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A scene from the movie Birth of a Nation. 1915. In one scene early in the film, Phil Stoneman, visiting the Cameron family at their plantation, walks through the cotton fields with Margaret and Ben Cameron. The cotton fields are beautiful, and Phil, Margaret, and Ben play and chatter happily. In the background, slaves work contentedly, with no ...
Mar 3, 2015 · For its New York premiere on March 3, 1915, exactly a hundred years ago, he renamed it The Birth of a Nation. Released on the 50th anniversary of the last full month of the Civil War, Griffith’s ...
Mar 14, 2016 · Perhaps most influential film of that century’s first half, The Birth of a Nation was steeped in the Dunning School’s interpretation of Reconstruction. Based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon (a university classmate of Woodrow Wilson’s), the three-hour silent film glorified the Ku Klux Klan as the saviors of the South from ...
Feb 9, 2010 · On February 8, 1915, D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, a landmark film in the history of cinema, premieres at Clune’s Auditorium in Los Angeles. The film was America’s first feature ...
Mar 30, 2003 · That is worth knowing. Blacks already knew that, had known it for a long time, witnessed it painfully again every day, but "The Birth of a Nation" demonstrated it in clear view, and the importance of the film includes the clarity of its demonstration. That it is a mirror of its time is, sadly, one of its values.
The Birth of Nation is notable for many of its innovative production strategies. Billy Bitzer was the first cinematographer to employ nighttime photography, a feat he achieved by firing magnesium flares into the night for the split-screen sequence of the sacking of Atlanta. It was the first film to use hundreds of extras to re-create battle scenes.
Feb 11, 2016 · A century after The Birth of a Nation sparked public and legislative opposition, these legal battles still offer important lessons on how the law works, highlighting the role that political maneuvering can play in resolving disputes. “This story… reminds us that the law is made, enforced, administered, and interpreted by a combination and an interrelationship of all three branches of ...
