Please enjoy my short analysis of the breakfast montage in Citizen Kane.

 

Sources:

• Barsam, Richard Meran., and Dave Monahan. Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film. 5th ed., New York, NY, W.W. Norton & Co., 2016.
• Citizen Kane. By Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Bernard Herrmann, Vernon L. Walker, Robert Wise, Bailey Fesler, James G. Stewart, Gregg Toland, Harry Wild, Russell A. Cully, Russell Metty, Arthur Appel, John Houseman, and Roger Q. Denny. Dir. Orson Welles. Prod. Orson Welles, Van Nest Polglase, Perry Ferguson, Edward Stevenson, Darrell Silvera, A. Roland Fields, Maurice Seiderman, and Mel Berns. Perf. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova, Gus Schilling, Philip Van Zandt, Harry Shannon, and Alan Ladd. Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 1941.