Clansman. David Wark Griffith presents The Birth of a nation. Making of The Birth of a nation.
Notes:
Based on the play The clansman, by Thomas Dixon. Title on container: David Wark Griffith presents The birth of a nation. Originally produced as motion picture in 1915. Includes 24-minute film The making of The birth of a nation, by Russell Merritt and David Shepard. "ID4674DSDVD."
Summary:
A Civil War spectacular. 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 Negroes, 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.
Series:
Blackhawk Films Collection
OCLC:
(OCoLC)48770881
Locations:
O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)
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