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A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

A glimpse behind the scenes into the complicated process of recovering and completing the final film of legendary director Orson Welles.

Director

Ryan Suffern

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documentary, short

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Royal Road Entertainment,The Kennedy/Marshall Company

Awards

1 nomination

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We're here today to go into the vault... - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

We're here today to go into the vault...

The story of how we completed
Orson Welles' last unfinished movie, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

The story of how we completed Orson Welles' last unfini...

It's truly been a labor of love - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

It's truly been a labor of love

Fireworks, everybody. Fireworks. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Fireworks, everybody. Fireworks.

And Orson and Gary Graver and Oja and I, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

And Orson and Gary Graver and Oja and I,

But because there were only four of us, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

But because there were only four of us,

And this one is Orson and I
up on the rocks - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

And this one is Orson and I up on the rocks

playing one of the, uh,
documentary cameramen. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

playing one of the, uh, documentary cameramen.

It was like being on a film school movie - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

It was like being on a film school movie

Please don't look up this way.
Look at each other. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Please don't look up this way. Look at each other.

People loved Orson. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

People loved Orson.

Orson liked to fire me, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Orson liked to fire me,

I knew that if I just went back
to the hotel - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

I knew that if I just went back to the hotel

Why do you say a thing like that?
Nothing's gonna happen to you." - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Why do you say a thing like that? Nothing's gonna happe...

I want you to promise me
you'll finish the picture." - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

I want you to promise me you'll finish the picture.&quo...

I just felt I owed Orson - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

I just felt I owed Orson

For several years
after Orson passed away in 1985, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

For several years after Orson passed away in 1985,

Most of them were scared
by the chain of title. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Most of them were scared by the chain of title.

I first became aware
of The Other Side of the Wind - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

I first became aware of The Other Side of the Wind

After Orson died, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

After Orson died,

Nobody had seen the negative in Paris. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Nobody had seen the negative in Paris.

The French court ruled - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

The French court ruled

You had these three units that all had to come together
to approve things, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

You had these three units that all had to come together to a...

I always believed it would happen, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

I always believed it would happen,

However, before we got
all three rights' holders - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

However, before we got all three rights' holders

We were able to find all of them, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

We were able to find all of them,

Until we got into that vault, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Until we got into that vault,

Once we secured all the rights, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Once we secured all the rights,

And then once the materials
arrive in Technicolor, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

And then once the materials arrive in Technicolor,

Once we got the negative back, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Once we got the negative back,

We had a very old,
handwritten inventory from the '70s. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

We had a very old, handwritten inventory from the '70s.

We started to unravel and understand - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

We started to unravel and understand

We had to go back
to a totally analog way of working. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

We had to go back to a totally analog way of working.

This is its own animal. It's different
from anything else I've worked on. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

This is its own animal. It's different from anything el...

Jaws was the first feature
I ever worked on - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Jaws was the first feature I ever worked on

I was really impressed
how beautifully kept this film was. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

I was really impressed how beautifully kept this film was.

So, Technicolor asked
that we assemble all of these rolls - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

So, Technicolor asked that we assemble all of these rolls

So, I'm splicing a roll of negative - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

So, I'm splicing a roll of negative

We lock it down and wait for 30 seconds. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

We lock it down and wait for 30 seconds.

So, now the heat has dried the cement, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

So, now the heat has dried the cement,

I have to do my work
on these really old-fashioned machines, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

I have to do my work on these really old-fashioned machines,

All of the data
that we've captured by hand - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

All of the data that we've captured by hand

We're kind of the bridge
between the film world - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

We're kind of the bridge between the film world

These 85 boxes represent - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

These 85 boxes represent

So, the workprint here has taken
an interesting journey. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

So, the workprint here has taken an interesting journey.

And then from Rome came to L.A., - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

And then from Rome came to L.A.,

Orson once told me that the movie
was going to be like a painting - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Orson once told me that the movie was going to be like a pai...

And then the frame around the picture - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

And then the frame around the picture

And the party would then be shot by
all these different cameras and formats, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

And the party would then be shot by all these different came...

Orson said, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Orson had, himself, edited - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Orson had, himself, edited

How much harm can you do to
the third biggest grosser - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

How much harm can you do to the third biggest grosser

So, we had an idea from what he'd cut - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

So, we had an idea from what he'd cut

The editing was so unique. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

The editing was so unique.

When Peter and I sat down
with Bob, we knew - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

When Peter and I sat down with Bob, we knew

Get that spook outta here. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Get that spook outta here.

When I moved to Studio City,
I became friends with Gary Graver, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

When I moved to Studio City, I became friends with Gary Grav...

First and foremost, I wanted to work
on the movie because Gary was my friend, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

First and foremost, I wanted to work on the movie because Ga...

For me, just getting started, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

For me, just getting started,

Mr. Hannaford? - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

That is one crazy movie. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

That is one crazy movie.

And like everybody, I was like,
"Is there even a movie here?" - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

And like everybody, I was like, "Is there even a movie ...

The whole thing becomes a movie - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

The whole thing becomes a movie

There were no scene numbers,
and not only that, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

There were no scene numbers, and not only that,

It's all this kind of,
like, transitional scenes - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

It's all this kind of, like, transitional scenes

At the end of the day when I started
cutting the movie, I just said, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

At the end of the day when I started cutting the movie, I ju...

Everything that Orson had fine cut, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Everything that Orson had fine cut,

And luckily those scenes appear
throughout the entire film. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

And luckily those scenes appear throughout the entire film.

And then, scenes
that were looser assemblies - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

And then, scenes that were looser assemblies

Well, it turns out
one of our biggest challenges - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Well, it turns out one of our biggest challenges

The first line in the script - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

The first line in the script

Orson intended to narrate the opening. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Orson intended to narrate the opening.

But the information
that he wrote for that introduction - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

But the information that he wrote for that introduction

So, Peter came up with this great idea. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

So, Peter came up with this great idea.

"That's the car, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

"That's the car,

"My name is Brooks Otterlake. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

"My name is Brooks Otterlake.

What does "abjure" mean? - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

What does "abjure" mean?

Never. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Huston wasn't there. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Huston wasn't there.

His direction to me was, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

His direction to me was,

This is a quarter inch full-track. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

This is a quarter inch full-track.

Dawn, take six. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Dawn, take six.

Action! - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

You pronounced it too carefully. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

You pronounced it too carefully.

Don't move your head or anything.
Just let it come out of you. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Don't move your head or anything. Just let it come out ...

Many happy returns. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Many happy returns.

Once we had an assembly, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Once we had an assembly,

We're really a kind of
virtual technology company, - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

We're really a kind of virtual technology company,

Computer vision basically is
artificial intelligence - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Computer vision basically is artificial intelligence

It was something that actually
forced us to innovate. - A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

It was something that actually forced us to innovate.

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A glimpse behind the scenes into the complicated process of recovering and completing the final film of legendary director Orson Welles.

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Director: Ryan Suffern

Writer: N/A

Production: Royal Road Entertainment,The Kennedy/Marshall Company

Genre: documentary, short

Year: 2018

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 7.2

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 02 Nov 2018

Awards: 1 nomination

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