Citizen Kane: touchstone of visual art

A story.

When I was in college at RIT back in the 70s, I learned that the library owned a 35mm two-reel print of Citizen Kane. Here's what you could do (It's what I did any time I needed a boost.)

You would give the person behind the counter your ID card and they would give you the two shallow metal cannisters that held the greatest film of all time. You carried them upstairs (not unlike toting around the Mona Lisa) to a little study booth with a projector unit. And then you treated yourself to a private viewing of a classic in the world of art from an actual print of the film.

It was one of those college experiences not in the course catalog that helps to define you as a person. Thank you RIT. Thank you Orson.