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Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction? | TechCrunch

Fable plans to use its new long-form narrative AI to digitally recreate 43 minutes of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons without securing film rights.

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fromwww.theguardian.com

3 days ago

AI firm plans to reconstruct lost footage from Orson Welles' masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons

Showrunner will use AI tools to reconstruct the missing 43 minutes of Orson Welles' 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons.

fromInsideHook

3 days ago

Can AI Restore an Orson Welles Film? Should It?

Said film was Welles's follow-up to Citizen Kane, and studio RKO infamously snipped over half an hour from Welles's cut of the film and altered the ending. The lost footage was subsequently destroyed; in a 2018 essay, Jonathan Lethem said of the version of Ambersons that exists, "how can it be that the themes of the film so profoundly conspire with the ache its ruination induces in the viewer?"

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fromThe Verge

3 days ago

Showrunner wants to use generative AI to recreate lost footage from an Orson Welles classic

Showrunner is using generative AI to recreate and restore lost footage of The Magnificent Ambersons, blending AI approximations with live actors and face manipulation.

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fromFast Company

1 month ago