Orson Welles' "Voodoo" Macbeth

[@drido]

I wish footage of an entire performance of this production were available.

[@thevioletskull8158]

Same,At least we have some of it

[@hassan1953]

i finally get to see a small part of this! wow! didnt know their was any footage :)

[@ruthdj1000]

My friend's grandmother was one of the witches...

[@armandomendoza9028]

I bet your friend's grandfather agreed with your statement...

[@shyalpaca7867]

@@armandomendoza9028 this isn't the place for edgy misogynist humour.

[@NadimSadeeq]

this isn't a place for people who can't take light jokes

[@shyalpaca7867]

@@NadimSadeeq unfortunately these "jokes" are what perpetuate sexist stereotypes and never allow any progression. So keep your advice to yourself kindly. in better words - "oh it's a silly joke" - you look like the biggest joke yourself. Grow out of the highschool mentality.

[@td866]

@@shyalpaca7867 Wow. Are you ok?

[@miguelmouta]

@digitalshark Welles was a person very engaged with the message of ethics , in general. He did suffer a lot of oposition ,from the system we live. Deserves respect indeed.

[@kaylaallison5471]

I looked this up after watching an episode of America in color!! It was so fun to learn something new about Orson Welles! It was was fascinating to see this clip in color during the episode!😊😊😀😁

[@artbychristine]

Wow - I didn't know this existed..... Thank you so much for posting it.

[@howard1beale]

I love KZbin!!! Thank you for unloading

[@mintonmedia]

The head looks more like a middle-aged Welles than like the actor playing Macbeth. Orson just HAD to play every role, every time. And don't we love that about him... Amazing footage.

[@kentallard8852]

He actually did when the show went on tour and in Chicago both Jack Carter and the understudy were too sick to play. He wore blackface too.

[@AllenBouchard-j9m]

looking at the production photos are amazing. I so wish there were more pictures in color.

[@spectreagent]

@Orsley Welles staging of this is featured prominently in the PBS documentary, "The Battle Over Citizen Kane."

[@kentallard8852]

Yes, Houseman and Welles first worked together in the Federal Theatre Project. On this, The Cradle Will Rock and other productions. After Cradle they left to form the Mercury Theatre.

[@NGS712]

Yes, I've seen some photographs and it looked interesting. Too bad they didn't film it.

[@kentallard8852]

That is absurd, between busy filming Its All True and the war time restructions (prevented Robert Wise from joing Welles in Brazil) how on earth was he supposed to go to hollywood to check on the film!?

[@FullmoonWalker]

Read Simon Callow's book, The Road to Xanadu, for an excellent overview of the rehearsals for and the actual showing of Welles' Voodoo Macbeth

[@Orsley]

@spectreagent - Thanks. Saw it when first aired in '96 and have added it to my Netflix queue for another look, although unclear if it will be/has been released on DVD. Btw, I found the recreated moments from his anti-fascist "Caesar" in "Me and Orson Welles" to be pretty wonderful, and seemingly quite accurate from what I've read of it and stills I've seen. Thanks for the note.

[@Stantzs]

Oh My God, I love the witches around 3:00

[@Orsley]

It's too bad there's no tradition of debate in American public schools so people could learn to disagree without being disagreeable. Welles, of course, is a conundrum, as great artists often are. But "F For Fake," brilliantly edited from mainly "found" footage, suggests that he certainly could finish a film, and that, in fact, editing was increasingly crucial to his creative vision. But he was never a commercial artist, and his tortured relationship w/ Hollywood was unavoidable, it seems to me.

[@kentallard8852]

I'm reading that atm, reading this book makes me want to grab Callow by the throat and shake him violently while shouting "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!" His sexual reinterpretation of every single thing Welles says, does, people he meets, etc says more about Simon Callow than it does Orson Welles

[@CineSteiny]

9 people cried "Hold! Enough!"

[@kentallard8852]

There is meant to be several minutes of silent footage filmed by another student of his boarding school stage production of 5 Kings

[@SkullyTheHypnoSkull]

Now I want to see Marvel make a "What if Miles Morales Was Macbeth" comic.

[@kentallard8852]

Welles said if he were to teach movie making, half the time would be spent sitting around a moviola. Editing was always important for his films, the dfficulties or time it would take being a point of contention on Ambersons and Arkadin.

[@kentallard8852]

Cirrus lack of explanation or refusal to explain has led me to remove his statement

[@stevemonges]

the scene is the end of the play MacDuff and MacBeth fight

[@kentallard8852]

This is Orson Welles

[@michaelarve3641]

Is there a way I can get a dvd of the above clip. I am teaching a course in march 2016 about The Federal Theatre Project

[@Orsley]

I don't suggest that editing wasn't important to, say, "Kane;" only that his later films (Touch, Chimes, Fake) reveal an evolution in his passion for cutting. (His use of sound was already mature in Kane, after all that radio drama.) Yet, ironically, the difficulty and time to create Welles' own version of Ambersons had already been expended before RKO seized control of it in order to spend additional time and effort to diminish it! (Thanks for the post.)

[@kentallard8852]

to compare with his fourth and final attempt at that story: the film Chimes at Midnight

[@kentallard8852]

Cirrus has not explained. I've asked on his page for him to elaborate, no response yet.

[@kentallard8852]

the contemporary dress in Fascist Italy? Not to my knowledge. There are design sketches for lighting and sets and all that drawn by Welles himself and photographs

[@NGS712]

Does anyone happen to know if there's any footage of Welles' adaptation of Julius Caesar?

[@romarssieverything9667]

nicee

[@ricbear]

I think John Houseman was involved with this as well.

[@kentallard8852]

isn't that the David Thomson one?

[@Stantzs]

wow, its weird to think they had actors and plays that look like they could be going on right this second, but they had no rights or anything.

[@kentallard8852]

doesn't Thomson take the "Welles couldn't finish work" view?

[@roizeldiez3500]

He was only 20 when he directed this. 20….

[@alexc9493]

ffm

[@LordJagd]

3:28 what does this guy say?

[@stacia99]

"All hail, Malcolm!"

[@sheepinlemontrousers]

“Peace, the charm’s wound up.”