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AnotherSatellite · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject:

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spidermage · Apple Venus Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1707

Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith

Here's a scene:

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spidermage · Apple Venus Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1707

(Finding the first two with 'safe search' off was a tad risky.)

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Terra Incognita · Apple Venus Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 1858

The film's working title was The Clansman (based on the book of the same name).

Here is Roger Ebert's review, from 2003:

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. He discusses the movie's racism and the difficulty of evaluating it fairly in the 21st century.

One shouldn't forget that Griffith was the son of a Confederate colonel; that he invented much of the cinema's syntax; and that this particular movie provoked nearly the same amount of controversy Michael Moore's (pseudo-?)documentaries do today.

Read Kevin Brownlow's The Parade's Gone By for an entertaining and detailed contextual explanation.

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spidermage · Apple Venus Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1707

I've never seen it, but I am told that it is an incredible piece of filmmaking.

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Terra Incognita · Apple Venus Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 1858

A stitch in time saves nine.

OOOhhh... I liked that one, old chap! D econ str ucti ng wor d san dsyl lable s

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Terra Incognita · Apple Venus Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 1858

spidermage wrote:

I've never seen it, but I am told that it is an incredible piece of filmmaking.

As I recall, you can watch the entire movie on YouTube, as well as Way Down East, Broken Blossoms and Intolerance. There are also quite a few Griffith shorts there, including The Musketeers of Pig Alley.

I don't have the money to build a huge movie library or install a home theatre (at least not the way the formats/media keep changing every ten years), so YouTube is a good alternative for paupers like myself, even though the quality of the image leaves much etc. etc.

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Mr Tein · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject:

spidermage wrote:

I've never seen it, but I am told that it is an incredible piece of filmmaking.

i have seen the film and have an old copy of the parades gone by in my bookshelf... i used to be film buff until the 70's ended along with radical film making

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Terra Incognita · Apple Venus Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 1858

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spidermage · Apple Venus Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1707

Does it, by any chance, feature this chap:

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spidermage · Apple Venus Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1707

Optical Illusion - nice one.

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