Ceiling Unlimited

[Terry]

This is one of those series where the episodes have multiple names and lots of confusion is generated. I need help (well, yeah, in general I do!) And a good Ceiling Unlimited Log. Do we have radio logs posted on the site? That seems like a good resource.

I found the episode which is set February 1st 1946. Welles also mentions that it is the last episode of the series. This corresponds to the description Rosenbaum lists for the Feb 1st 1943 episode entitled "The Future." We've run around before as to which episode "The Future" was, and decided before that "The Future" was the title for the episode generally traded as "Rulers of Earth" (the one with the dead dictators in Hell talking with Satan about Hitler.)

Well, if this episode set in 1946 isn't "The Future" then does anyone know what it really is? And if it is, then what is the correct title and date for "Rulers of Earth?"

(This is probably a Jeff question.)

Again, thanks in advance. You people are all great.

[Wilson]

There is a Ceiling Unlimited log on the site, though I haven't gotten round to adding more details to it. As to the "Rulers" episode, I haven't been able to track down the air date or exact title of this show yet. My assumption is that Welles returned to the program to guest star in this show, as I've gone through the other Welles shows, and the "Rulers" episode does not fit in anywhere during Welles' contracted run as producer/director/star, nor did I find mention of it in the Ceiling Unlimited files at the Lilly. I also have story reports made during Welles' period in charge, and that story does not appear among some others that were unproduced. Going through contemporary broadcast listings would be the next step to tracking it down, but I haven't dug that deep yet.

[Terry]

The dates and titles are a bit dubious, but better than the "43-XX-XX Welles" I usually come across.

http://www.archive.org/details/OrsonWel ... gUnlimited

[Le Chiffre]

Thanks to Terry Wilson for alerting me to this very good website about Welles's 1943 radio series, also with biographies of Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Constance Moore, Wilbur Hatch and Lud Gluskin:

http://digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliTo ... mited.html

[Glenn Anders]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, Mike: Orson Welles' Radio career has always seemed to me the most satisfying of all his many endeavors. So much good that he did came directly or indirectly from the medium. Not only did he produce a triumph, "The War of the Worlds" in America, from which flowed much of his initial public recognition across America and around the World, but the roots of many a subsequent masterpiece, many an artistic association may be found there. He pioneered in radio dramatic form, partook in its Golden Age, and left the medium in America on a note brave defiance. I've just spent over an hour musing over the archive you've brought us.

Radio, unlike the other art forms Welles was part of, has almost entirely disappeared from public understanding or knowledge.

I particularly became enthralled with the capsule biographies of radio people with whom he worked. If they did not have movie or stage careers (as many did, often with Welles help), so many of them are now unknown or forgotten: people like William N. Robson and Wilbur Hatch.

Bravo!

Glenn

[Wellesnet]

5 CU episodes hosted by Welles and two hosted by Joseph Cotton can be heard at Archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/OrsonWelles ... gUnlimited