Without Toland, a veteran cinematographer, Citizen Kane
would not have been able to be the movie it became. Toland use his artistic and
rule breaking cinematography tricks on his previous movies, but tied in with
the Citizen Kane plot is what made it a big hit. As we mentioned in class of
the artist personality coming out in the films, the article reiterates that the
“atmosphere [between Welles and Toland] continued to characterize their
relationship throughout the production.” I hadn’t noticed till I read in the
article that Welles recognized Toland’s contributions and put their names
together in the films credits. This chapter gave me a better sense of why
Citizen Kane is such a famous film. It described to me the hard work and effort
as well as new techniques that we used in that time.
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