"La vuelta al mundo con Orson Welles" (emitida en Francia bajo el título: Le Carnet De Voyage d'Orson Welles) es una serie de 6 episodios de 26 minutos producida por Louis Dolivet para una nueva cadena británica, ITV, dedicada a Orson Welles y que sigue a "Orson Welles' Sketch Book". El contrato firmado en marzo de 1955 con ITV preveía un pedido de 26 episodios, cada uno de ellos un documental de viajes. Se trata del primer trabajo real de Welles para la televisión (la serie "Sketch Book" consiste en planos fijos largos en el estudio). El primer episodio filmado es el dedicado a Viena. Dos episodios están dedicados al País Vasco, otro a la tauromaquia, después a un barrio de París, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, y finalmente, el último a los jubilados de Chelsea (Londres). El episodio dedicado al caso Domenici quedó parcialmente inacabado, pero debería haber sido el primer documental dedicado a este asunto que llegó a los titulares de los periódicos franceses en 1952.
Around the World with Orson Welles (Temporada 1)
Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries (Episodio 1)
Fecha de emisión: 1955-10-07
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Welles takes the viewer to the Basque countryside, a remote corner of Europe on the border of Spain and France. He interviews American expatriates and a Basque sheepherder who returned to Europe after spending 23 years in Colorado.
Pays Basque II: La Pelote Basque (Episodio 2)
Fecha de emisión: 1955-10-21
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Welles continues his tour of the Basque region of France and Spain and learns about the game of pelota and some of its variants — jai alai, joko garbi, and rebot.
Revisiting Vienna (Episodio 3)
Fecha de emisión: 1955-11-04
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Welles revisits Vienna, the setting of one of his most famous films, and one of his greatest performances as the unforgettable Harry Lime in Carol Reed's The Third Man.
Saint-Germain-des-Pres (Episodio 4)
Fecha de emisión: 1955-11-18
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Welles travels to Paris, where his visit to the Saint Germain des Pres neighborhood is chronicled by newspaper columnist Art Buchwald. Welles interviews an artist, poets inventing new letters to describe sounds and night clubs featuring musicians playing hot jazz.
London: The Queen's Pensioners (Episodio 5)
Fecha de emisión: 1955-12-02
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Welles travels to London to visit an alms house in Hackney for indigent widows created in the 1600s and an old soldier's Chelsea home.
Spain: The Bullfight (Episodio 6)
Fecha de emisión: 1955-12-16
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Welles and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Tynan travel to Madrid to explain the nuts and bolts of bullfighting.
France: The Tragedy of Lurs (Episodio 7)
Fecha de emisión: 2003-04-12
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: The Dominici affair is a criminal case that occurred in France in the mid-20th century, which gave rise to detailed counter-investigations, emblematic of investigative journalism. On the night of August 4 to 5, 1952, three Englishmen, Sir Jack Drummond, a 61-year-old scientist, his wife Anne Wilbraham, 45, and their 10-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were murdered near their car near La Grand. 'Terre, the farm of the Dominici family, in the town of Lurs in the Basses-Alpes (current Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Patriarch Gaston Dominici was accused of the triple murder and sentenced to death in 1954. In 1957, President René Coty commuted the death sentence and on July 14, 1960, General de Gaulle pardoned and released Gaston Dominici. The affair was followed by numerous journalists, both French and foreign. The episode was ultimately unfinished, but French filmmaker Christophe Cognet recovered his materials and reconstructed the documentary for TV5 broadcast in 2003.
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Episodios 7