In this scene, newsreel journalist Jerry Thompson is taken to a room that offers him the chance to read the memoirs of Charles Foster's bank manager and guardian, Thatcher. This scene allows for several flashbacks to be introduced, starting with Thompson sitting down where other techniques are used, such as shadowing when the room is dark with a beam of light hitting the book holding the voice. This technique is called single source lighting, which is used to illuminate an object or person for a significant purpose which usually results in some form of illumination. Welles uses the memoirs as a symbolic key or map to discover who Charles Foster Kane was and what the meaning of "Rosebud" was. Additionally, it is interesting how Welles uses ceilings to make the table appear longer and larger than the journal which is the focal point. Welles also makes the room huge. The book is caught small on camera, because the book literally wouldn't give him the answers he was looking for, he would have to find them