Orson Welles and His Brief Passionate Betacam Love Affair

Gary Huff

Carbonite Member
From Gizmodo.com:

In January 1985, the phone rang. The caller announced that he was Orson Welles and that he wanted to have lunch with me. Thus began one of the most extraordinary and bittersweet adventures of my life.
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Yes, I began to understand how amazing today's cameras are only after a 70 year old producer friend of mine sent me this story and explained what an enormous difference the ability to cheaply film would have made in Orson Welles' entire life.
 
What a great story! Takes me back to my days with Beta in '84, but without Orson, of course.
Just think what Welles might have done with a DVX and a box of tapes (I can just see his eyes getting big with delight!).
 
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