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The Hearts of Age (1934)

The Hearts of Age poster
Directed by
William Vance, Orson Welles
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent short film made by a teenage Orson Welles and a friend. It shows a few strange scenes with actors in old-fashioned costumes, including someone on a porch and a man in blackface.

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What happens

The Hearts of Age is an early film made by Orson Welles. The film is an eight-minute short that he co-directed with friend William Vance in 1934. The film stars Welles's first wife, Virginia Nicolson, and Welles himself. He made the film at his former school, the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Illinois, at the age of 19. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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