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The Birth of a nation

Title
The Birth of a nation / Blackhawk Films.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : Film Preservation Associates ; Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment [distributor], [1992], ©1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946.
  • Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948.
  • Merritt, Russell.
  • Shepard, David.
  • Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993.
  • Marsh, Mae, 1895-1968.
  • Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale), 1878-1936.
  • Blackhawk Films.
  • Image Entertainment (Firm)
  • Film Preservation Associates.
Description
2 videodiscs (187 min.) : sound, color tinted; 12 in. +
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\u0027s honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan.
Series Statement
Blackhawk Films collection
Uniform Title
  • Birth of a nation (Motion picture)
  • Ethnic studies video collection.
  • Blackhawk Films collection.
Alternative Title
  • Clansman.
  • David Wark Griffith presents The Birth of a nation.
  • Making of The Birth of a nation.
Subject
  • Ku Klux Klan (19th century) > Drama
  • Birth of a nation (Motion picture)
  • Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Drama
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Drama
Note
  • Videodisc release of the 1915 motion picture.
  • Based on the novel The clansman, by Thomas Dixon.
  • Silent dialog with music.
  • Title on container: David Wark Griffith presents The Birth of a nation.130:0 : Birth of a nation (Motion picture)
  • "Includes a 24 minute film, The Making of the Birth of a Nation...by film historians Russell Merritt and David Shepard."--Container.
  • Includes a reproduction of the original program from the world\u0027s premiere of the film.
Credits (note)
  • Director, D. W. Griffith ; writers, D. W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods ; photographer, William Bitzer.
Performer (note)
  • Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, Bessie Love, Elmo Lincoln, Raoul Walsh, Donald Crisp.
System Details (note)
  • Extended play videodisc.
OCLC
  • ocm30794306
  • SCSB-3504324
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries