In 1941, Citizen Kane hit the big screen, and to this day many consider it the greatest and most influential film of all time.
It was the debut film of director and co-writer Orson Welles, a 25-year-old who had made his name in the New York theatre scene and found great fame in radio.
So, it may surprise you to hear that Welles' second film, released just one year later, has been called "one of film history's great tragedies"; The Magnificent Ambersons.
Unlike with Citizen Kane, Welles didn't have the final say over the edit, and the studio took his cut and removed almost an hour of footage, including changing and reshooting the ending.
Welles' original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons is considered one of the great lost films, but it's long been thought a copy may still exist.
Josh Grossberg is a New York-based documentarian and journalist who has been on exhaustive search to find it. He speaks to RNZ's Sam Hollis about the journey.
Orson Welles in 1940. Photo: AFP
