Citizen Kane trailer

Citizen Kane trailer
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Directed by	Orson Welles
Written by	Orson Welles
Produced by	Orson Welles
Starring	Ray Collins Joseph Cotten Everett Sloane
Narrated by	Orson Welles
Cinematography	Harry J. Wild
Production company	Mercury Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	1940
Running time	4 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Citizen Kane trailer is a four-minute, self-contained, "making of" promotional short film by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, released in 1940 to promote the film Citizen Kane. Unlike other standard theatrical trailers of the era, it did not feature any footage of the actual film itself, but was a wholly original pseudo-documentary piece. It is considered by numerous film scholars such as Simon Callow, Joseph McBride and Jonathan Rosenbaum to be a standalone short film, rather than a conventional "trailer", and to represent an important stage in developing Welles's directorial style.

Ray Collins

Dorothy Comingore

Joseph Cotten

George Coulouris

Agnes Moorehead

Erskine Sanford

Everett Sloane

Paul Stewart

Ruth Warrick