Orson Welles

The studio where Orson Welles was first hired as a director was:

RKO

Welles production contract was unique in that:

it gave him a remarkable degree of control over his productions

Welles’s radio production troupe was called:

the Mercury Theatre

Welles reportedly watched *witch* film 40 times, as preparation for *Citizen Kane:*

*Stagecoach*

Orson Welles:

used deep focus to create metaphors and express power relations

Which of the following is a stylistic characteristic of *Citizen Kane*:

sets with ceilings

The “lightning mix” refers to:

a technique that uses sound continuity to bridge shots with different times and settings

Overlapping sound montage was used by Welles in *Citizen Kane* to produce:

a sense of realistic group conversation

The first image in *Citizen Kane* is:

a sign that reads “no trespassing”

In *Citizen Kane* the first character or place that Thompson visits is:

Susan

The “Declaration of Principles” is writtin in *whose* flashback story in *Citizen Kane*:

Bernstein’s

The banquet in Bernstein’s story in *Citizen Kane* is being held to celebrate:

the Inquirer’s hiring away the staff of a rival newspaper

Which character speculates that Rosebud was “something he lost”:

Bernstein

The famous breakfast-table sequence in *Citizen Kane* takes place during whose story:

Leland’s

The dramatic purpose of the breakfast-table scene in *Citizen Kane* is:

to demonstrate Kane’s growing estrangement from his first wife

The prop most closely associated with Susan in *Citizen Kane* and which goes on to become a metaphor for Kane’s life is:

the jigsaw puzzle

Kane’s tantrum wherein he destroys Susan’s bedroom is told in whose story:

Raymond’s

*Citizen Kane*:

was withdrawn from circulation until the mid 1950s when it played the art circuit

Orson Welles is widely regarded as:

the founder and master of the long-take aesthetic

*Citizen Kane* is considered the first modern sound film because:

it manipulated the audio space in the same dramatic way the camera manipulates visual space