Originally produced as a motion picture in 1915. Title from disc surface. Also known as The Clansman. Based on the novel the Clansman, by Thomas Dixon. "This edition has been digitally transferred from the finest 35mm print at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. While not a formal restoration of the 1915 edition ... it has been transferred at the correct frame rate of 16 fps with authentic color tones electronically re-created. The original score by Joseph Broil has been compiled and reorchestrated by RJ Miller, recorded and remixed completely in the digital domain"--Container. Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Walter Long.
Summary:
The story of two families, North and South, who are caught up in the Civil War and then the Reconstruction period. Includes an edited ten minute version of "The birth of a race" (1918) which was conceived as a protest against the racism of "Birth of a nation".
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