archiveThe Magnificent Ambersons

An audacious crossroads of technology and film history is taking place, as a modern-day showrunner plans to put generative AI to work in restoring the missing footage of Orson Welles’ 1942 masterpiece, The Magnificent Ambersons. Long considered a case study in “what might have been” in Hollywood, the film endured...

In what seems to be an intriguing, if slightly eyebrow-raising, effort, Showrunner, the AI-fueled platform funded by Amazon’s Alexa Fund, is turning its attention to a somewhat ambitious film project: reconstructing the lost 43 minutes from Orson Welles’ 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons. This work, combining artificial intelligence and cinematic...