 Dr. Rueben Greenspoon applied them to Orson Welles for the film "Citizen Kane" in 1940.In the 1950s, contact lenses were starting to be used in British color horror films.An early example of this is the British actor Christopher Lee as the Dracula character in the 1958 color horror film "Dracula", which helped to emphasize his horrific looking black pupils and red bloodshot eyes.