 At RKO, Wise worked with Orson Welles on "Citizen Kane" (1941) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing.Wise was the film's last living crew member.Though Wise worked as an editor on "Citizen Kane", it is likely that while working on the film he became familiar with the optical printer techniques employed by Linwood Dunn, inventor of the practical optical printer, to produce effects for "Citizen Kane" such as the image projected in the broken snowglobe which falls from Kane's hand as he dies.