About me
Michael Dawson is a creative director and producer with 40 years of diverse experience in the film industry. During the early nineties, in partnership with Welles’ daughter Beatrice, he assisted in locating and restoring the original camera nitrate negative of Orson Welles’ OTHELLO. His company, Intermission Productions, provided over thirty films to beta test for the restoration software RS2, known as REVIVAL. Michael restored Stanley Kubrick’s first three film shorts, DAY OF THE FIGHT, THE FLYING PADRE and THE SEAFARERS while at I-Cubed studio in Chicago. His latest project, in partnership with producer Harry Saltzman’s widow, is a 6k restoration of Orson Welles CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT utilizing Saltzman’s master negative. He has a BS degree in Film History, Theory and Criticism from Southern Illinois University Carbondale..
