(It's me the newcomer again! Forgive me for being so effusive about your blog but it's simply amazing!)I recall studying Citizen Kane in a film course in university and the professor had brought in a special film projector which allowed us to study the film frame-by-frame. I remember the scene where the young Kane hits George Koulouris who is about to take him off to the city. If you freeze the frame at some point during this sequence, you'll see the name of Kane's beloved sled is now "Crusader" instead of Rosebud. You probably already know about this but I thought I'd make a contribution too! Lastly, I understand Welles was interested in doing a film version of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" but unfortunately this never came to fruition. I believe he wanted to use the camera as the "first-person eye" of the narrator to parallel the narrative method Conrad used in his novella. I wonder if this would have influenced Coppola's "Apocalypse Now"?

Comments are always welcome and appreciated! I hadn't heard about the "Crusader" sled -- I'll see if it's visible on a DVD. Welles did plan to make "Heart Of Darkness" as his first Hollywood film and got pretty far along in his preparation for it -- including the idea of shooting much of it from the POV of the narrator. Not sure how this might have influenced Coppola, but Coppola would certainly have known of Welles's interest in the story.