VHS format, NTSC standard. "This collector's edition of The Birth of a Nation was made from a 1933 print produced under the personal supervision of D.W. Griffith. It includes the original musical score for the movie which was adapted by Griffith to the 24 frames-per-second running speed needed for sound. Musical direction is by Louis F. Gottschalk with sound supervision by Campbell MacCulloch."--Container. Originally entitled The Clansman. Originally issued as a silent motion picture in 1915. Based on the novel The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon. Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Ralph Lewis, Wallace Reid, Robert Harron.
Summary:
Portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War as revealed in a story depicting the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade Blacks, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man's honor through the efforts of the Ku-Klux Klan.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)25301195
Locations:
O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)
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