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Excerpts from Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey—the complete story of the background, production, controversy, and release of Citizen Kane:
Citizen Kane: The Story Remembered
Part One
Chapter 1: Asking for the Impossible
Chapter 2: The Beard and the Contract
Chapter 3: The Script
Chapter 4: The Consequences of his Actions
Chapter 5: RKO Production #281
Chapter 6: A Great Deal of Doing
Chapter 7: No Visitors, Please
Chapter 8: Giggling like Schoolboys
Chapter 9: Cryptic Notes and Bigger Hams
Part Two
Chapter 10: Conflict
Chapter 11. Negotiating and Placating
Chapter 12: Mr. Hearst
Chapter 13: Release
Chapter 14: Triumph
Chapter 15: Walking on the Edge of a Cliff
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New stories and discoveries
Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey includes new stories and never-before-published discoveries about the making of the film:
FAQ about Citizen Kane
New stories about the film
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Viewer’s Guide
The book also includes the most complete reference guide to Citizen Kane ever published. The viewer’s guide includes:
- Cast and Production Credits—every participant in making the film, from the stars to the bit players, and everyone behind the camera.
- The article by Gregg Toland, “I Broke the Rules in Citizen Kane,” as originally published in June 1941
- Bernard Herrmann: A Conversation at the George Eastman House
- Citizen Kane: the Scene-by-Scene Guide
- The Budget: every dime spent on the film
- A guide to RKO sound stages where every scene in Citizen Kane was shot at the RKO Gower lot in Hollywood and RKO Pathé in Culver City
- Resources about Orson Welles and Citizen Kane—references to archives, books, articles, websites, unpublished material, other films by Welles (including his 1937 screen test for Warner Bros.), information about special effects, and videos.
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