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Frost over America

on BBC One London

David Frost in conversation with Orson Welles.
with excerpts from Citizen Kane and Chimes at Midnight

Welles talks of his early life, 'I played a star part the first time I ever walked on stage and I've been working my way down ever since'; his films, 'the trouble with a movie is it's old fashioned before it's released - it's not an accident that it comes in a can'; his famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast, 'people rushed out of their houses with towels on their heads as a sort of anti-Martian protection'; his future, 'you finally get to a point when art for art's sake isn't a good enough flag to be marching under'.

Contributors

Interviewer:
David Frost
Interviewee:
Orson Welles
Creative Consultant:
Neil Shand
Produced for Westinghouse by:
Peter Baker
Presented for BBCtv by:
Iain Johnstone

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