Posted on 05/05/2015 12:19:14 PM PDT by Borges
When Orson Welles was born 100 years ago on May 6, 1915, there were no radios or television, and movies still hadn’t learned to talk. From age 26 until his death in 1985, Welles established himself as an innovative but turbulent filmmaker. He narrowly missed the high-tech media revolution that might have saved his troubled film-directing career.
Yet in a surprising number of ways, Welles himself set the stage for that revolution—and technology has repaid the compliment by restoring many of his films, allowing them to be seen and appreciated by more people than ever saw them in theaters during their initial release. Thanks to new formats and streaming services, his work is ubiquitous today.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Welles gave this interview to Merv Griffin...and died hours later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZEWy—VsBQ
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