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The unrealized production was the subject of a 1993 documentary, It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles, written and directed by Richard Wilson, Bill Krohn and Myron Meisel.
It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles is a 1993 documentary film about Orson Welles's ill-fated Pan-American anthology film It's All True, shot in 1941–42 but never completed. Written and directed by Richard Wilson, Bill Krohn and Myron Meisel, the film is narrated by Miguel Ferrer.
It’s the true story of four courageous Fortaleza fishermen who sailed more than 1,600 miles to Rio to protest their economic exploitation by the men who owned their fishing rafts, beautifully shot in black and white by George Fanto.
That’s why the documentary It’s All True needs its awkward subtitle, Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles; without it, the film sounds like a resurrection. All we now have of the original film are some of the raw materials — those that weren’t dumped into the Pacific Ocean when the space at the studio storage facilities was needed.
RKO retained rights when Welles couldn't meet his financial obligations to the studio. Ownership of the footage fell to Desilu when they bought the studio in 1958. It was inherited by Paramount years later when they bought out Desilu.
Sep 21, 2012 · As the shooting--both of the government-sponsored story of Carnival and Welles’ personal project It’s All True--wore on, cast and crew became restless and impatient, which can also be said of RKO. Welles characteristically ran up a big bill, tapping out the local RKO office. It would get worse.
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Feb 20, 2017 · What went wrong has been explored in detail in both in a fine documentary, It’s All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles, and Catherine L. Benamou exceptionally well-researched 2007 book It’s All True: Orson Welles’s Pan-American Odyssey.
