By MIKE WHITE
In an episode two years in the making, The Projection Booth podcast released their coverage of The Magnificent Ambersons.
In his follow-up to Citizen Kane, Orson Welles adapted Booth Tarkington’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about industrial progress and the loss of innocence. Welles famously lost control of The Magnificent Ambersons before its final release.
The Projection Booth examines the film, its production, its destruction, and attempts to restore what many consider Welles’s forgotten masterpiece.
Joining hosts Rob St. Mary and Mike White is Welles historian Roger L. Ryan. The episode also boasts interviews with director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich, director William Friedkin, author Jonathan Rosenbaum (Discovering Orson Welles), author Joseph McBride (Whatever Happened to Orson Welles), and Welles’s daughter, Christopher Welles Feder (In My Father’s Shadow).
Former co-host Justin Bozung makes an appearance in interview and in reporting from the Univeristy of Michigan Special Collections Library where The Projection Booth examined the Oja Kodar Collection of Welles materials.
The episode is available as both a four-hour discussion via iTunes, Stitcher, or The Projection Booth’s free mobile app and as an abridged 45-minute video presentation. (see below)
The Projection Booth is a weekly podcast which discusses films, old and new, placing them in their historical context and examining their importance and meaning.
The Magnificent Ambersons Production History from Mike White on Vimeo.
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