"filming OTHELLO" on youtube

[Randy Cook]

I just stumbled across this. It's been up for three weeks or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U07wWQ0U ... re=related

Filming Othello is divided into 10 installments, and I haven't watched it yet so cannot testify to quality, sync, etc. as I wanted to notify the board immediately.

If this is old news to those here, my apologies. If not, enjoy!

Randy

[Mr. Bernstein]

I wonder how long it'll take before Beatrice has it removed.

[Terry]

Install Realplayer with the Download Video option.

[Tony]

My guess is that Oja owns it.

[The Night Man]

My guess is that Oja owns it.

Wouldn't it be owned by the German television network that commissioned it, Tony? I thought Oja only got the unfinished, self-financed works.

And thanks, Randy, for posting this link. My copy of this has developed a glitch that causes the disc to freeze up after about 30 minutes. Very frustrating!

Let us pray that sometime soon a quality distributor, such as Criterion, undertakes to release this film along with the variant Othello.

[Terry]

Beatrice can certainly take action with this being on ScrewTube, and I'll agree with her:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMXHrpiXbeo

[Jeff Wilson]

As the rights holder to OTHELLO, Beatrice owns the footage of OTHELLO that is within FILMING OTHELLO, so she could certainly take action to have the latter pulled off as well. If someone wanted to cut out all the scenes from OTHELLO and then put it up, she would have nothing to complain about.

[tonyw]

Didn't Jonathan Rosenbaum mention that Welles re-edited the OTHELLO footage in a different way from how it appeared in the film? However, if the rights involve different forms of re-editing then she does have authority? TIf her rights only extend to the version that appeared theatrically then her agency is llimited. This is a very interesting legal question.

[Jeff Wilson]

I seriously doubt a court would split hairs like that, though clearly Welles has created alternate versions of some of the footage. One could potentially try to claim that the re-edited footage constitutes part of FILMING OTHELLO itself and is hence part of that piece of work in and of itself, but I don't imagine anyone will test it out any time soon.