imply better odds for success than the actual known facts would seem to warrant. Nothing is impossible but I agree with you. In any event we'll get a nice documentary out of it. I'm with you folks. And I actually like AMBERSONS more than KANE - ...

The RKO movies ended up being owned by Warner, which is now owned by AT&T. AT&T would have to pay zero $$ to get back what is legally theirs. I think the answer to this question is far less clear than that. AT&T (through its subsidiary Warner Media) owns the copyright, but it is far fro...

I'm curious as to who owns it. Ted Turner, I'm assuming. In that case, how much would he be willing to pay to get it back if, by some miracle, it is found? The RKO movies ended up being owned by Warner, which is now owned by AT&T. AT&T would have to pay zero $$ to get back what is legally t...

Great news. Looking forward to hearing what takes place. Scouring the Brazilian archive should be step one. Going by the report made by the person quoted in Vanity Fair who said he found and ran the full version, it vanished soon afterwards. Why he didn't contact someone in Hollywood and lock up th...

I knew about them which is why I was surprised you could play the wire recording back. This video goes into wire recorders in detail -

I finaly found the original and unique recording. It was on a wire recording, never heard since 1951, with impressive good sound.

How did you play a wire recording???

Wasn't the complete version found in the late '60's and screened by an employee at the film exchange hijacked by gypsies? If so, could they have not sold it to someone? What a pity this man did not immediately call someone in Hollywood and safely secure the footage! That's a new one! :lol: It would...

As reported on Indie Wire and Deadline - https://www.indiewire.com/2021/04/magnificent-ambersons-lost-footage-search-1234630105/ https://deadline.com/2021/04/tcm-documentary-search-orson-welles-the-magnificent-ambersons-1234732933/ Unlikely but not impossible that any Ambersons footage will be found...

Ambersons BD release discussed starting at approx 0:30:00 in this Criterion podcast-

https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/up ... ode-57.mp3
https://criterioncast.com/podcast/crite ... ee-of-life

Preliminary Magnificent Ambersons Blu-ray info - http://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Ambersons-Blu-ray-Dolores-Costello/dp/B0059XTUYU http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Magnificent-Ambersons-Blu-ray/56156/ Sign up and be notified if/when it is released at the above links. Here we are 4 years later and...

I don't know what WB is waiting for when it comes to a proper US Blu-ray release of Ambersons. It's Welles but there is a limited market for 74 year old classic films. So WB should release it sooner than later. I'm sure they have the technology to bring the elements they have up to HD standards. Cou...

As I get older I appreciate Bernstein's 'the girl on the Jersey ferry' more and more.