 The camera looks up at Charles Foster Kane and his best friend  Jedediah Leland and down at weaker characters like Susan Alexander  Kane. This was a technique that Orson Welles (qv) borrowed from  John Ford (I) (qv) who had used it two years previously on  _Stagecoach (1939)_ (qv). Welles privately watched  _Stagecoach (1939)_ (qv) about 40 times while making this film.