Citizen Kane [SEP] film editor
edited by Robert Wise and assistant editor Mark Robson. Both would become successful film directors. Wise was hired after Welles finished shooting the "camera tests" and began officially making the film. Wise said that Welles "had an older editor assigned to him for those tests and evidently he was not too happy and asked to have somebody else. I was roughly Orson's age and had several good credits." Wise and Robson began editing the film while it was still shooting and said that they "could tell certainly that we
Mother" (1939) and "My Favorite Wife" (1939).
At RKO, Wise worked with Orson Welles on "Citizen Kane" (1941) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing. Wise was the film's last living crew member.
Although Wise worked as an editor on "Citizen Kane", it is likely that while working on the film he became familiar with the optical printer techniques employed by Linwood Dunn, inventor of the practical optical printer, to produce effects for "