[Home movies. M. Falk collection. Orson Welles directing Too Much Johnson]
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Mercury Theatre ensemble on location (at a quarry near Stony Point State Park, New York) to shoot prologue to Act III of the play: Orson Welles directs scene in which a man (Joseph Cotten) holding an umbrella attempts to intervene in a fight between two other men (Howard Smith and Edgar Barrier) as the three splash across a lake; Welles directing Ruth Ford; scene in which Ruth Ford and Virginia Nichsolson [Welles] embrace and scream dramatically.
Credits
Mercury Theatre; Orson Welles (performer); Joseph Cotten (performer); Ruth Ford (performer); Virginia Nicolson (performer); Edgar Barrier (performer)
Complete catalog record
Original source: Electronic reproduction of (manifestation) : [Home movies. M. Falk collection. Orson Welles directing Too Much Johnson]. United States : [s.n.], [1938]. 1 reel of 1 (3 min.) (109 ft.) : si., b&w : 16 mm. | 2014 HDCAM transfer of PreRes file scanned from original 16mm footage. | Home movie originally created in 1938. | Too Much Johnson was a three-part film directed by Orson Welles, intended as an integral part of Mercury Theatre's 1938 production of the stage play. No complete print of the 1938 film is known to survive. This home movie belonged to Myron Falk, an investor in the Mercury Theatre. It is possible (but has not been confirmed) that Myron Falk filmed the home movie. | Footage from Too Much Johnson set runs approximately 2 minutes.
Original production: Berkeley, California : Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, [2014]
Physical description: 1 videocassette of 1 (2 min., 55 sec.) (HDCAM NTSC) : silent, black and white ; 1/2 in. | monochrome | video file HDCAM
Subjects: Too much Johnson (Motion picture)
Country: United States.
Language note: Silent with no intertitles.
Original production: Berkeley, California : Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, [2014]
Physical description: 1 videocassette of 1 (2 min., 55 sec.) (HDCAM NTSC) : silent, black and white ; 1/2 in. | monochrome | video file HDCAM
Subjects: Too much Johnson (Motion picture)
Country: United States.
Language note: Silent with no intertitles.
Sources
- UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
Record added 2026-11-08 20:56:08