Orson Welles on film editing.

[@malcolmsweet3156]

He is 300lbs of pure charisma

[@ByteSizedSociety]

Reminds me of the Kirk actor, William Shatner... Similar punctuation of every third word.

[@josephteller9715]

@@ByteSizedSociety no... Orson picked up a bit of what was a specific English accent when he was in England and it became his own, his trademark and as natural to him as water for a fish. Orson's rhythm speaking is not always a three beat structure. Listen to him as Falstaff and you can hear the difference.

[@augustsangalli9864]

300 pounds of pure cinema

[@samuelzins5089]

He is hands down the best speaker I've had the privilege of hearing

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

The voice of cinema

[@tmzFRM]

"AAAAAAH THE FRENCH"

[@enriquesinghjr]

This man had true passion for filmmaking.

[@TheInfectiousCadaver]

and drinking. he had a problem.

[@crighini576]

I’d have loved to hear him and Tarantino riff about movies

[@Pablos5]

@@TheInfectiousCadaver like every genius

[@NolanSullivan-d8v]

Welles is the filmmaker that every great director turns to when they need a huge kick in the ass. He told it like it is. And it still is.

[@postmodernrecycler]

Hot gravy! We get a Carlyle reference and the metaphysical conceit of filmmaking as music. I never tire of Welles.

[@videojomo]

Listening to this auteur's voice, even the pacing and tenor of it alone is like a salve across the ages. It has a power to it, and I don't feel having the entire transcript parroted back at me one word at a time in a huge font adds anything worthy. It's like some garish sign outside a casino, desperately pulsating, no off-switch in sight.

[@parky243]

A man who lived for his craft so deeply that he mastered it. Citizen Kane is a timeless monument to his enduring genius. All cineasts can say is: Thank you, Mr. Welles.

[@gutobicalho8722]

Fun fact, in animated films the editing happens before the production, during pre-production

[@WoahGeeWow]

They didn't know what they had in Welles.

[@brak1381]

“They” never know much.

[@MicahCTheory]

I think what was in wells was alcohol

[@josephteller9715]

They knew and they feared him and went to great efforts to break him. They thought he was a threat, as he had a voice and presentation and ability that could speak out against injustice. There is a recording, a notebook aloud, he did, about a black soldier that came home from WW2 and was savagely beaten in his home town for coming back in Uniform and being "uppity" and proud of his service in the war. Orson took up his cause nationally and it scared the bigots and racists. So they needed to drive him out of the USA and back to Europe to keep him from adding to the Civil Rights cause and to keep him from making movies that supported such.

[@EddieFugazi]

@@MicahCTheory lolllll incredible

[@CoryAlphin]

This totally gave me chills.

[@stupendoushorrendous8258]

Even as someone whose experience is more in digital than analog, my favorite part of making a film is editing. And Mr. Welles perfectly explained why. This is so moving.

[@mendywolf1274]

Could listen to him talk all day. Cadence so sweet

[@johngraves6878]

YES!

[@HaroldWright_09]

He reminds me so much of my Grandfather, Wise and dedicated to his Art.

[@RDX1981]

Great voice, everything is says sounds so important

[@tbmike23]

Fare thee well, sweet prince. The world is a less beautiful place without you in it.

[@worldxdigital]

Old film has a nostalgia look where as digital is to clinical. I like the old colors film gave to the screen.

[@richardsisk1770]

I worked on a Moviola a long time ago, however it was one of the old style green ones! I love this short talk from the master, Orson Welles!

[@MichaelDinic]

From the original Conjurer... simply Magical.

[@jekw23]

One of the interesting people I’ve seen in interviews. Fascinating, flawed, charismatic nand always fascinating just to listen to.

[@robotsandlostpoets]

Yes, there was something very captivating about him.

[@robyn_over__here]

the most poetic advertisement I've ever scene.... now how do I get my hands on one of those M o V i e O L a s ?

[@johngraves6878]

Absolutely love this. Thanks.

[@robotsandlostpoets]

Glad you like it.

[@raulpierri]

Beautiful!

[@riveravaldez]

Lovely. Thanks for sharing.

[@robotsandlostpoets]

Thanks for watching!

[@AAAA-lt9hq]

My cousin worked in editing film--in the digital world of course. She didn't like it and found it tedious. So I expected someone to say it is a pain in the *** to edit film. I worked a little in audio engineering beginning in the mid-late 90s when reel to reel and ADAT machines were being phased out for computers. I remember seeing the late music producer Steve Albini splicing audio tape together on a Struder machine on a KZbin video. Such detail and precision. It must be the same as repairing watches or working as a jeweler. And yes Welles was an eloquent speaker.

[@robotsandlostpoets]

Yeah it's a whole lot easier now. I don't mind editing, it's like putting a puzzle together. But a lot of people do find it tedious.

[@AAAA-lt9hq]

@@robotsandlostpoets Editors make the film work. Definitely underappreciated.

[@Watcher3223]

Of course, now, the instrument has changed for many, from equipment like the Moviola and the Steenbeck to software like Davinci Resolve and Avid Media Composer. But, analog or digital, it's still an instrument that's used to make the "music."

[@aliendrone]

Great video! First time watching it! Orson Welles was one of a kind.

[@quirinomadureira2601]

ORSON WELLS: como pessoa Homem sábio: como ator inesquecível! 🙏🙏🙏🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟✨✨

[@framefilmstudio]

Moviola is the great grandfather of Primier Pro

[@davidswanson5669]

It is? I would have thought that AVID was the progeny of linear editing.

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

@@davidswanson5669 Pretty much, yes.

[@davidswanson5669]

@@Dr.W.Krueger ok well then AVID is the grandfather of premiere pro

[@santannavalter]

There was two geniuses in american filmaking history: Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles. No one else.

[@Llllltryytcc]

Was this an ad for the moviola? Even if so, very cool

[@davidjames579]

Movieola need to advertise?

[@jeffthechristian3010]

Music gets in the way here. Orson is amazing.

[@menafilms100]

One of the kings.

[@finnkdy]

He was So easily Tarantino'ed!

[@sirzavier]

Este hombre habla y es como si te dijera algo desde lo más profundo de su alma

[@TraitofSiNN727]

though I'm in my 40s and remember watching Orson Welles films since I was a kid. and the man and others influence myself to enroll into film school. I would love if Orson got the chance to do his film of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." John Huston's version of 1956 Moby Dick and Orson as Father Mapple giving that sermon was pretty haunting.

[@mister_mozzarella]

You can check out a filmed version of Orson's radio performance of Heart of Darkness

[@chenlim2165]

LOL, he must have been the inspiration for Frasier Crane. Legend.

Wow, now THAT is appropriate!

[@ooorgh]

They did salvage that Paul Masson commercial, after all

[@NESherv]

Mwaaaaahaaaahaaaaa, the French…

[@gregschultheis]

“He doesn’t say anything?”

[@pierrelallart7542]

He would have made a great Baron 💗

[@BTL256]

i honestly wish i could have as much passion for anything as he had for filmmaking

[@JamaicaWhiteMan]

I want to hear about peas, lovely, frozen peas.

[@rubendwyer9010]

this gave me chills

[@davidjames579]

Ahhhh. The Movieola

[@Peweskimooxy]

ok, fine, you've convinced me. I'll buy a Moviola!

[@charlessmyth]

Problem is -- as it also applies to Ridley Scott and the movies of the scripts to which the "Moviola" applies -- chopsticks played on a Steinway, is still chopsticks. Norma Desmond: "I am big. It's the pictures that got small" :-)

[@nigelcarren]

This is how, whilst fighting back tears… I discuss British crisps! I get especially emotional when discussing tomato flavour Snaps and Frazzles! Why the hell did I move to France? 🥔🇬🇧

[@max2082]

Bro was a true master.

[@spb7883]

The only thing larger than Welles is the gratuitous subtitles.

[@joshuaanite_]

🖤 🎬

[@johannesbrahms9528]

Genius

[@emmanuelgilliot6128]

THE BEST !!!!!!!

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Maaaaaahhhaaaaaaa

[@lukasrgl]

That's why we got a commercial nevertheless he was drunk

[@nschuehly]

Which film/documentary is this excerpt from? Orson Welles is terrific as always.

[@robotsandlostpoets]

It's called filming Othello, the whole thing is on KZbin.

[@ankitaaarya]

Nice subtitle, which font?

[@robotsandlostpoets]

I can't remember, just one of the standard ones from davinci resolve

[@vvevv88]

This makes me want a bag of frozen green peas.

[@The_Narcissistic_Man]

Great music! What is the name of the track?

[@johnjohn55555]

Production is just gathering footage, film making is in the editing of sound and image.

[@Pangloss6413]

People who act like Orson Welles just stopped caring about being respected in the second half of his life need to watch this

[@maximoonraker1930]

looked like when they first introduced the better editting suite in the 70's that he as a figurehead of the industry promoted. but this requires some research and I only read one cutting/editting book.

[@anonymoususer6109]

Where is this pulled from? Thanks for putting it up. I have watched it at least ten times today. :)

[@robotsandlostpoets]

Thanks. It's called filming Othello, it's all on KZbin.

[@anonymoususer6109]

@@robotsandlostpoets Thanks! What's the music you used? I love it.

[@robotsandlostpoets]

hi, I can't remember now, it's been a few years since I made this clip, I think I got the music from Artlist though.

[@Psyclonus7]

Why the hell did you put big ass subtitles over the video?

[@pgc99]

The irony that whoever edited this added awful captions 😂

[@geoffhoutman1557]

Enough w the giant subs pls. This ain’t tiktok

[@robotsandlostpoets]

Don't tell me what to do pls. this ain't your channel.

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

And here we have the post production CGI computer that has ruined every movie of the last quarter century.

[@HunterWickProductions]

Films are shot on a set and made in the editing suite.

[@dannymurray1854]

He looks like Hemingway in this

[@tangotanjomusic]

I wish there weren't subtitles

[@richpaul6853]

That’s a KEM editing table, not a Moviola. I doubt Orson knew the difference because he was obviously blitzed.

[@davidjames579]

He thought he was advertising Bird's-eye Peas

[@tdesercey]

boy you hit on the right spirit with this one... Go somewhere and do something so I can watch.

[@matheusorth5365]

That's where Tarantino got it from.

[@motashaiye]

What's holding the right box? is it floating in the air?

[@YarrBr0]

was this an ad for moviolas

[@alexv0009]

unwatchable with the hardcoded subtitles this isn't tiktok

[@shuckyducky3508]

"ROSEBUD" CASE IS CLOSED.

[@Nero-ox5tw]

Can you reveal the name of the music used in the background?

[@robotsandlostpoets]

No, sorry, I made this video two years ago so I don't remember the name of the song. I got it off of Artlist.io though, maybe if you search on there you will find it.

[@Nero-ox5tw]

@@robotsandlostpoets Thanks. I'd just like to say this is an excellent edit. I must have watched it 20x already.

[@robotsandlostpoets]

Thank you, I really appreciate that.

[@shiitake-film]

I have a purpose now.

[@spinoz2319]

Moviola! Makes no movie, before its time.

[@Nero-ox5tw]

What is the music in the background?

[@prabinsinghsadiwal9645]

Yea?

[@SCharlesDennicon]

Wait, that was a commercial, right? ^^;

[@TrapPhoneLoveMelodiesss]

Hate the subtitles and won’t engage further w your channel because of them…

[@robotsandlostpoets]

And...?

[@TrapPhoneLoveMelodiesss]

@@robotsandlostpoets good point… 😂

[@AtulyaBhardwaj]

​@@TrapPhoneLoveMelodiesss Good sport

[@lightsweetcrude1970]

What's the source of this great clip?

[@robotsandlostpoets]

It's called filming Othello.

[@Studentofgosset]

The irony of someone putting overly loud, shitty inspirational music over the top of this...

[@Ton369]

Plot Twist: Brought to you by Microsoft Windows Movie Maker

[@peterjrinaldi]

Love you Orson but that's not a movieola. It's a Steenbeck.

[@MajorGeneralPanic]

Does everything need these TikTok captions today? Are our attention spans so short? Literally unwatchable.

[@susanetaharrison7014]

Jackson Mary Jones Angela Robinson Gary

[@NESherv]

What is this footage from?

[@robotsandlostpoets]

It's called filming Othello, the whole thing is on KZbin.

[@baptistejanin9615]

Jack Black seems pretty serious here

[@ScottRossProductions]

I have all his films, and I don't recall Welles ever using subtitles...

[@m.frederick8546]

Look like the director's house from nope

[@clanofclams2720]

subtitles ruin it

[@y2kcompliant1987]

I cast jack Black as Orson Welles for the biopic.

[@martyneary7026]

I think Mark Hamill would do a great job...

[@TheMrmojo23]

Thank god we don’t have to use that shit anymore

[@greatscott4821]

Why would you splatter these preschool 172 pt letters all over Orson Welles? He would absolutely deny involvement with this unwatchable mess and thrash you with his gaveled speech such that you would be psychically ended

[@nik9111]

Trying your hardest to ruin a good clip with this giant text. If I want CC I'll click the CC button

[@RazOfTheVoid]

You had to ruin it with those idiotic TikTok style subtitles?

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Orson was so right. Editing can make or break a film. The original assembly cut of _Star Wars_ was...is...a load of old crap. How can such a brilliant movie ever be bad, you ask? Well, if it's too long, sequences are put in clunky ways, unnecessary repetition of plot data is left in, the edits themselves are not great etc. From a poor misshapen lump of half finished rock came the Michelangelo's David of _Star Wars,_ emerging from heavy recutting and rearranging. Cool as the cut stuff is in itself....

[@xanksauri89]

These are some fucking annoying subtitles. Great speech tho, Orson.

[@KpopIsKoreanOnlyFans]

editors are choreographers

[@markbrenzel9419]

Lose the subtitles.

[@robotsandlostpoets]

nope.

[@SauravCH2910]

it's CLEANER

[@MarkSharkey-i9c]

Actually, I find the subtitles helpful. They move how his voices moves, accentuating what’s already there in the audio.

[@ChicCanyon]

No, you

[@GhostofBelleIsle]

I agree, it was incredibly distracting. Too large, differing fonts and sizes and formats, some of the letters were cut off at the bottom… Incredibly ironic over a clip about the importance of post production. Really sucked all the intensity out of the clip.

[@rjmcallister1888-l3p]

Welles, Gregg Toland, Robert Wise and Bernard Herrmann, all masters of their crafts, gave us "Citizen Kane". Welles knew far too well what butchering a movie meant; note "The Magnificent Ambersons" and the original cut of "Touch of Evil". These days, "Touch of Evil" is out as Welles pretty much wanted it. But RKO destroyed the outtakes and extra film Welles shot for "Ambersons", and it's disembowled 1942 version is what we're stuck with. What might have been.

[@henrychamberlain4724]

Words from the master!