AI Studio Fable to Recreate Lost 43-Minute Cut of Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons

The Guardian •

Interactive AI studio Fable (Showrunner) will try to recreate the 43 minutes cut from Orson Welles’ 1942 The Magnificent Ambersons using AI, partnering with filmmaker Brian Rose and VFX expert Tom Clive. The project is intended as a scholarly/demo reconstruction—not commercial—after RKO removed and destroyed the original footage decades ago.

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