What was Orson Welles’s first film project?

Orson Welles’s first film project was the short film The Hearts of Age, which he made in 1934 at the end of a summer drama festival he organized at the Todd School in Woodstock, Illinois.1

While Welles later gained significant fame for his work with the Mercury Theatre and his landmark Hollywood debut, Citizen Kane (1941), his earliest cinematic efforts also included three short silent films intended to accompany his 1938 stage production of Too Much Johnson. Although those films were long believed to have been destroyed in a 1970 fire, they were eventually rediscovered and restored.2