WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

I figured there was some reason the Seth Winner and Sammy Jones restoration was never released. The little they played of it at AES New York 2018 sounded fantastic. A literal shame no one gets to hear it.

Odd. Three shows got restricted by Mediafire due to copyright claims: The War of the Worlds, the east coast performance of Christmas Carol (but not the west coast show,) and The Marvelous Barastro. Mediafire gives zero info on who these belong to or what to do about it, it just blocks them, so I jus...

I expanded the Addendum collection to included Lilly's 'hidden' files, a few quality upgrades, and other of Welles' radio appearances I felt pertinent. Those files marked 'patched' are the incomplete Lilly episodes for which I was able to paste in the missing bits or disc sides. Overall the quality ...

The old links were extinct long ago, so here are some current ones. Side 1 is improperly linked on the Rutgers page (making it a 'hidden file' like that fascinating assortment on the Lilly site,) but some sleuthing determined where it actually was online: http://msr-archives.rutgers.edu/Sound/welles...

Upgrades (for me at least) of The Apple Tree and King Lear were posted on Archive.org by some kind person. https://archive.org/details/OrsonWelles_MercurySummer/14+46-09-06+The+Apple+Tree+%5Bby+John+Galsworthy%5D.mp3 https://archive.org/details/OrsonWelles_MercurySummer/15+46-09-13+Scenes+from+King+...

Since we're happily allowed to necro ancient threads here... From the controversial My Lunches with Orson : HJ: You know, Touch of Evil is playing on cable this month. OW: It’s got all the lost stuff in it! I saw a reel and a half of it last night. And I had to quit. I got too excited. I had forgott...

Welles and Ray Collins reprise their roles from the Campbell's Playhouse adaption (though that had a better script, and here Welles uses his Eastern-European accent unlike on Campbell's.) Delightful. I was surprised that this was originally shown in color! How many color sets were out there in 1956?...

Extraordinarily rare takes of Elsa following Michael as he flees through Chinatown (with Welles' double thoroughly unconvincing - his gait is all wrong,) a few tantalizing seconds from what should be the long sequence of Michael and Grisby climbing the hill, and second-unit stuff of the Circe sailin...

Fun reconstruction of one of the films, showing how it interacted with the action on stage. Genius-level creativity from Mr. W, not surprisingly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2LIEfZkox8

I made it as far as Mankiewicz hazily dictating the News on the March copy which John Houseman wrote, which is about five minutes (either Howard Koch or Richard Wilson also credited Houseman with the news copy for the War of the Worlds broadcast.) I could barely understand a word Gary Oldman was slu...

It's turned up again on Youtube in the best-quality copy I've yet seen (a VHS rip with PAL speedup and the need for some cropping - download it and play it at 96% speed if you can.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AwApM-yLH8

There are precious few examples of Welles singing (Three Cases of Murder, Hello Americans and Almanac come to mind,) and I never even heard of this appearance before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLMPqawVxpA

“This one night we stopped at a place that had ‘Free HBO’ written outside. That sign made us all just crazy. We were so excited to watch cable for the first time. There was this Orson Welles film on, The Man Who Saw Tomorrow. It was about Nostradamus. He kept saying that Armageddon was coming in 199...

Re: Quadruple Threat I don't know why I didn't think to look before, but This Is Orson Welles lists many a Welles-authored script. I flagged the originals, everything else is an adaption. 1936 The Columbia Workshop - Hamlet 1937 The Columbia Workshop - Macbeth Les Miserables 1938 The Mercury Theatre...

A Town in Old Mexico "U.S. Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs with cooperation of Tourist Department of Mexico and Mexican Tourist Bureau, 1944. Villages of Puebla, Orizaba, and Fortinde de las Floras; 17th Century architecture, flowers, etc. (10 minutes, color)" - from a 1951 list of U...