Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Orson Welles, Larry Jordan Part 1

[GentBicaj]

it all started like a usual boring literature poem that i had to read for my studies, but then i really liked it :P

[kludgeon]

ME LIKE.

Excellent in every aspect.

[GAIASDREAMER]

Superb. Thank you so much.

Gaia.

[maulik2221]

ABSOLUTELY NICE VIDEO FOCUSING ON THE SMALLEST PART TO BE NOTICEABLE

[Thecodeist]

My most favorite piece of poetry by far! Love the Rime of the Ancient Mariner!

[MrDavidX96]

@Thecodeist have you read the origonal from the 1700s* or the altered version from the 1800s*

*pretty sure the dates are right but i don't remmember the axcact details

[69ESmarina]

Thanks for sharing this beautiful creation. I love the Rime of The Ancient Mariner and I've just come back from Watchet in Somerset where there's the most beautiful statue in honor of the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge!

[additino]

Does the mariner know that the bird is the world?

[Jerwold]

@dicemouse No motivation is given. Just a stupid human thing to do.

[SwordMasterTala]

@dicemouse

that bird bring the fog and mist

[TrollOvGrimness]

@dicemouse they were all drunk on moonshine

[superchruper100]

I had this poem on my English course :-) and this vid as well :-)) and now it bugs me all the time.

[AncientMarinerRipley]

Ancient Mariner so much love on seening this Vid LOL

[Mira0Sekelsky]

Love the animation of the Doré illustrations! Such a powerful poem and so well read! Love this! Thanks for sharing!

[daguyrounddacorner]

this is the best poem ive ever heard has such a good meaning

[cecilychoiminho]

Thanks a lot for uploading.It helped me considerably to understand the whole poem.

[DrPhilMusic]

Seeing the words "Rime of the ancient mariner" i couldn't help but say "Up the Irons!"

[Rebldoomer]

citizen kane was such a boring fucking movie. orson welles' voice is so monotonous and boring!

[simontheboy]

@Rebldoomer Just stick to Hollywood blockbusters then.

[MorendoPiano]

supernaturally beautiful.. !

amazing..

It is said that Freud..acknowledged Coleridge's psychological insights ! ! !

[multurina]

me gustaria mas el video si estubiera doblado al castellano o subtitulado

[xxscarlettrigger]

orson <3

[LordAntWarrior]

UP THOSE IRONS!

[radiootoo]

WOW! Dore' and Colerige and Welles - unbeatable! I will recut it too, someday - with music by Ligeti and sounds of the seas... THANKS A MILLION!!

[brasilcork]

Richard Burton also read the poem but it's not on Youtube.

[HerAeolianHarp]

@brasilcork I think Poetictouchannel has uploaded it if you are still interested in a Burton reading of the poem.

[louishuyen]

is it just me or does the mariner look like Billy Connolly?

[SoundOfTheShell]

:/ ive got my exam on this in like 4 hours

Epic poem but im still bricking it xD

[ericlewis77]

Great just great....

[marcolopolis55]

thank you!

[latoussaint]

Lawrence Jordan is one of America's living treasures!

[JoeCalfire]

UP THE IRONS!!!!!!!! :D

[philf76]

i think the reading of the poem the music and the general sound effects are quite good alongwith the paintings, however the graphics and the animated bits arent so good the animated bits such as the glittering eye distact you and are over the top to solve these problems youy coul use more advanced graphical technology and use less animations.

[latoussaint]

OBVIOUSLY you have no clue about animation nor the history of it, nor the connection between Jordan and Wells. I suggest you get yourself an education.

[Missem96]

I think the voice over was quite good and the sound effects were ok but the visual effects were pretty bad. They could hv usd a better animation program.

[tinkerbellrach]

The animation is pieced together very well. The pictures are very good to say they are about 100+ years old. The glittering eye is a bit freaky but must be quite hard to animate. Some of the animations distracted you from the images but some helped by created atmosphere. The narration was very clear and the animation had good sound effects. To improve this like Catrin said is to use more up to date animation software.

Rachael x

[orlandaalicewright]

i thought that the it gives a very visual effect of the poem,but on a negative point i thought that the pictures could of been a little bit more color in the pictures from Theodora-Rose Wright x

[Justinx9x]

The mariner was creepy, the animations were just a few pictures being moved. ( all in all it was pretty bad ). It would have been better if some decent software was used.

By the way, why did you bother doing this?

Is it your job or did you do it for fun?

[matcost92]

Read the description. It's from 1977

[missthecatrin]

I liked the way you had the different effects: the glittering eye, the animated sun and other flying things.

The only thing that could've been improved is that you could've used a more sophisticated animation program.

[steviecole100]

I think that this is a great idea and I particularly liked the Mariner's glittering eye. I liked the way it used engravings by Gustave Dore. I also thought the voice over the top was good. I think it could have been improved by using real acting instead of animations

[kittycatlassejh]

i liked the fact that not having too much animation was quite good because it made you use your imagination more but considering it was made in April last year makes it a bit more modern, and could have been made better. The voice over was good, and so were the colours, i liked the way the colours were the same on each picture, but some were pink, green, etc.

Altogether it was very good, the albatross was very skilled to fly backwards as a plus.

[LEMONSYLLABUB]

The reading by Orson Welles was perfect for the poem and the engravings by Gustave Dore were really good. The animations could have been better such as copying the engravings into an animation or having people act it out.

[chiksterrox]

I liked the fact that it was very colourful and the voice over is good. The flashing of the mariners eye is funny and different. Considering the video was made in April of last year then maybe the animation could be a bit better aswell as the sound effects.

[Imogen96]

This video is very well put together and i like the way things fly across the screen. It gives a great feel to the animation. Even though the people aren't moving as they're just pictures you still get the gist of the story. I never knew there was art work of the ancient mariner since I've only read the poem.

Also the improvements you could put in would be maybe make the people more life like.

All together it was very good though.

[TightJeansDoubleDDs]

The way it was all put together was great and the sound efects were quite good.

[Ballsontheroof]

This is an awsome poem

[Gregorius144]

Holy shit! Tqo minutes in, already. GET TO THE FUCKING POEM.

[zetetikos88]

I was looking for it from so much time. thank you! Amazing video!!!!

[overker]

how great is this? I've been searching the bbc and others to find a reading of this poem that does the poem justice. This is better than i dare hope for....thank you...it is perfect.

[maninwhitedress]

weird, but intriguing

[jazzlover10000]

Then and only then, he would move onto the next line in the poem. Larry J. had to find the last reading and splice them all together. I am not a friend of Larry but have run into him many times over the years.

[jazzlover10000]

Larry Jordan mentioned in our class this story. Orson did special projects from time to time. Larry had some respected position at the time... head of a film board or so. So he asked Orson to read ROTAM. He forgot about the project. Some very long period of time later, he received a box full of tapes. Orson had repeated each line over and over again until he tho't it was perfect.

[motrous]

I'm so happy you uploaded these..

[theblazingraven]

wow...that was trippy, but good