Happy 105th, Orson Welles!

Like so much of what Welles left behind this is fragmentary, a segment for what was supposed to be a larger TV project that was never completed. It seems to find him in a mood that predicts F for Fake, in the sense that he's obviously playing on nostalgia for the greatest hits of his own career, including his self-described "undeserved" fame in assocation with a certain Viennese Ferris wheel. The highlight for me, other than the pastries of course, is when the great man makes a lady disappear and reappear to the Mission Impossible theme music, with Mickey Rooney and Arte Johnson goofing around in the margins for some reason. Eight minutes long and on YouTube, what are you doing that's better?

orson up to his magician shit yet again.

Welles can do no wrong.

God I wish I could just wear a big ass hat and a cape in public.

I don't know why I'm rating this. This is the quickest 8 minutes has ever went by. Basically, Orson walks around looking the goofiest he ever has talking about cake and The Third Man. He also does a magic trick to the Mission Impossible theme song. This is so stupid. The quality on youtube is so bad that the central monologue is almost completely unintelligible. This is actually the best Welles film.

Welles is... ummmm.... Ugly here

his "Nice things to look at" personality and his creepy 'old man dating a much younger woman' face

there's some SpongeBob-esque music here which rules and I bumped my review up half a star for it

Your enjoyment of this depends entirely on how interested you are in watching Welles perform a cheap magic trick set to the theme of Mission Impossible.

Welles' lust for life as seen through quick zooms into so many varieties of Viennese pastries. With his lovely pronunciation of the German words in his unmistakable voice.

Revisiting the ferris wheel of The Third Man is another highlight of this 8-minute short film.

There are some goofy bits, too, but that's all a part of the persona of Welles-the-elder-statesman, and I love that as a man in his fifties, he was running around making no-budget art projects like this.

You feel there's something of the makings for F for Fake already in this.

Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kz39VdxoQc&list=WL82D18ED5AD178802

If Orson Welles made a Travel Channel show. Highlights include Welles conspicuously walking the streets of Vienna, an old man whistling, Welles naming Austrian desserts, Mickey Rooney kidnapping a girl, and Welles subsequently making her disappear to the Mission:Impossible theme song.

So what if I told you that Orson Welles is all romantic about how beautiful Vienna is and reminiscent about the part of his youth that he spent there and what nice locations he saw when making The Third Man and then Peter Bogdanovich and Mickey Rooney kidnap German cinema icon Senta Berger and so Welles uses her in a magic trick

YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kz39VdxoQc)

Awesome fun. The missing link between his Around the World series and his more dynamic F for Fake doco style.

Gotta be my favorite travel show ever

orson up to his magician shit yet again.

Entre esto, Haneke y Before Sunrise, Viena está subiendo rápidamente en la lista de lugares que muero por conocer.

Welles is... ummmm.... Ugly here

his "Nice things to look at" personality and his creepy 'old man dating a much younger woman' face

there's some SpongeBob-esque music here which rules and I bumped my review up half a star for it

Your enjoyment of this depends entirely on how interested you are in watching Welles perform a cheap magic trick set to the theme of Mission Impossible.

Showcasing Welles sense of fun, as well as his love of magic this is a nice little insight into what could have been a fun look at Vienna.

Never expected to hear the Mission:Impossible theme song in an Orson Welles movie.

Orson Welles walking around a kind of dreary-looking Vienna, reminiscing about espionage, pastry and magic - it's a mood, alright. Happy belated birthday to the goat.

That segment were Welles just started listing austrian pastries was pure perfection