Orson at 23 directing his second film, "Too Much Johnson," in 1938. This 40-minute, 16mm film was to have been inserted into a stage production of the play but was never shown publicly. Tragically, the only known print was destroyed by fire in 1970

While at the Todd School Welles made his first film, Heart of Age,  a four-minute short co-directed with another student, William Vance, starring Virginia NIcholson, also a Todd student, who would later become Orson's first wife. In later years, when asked about this early work, Orson snorted that, "it really wasn't really a movie at all . . . " shrugging it off as mere satire, a youthful impetuosity.