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Orson Welles and People Directed by Orson Welles Produced by Orson Welles Written by Orson Welles Narrated by Orson Welles Music by Orson Welles (arranger) Production company Orson Welles Enterprises Budget $5,000 Country America Language English Running time 27 min No. of episodes 1 pilot Orson Welles and People was a 1956 pilot for a projected documentary series by Orson Welles, which is now believed to be lost.
The pilot was a portrait of Alexandre Dumas, entitled Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeers. It was filmed in just one day in October 1956, at a Poverty Row studio in Hollywood using the $5,000 fee that Welles had earned from his guest appearance on I Love Lucy. Welles used photo stills and drawings to illustrate the programme. He hoped that future episodes would profile Winston Churchill and P.T. Barnum.[1]
The pilot was unsuccessful: no series was ever commissioned, the pilot was never broadcast, and the one copy owned by Welles has now been deemed lost. However, film historian Joseph McBride believes it to be significant, as it was "an early example of the 'essay film', a genre that would increasingly occupy Welles."[2]
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Works directed by Orson Welles Filmography · Awards and nominations1940s Citizen Kane (1941) · The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) · The Stranger (1946) · The Lady from Shanghai (1947) · Macbeth (1948)1950s 1960s 1970s Shorts The Hearts of Age (1934) · Too Much Johnson (lost film) (1938) · The Miracle of St. Anne (lost film) (1950) · The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (1984)Unfinished It's All True (1942) · Don Quixote (1956~69) · Vienna (1968) · The Merchant of Venice (1969) · The Deep (1967~70) · One Man Band, aka London (1968~71) · Moby Dick (1971) · The Other Side of the Wind (1969~76) · Filming 'The Trial' (1981) · The Dreamers (1980~2) · Orson Welles' Magic Show (1976~85)Television Orson Welles' Sketch Book (1955) · Around the World with Orson Welles (1955) · Orson Welles and People (lost) (1956) · The Fountain of Youth (1958) · Portrait of Gina (1958) · In the Land of Don Quixote (1964) · The Orson Welles Show (1979)Theatre Voodoo Macbeth (1936) · Horse Eats Hat (1936) · The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1937) · The Cradle Will Rock (musical) (1937~8) · Caesar (1937~8) · Heartbreak House (1938) · The Shoemaker's Holiday (1938) · Too Much Johnson (1938) · Danton's Death (1938) · Five Kings (Part One) (1939) · Native Son (1941) · The Mercury Wonder Show (1943) · Around the World (musical) (1946) · The Blessed and the Damned (1950) · Othello (1951) · The Lady in the Ice (ballet) (1953) · Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955) · King Lear (1956) · Five Kings (1960) · Rhinoceros (1960)Radio The Shadow (1937~8) · Les Misérables (1937) · The Mercury Theatre on the Air (including The War of the Worlds) (1937~8) · The Campbell Playhouse (1938~40) · Orson Welles Show (1941~2) · Hello Americans (1942~3) · Ceiling Unlimited (1942~3) · Orson Welles Almanac (1944) · This Is My Best (1945) · Orson Welles Theatre (1945) · Orson Welles Commentaries (1945) · The Mercury Summer Theatre (1946) · The Adventures of Harry Lime (1951~2)Categories:- English-language films
- 1956 in American television
- Orson Welles
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