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Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry Aitken.

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The Birth of a Nation is a landmark of film history. It was originally shown in two parts separated by another movie innovation, an intermissionand it was the first to have a musical score for an orchestra. It pioneered close-upsfade-outs, and a carefully staged battle sequence with hundreds of extras another first made to look like thousands.

The film Modernissm controversial even before its release and has remained so ever since; it has been called "the most controversial film ever made in the United States". The film portrays African Americans many of whom are played by white actors in blackface as unintelligent and sexually aggressive toward white women. In response to the film's depictions of black people and Civil War history, African Americans across the nation organized and participated in protests against The Birth of a Nation. In places such as in Boston where thousands of white people viewed the film, black leaders tried to have it banned on the basis that it inflamed racial tensions and could incite violence. In The Birth Of The Realism And Modernism of its divisiveness, Modernismm Birth of a Nation was a huge commercial success and profoundly influenced both the film industry and American culture.

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The film has been acknowledged as an inspiration for the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan, which took place only a few months after its release. Inthe Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film consists of two parts of similar length. The first part closes with the assassination of Abraham Lincolnafter which there is an intermission. At the More info York premiere, Dixon spoke on stage between the parts, reminding the audience Modrrnism the dramatic version of The Clansman appeared in that venue nine years previously.

Dixon also observed that he would have allowed none but the son of a Confederate soldier to direct the film version of The Clansman. The film follows two juxtaposed families.

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One is the Northern Stonemans: abolitionist U. Representative Austin Stoneman based on the Reconstruction-era Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania[19] [20] his daughter, and two sons. The other is the Southern Camerons: Dr. Cameron, his wife, their three sons and two daughters. Phil, the elder Stoneman son, falls in love with Margaret Cameron, during the brothers' visit to the Cameron estate in South Carolinarepresenting the Old South.

When the Civil War arrives, the young men of both families enlist in their respective armies. The younger Stoneman and two of the Cameron brothers are killed in combat.

Meanwhile, the Cameron women are rescued by Confederate soldiers who rout a black militia after an attack on the Cameron home.]