The Trial (Modern Film Scripts)

[James Sl]

Hi there, quick question. Have any Welles scholars in the know read "The Trial" Modern Film Scripts (translated by Nicholas Fry)

Is it a continuity script like the Rutgers books? With stage directions and action written by someone else?

Or is it like Big Brass Ring, Cradle Will Rock, The Kane book and all those other PDFs available now for eductional puprose. Shooting scripts where you're actually reading Orson Welles's stage directions and descriptions. Because that's what I'm interested in.

If memory serves it contains the deleted scene with the computer, which should indicate some familiarity with the shooting script. Right?

Happy to know if it's worth buying.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

[Wellesnet]

The Simon and Schuster book on "The Trial" is a kind of fusion of script and cutting continuity. There are plenty of things in it that are not in the film. Here's what the book says:

"The Trial" was made originally with English dialogue and dubbed into French for it's world premiere in Paris in 1962. The present publication is based on the French script published by l'Avant Scene du Cinema, which was itself based on Orson Welles's original viewing of the film. This version was translated into English and combined with a transcript of the English dialogue. The result was then finally checked against a print of the film obtained from the English distributor, in order to make it as accurate a rendering as possible of the film which the English or American spectator will see on the screen.

Sections which occurred in the original script but were either not shot or cut in the editing are indicated by square brackets in the text.