Citizen Kane / [RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Mercury Productions, Inc.?] ; director and producer, Orson Welles ; original screenplay, Orson Welles, Herman K. Mankiewicz.
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FilmPublication details: United States : Image Entertainment, Inc., [1985?]Edition: Special editionDescription: 2 DVDs (ca. 110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 in. viewing copyContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- A01251
- DAA 0127 (viewing copy)
- Photographer, Gregg Toland ; music composer and conductor, Bernard Hermann ; editor, Robert Wise.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | A01251 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Disc 1 | A01251 | |
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Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | A01252 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Disc 2 | A01252 |
Copyright: reg. unknown.
Copyright notice on videodisc jacket: RKO Pictures, Inc. ; 1985.
Special edition contains on audio 2 commentary on film by film historian Paul Mandell per videodisc jacket.
Possible release date from copyright notice on videodisc label for videodisc packaging; film was originally released in 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures.
LC copy is 1985? release copy of special edition version with audio commentary (viewing copy, DAA 0127); LC also holds 1982? videocassette reissue of the original release copy (VBH 1165-1166) and 1981? videodisc reissue copy of the original release copy (DAA 0079); LC also holds 1984? version with additional material (DAA 1632, DAA 1633, DAA 1857) and 1987? rerelease copy of version with additional material (DAA 0744). DLC
Summary taken from videodisc jacket (DAA 0079).
On videodisc jacket: Image Entertainment 16002.
Sources used: videodisc jacket and label; videodisc box (DAA 0744, DAA 1632, DAA 1633, DAA 1857); videodisc jacket (DAA 0079); Catalog of copyright entries : motion pictures, 1940-1949, p. 67.
Photographer, Gregg Toland ; music composer and conductor, Bernard Hermann ; editor, Robert Wise.
Orson Welles (Charles Foster Kane), Joseph Cotton (Jedediah Leland), Dorothy Comingore (Susan Alexander), Everett Sloane (Mr. Bernstein), Ray Collins (James W. Gettys), George Coulouris (Walter Parks Thatcher), Agnes Moorehead (Kane's mother).
Charles Foster Kane, a wealthy recluse, dies in his castle-like estate, Xanadu. The dying word on the lips of the newspaper tycoon who dominated four decades of American life is "Rosebud." A newsreel company assigns a reporter to learn why and to dig out the man behind the man. From various sources, Kane's life unfolds: his rise by taking a broken down newspaper he has inherited and, with two friends, Jedediah Leland and Bernstein, building it into a publishing empire; his marriage to Emily Norton, the niece of a U.S. president, that breaks down as he aspires to political power; the scandal after he becomes involved with an untalented singer, Susan Alexander, whom he later marries and tries unsuccessfully to turn into an opera star; retiring finally to a secluded life in Xanadu. Susan gets bored and leaves him alone and friendless. As his worldly goods are being disposed of, a child's sled bearing the word "Rosebud" is tossed unnoticed into the furnace.
viewing copy;
Gift of Yashodara Udupa.
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