The Production Code
I don't think that movies can really affect someone's morals unless if they don't have anything to teach them that the morals presented in a piece of entertainment are morally unjustifiable and dangerous. There is always going to be outliers that can't separate fiction and reality.
Citizen Kane
His radio influences are shown by his casting of all his radio actors that he always worked with. They all have really good voices as well. You can also tell in the dialogue that it has a different cadence and rhythm to it than in movies of that era. That is because Welles didn't like the phony sounding dialogue in films where lines of dialogue never overlapped with each other when people try to talk over each other or at the same time.
The scene where Leland comes in drunk after Kane loses the election is filmed in the low-angle style.
A very clever way in which Welles used transitions was the famous dinner scene in which the disintegration of his marriage is shown, every cut jumps ahead a couple years. Also there is a scene in which Kane as a child says, "Merry Christmas," then it jumps decades and Mr. Bernstein says, "and a Happy New Year."
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