A few weeks before…

A few weeks before his death, Orson Welles was talking to his friend and fellow film director Henry Jaglom about Welles’ landmark movie, Citizen Kane. “Make me one promise,” he told Jaglom, “Keep Ted Turner and his goddamned crayolas away from my movie.” Fortunately, when the movie was made, Welles had negotiated a contract with RKO studios giving him complete and absolute control over every aspect of production, including colour – or lack thereof. Although he wanted to, Turner never got a chance to colourize Citizen Kane.