Kane in Continuity Main Menu About the Collection "It isn't enough to tell us what a man did. You've got to tell us who he was."-Rawlston Materiality "Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of."-Bernstein Describing the Collection "I don't think there's one word that can describe a man's life" -- Charles Foster Kane The Digitization Process "I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?"--Charles Kane The Continuity Collection "Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I'm lonesome." Susan Kane The Production's Chronology "I can remember everything. That's my curse, young man. It's the greatest curse that's ever been inflicted on the human race: memory." -Leland

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In his article “Digital Transformations and the Archival Nature of Surrogates,” Paul Conway discusses how digitization not only preserves archival materials, but allows them to transcend their original value. Our digitization process seeks to fulfill this vision; our digitized photographs, are published on this site. This site will not only allow for Welles scholars and enthusiasts to view them from anywhere in the world, but also allows us to re-contextualize these materials in meaningful ways.

This exhibit allows users to explore the sets of Citizen Kane in ways not possible outside of the digital realm. This path takes the user through Citizen Kane scene by scene, placing the photographs side-by-side with stills from the film.

Contents of this path:

  1. Thompson visits the Thatcher Library