Title:
Citizen Kane
ISBN:
9780780635203
Edition:
[Two-disc special ed.].
Publication Information:
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2001.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (119 min., 113 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Citizen Kane originally produced as a motion picture in 1941 ; The battle over Citizen Kane originally produced for television broadcast in 1996 by WGBH Educational Foundation.
Special features: [Disc 1] Two full-length audio commentaries, one by Peter Bogdonovich and the other by Roger Ebert ; 1941 movie premiere newsreel ; gallery of storyboards, rare photos, alternate ad campaigns, studio and personal correspondence, call sheets and other memorabilia ; original theatrical trailer. [Disc 2] Welles filmography.
Contents:
Disc 1. Citizen Kane (119 min.) -- disc 2. The battle over Citizen Kane / produced & directed by Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein ; written by Thomas Lennon & Richard Ben Cramer (2 hrs.)
Title Subject:
Added Title:
Battle over Citizen Kane.
Summary:
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.
System Details:
DVD.
Language Note:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SOUNDTRACK WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH ; CLOSED-CAPTIONED IN ENGLISH FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING.
