Citizen Kane plot summary
Multimillionaire newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies alone in his extravagant mansion, Xanadu, speaking a single word: "Rosebud" while looking at a snow globe. In an attempt to figure out the meaning of this word, a reporter tracks down the people who worked and lived with Kane; they tell their stories in a series of flashbacks that reveal much about Kane's life but not enough to unlock the riddle of his dying breath.
Citizen Kane ending / spoiler
"Rosebud" refers to the sled Kane owned as a young boy; it symbolizes his lost innocence and ultimate dissapointment with life.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IGUYOQ...eature=related
Reveiled at the end when workers "throw that junk in" the incinerator.