Portland Public Library

The magnificent Ambersons, an RKO Radio picture ; a Mercury Production by Orson Welles ; screenplay, production & direction by Orson Welles

Full screenTitle from title frameBased on the novel by Booth TarkingtonOriginally produced as a motion picture in 1942Credits from booklet; most film credits are spoken aloudFeatures: New 4K digital restoration ; Two audio commentaries, featuring scholars Robert L. Carringer, and James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum ; New interviews with film historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride ; video essay "The cinematographers" by Orson Welles scholar François Thomas ; video essay "The score" by Bernard Herrmann scholar Christopher Husted ; Director Orson Welles on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970 ; Segment from a 1925 silent film adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons ; Audio from a 1978 AFI symposium on Welles, and audio interviews with Welles conducted by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich ; Two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The magnificent Ambersons (1939) ; Trailer ; and a booklet with an essay by critic Molly Haskell

Midwest Tape

black and white

monaural

Director of photography, Stanley Cortez ; editor, Robert Wise ; original score, Bernard Herrmann

other

Two-DVD special edition.

9781681435251

videodisc

Narrator, Orson Welles ; cast, Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett

2 videodiscs (88 min.), DVD video, sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 insert (12 panels ; folded to 19 cm)

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)1056157966

DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital monaural

715515223614

CC2968DDVD -- The Criterion Collection

DVD