Orson Welles TV projects being offered to labels, streamers

[Wellesnet]

Orson Welles TV projects being offered to labels, streamers:
https://www.wellesnet.com/orson-welles- ... EQUQHz8dQ0

[maxrael]

Great news. I'm very excited to see Two Wise Old Men! Do you know if the other five shorts from the series completely destroyed or I wonder if there is hope they could be restored?

[jbrooks]

Paramount remastered "The Fountain of Youth" for the Museum of TV and Radio (now the Paley Center) 20 years ago. And it looked pristine (except for the end-tag where Welles teased the never-filmed next episode of the anthology).

https://playbill.com/article/mtr-screen ... -com-88170

[Jesse Reiswig]

This is very exciting news. Let's hope this will result in these three projects being available to the public in high quality in the relatively near future.

[Le Chiffre]

Very happy about this. I've never seen a really good print of FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH before. Hopefully this will stimulate interest in putting other Welles TV work out there in high quality editions too, like PORTRAIT OF GINA.

[tonyw]

When better enrollments allowed, I used to run FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH in my Welles's classes. One student remarked after seeing it that ot should have been screened at the beginning of class (rather than the chronological order I did) since he was so impressed.

PORTRAIT OF GINA has that segment with Vittorio De Sica whom Welles must have sympathized with due to his having to make entertainment products rather than the classics he was known for. Yet, towards the end of his life, he made A BRIEF VACATION while Orson was working on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND and other projects.

[NoFake]

From Variety:

https://variety.com/2023/film/global/ve ... erm=892632

[Wellesnet]

Great news; thanks NoFake!