San Francisco Public Library

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

Credits from booklet; most film credits are spoken aloudBased on the novel by Booth TarkingtonOriginally produced as a motion picture in 1942Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; 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 essays by authors and critics Molly Haskell, Luc Sante, Geoffrey O'Brien, Farran Smith Nehme, and Jonathan Lethem, and excerpts from an unfinished 1982 memoir by Welles

Midwest Tape

black and white

monaural

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

other

Blu-ray special edition.

9781681435244

2022603919

videodisc

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

1 videodisc (88 min.), sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in.

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)1056157976

Blu-ray; region A; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; LPCM monaural; requires Blu-ray player

715515223515

CC2967BD -- The Criterion Collection

Blu-ray disc