Preserving Orson Welles

Preserving Orson Welles

"As long as they let me have a camera, I'll grind it." So says Orson Welles in this audio excerpt below from a recording made after the premiere of Welles’s…

Preserving Orson Welles
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Not all altruism is alike
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Testing Prayer

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Race still front and center in school suspension, expulsion

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Breaking new ground in plant science research

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Preserving Orson Welles

May 15, 2012

“As long as they let me have a camera, I’ll grind it.” So says Orson Welles in this audio excerpt below from a recording made after the premiere of Welles’s landmark film Citizen Kane. The recording, which exists on a lacquer disc in the Orson Welles Collection at the Lilly Library, was one of the [...]

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