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A Citizen Kane poster in 1941 as Orson Welles was always trying to do things his own way. Orson Welles had very specific visions for his movies and from the very beginning of his career he realized that if he wanted to do movies his way he would have to do things on his own. His career in radio taught him the value of complete creative control as he ran his own radio show and even decided to convince the world that aliens were attacking us. But when it came to movies Orson Welles was not prepared to give in on his ideas.

Movie studios would regularly decline to finance his movies so he would secure the financing on his own and when a studio did decide to back one of his movies they were always prepared for the inevitable fight that would come from Welles regarding any changes the studio wanted made in the movies. Back in the early days many people never got to see an Orson Welles poster or even an Orson Welles print because his days in radio prevented any real exposure to the public. After the War of the World fiasco, which turned out to be a promotions gold mine, it soon became more common place to see an Orson Welles poster here and there.

But in 1941 he finally got to release a movie that would stand as one of his most cherished accomplishments his entire life and it also happens to be a movie that the studios released but never got to change prior to its release. The studio may not have understood the movie but the public did and a Citizen Kane movie poster soon became quite popular. You could find a Citizen Kane movie print just about anywhere and today that is still true.

It is true that great works of art span the decades and centuries and Citizen Kane is one of those great works of art. A Citizen Kane print today is just as common as Citizen Kane prints were 60 years ago. The movie stands the test of time and so does Citizen Kane posters. You can still buy a newly made Citizen Kane poster wherever you buy posters and this speaks volumes to durability of this classic movie and also speaks to the genius of Orson Welles as he knew exactly what he wanted in Citizen Kane and made sure that the studio had to release it as he had created it. It was a gamble that paid off for Welles in the short run, and a gamble that has carved out a place in history for Welles, but for the rest of his career it is a decision that haunted him.

After Citizen Kane Orson Welles developed a reputation of being difficult to work with and even though his genius was acknowledged by almost all the studios none of them wanted to work with him because of his attitude and his difficult demeanor. They would only agree to fund his movies if he agreed to some of their terms and while Welles was still able to put out masterpieces like Touch Of Evil under these conditions (Welles never liked the notion of Charlton Heston playing a Mexican) Orson Welles still had to fight for every movie he released and sometimes he even had to raise all of the funding on his own.