Brief snippet of ‘Too Much Johnson’ footage now online

May 24, 2014
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For those of us yet to see the found footage of Too Much Johnson at a handful of screenings across the globe, a few fleeting scenes are now online.

Some 10 seconds are contained in a minute-long YouTube segment entitled TCM: Remate compone la BSO de ‘Too Much Johnson’ de Orson Welles (TCM: Attempting to compose the soundtrack for Orson Welles’ ‘Too Much Johnson).

Joseph Cotten in Too Much Johnson (1938) George Eastman House/Cinemazero/La Cineteca del Friuli
Joseph Cotten in Too Much Johnson (1938)
The video is described as depicting “An attempt by one of the leading musicians of the Spanish contemporary scene to compose a soundtrack for ‘Too Much Johnson’, an Orson Welles film lost until last year. TCM premieres it exclusively in Spain.”

The silent “Too Much Johnson” footage was intended for use in a 1938 stage production by the Mercury Theatre.

Believed lost for decades, it was discovered in an Italian warehouse and restored by George Eastman Co. The footage was first shown in Italy and the United States in October 2013.

It was shown at the Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain on February 12, 2014.

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