{"id":610,"date":"2013-08-13T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/08\/13\/early-orson-welles-film-uncovered\/"},"modified":"2013-08-13T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T18:13:00","slug":"early-orson-welles-film-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/08\/13\/early-orson-welles-film-uncovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Orson Welles film uncovered!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.moviefone.com\/2013\/08\/07\/lost-orson-welles-film-rediscovered\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Q1dUtC4d0sU\/Ugp24_jL9oI\/AAAAAAAAAv8\/UkUtaytCjbc\/s320\/TooMuchJohnson.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Everyone knows Orson Welles best for his directorial debut, <i>Citizen Kane<\/i>. Though Welles had dabbled in some film work and shorts before <i>Kane<\/i>&#8216;s debut, few of those early works have seen the light of the day. Perhaps Welles&#8217;s most famous lost work is <i>Too Much Johnson<\/i>, a series of vignettes originally designed to screen alongside a stage play of the same name. The play never took off, and Welles never finished editing <i>Johnson<\/i>, leaving it to languish in a box somewhere for decades.<\/p>\n<p>You probably know where this is going. Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.moviefone.com\/2013\/08\/07\/lost-orson-welles-film-rediscovered\">a pristine copy of <i>Too Much Johnson<\/i> was found in Italy<\/a>, and a restoration is already in progress. It seems that every year, another landmark film is being uncovered, whether it&#8217;s an extended copy of <i>Metropolis<\/i> or a missing Hitchcock. Finding an old Orson Welles film is easily on par with these other discoveries; we can&#8217;t wait to see the apparently unusual film once it premieres in October.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows Orson Welles best for his directorial debut, Citizen Kane. Though Welles had dabbled in some film work and shorts before Kane&#8216;s debut, few of those early works have seen the light of the day. Perhaps Welles&#8217;s most famous lost work is Too Much Johnson, a series of vignettes originally designed to screen alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[212,355],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directors","tag-links-of-interest","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}