Video
| Title: |
Citizen Kane RKO Radio Pictures ; a Mercury production ; director/producer, Orson Welles ; screenplay, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles. The battle over Citizen Kane / produced by Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein ; written by Richard Ben Cramer & Thomas Lennon ; a Lennon Documentary Group film for the American experience ; WGBH Boston. [videorecording] / |
| Edition: |
Standard format. |
| Published: |
[S.l.] : Turner Entertainment, c2001. |
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| Music Pub. No: |
T6565 Turner Entertainment |
| Description: |
2 videodiscs (119 min., 113 min.): sd., b&w, col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Participants: |
Feature film: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, Ruth Warrick. Documentary ; host and narrator, David McCullough ; narrated by Richard Ben Cramer ; music, Brian Keane. |
| Participants: |
Host and narrator, David McCullough. |
| Credits: |
Feature film: Photography, Gregg Toland; editor, Robert Wise; music, Bernard Herrmann. Documentary: Directors of photography, Greg Andracke, Michael Chin; edited by Ken Eluto. |
| Summary: |
Feature film: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Documentary: Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to surpress the film Citizen Kane and destroy Welles. |
| Technical info: |
DVD format; newly remastered picture and sound. |
| Contents: |
Citizen Kane (119 min.) -- The battle over Citizen Kane (113 min.) |
| Notes: |
"Two-disc special edition."Feature film: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1941. Documentary: Originally broadcast as part of the PBS series the American experience in 1996.Special features: Feature film: interactive menus ; scene selection ; theatrical trailer ; production notes ; filmmaker postscripts and awards data ; two feature-length audio commentaries ; one by Roger Ebert ; the other by Peter Bogdanovich ; 1941 movie premiere newsreel ; gallery of storyboards ; rare photos ; alternative ad campaigns ; studio correspondence ; call sheets, and other memorabilia. Documentary: Welles filmography.Rated PG. |
| Language note: |
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |
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Soundtrack in English ; English, French, Spanish and Portugese subtitles available on feature film disc ; English subtitles available on documentary disc. |
| ISBN: |
0780635205 |
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9780780635203 |
| Subject: |
Films for the hearing impaired.
Motion pictures -- History.
Motion picture industry -- California -- History.
Feature films.
Welles, Orson, -- 1915-1985.
Hearst, William Randolph, -- 1863-1951.
Citizen Kane (Motion picture)
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| Form/Genre: |
DVD-Video discs.
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| Authors: |
Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994.
Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.
Mankiewicz, Herman J. (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953.
Warrick, Ruth.
Comingore, Dorothy, 1913-1971.
Moorehead, Agnes, 1906-1974.
Sloane, Everett, 1909-1965.
McCullough, David G.
Lennon, Thomas.
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| Authors: |
Lennon Documentary Group.
RKO Radio Pictures, inc.
Mercury Productions.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Turner Entertainment Co.
WGBH Educational Foundation.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
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| Title: |
Citizen Kane |
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Citizen Kane ; The battle over Citizen Kane |
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Battle over Citizen Kane |
| HOLLIS number |
011068393 |
| Link to this record |
http://hollis.harvard.edu//accessible.ashx?itemid=%7clibrary%2fm%2faleph%7c011068393
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