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History of Cinema Term Paper Orson Welles         The term 'genius' was applied to him from the cradle, first by the man who would vie with Orson's father to nurture the talent all agreed resided in the fragile boy.(Leaming, 3)         George Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin on May 6, 1915. He was the second son of Richard Head Welles, an inventor, and his wife Beatrice Ives, a concert pianist. His mother was the child of a …

…immediately a regular writer for the Welles radio shows and collaborator on 'The Smiler with a Knife' script.         Apart from anything else, there are very clear autobiographical connotations in Welles's picture of Charles Foster Kane. The most obvious is the naming of young Kane's kindly, protective guardian as Bernstein, like Welles's own.         Citizen Kane was them, and is now, essentially a film-makers film. there was possibly nothing in the film that was absolutely unprecedented.(Taylor,57