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Nashua Copiers Commercial - Orson Welles - Australia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMtStUFkZ6M

Interesting article in Salon criticizes the new Ken Burns documentary- Ken Burns' vicious Hemingway smear: PBS series totally ignores writer's lifelong leftist politics Ernest Hemingway was a lifelong anti-fascist persecuted by the FBI. New miniseries erases that history entirely https://www.salon.c...

New Ken Burns documentary premieres tonight on PBS:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021 ... d-the-myth

Looks like the Corinth version has been uploaded to Archive.org. Looks quite good too:
https://archive.org/details/1955-agosto-11

Not that well known now, but the novel is online for anyone interested: https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/frankaug-royalregiment/frankaug-royalregiment-00-h.html?fbclid=IwAR1Vz_Ga5nnC-SLFzSdkKcoeyXErODtf5alydPBEDN0YCE94OlkTiDSBOr4 BTW, our very good friend Kathleen Spaltro, who spearheaded the sadly unsuc...

An upcoming PBS documentary will recount the story of Isaac Woodard — a Black army sergeant pulled from a bus in 1946 for arguing with the driver, savagely beat by a South Carolina police chief, and left permanently blind.
https://www.wellesnet.com/pbs-isaac-woodard/

Producer-director Peter Shillingford reached out to us to clarify comments attributed to him. He says that Orson Welles was NOT drunk during the infamous "French champagne" shoot, rather he was feeling the effects of a sleeping pill. https://www.wellesnet.com/drunken-commercial/

Wich2 wrote:Doesn't the Koch Estate still own - or at least, claim to own - WOTW?

I believe the Koch Estate has copyrighted the script, not the actual broadcast

From The RINGER: The Welles of Inspiration: Before There Was ‘Mank,’ There Was ‘The Simpsons’ David Fincher’s take on the legacy of Orson Welles is up for 10 Academy Awards, but will it be remembered better than the ‘Simpsons’ classic “Rosebud”? The team behind the episode discuss how it came togeth...

Richard Wright's 1951 film version has been restored to its original length. This article mentions Welles's play: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/02/24/nati-f24.html Wright’s Native Son had been an immediate best-seller when it was published in 1940, selling 215,000 copies in its first three w...

In addition, a likely assumption might be that the fire which destroyed the original negative of CITIZEN KANE probably incinerated any extra footage, including the brothel scene, had any been kept. What really happened to the camera negative for "Citizen Kane"? The answer might not make y...

From the Orson Welles Appreciation Society: Scott: Avoid the movie “Eyes of Orson Welles”; Mark Cousins is a conspiracy theorist not at documentarian...I mean he is making links between facts that he has no evidence for. A lot of that film is fiction. It’s like the de Vinci code of documentaries. Ch...

Gold Ninja Video is releasing THE OTHER SIDE OF GARY GRAVER a Blu-ray of rare works by Orson Welles’ loyal cinematographer. It includes Graver’s first directorial effort, The Embracers; And When She Was Bad; and footage from Welles’ Filming The Trial https://www.wellesnet.com/other-side-gary-graver/