[Movie Script]Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

By
Herman J. Mankiewicz
                                        &



Orson Welles







                                     PROLOGUE



          FADE IN:



          EXT. XANADU - FAINT DAWN - 1940 (MINIATURE)



Window, very small in the distance, illuminated.
All around this is an almost totally black screen.  Now, as

the camera moves slowly towards the window which is almost a

postage stamp in the frame, other forms appear; barbed wire,

cyclone fencing, and now, looming up against an early morning

sky, enormous iron grille work.  Camera travels up what is now

shown to be a gateway of gigantic proportions and holds on the

top of it - a huge initial "K" showing darker and darker against

the dawn sky.  Through this and beyond we see the fairy-tale

mountaintop of Xanadu, the great castle a sillhouette as its

summit, the little window a distant accent in the darkness.



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