Citizen Kane trailer
The Citizen Kane trailer was a fourminute, selfcontained, making of promotional featurette by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, released in 1940 to promote the film Citizen Kane. Unlike other standard theatrical trailers of the era, it did not feature a single second of footage of the actual film itself, but was a wholly original pseudodocumentary piece. It is considered by numerous film scholars such as Simon Callow, Joseph McBride and Jonathan Rosenbaum to be a standalone short film, rather than a conventional trailer, and to represent an important stage in the development of Welless directorial style.
The films producer, director, cowriter and star Orson Welleswho was then an established radio stardoes not appear in person, but serves as the unseen narrator, introducing members of the cast.There are several specially filmed excerpts of the film in rehearsal, with each member of the principal cast out of costume, reciting a signature line of their character, and stressing that the films title character prompts extreme reactions from different people. Welless narration alternately describes the films title character as a hero, a scoundrel, a noaccount, a swell guy, a great lover, a great American citizen, and a dirty dog. ........
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