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10. Shooting on the Sly

Thanks to the failure of his Heart of Darkness adaptation, Orson Welles had lost his faith in the creative power of RKO’s execs. As a result, he began shooting Citizen Kane undercover in the hopes that he’d be far enough along on the shoot that RKO wouldn’t be able to back out when they discovered what he was up to. Welles told the studio he was shooting camera tests.

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