The Hearts of Age

Infobox_Film
name = The Hearts of Age


imdb_id = 0025227
writer = Orson Welles
starring = Orson Welles
Virginia Nicholson
William Vance
Paul Edgerton
director = Orson Welles
William Vance
distributor =
runtime = 8 min
language = Silent film
country = USA
budget =
amg_id = 1:329133
imdb_id = 0025227

"The Hearts of Age" is the first film made by Orson Welles. The film is an eight-minute short, which he co-directed with William Vance in 1934. The film stars Welles' first wife, Virginia Nicholson, as well as Welles himself. He made the film while attending the Todd School for Boys, in Woodstock, Illinois, at the age of 19.

The plot is a series of images loosely tied together, and is arguably influenced by surrealism. This once-rare film is easily seen today thanks to DVD extras and sites such as YouTube. Many point to it as an important precursor to Welles' first Hollywood film, "Citizen Kane". Welles and Vance were college friends. The latter's only other film on record is another student short - an adaptation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in 1932.

Cast

*Orson Welles as Death
*Virginia Nicholson as the Old woman/Keystone Kop
*William Vance as the Indian in blanket
*Paul Edgerton as the Bell-ringer in blackface

External links

*The film is available on [http://www.video.google.com Google Video] and can be viewed at [http://www.video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2141195314072914825&q=orson+welles this location] .
*imdb title|title=The Hearts of Age|id=0025227