Citizen Kane Page #5

Shots with the date - 1898 (to be supplied)

Shots with the date - 1910 (to be supplied)

Shots with the date - 1922 (to be supplied)

Headlines, cartoons, contemporary newreels or stills of the

following:

1. WOMAN SUFFRAGE

The celebrated newsreel shot of about 1914.

2. PROHIBITION

Breaking up of a speakeasy and such.

3. T.V.A.

4. LABOR RIOTS

Brief clips of old newreel shots of William Jennings Bryan,

Theodore Roosevelt, Stalin, Walter P. Thatcher, Al Smith,

McKinley, Landon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and such. Also, recent

newsreels of the elderly Kane with such Nazis as Hitler and

Goering; and England's Chamberlain and Churchill.

Shot of a ramshackle building with old-fashioned presses showing

through plate glass windows and the name "Enquirer" in old-

fashioned gold letters. (1892)

DISSOLVE:

NARRATOR:

Kane's empire, in its glory, held

dominion over thirty-seven

newpapers, thirteen magazines, a

radio network. An empire upon an

empire. The first of grocery

stores, paper mills, apartment

buildings, factories, forests,

ocean-liners - An empire through

which for fifty years flowed, in

an unending stream, the wealth of

the earth's third richest gold

mine... Famed in American legend

is the origin of the Kane fortune...

How, to boarding housekeeper Mary

Kane, by a defaulting boarder, in

1868 was left the supposedly

worthless deed to an abandoned

mine shaft:
The Colorado Lode.

The magnificent Enquirer Building

of today.

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