The Hearts of Age

The Hearts of Age is an early film made by Orson Welles. The film is an eightminute short that he codirected with friend William Vance in 1934. The film stars Welless first wife, Virginia Nicolson, and Welles himself. He made the film while still attending the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Illinois, at the age of 19.

The films action, such as it is, is intercut with random shots of bells, headstones, a church cross and other images, sometimes printed in negative. Many years later Welles acknowledged that the film was an imitation of the early surrealist films of Luis Bunuel and Jean Cocteau. He did not consider it a serious piece of work, and was amused at the idea of being added to his creative canon.Many point to The Hearts of Age as an important precursor to Welless first Hollywood film, Citizen Kane. Welles and Vance were college friends. The latters only other film on record is another student short an adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1932. ........

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