Looking for work can be a depressing prospect, (as listeners to the show will know I’m leaving Nashville for other climes), so thank goodness today that I stumbled across this amazing find – the unaired Orson Welles Talk Show Pilot.
I love these clips for so many reasons – but the one I’ll highlight is the editing style, (especially in clips 1 and 3). No one could edit like Orson – his shocking, breathless cutting style is still far ahead of anything else I’ve seen.
The first clip is reminiscent of CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT and the fabulous F FOR FAKE, (if you haven’t seen it = you must = a masterclass in what can be done with discarded bits of moving images), and the fragments we have of OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND.
Look at the clips below from WIND – who else has come close to this?
Oh man, if only this had made it to air.
We can dream Wes, we can dream.
Orson Welles had the greatest beard in the history of Western Civilization
Does anyone know how much direction he had in the way the show was shot and edited?
Here's the link to the Wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orson_Welles_Show
I don't know any more – but I have prob 20 books on Welles at home, (at am Cafe now typing this), and can look for more info later today or tomorrow
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