Wellesnet at 20: Founder Jeff Wilson looks back at website’s start
To mark our 20th anniversary, Wellesnet founder Jeff Wilson looks back to March 2001 and recalls the birth and early days of the Orson Welles Web Resource.
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Interest in Orson Welles climbs as centennial nears
It’s hard to keep up with the number of Orson Welles’ celebrations taking place this year. At last count, there are more than two dozen notable tributes taking place on three continents. The first centennial film festival took place in January and events are planned well past the 100th anniversary of Welles’ birth on May 6. Wellesnet.com […]
Wellesnet goes mobile with new smartphone theme
Wellesnet.com has added a mobile-friendly theme to make the website more appealing to smartphone users. The new theme will not impact its display or use on laptops, PCs or tablets. Hopefully, the new addition will make it much easier for readers to navigate the website when they are on the go. Of course, Wellesnet is […]
Orson Welles fans had much to celebrate in 2013
The past 12 months have been a rewarding time for Orson Welles’ fans. Sure, a completed The Other Side of the Wind is still a dream and no one has discovered Welles’ cut of The Magnificent Ambersons, but there was much to celebrate. • First, there was the discovery of silent footage intended for use […]
Wellesnet witnesses record audience during month of October
Extensive media coverage of “The War of the Worlds” 75th anniversary, coupled with fascination about the premiere of the lost “Too Much Johnson” footage, has sparked increased interest in Orson Welles’ career in recent weeks. And nowhere was that more evident than here at wellesnet.com During the month of October, wellesnet.com welcomed 21,333 unique monthly […]
Wellesnet.com sets audience record; expands social media presence
Wellesnet.com set a record for unique monthly visitors to the website in April 2013. Last month, 20,125 users visited Wellesnet.com from their PCs, smartphones and tablets. This was a nearly 40 percent gain over the audience size a year earlier. It easily surpassed the record 17,230 unique monthly visitors set in December 2012. This growth […]
Orson Welles radio shows now available as streaming audio on Wellesnet
By RAY KELLY Wellesnet.com is now home to more than 30 radio shows featuring Orson Welles. The new radio pages span his career from “Les Misérables” in 1937 for the Mutual Network to “The Adventures of Harry Lime” in 1952 on BBC. The programs selected for inclusion are a mix of dramatic presentations, variety shows, […]
Film Streams and Omaha Steaks presents a “Great Directors” retrospective of the films of Orson Welles, February 18 to March 19 in Omaha, Nebraska
Thanks to Todd Clark for posting the information about a Welles retrospective in Omaha, Nebraska, on the Wellesnet Facebook page. Personally, I find it very encouraging that Omaha has a theatre that is willing to devote a whole series of films to Orson Welles. This is even more amazing to me, since a few years […]
Now open for your visual delight: The new WELLESNET page on FaceBook!
I’ve created a new Wellesnet page on FaceBook and everyone who reads Wellesnet is encouraged to visit it to see pictures, photos, posters, drawings, memos and other material related to the work and career of Orson Welles. To start things off I have created a gallery of some of my own favorite movie posters from […]
Wellesnet looks forward to celebrating the Centennial of Orson Welles birth in 2015
While I’ve already personally thanked everyone who has contributed to the drive to raise funds to keep Wellesnet alive and well on the internet, I want to take this opportunity to publicly express my thanks to Jeff Wilson for starting Wellesnet in the first place. I can’t remember exactly how Wellesnet was born, but I […]
AMC features WELLESNET as its “Site of the Week”
American Movie Classics blogger Christine Fall talked to Wellesnet’s webmaster Jeff Wilson for an article posted at her AMC blog that lists Wellesnet as an AMC Website of the Week! http://blogs.amctv.com/future-of-classic/2008/07/orson-welles-wellesnet.php
Another Year Gone By and An Article Link
Greetings to all the readers of the site out there, your oft-absent webmaster here to wish you all a belated happy new year and thank you for another year of support and visits and whatever else. Thanks to many folks’ previous generosity, the site’s domain name was renewed for three more years, which will take […]
Donations Update
Larry’s post about donations obviously did the trick, as a number of you have been very generous, beyond my wildest expectations in some cases, so let me give a truly heartfelt thanks to each you, as you know who you are. Your generosity is very much appreciated! Jeff W.
The Future of Wellesnet: Going for broke (or are we going broke).
I think it’s fair to say that over the past five years Wellesnet has developed into one of the top sources of information about Orson Welles on the internet, based simply on the number of international Welles scholars who look at and frequent thissite. As most of you know, the site was started and maintained […]
Revamping, Updating, and The Long Term Future of Wellesnet
Your humble, often absent webmaster here, hoping you had a happy holiday season and new year and all that. Being a new year, I thought I would throw out a few things in regards to the state of the site and its status in the coming year. If youve read any number of previous […]
And Also…
Hi! I’m also going to be helping Jeff out during his sabbatical, and hope to help keep the site lively. I’m hoping to soon have a translation of Sigi Sciortino’s interview with Mauro Bonannini, along with an on-line petition re: Don Quixote. I’ve also scanned several book covers, and they’ll be up soon as well, […]
Introducing Jeff’s replacements…
Greetings to all you happy Wellesnet people: As I long ago hooked up with Jeff and have contributed several articles to Wellesnet before it was even launched, I asked Jeff if he would like me to take over some of his posting burdens since he felt the need to go on sabbatical for a […]
Going Away For a While
By JEFF WILSON I posted something similar on the message board, but long story short, I’ve decided to take a break from the site. I had thought digging into re-furbishing the site at long last would ignite my interest again, but it hasn’t. It’s simply a chore, and one I don’t want to do. The […]
Site re-vamp underway…
Ignore the dust, we’ll have it all cleaned up shortly. For the old blog with the links to the rest of the site, click here.