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Title The birth of a nation.

Publication Info. St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada : Madacy Entertainment Group, [1915]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD BIRTH OF A NATION    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD BIRTH    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (videodisc) (175 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Series Hollywood classics
Hollywood classics.
Note Videodisc release of the 1915 motion picture.
Based on the novel The clansman by Thomas Dixon.
Silent dialog with music and English subtitles.
Credits Director/producer, D.W. Griffith ; writers, D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods ; photography, William Bitzer ; original score, Joseph Breil ; score compiled and reorchestrated by R.J. Miller.
Performer Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden.
Summary A civil war spectacular that portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War. The story depicts 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.
Note For specific features see interactive menu.
System Details DVD format.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject War films -- Videodiscs.
Silent films -- Videodiscs.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
Added Author Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948.
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993.
Marsh, Mae, 1895-1968.
Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale), 1878-1936.
Cooper, Miriam.
Alden, Mary, 1883-1946.
ISBN 0778604292
9780778604297
Music No. DVD9 9263 Madacy Entertainment
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