Of Welles

[LBernier at tribune.com]

Lots of comments on Welles and CK, lots of criticism regarding the PLOT . . .

CK is not highly regarded in film history because of the story.  Yeah, it's 
heavy-handed, melodramatic, blah, blah, blah.  So were MOST movies made at that 
time.  The genius of CK has to do with the things John M doesn't want to go into
- particularly the editing.  CK was the first movie EVER to use sound to tie 
together scenes - the sound from scene 1 overflows for a few seconds into scene 
2 providing a smoothly flowing pace.  


Obscure fun fact:  The blue screening technique that is used in the scene with 
the cockatoo had one drawback - the cockatoo's eye was also blue, so if you look
carefully, you can see the background THROUGH the eye of the bird.  

Jean.