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CITIZEN KANE.
Second Revised Final Script. 156 pages, 4to, Hollywood, 9 July, 1940, with three brass brads, original pink covers, some chipping and marks, browned on the spine edge which also has the remnants of a label, in good shape overall.
Title page indicates "This is the property of RKO Pictures" and notes that it is to be returned to the Stenographic Department, a direction obviously not followed in this case. Mankiewicz's Academy Award winning script complete with all the silent copy makes for great reading, and contemplation about how little was actually left to the moment.
"INT. CELLAR -- XANADU -- NIGHT -- 1940 [Scene] 128 A large furnace, with an open door, dominates the scene. Two laborers, with shovels, are shovelling things into the furnace...CAMERA travels to the pile...It is mostly bits of broken packing cases, excelsior etc. The sled is on top of the pile. As CAMERA COMES CLOSE it shows the faded rosebud and, though the letters are faded, unmistakeably the word "Rosebud" across it. The laborer drops his shovel, takes the sled in his hand and throws it into the furnace. [129] No lights are to be seen. Smoke is coming from a chimney. CAMERA REVERSES the path it took at the beginning of the picture...It MOVES finally through the gates, which close behind it. As CAMERA PAUSES for a moment, the letter 'K' is prominent in the moonlight. Just before we fade out, there comes again into the picture the pattern of barbed wire and cyclone fencing. On the fence is a sign which reads 'PRIVATE - NO TRESSPASSING'
FADE OUT
Citizen Kane
Second Revised Final Script. 156 pages, 4to, Hollywood, 9 July, 1940, with three brass brads, original pink covers, some chipping and marks, browned on the spine edge which also has the remnants of a label, in good shape overall.
Title page indicates "This is the property of RKO Pictures" and notes that it is to be returned to the Stenographic Department, a direction obviously not followed in this case. Mankiewicz's Academy Award winning script complete with all the silent copy makes for great reading, and contemplation about how little was actually left to the moment.
"INT. CELLAR -- XANADU -- NIGHT -- 1940 [Scene] 128 A large furnace, with an open door, dominates the scene. Two laborers, with shovels, are shovelling things into the furnace...CAMERA travels to the pile...It is mostly bits of broken packing cases, excelsior etc. The sled is on top of the pile. As CAMERA COMES CLOSE it shows the faded rosebud and, though the letters are faded, unmistakeably the word "Rosebud" across it. The laborer drops his shovel, takes the sled in his hand and throws it into the furnace. [129] No lights are to be seen. Smoke is coming from a chimney. CAMERA REVERSES the path it took at the beginning of the picture...It MOVES finally through the gates, which close behind it. As CAMERA PAUSES for a moment, the letter 'K' is prominent in the moonlight. Just before we fade out, there comes again into the picture the pattern of barbed wire and cyclone fencing. On the fence is a sign which reads 'PRIVATE - NO TRESSPASSING'
FADE OUT
Citizen Kane