WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

The Founder of this Feast.

But the "After KANE, a sad case" canard is just that. Not all of his stuff is gold; but - to the end - it's always worth the time.

(And that doesn't even count lots of Stage stuff we can't experience now.)

Bless you, Orson!

- Craig

Chief, no - at least not per this Log (scroll down to 1940): http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/digitaldelitoo/dd2jb-Mercury-Theatre.html Lionel Barrymore did do his CAROL for the last time for Campbell's in that season; alas, only 30 min.; and double-alas, not a single recording seems to be out there fr...

I've worked Recreations with that director, Gregg Oppenheimer, and some of his rep company.

He does tight work!

- Craig

Bourbon actually took over for Campbell's after Orson left. The series hung on, at half an hour, for one more season. Still L.A., with film guests, but pop stuff rather than old or new classics. Houseman stayed as a writer, and some say ratings were actually better, but the show was too expensive. -...

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 - ...

Terry - Balance in all things; as the old saying goes, "Almost nothing is ever as good, or as bad, as it seems." No "denial" here. Just the simple knowledge that: - Insider Bill Herz said later (to myself, and German Radio's Christian Blees) that the Company was not particularly ...

Sounds more like nostalgic exaggeration, from here...

- Craig

Frank - Hmmm... tough one. And two of the usual sources for such info, Bret Wood and Dave Goldin, offer nothing. - Young Isabel: Yes, the three male kids are credited, but she is not. It may indeed be that Naomi played down - generally easier for a female actor. * - Digby: You're right, no credit. T...

I saw it in a packed theatre in the 70's during a re-release. Suburban audience, not art house. Never forget the gasp at Clark Gable's first appearance. Movies . . . Alas, in that era likely the bastardized version ~ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pt/b/b0/Gone_Wind_1939.jpg

- 1. Depends on the size of the house. I also saw NORTHWEST, in a smallish theater, and Blu-ray was just fine.

- 2. I believe Fathom is a step up, using UHD.

- 3. An appreciative Audience is always a nice way to share a movie.

- Craig

Well, we live in hope! Over the decades that I've been collecting and creating Radio/Audio Drama, more and more vintage material has turned up... including Welles material... and modern retrieval and restoration techniques can render the near-unlistenable, better... Also on the plus side, Welles gen...

I think Orson showed us many times in many ways over course of his career, that he did not intend to honor hard lines between "Theater" and "Real Life." In this case and elsewhere, he brought strong Drama modes to the telling of True-LIfe tales; and on the other side, with such t...

Richard Gergel explains the power of radio in 1946, and how the NAACP decided that Welles would be the best man to break the story.https://youtu.be/FvQILFXgCVQ Awash in TeeVee, and then that folding right into the Interwebs, folks sometimes forget just how truly epochal the first real broad-casting...

Dear "NoFake" and Richard France - Wow. I'll admit to being totally blindsided by such an unmerited torrent of internet snark. Richard has asked me to post this: I believe that it's always better when every John Alden speaks for himself. But since Richard has not responded to the olive bra...

As to Mank' s doubt or denial of Welles's authorship of the Kane framing device, Richard France, in his play “Obediently Yours, Orson Welles,” revealed nearly two decades ago what are, arguably -– if not even in arguably, based on the source materials hiding in plain sight, remaining largely unknow...