The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh is a short film made in 1984 by Orson Welles.
The film was intended as a private video letter from Welles to his longtime friend and accountant Bill Cronshaw, who was ill.
In the film, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the journal of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
[1]: 175 The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh was the last film project completed by Orson Welles in his lifetime.
After Welles's death in 1985, all of his unfinished films were bequeathed to his long-term companion and mistress Oja Kodar, and she in turn donated many of them (including The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh) to the Munich Film Museum for preservation and restoration.