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Sep 23, 2021 · The film lays out that process and its results in stark, albeit silent, detail. In one of the most telling scenes, labeled “An Historical Facsimile of the State House of Representatives of South Carolina as it was in 1870,” the black men who were elected to the state legislature as the result of Stoneman’s and his colleagues’ efforts “conduct their business with the decorum of a pack ...
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.
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 ...
Apr 7, 2024 · AN HISTORICAL FACSIMILE of Ford's theatre as on that night, exact in size and detail, with the recorded incidents, after Nicolay and Hay in "Lincoln, a History". ¶ The play: " Our American Cousin ," starring Laura Keene. ¶ Time, 8:30. ¶ The arrival of the President, Mrs. Lincoln, and party.
Plot In 1809, on a plantation in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner is a young slave boy. Due to limited food for their children, Nat's father, Isaac, ventures out one night to steal something for his son to eat. However, he is apprehended by a posse led by slave-catcher Raymond Cobb. When Cobb attempts to execute Isaac, he turns the tables, killing one member of the posse, and escapes ...
Played in blackface by white actress Jenny Lee. The faithful servant to the Camerons. A large, rotund housekeeper, Mammy moans loudly and makes broad gestures. Next section Colonel Ben Cameron. A list of all the characters in Birth of a Nation. Characters include: Colonel Ben Cameron, Elsie Stoneman, The Honorable Austin Stoneman , Silas Lynch ...
The Cameron house is ransacked by a black militia led by a white captain, but a Confederate unit eventually shows up to drive off these intruders. As the War drags on, the youngest Stoneman boy is killed, as are two of the Cameron's sons. Ben Cameron survives but is injured, and he recuperates in a Northern hospital where Elsie is a nurse.
