The recently discovered and restored “Too Much Johnson” footage and Welles’ first dabbling in film, “Hearts of Age,” will be shown at the Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona on February 12.
“Too Much Johnson” will be shown along side Richard Linklater’s 2008 film “Me And Orson Welles,” which is making its Spanish premiere at Filmoteca de Catalunya.
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 shown in Italy and the United States in October 2013.
“Hearts of Age” is a silent eight-minute short Welles co-directed with friend William Vance in Woodstock, Illinois in 1934. Welles scholar Joseph McBride discovered the film in the Greenwich Public Library collection in the 1960s.
More information can be found (in Spanish) at the Filmoteca de Catalunya website.
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