The bravura opening shot of Orson Welles‘ "Touch of Evil" - in which ... he even strapped costumed mannequins to the backs of his camera operators to both hide the cameras and provide additional ...

Up and coming actor/director/producer Orson Welles took advantage of the hype on October 30, 1938, when he broadcast H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds on his weekly radio drama program.

directed by a dramaturgical wunderkind named Orson Welles under the aegis of the Federal Theater Project, a New Deal program designed to help support the arts. It was an era of artistic and ...