Citizen Kane (1941)
Directed by Orson Welles · Cinematography by Gregg Toland
PG119 min65 frames
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Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.
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What is Citizen Kane about?
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed, produced by, and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and was Welles's first feature film. The quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on American media barons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives.
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What does the cinematography of Citizen Kane look like?
Across 65 sampled frames, Citizen Kane builds its coverage from medium shots (42% of the sample), with close-ups (22%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Gregg Toland keeps 52% of it in hard-edged, low-key light. 65% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 60% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
What is the color palette of Citizen Kane?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Citizen Kane (1941) are #030303, #303030, #6e6e6e, #8e8e8e, #4c4c4c, #cecece — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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