Welles was sent on a goodwill mission to Brazil in February 1942 - at the behest of Nelson Rockefeller (then, the coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and amajor shareholder in RKO) to make the non-commercial film without salary to support the war effort as part of the Good Neighbor Policy. Welles filmed Rio de Janeiros Carnaval in both Technicolor and black-and-white. This was to be the basis for The Story of Samba, a segment of his uncompleted feature Its All True. This sequence features Grande Othelo and Piery Ribeiro, son of Welles advisor on the shoot the composer Herivelto Martins, who duet singing Praça Onze.https://youtube/watch?v=IevOgR1ftSc
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 12:30:19 +0000