Welles' documentary footage for George's "last walk home"

[Colmena]

Do we know where Welles shot the documentary footage for George's "last walk home"? I'm assuming that it's in the LA area, since Ambersons was shot in Hollywood. Yes?

I'm guessing that the factories we see are anachronistic, inconsistent with the time period of the movie. This could add to the historical pessimism since the audience would then be watching their own grim modernity, decades after the collapse of the Amberson fortune.

Also, I wonder if there was any link between Welles' satisfaction with stepping out of the studio and into the actual world, and his readiness to film a documentary in Brazil?

[Colmena]

At NECSUS, I found an instructive video essay on Welles's "montage":

"The Strange Streets of a Strange City: The Ambersons Montage"
by Patrick Keating

https://necsus-ejms.org/the-strange-str ... s-montage/

[atcolomb]

At NECSUS, I found an instructive video essay on Welles's "montage":

"The Strange Streets of a Strange City: The Ambersons Montage"
by Patrick Keating

https://necsus-ejms.org/the-strange-str ... s-montage/

Viewed the video essay and found it very interesting. Thanks for posting it.

[Steve Paradis]

At NECSUS, I found an instructive video essay on Welles's "montage":

"The Strange Streets of a Strange City: The Ambersons Montage"
by Patrick Keating

https://necsus-ejms.org/the-strange-str ... s-montage/

Interesting essay, as well as a pleasure seeing the footage. Looks like Welles was thinking of the I = Eye pov from Heart of Darkness.
As for the sites, I may not be the only who has to remember how contemporary Ambersons was. According to Carringer's chronology, the last ball is winter 1904, and the story itself ends in 1912. In 1942, that was 30 years past: George and Lucy would be in their mid-50's. For us in 2021, that story would begin in 1983 and end in 1991. Not too hard to find that kind of neighborhood even now. I can still walk into a hardware store in farm country where they sell harness. Fincher's Manhunter series begins in 1977, and aside from the crime-scene cinematography, and the cars, the locations don't look all that different than what I can see five minutes drive away.