The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-08

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 Peter EdsOm of film which Welles shot in South America while he was working for RKO.
 It seems that RKo and Mir. Welles haven't been on speaking terms since that Citizen Kane boy colt by the Hearst newspapers. And so. while RKO owns the South American footage, 1t isn't worth @ dime to them because in It's pres- ent shape 1t doesn't mean anything to anyone but Welles, the only per- son who knows what the boy won- der of the theater world was going to do with 1t.
 The complete story of the making of this film is classic example of the way some of these international good neighbor deals can go haywire, Welles and pianeload of talent took off for Rio last January to shoot the carnival in technicolor, He was to be gone four weeks, Ac- tually he was gone five months.
 Ono story that has gone the rounds Is that Welles was operating on an unlimited Offlce of Inter- American Affairs expense account which set the government back some 100000, but this base canard the Rockefeller boys emphatically deny. Actually, the Rockefeller office made a contract with RkO guaranteeing the company against Q loss up to 3o0000 If the picture should be a flop and the box office take less than the cost of making the picture. But since RKO never completed the picture, the only loss thus far has been that sustained by RKO which has no claim against the U. s. Treasury until 1t carries out It's part of the contract, and It can't do that because 1t has parted company with Welles.
 THEY HAD LOCATION WOES
 The mere shooting of the picture, however, cost the Rockefeller office some headaches. WelleS got down to Rio with cameras and films, but found there were no lights and no generator. They shipped some by air, but they got lost. They finally borrowed searchlights from the U' 8, Army, but the lenses concen- trated the light instead of diausing 1t, SO lenses had to De improvised.
 While waiting for equipment, Welles went on Q personal carnival of his own and he took his crew with him. With rings on their flne- CTS and bells on their toes, they made music wherever they went, and they took pictures with sound tracks. A lot of the sound track was Welles' narration for the seem les, Up rivers, across plains, through jungles. He didn't do so Welles with the upper crust, who began to coz. plain back to Washington, but as an artist of the people he was Q WOW, the best good neiehbor "mis- sion" the U. s, had sent south up to that time.
 When the party finally got back to Hollywood, WelleS found he was more or less locked out of his stu dio at RKO, which had been assign ed to another producer. He had to process his film in the dcghouse, de: veloping only pilot strips in full technicolor. Moving picture indus try people who have seen the rush es, however, say they're something unique and wonderful with effects never before revealed on any stage.
 
 DREAM LIGHTING
 AND REALISM
 The Army searchlights with their makeshift lenses give lighting ef- fleets right out of dream. The mu- sic, straight from the hearts of the Brazilian people and not the stu- died stuff of the cities, is something new to Americans. Real people act out their own lives with amazing realism.
 The whole thing is three or four pictures in one. kind of magnifi- cent Pan-American what-is-it in technicolor that includes the story of the Samba, the story of the car nival, the story of the fishermen who come to the capital with their programs for social reforms. a Mex ican sequence, and there is enough left over in the way of a film h- brary to provide background for other pictures-musicals, shorts and diramas--for years to come.
 The Rockefeller office is now hop ing some deal can be made whereby Welles can finish this picture at goth Century. All the controversy over the making of the picture. all the criticism heaped on Welles and on the government for backing this enterprise, say the movie industry people. is simply good buildup and publcity-like the ruckus over Cit izen Kane.
 As for the cementing of cultural relations between the Americas. the Rockefeller office thinks this Welles picture. plus the new Walt Disney cartoon on Jose Carioca. the Brazil- ian parrot who out-does Donald Duck, will really do wonders,