Hunt for lost 'Magnificent Ambersons' footage in Brazil

[RayKelly]

Emmy winner Alec Baldwin and Oscar winning director William Friedkin are joining filmmaker Joshua Grossberg in the TCM-backed hunt for the lost version of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons as an executive producer and advisor, respectively. https://www.wellesnet.com/alec-baldwin- ... ambersons/

[Dan]

Emmy winner Alec Baldwin and Oscar winning director William Friedkin are joining filmmaker Joshua Grossberg in the TCM-backed hunt for the lost version of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons as an executive producer and advisor, respectively. https://www.wellesnet.com/alec-baldwin- ... ambersons/

I first thought that Baldwin was going to physically join in the search. I pictured him scouring Brazilian warehouses at night with a big flashlight.

[tonyw]

Perhaps he could put on his Trump make-up and launch a kickstarter appeal suggesting that Brazil has documents verifying who actually won the election?

[Steve Paradis]

Humor aside, a couple of big Hollywood names and an expectation of a payday might shake a few more memories loose, and open a few more doors.

[Wich2]

My hope remains that - as with much such "Reality (!) TV" - the trick here is that the ballyhoo and "mystery" is just a milking of the fact that they actually do already have something in hand...

- Craig

[Dan]

My hope remains that - as with much such "Reality (!) TV" - the trick here is that the ballyhoo and "mystery" is just a milking of the fact that they actually do already have something in hand...

- Craig

I think a lot of us here have had that same thought but after 79 years it's doubtful. Now if TCM flies Geraldo Rivera down to Brazil you may be on to something.

[Steve Paradis]

79 years? Try 500+.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumatio ... of_England
After this, nothing will surprise me.

[AngeloColombus]

Emmy winner Alec Baldwin and Oscar winning director William Friedkin are joining filmmaker Joshua Grossberg in the TCM-backed hunt for the lost version of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons as an executive producer and advisor, respectively. https://www.wellesnet.com/alec-baldwin- ... ambersons/

I first thought that Baldwin was going to physically join in the search. I pictured him scouring Brazilian warehouses at night with a big flashlight.

I hope Geraldo Rivera does not help with the search. He came up empty with Al Capone's vault. :wink:

[edmoney]

This was shared on another forum:

"Tragedy Strikes with Historic Brazilian Cinematheque in Flames as Community Lashes Out: ‘An Indescribable Pain’"

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/07/brazi ... 234654692/

Aside from whatever other film losses were incurred in the blaze, I really do hope that the Ambersons footage wasn't in there.

[Terry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raSk8f_XDuk

[Wellesnet]

Let the hunt begin!

‘Ambersons’ hunt adds crew; team heads to Brazil:
https://www.wellesnet.com/ambersons-tea ... ng-brazil/

[tonyw]

We all hope for good news. Coincidentally, I've just finished Glen Erickson's a.c. on the new Bu-Ray Arrow DVD of MAJOR DUNDEE. He nds hoping there may be money supplied by a millionaire to go through Columbia Studio vaults to find out-takes and missing footage. If not maybe a documentary about the search for those crucial missing 25 minutes including the Rostes Ranch sequence that began the film.Its removal made the remaining theatrical footage incomprehensible.

[Wellesnet]

The documentary team intends to file updates on Twitter and Instagram. Here is how to follow them:
https://www.wellesnet.com/follow-ambersons-hunt/

[RayKelly]

Another update from Rio. A document in the old RKO office there raises the possibility that footage could have been transferred over to Kinematograph Filmes in 1950:

Here’s what we found when we went digging around the old RKO office in Rio today.
Could it be a clue that leads us to the lost print? Perhaps!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1456068048922742788

[RayKelly]

The Lost Print team is at the halfway point of its Brazil expedition.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWBrtZXpsXm/