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02379agm a2200517Ma 4500 001 67621C227C5D11E0AEB2F4966AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110512010052 007 vd bvaizu 008 050628p20091915xxu120 vleng d 024 30 $a 0837654078570 035 $a (OCoLC)302319566 040 $a MNU $c MNU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 245 0 $a The Birth of a nation $h [videorecording]. 246 1 $i At the head of title on disc: $a D.W. Griffith's the birth of a nation. 260 $a Southgate, MI: $b Triad Productions. $c 2009. 300 $a 1 videodisc (120 min.) : $b sd., b&w ; $c 4 3/4 in. 538 $a DVD. 546 $a Silent film with music score. 511 1 $a Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Ralph Lewis, Wallace Reid, Henry Walthall. 508 $a Director, D.W. Griffith ; writers, D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods ; photography, G.W. Bitzer. 500 $a Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1915. 500 $a Based on the novel The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon. 520 $a Recounts the events leading up to and immediately after the Civil War. Ben Cameron, a brave yet disillusioned Confederate soldier, creates a covert group of impassioned Southerners called the Ku Klux Klan as an answer to the supposed problem of the rise and rule of blacks and carpetbaggers. Bent on revenge, Ben leads his KKK followers in a war to suppress the black threat to white society, ultimately restoring "order" to his beloved South. 610 20 $a Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.) $v Drama. 650 0 $a Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) $v Drama. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $v Drama. 655 0 $a Feature films. 655 0 $a Silent films. 655 0 $a Historical films. 700 1 $a Griffith, D. W. $q (David Wark), $d 1875-1948. 700 1 $a Woods, Frank E. 700 1 $a Bitzer, G. W., $d 1872-1944. 700 1 $a Gish, Lillian, $d 1893-1993. 700 1 $a Marsh, Mae, $d 1895-1968. 700 1 $a Lewis, Ralph, $d 1872-1937. 700 1 $a Reid, Wallace, $d 1891-1923. 700 1 $a Walthall, Henry B. $q (Henry Brazeale), $d 1878-1936. 700 1 $a Dixon, Thomas, $d 1864-1946. $t Clansman. 710 2 $a Triad Productions. 941 $a 1 945 $a dvv 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20110512012957.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=67621C227C5D11E0AEB2F4966AFF544E 994 $a Z0 $b IODInitiate Another SILO Locator Search