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Master Class: The Ambersons Project: Animated Restoration
5. May, 18:00 - 20:00
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How do you reconstruct a film, when the footage is lost? To fill gaps restorers often use academic methods such as explanatory text, still photographs or storyboards. But these methods cannot recapture the artistry and dynamism of a scene in full motion. Is there a better way?
Orson Welles’s film “The Magnificent Ambersons” is one of the holy grails of lost cinema, but one that has defied efforts at reconstruction, because it was so badly altered. Some 45 minutes of footage was deleted. Several additional scenes were reshot, including the ending. Other scenes were re-ordered. Most of the musical score was cut entirely.
The Ambersons Project uses animation to accurately recreate the lost footage, and to restore the film to its original, 132-minute runtime. This presentation will detail the complex history of Welles’ lost masterpiece, and how animation combined with academic research allows a restoration that is both historically sound, and richly artistic.
Exclusively available on ONLINE PRO.