TCM to Lead Search for Orson Welles’ Lost Cut of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ for Documentary Joshua Grossberg will travel to Brazil and direct the film in the hopes of restoring the director’s 1942 maligned masterpieceBrian Welk | April 13, 2021 @ 10:09 AM Last Updated: April 13, 2021 @ 2:08 PM TCM One of the biggest lost treasures of cinema history is the missing, destroyed footage of Orson Welles’ follow-up to “Citizen Kane,” “The Magnificent Ambersons.” And Turner Classic Movies is now working on a documentary about the search for that lost footage. TCM is teaming with filmmaker Joshua Grossberg, who is leading a search to Brazil to locate the missing reels of the 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons” in the hopes of restoring the film for the big screen. TCM will sponsor the latest leg of Grossberg’s search and produce a documentary titled “The Search for the Lost Print: The making of Orson Welles’ ‘The Magnificent Ambersons” about the 25-year process Grossberg has already endured to attempt to find it.