WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

When Macbeth originally was released, the studio cut 20 minutes and redubbed all the actors voices with an american accent. Just thought I would point out that Welles himself made the twenty minute cut in MacBeth in '48, at the studio's behest of course. Richard Wilson warned Welles in corresponden...

This pretty much sounds like the usual story told about Welles' involvement in "The Third Man"; should make for an interesting documentary. About ten years ago, I was lucky enough to read some personal correspondence between Welles and Richard Wilson from this period. Wilson was trying to get Welles...

I'm thinking that since the "final shot" of Welles' original cut of "Ambersons" was probably a matte shot (incorporating live action of the automobiles with a matte painting of city), the alleged still photo would have to be a freeze-frame from the actual film itself, therefore, making it unlikely t...

I read a positive review this morning in the Detroit Free Press of a new DVD collection called "Killer Classics" from Questar. Included among the five public domain noir films featured is Welles' "The Stranger". I have no idea whether this transfer is any better than previous ones, but the review em...

Following along the idea that even unfinished fragments should be allowed in the Welles canon proper (i.e. "The Dreamers"), I think the restoration of "Four Men and a Raft" is a wonderful addition. Apart from Welles' missing narration, the sequence feels complete and certainly shows that Welles was ...

Film fans may remember Timothy Carey better as a very visible character actor throughout the 50's and 60's. Kubrick cast him in both "The Killing" (1956) and "Paths Of Glory" (1957), the latter better a really good showcase for his talent. His performance in The Monkee's feature "Head" (1968) is dis...

Forgive me if this topic has been covered before, but how closely was Welles' original shooting script followed for the atrocious A & E "Ambersons" remake? I understand certain sequences were added from the novel to flesh out the running time and I know that Welles' original ending had Eugene explai...

Thank you mteal. The running time of 111 min. comes about because mine is really a selective restoration. I didn't approach it as an academic exercise as much as wanting to create something that would flow for the uneducated viewer (I wanted to turn more people onto Welles without them judging him f...

Thanks Glenn. I have no desire to make money off the project; I really just wanted to have a version to watch that would be closer to Welles' original. I'm happy to share it with whoever would like to see it, but not sure how that could be done with the folks here. Right now I have a U-matic SP mast...

Hi everyone! I've been following the discussions on this board for the last few months and finally got around to registering. I completed my own restoration of TMA about ten years ago using stills, freeze-frames, composite images for the video and recreating the audio with a small group of non-profe...