The Miracle of St. Anne (1950)

Directed by

Orson Welles

Genre

comedy

Country

France, United States

Runtime

1 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Orson Welles made a short film as a prelude to his play. It shows the daily footage from a Biblical epic that is part of the play's story. The film itself is now lost.

experimentalfragmentedtheatricalself-referentialunfinishedmetaplayfulintriguing

What happens

The Miracle of St. Anne was a short film, now lost, made by Orson Welles. It served as a prelude to the play The Unthinking Lobster, which was written and directed by Welles as part of a collection of two one-act plays (with Time Runs…) performed under the banner title of The Blessed and the Damned. The film consisted of the rushes (dailies) for a Biblical epic that was a film-within-the-play. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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