Kane in ContinuityMain MenuAbout the Collection"It isn't enough to tell us what a man did. You've got to tell us who he was."-RawlstonMateriality"Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of."-BernsteinDescribing the Collection"I don't think there's one word that can describe a man's life" -- Charles Foster KaneThe Digitization Process"I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?"--Charles KaneKane & Continuity"Well, you're pretty young Mr. Thompson. A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember" - BernsteinThe 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." -LelandSamuel Sciolla1de487d60123fdab51dff2a1059958841def96c5Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16bKathryn Topham44a071182ff4c63fb5bdb074ef42556477d4e06e
The Continuity Collection
1media/Screen Shot 2018-03-24 at 16.56.00.pngmedia/37-01-P-V.jpgmedia/Screen Shot 2018-03-24 at 16.54.50.png2018-03-24T04:49:22-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b2850331"Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I'm lonesome." Susan Kanevisual_path2018-04-12T04:35:45-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
Below are the scenes represented in the continuity photographs present in the University of Michigan's collection. Check out a selection of pieces from the collection below!
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1media/00-01-N001.jpgmedia/00-01-N001.jpg2018-04-11T02:21:28-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b00-Unmatched Negatives1"Maybe that was something he lost. Mr. Kane was a man that lost - almost everything he had -"--Bernsteinimage_header2018-04-11T02:21:28-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/06-01-P-R.jpgmedia/06-01-P-R.jpg2018-04-10T01:24:16-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b06-Thatcher Library13"You have enjoyed a very rare privilege, young man. Did you find what you were looking for?"--Miss Andersonimage_header2018-04-10T17:57:57-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/Screen Shot 2018-03-24 at 17.12.26.pngmedia/Screen Shot 2018-03-24 at 17.12.26.png2018-03-24T20:40:07-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b07- Ms. Kane's Boarding House8"He married for love. Love. That's why he did everything. That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough, he wanted all the voters to love him too. Guess all he really wanted out of life was love. That's Charlie's story, how he lost it. You see, he just didn't have any to give. Well, he loved Charlie Kane of course, very dearly, and his mother, I guess he always loved her."--Jedediah Lelandimage_header2018-04-10T01:35:29-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/12-01-P-R.jpgmedia/12-01-P-R.jpg2018-04-10T01:44:39-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b12-Bernstein's Office-Enquirer Bldg5"He knew what he wanted, Mr. Kane did, and he got it! Thatcher never did figure him out. He was hard to figure sometimes, even for me. Mr. Kane was a genius like he said. He had that funny sense of humor. Sometimes even I didn't get the joke. "--Bernsteinimage_header2018-04-10T17:58:58-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/13-04-P-R.jpgmedia/13-04-P-R.jpg2018-04-10T02:07:25-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b13-Chicago Enquirer1"Mr. Thatcher, isn't everything I've been saying in the Enquirer about the traction trust absolutely true?"--Charles Kaneimage_header2018-04-10T02:07:26-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/Screen Shot 2018-03-24 at 17.18.47.pngmedia/Screen Shot 2018-03-24 at 17.19.28.png2018-03-24T21:18:33-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b14-Street Shots4"As Charles Foster Kane who owns eighty-two thousand, six hundred and thirty-four shares of public transit - you see, I do have a general idea of my holdings - I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of town. A committee should be formed to boycott him. You may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of one thousand dollars."--Charles Kaneimage_header2018-04-10T16:59:14-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/15-03-P-R.jpgmedia/15-03-P-R.jpg2018-04-10T17:50:50-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b15-2nd Floor Enquirer Bldg2"The "Enquirer" has an old and honored tradition, Mr. Kane... The "Enquirer" is not in competition with those other rags."--Carterimage_header2018-04-10T17:52:33-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/27139731028_0753b0a5f9_o.pngmedia/27139731028_0753b0a5f9_o.png2018-04-10T17:56:32-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b20-Roof of Hospital3"When you get to my age, young man, you don't miss anything. Unless maybe it's a good drink of bourbon. Even that doesn't make much difference, if you remember there hasn't been any good bourbon in this country for twenty years."--Lelandimage_header2018-04-12T04:15:21-07:00University of Michigan Special Collections08/194020-01-P-ROrson WellesContinuityMotion Picture FilmRKOOrson WellesPerry Fergusonprintimage/jpegEmily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/22-03-P-R.jpgmedia/22-03-P-R.jpg2018-04-10T18:07:02-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b22-Theatre-(1919)2"You don't propose to have yourself made ridiculous? What about me? I'm the one that has to do the singing. I'm the one that gets the razzberries."--Susanimage_header2018-04-10T18:07:33-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/29-03-P-R.jpgmedia/29-03-P-R.jpg2018-04-10T18:16:59-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b29-Kane's Home2"No. I wish you'd go home to Emily. She'll be pretty upset by all this - She still loves you -"--Lelandimage_header2018-04-10T18:17:29-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/30-01-P-R.jpgmedia/30-01-P-R.jpg2018-04-10T18:27:17-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b30-Georgie's Place1"I'm going over to Georgie's, Brad - you know, Georgie, don't you?"--Charles Kaneimage_header2018-04-10T18:27:17-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/33-04-P-R004.jpgmedia/33-06-P-R006.jpg2018-04-11T02:05:48-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b33-Susan's 2nd Apt1"That was thirty years ago - and I still remember that toothache. Boy! That toothache was just driving me crazy..."--Susan Kaneimage_header2018-04-11T02:05:48-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/34-01-P-R.jpgmedia/34-01-P-R.jpg2018-04-10T18:57:14-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b34-Section of N.Y. Street1"It's a news story! Get it on the street!"--Charles Kaneimage_header2018-04-10T18:57:14-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/36-01-P-R.jpgmedia/36-01-P-R.jpg2018-03-24T20:38:21-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b36 - Xanadu Great Hall12"Today, almost as legendary is Florida's XANADU - world's largest private pleasure ground."--News on the Marchimage_header2018-04-12T18:17:10-07:00Kathryn Topham44a071182ff4c63fb5bdb074ef42556477d4e06e
1media/Screen Shot 2018-03-24 at 16.56.31.pngmedia/Screen Shot 2018-03-24 at 16.56.31.png2018-04-11T00:16:58-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b37-2nd Floor - Xanadu9"I see. It's you that this is being done to. It's not me at all. Not what it means to me. I can't do this to you? Oh yes I can."--Susanimage_header2019-05-02T04:10:44-07:00Kathryn Topham44a071182ff4c63fb5bdb074ef42556477d4e06e
1media/61-01-P-R.jpgmedia/61-01-P-R.jpg2018-04-11T00:21:55-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b61-Congressional Committee2" Kane, molder of mass opinion though he was, in all his life was never granted elective office by the voters of his country. Few U.S. news publishers have been. Few, like one-time Congressman Hearst, have ever run for any office - most know better - conclude with other political observers that one man's press has power enough for himself."--Narratorimage_header2018-04-11T00:22:25-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b
1media/67-01-P-R.jpgmedia/67-01-P-R.jpg2018-04-11T00:26:56-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b67-Foreground Set for Unloading Packages - Xanadu1"No, I don't. Not much anway. Charles Foster Kane was a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get or lost. No, I don't think it explains anything. I don't think any word explains a man's life. No - I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle - a missing piece."--Thompsonimage_header2018-04-11T00:26:56-07:00Emily Finchc736e5149e0d97ffa22e638ec7051c6e755ec16b