| Around the World with Orson Welles | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Orson Welles |
| Produced by | Louis Dolivet |
| Written by | Orson Welles |
| Starring | Orson Welles |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Release date | 1955 |
| Running time | 26 min each |
| No. of episodes |
6 (7th episode unfinished) |
Around the World with Orson Welles was a series of six short travelogues originally written and directed by Orson Welles for Associated-Rediffusion in 1955, for Britain's then-new ITV channel. Despit its title emphasising the world, it was entirely filmed in Europe. Among the more notable episodes, Welles visited Jean Cocteau and Juliette Gréco in Paris, attended a bullfight in Madrid and visited the Basque Country.
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The titles of the episodes are:
For many years, it was believed that only five of the six completed episodes had survived, with the episode Third Man Returns To Vienna (also known as Revisiting Vienna) missing from the archives.
Welles also worked on a seventh episode entitled The Tragedy of Lurs, which was left incomplete. It was a documentary based on the controversial Dominici murder case in France, and contained interviews with many of the principals, shortly after the trial. Production on this episode was halted, but in 2000, French film-maker Christophe Cognet gathered together all of Welles' footage to complete the 27-minute episode, integrating it into a 52-minute documentary on the making of the film, entitled The Dominici Affair, and subsequently releasing it on VHS and DVD.[1]
In June 2011, the lost episode Third Man Returns To Vienna was found by Ray Langstone in the Archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society, meaning that the series is now complete.
A set of the first five episodes has been released on DVD, and The Dominici Affair was separately released on both VHS and DVD, but Third Man Returns to Vienna has not yet enjoyed a home release since it rediscovery.