Citizen Kane
In Our Time: Culture
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Control of Everything by Greg Toland
It was important to him to bring actors who mostly had not appeared before the camera up until this point. Most of the actors are unknown to a cinema-going audience, which will be very religious in an ongoing audience at that time. So I think that there was something important about not being immediately plunged into the familiarity of the studio star system that makes the film. It gave it to freshness and still does when you see it now. There's something amazing about when you're seeing that first shot of Agnes Moorhead and realizing that you're seeingAgnes Moorhead. That's the mother of the boy. Yes, exactly.I'm the boy, please. Young Cain's mother
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