AmericaJR’s Jason Rzucidlo recently visited the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library on the University of Michigan campus to check out their new exhibit “It’s Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75.” Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library’s various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film’s 75th anniversary. Audubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm.
Let’s go inside the Audobon Room
“It’s Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75”
A fan sent a copy of the C.N.E. Daily News to Welles in 1979.
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from “Citizen Kane”
Program from the 50th anniversary of “Citizen Kane” (1991)
3rd annual American Film Institite Life Achievement Awards honoring Orson Welles on Feb. 9, 1975
Photo of Welles and a spoof newspaper with a headline declaring an improbable reversal of William Randolph Hearst’s boycott and condemnation of Citizen Kane.
“Citizen Kane” on a theatre marquee
Newspaper clipping referencing William Randolph Hearst’s boycott of the film before and after it’s release.
Legal document and correspondnece
KODAK Digital Still Camera
Orson Welles and actress Delores Del Rio entering the Theatre for the premiere of Citizen Kane in New York (1941)
“Citizen Kane” program booklet (1940)
A Western Union telegram was used as an invitation to the L.A. premiere at the Ambassador Hotel (1941)
Party Maker Elsa Maxwell, Film Producer George J. Scharger, Director Orson Welles and Actress Delores Del Rio
Orson Welles directing “Citizen Kane”
Various scripts from “Citizen Kane”
Shot breakdown script (June 17, 1940)
Final shooting script of “Citizen Kane” by Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz (June 18, 1940)
One of actress Ruth Warrick’s outfits for her role as Monroe Norton Kane, nice of the President of the United States and Charles Foster Kane’s first wife.
On-the-set photographs of Kane’s father, Mary Kane, Walter Parks Thatcher; young Kame, Emily Kane in the offices of “The Inquirer.”
A series of on-the-set and set continuity photos that show the dramatic and sometimes surrealistic imagery of the sets.
Article in the “Salt Lake Tribune” from Sept. 12, 1949
“Citizen Kane” playing on an Apple iMac
Special exhibit poster on the wall
Visit the new exhibit “It’s Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75” at the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library at 913 University Ave. in Ann Arbor, Mich. Click here for more information.
