He directly addresses the camera and announces: "This is to be a conversation, certainly not anything so formal as a lecture, and what we're going to talk about is Othello, Shakespeare's play and the film I made of it."

Welles initially conducts a monologue where he recalls the events that lead up to the creation of Othello and some of the problems that plagued the production.

He then runs footage on the moviola of a question and answer session he conducted during a 1977 screening of Othello in Boston.

[1] However, many years later, cinematographer Gary Graver located at least some of the footage, and short excerpts can be seen in his 1993 documentary Working With Orson Welles, in which Welles (theatrically clad in black cape and black hat) rides around Venice in a gondola pointing out old filming locations, while crowds wave at him.

)[3] Some of Welles' The Other Side of the Wind crew—Gary Graver, Michael Stringer and Larry Jackson—worked on Filming Othello.

It was included in DVD and Blu-ray sets featuring newly restored 4K digital transfers of both the 1952 European and 1955 U.S. versions of Othello.