00:05We took Orson Welles' second film, I also edited, called The Magnificent Ambersons,
00:10and we thought we had a really classic film.
00:13We were shooting in the automobile factory on Ambersons when war was declared December
00:177th, so by the time the picture came out for previews, the whole country was geared up
00:22for the war effort.
00:23The audience then just didn't have any concern or problem or worry or caring about the problems
00:28of the Ambersons family in the turn of the century in Indianapolis.
00:32And it was a disaster, an absolute disaster.
00:34The audience didn't like it at all, they laughed at the Aggie Moray character all the way through
00:38the thing.
00:39Look here.
00:40Seems to me you're taking a pretty different tack.
00:42I thought you already knew everything I did.
00:44I was just suffering, so I wanted to let out a little.
00:48Oh, I was a fool.
00:50I think if the film came out a year before, it had a whole different reaction to the audiences.
00:54So we had to have several war previews and cut it down.
00:58Finally, we had cut so much that we had a continuity problem.
01:01Orson was in South America by this time, and we needed an added sequence, so I was asked
01:06to direct that.
01:07And that's the fourth preview down in Long Beach.
01:09It played.
01:09People didn't walk.
01:10They didn't laugh at it.
01:11And that's the picture you'll see today.
01:25Hello.
01:25We're here on the world.
