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Birth of a nation

Title: Birth of a nation [motion picture] / Epoch Producing Corporation ; directed by D. W. Griffith.
Publication: New York : Museum of Modern Art, c1915.

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	C.5 REEL 4 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print]	Moving image	By appointment only	M16 1776 B C.5 REEL 4 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print] C.5 REEL 4 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print]	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	C.3 REEL 3 OF 3	Moving image	By appointment only	M16 1776 B C.3 REEL 3 OF 3 C.3 REEL 3 OF 3	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	C.5 REEL 3 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print]	Moving image	By appointment only	M16 1776 B C.5 REEL 3 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print] C.5 REEL 3 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print]	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	C.3 REEL 2 OF 3	Moving image	By appointment only	M16 1776 B C.3 REEL 2 OF 3 C.3 REEL 2 OF 3	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	C.5 REEL 2 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print]	Moving image	By appointment only	M16 1776 B C.5 REEL 2 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print] C.5 REEL 2 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print]	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	C.3 REEL 1 OF 3	Moving image	By appointment only	M16 1776 B C.3 REEL 1 OF 3 C.3 REEL 1 OF 3	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	C.5 REEL 1 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print]	Moving image	By appointment only	M16 1776 B C.5 REEL 1 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print] C.5 REEL 1 OF 4 [Tinted and Toned Print]	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.		Moving image	By appointment only	M16 1776 B	Performing Arts Research Collections - Reserve Film and Video
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.		Moving image	By appointment only	M16 1776 B	Performing Arts Research Collections - Reserve Film and Video

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Description

3 film reels (190 min.): si. col.; 16 mm.

Summary

Portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War in a story of two families who fought on opposite sides. Depicts the war itself, the conflict between the defeated southerners and the emancipated blacks, the carpetbagger period and the beginning of the Ku Klux Klan.

Subjects

Note

Based on Thomas Dixon's play and novel, The Clansmen.
Project at silent speed.

Credits (note)

Camera, Billy Bitzer.

Performer (note)

Lillian Gish, Henry Walthall, Mae Marsh ... [et al.]

Title

Birth of a nation [motion picture] / Epoch Producing Corporation ; directed by D. W. Griffith.

Imprint

New York : Museum of Modern Art, c1915.

Cast

Lillian Gish, Henry Walthall, Mae Marsh ... [et al.]

Credits

Camera, Billy Bitzer.

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Added Author

Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993.

Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948, film producer.

Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948, film director.

Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale), 1878-1936.

Marsh, Mae, 1895-1968.

Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946. Clansman.

Epoch Producing Corporation.

Branch Call Number

MP 792.9 B

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