Showrunner Develops Generative AI to Reconstruct Lost Footage from Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons
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Charles Pulliam-Moore
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Summary
Showrunner has developed a generative AI model to recreate lost footage from Orson Welles' 1942 film "The Magnificent Ambersons." The original 131-minute version was cut down to 88 minutes by RKO studios without Welles' input after he lost control of the editing process. The AI aims to reconstruct the missing 43 minutes of footage from the classic film adaptation of Booth Tarkington's novel about a family's fortune being destroyed by technological industrialization.
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· 3 pulledShowrunner announced that it has designed a new generative AI model that is meant to help recreate lost footage from The Magnificent Ambersons
Welles initially crafted a version of the film whose runtime clocked in at 131 minutes, RKO cut it down to 88 minutes without the director's input
The Magnificent Ambersons, Welles' 1942 adaptation of Booth Tarkington's 1918 novel about a family whose vast fortune is being decimated by tech-driven industrialization
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