New Sketchbook episode?

[MacLiammoir]

The BBC have just put up a new webpage this week in honour of Welles 100th birthday.

On the webpage there are 4 of the 6 Sketchbook episodes plus a 5th episode I've never seen before. The episode features him in front of a bookshelf? In which he extemporizes for 15 minutes straight on the nature of London theatre audiences. He points out that this sketchbook episode is different from the others because it is shot live on television rather than on film as the previous episodes were.

You can check it out here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1Yv09tr1LM0pq8znhhtVgbk/orson-welles-sketch-books

It's listed as 'Orson Welles' Sketch Book: Episode six'

[RayKelly]

This is not one of the six Sketch Book episodes. There is no sketching but it sounds like it is airing the week after the six concluded. will do some digging.

[Dark Horse 77]

Has Orson's Sketch Book ever gotten a Region 1 release? After watching Around the World again I'd very much like to see this one.

[Wellesnet]

Simon Callow's new "One Man Band" book makes the strange mistake of calling this the sixth and final episode of the series.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

Here are the real six, according to Wiki:

1. "The Early Days" — Welles discusses a timely earthquake, first-night audiences at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, and how he came to be an actor. (First broadcast 24 April 1955.)

2. "Critics" — Welles talks about a Boston performance of Five Kings, the consequences of Percy Hammond's negative review of the Voodoo Macbeth, and a curse placed on the film It's All True. (First broadcast 8 May 1955.)

3. "The Police" — Welles relates the story of Isaac Woodard, a decorated black World War II veteran who was blinded in a brutal 1946 beating by South Carolina police. Welles first told the story in July 1946 on his radio show, Orson Welles Commentaries (ABC), and made the case a focus of his weekly broadcasts throughout September 1946. Welles's comments on his BBC-TV series foreshadow a speech made in Touch of Evil (1958): "I'm willing to admit that the policeman has a difficult job, a very hard job. But it's the essence of our society that a policeman's job should be hard. He's there to protect the free citizen, not to chase criminals — that's an incidental part of the job." (First broadcast 22 May 1955.)

4. "People I Miss" — Prompts used by actors and others; remembering Harry Houdini; observations on gender differences in the appreciation of magic tricks; John Barrymore. (First broadcast 5 June 1955.)

5. "The War of the Worlds" — The famous 1938 Mercury Theatre broadcast mistaken by many listeners for a real Martian invasion, and the consequent skepticism during the presentation of Norman Corwin's Between Americans on December 7, 1941; and the opening night of the Mercury stage flop, Danton's Death. (First broadcast 19 June 1955.)

6. "Bullfighting" — Welles tells the true story of Bonito the bull. Robert Flaherty's story was partially filmed in 1942 for Welles's unfinished film, It's All True. (First broadcast 3 July 1955.)

As Ray Kelly puts it on Facebook: "In the odd "found" video, Welles said he has done five Sketch Books. In total, there were six. Either he made a slip of the tongue or this was taped between Episodes 5 and 6. I suspect this is why Simon Callow erred."