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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Seventy years ago, "Citizen Kane" was released. The American Film Institute ranks this 1941 film as No. 1 in its list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time. The movie was directed, produced and written by the man who also starred in it: 25-year-old Orson Welles. Famously dictatorial at that young age, Welles once cut a hole in the floor for one memorable scene in order to get a camera angle just right. The decision held up filming for days. His innovations changed the way motion pictures were made. Welles had a vision in his mind about how the film should look; he would not be deterred by budget overruns, which he saw as a minor concern.
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