In Orson Welles masterpiece film Citizen Kane there is one outstanding sound technique that forms a pattern across the film. That outstanding sound technique is nonsimultaneous sound. Citizen Kane is a film filled with flash backs and flash-forwards and Orson Welles’ use of nonsimultaneous sound helps the viewer transition from one to the other. The film starts off at the end of the timeline with Charles Foster Kane’s death and the newspaper wants to do an article on the meaning of his last words “Rosebud”. In order to find out the meaning behind this word a reporter goes around interviewing all of the most important people in Kane’s life. When these people narrate earlier events in Kane’s life they are creating a sound bridge. Their voices
