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"The Birth of a Nation" 249
for they afterward fixed the titles up to suit themselves in good old New Yorkese.
Mr. Griffith's connection with the Mutual Film organization and his association with H. E. Aitken resulted in the production of such eventful and popular pictures as "The Tell ale Heart," "Home, Sweet Home," "The Escape," "The Avenging Conscience," and "The Battle of the Sexes." The Clara Morris home out on Riverdale Road served as a studio until the 29 Union Square Place was acquired.
Billy Bitzer, D. W.'s photographer, went with him in his new affiliation, as also did Frank Woods and Christy Cabanne. As Mr. Griffith's work with the Mutual became organized, one by one he took over his old actors, but he left them working with Biograph until he could put them directly into a picture. So they trailed along; Henry Walthall, Blanche Sweet, James Kirkwood, Mae Marsh, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Eddie Dillon, and many others.
After a short time at the Mutual studio, Mr. Griffith and his company went to California. At the old Kinemacolor lot they encamped, the Mutual having taken over that studio. The carpenters got busy right away, and soon little one-story wooden buildings crowded to the sidewalk's edge, and the place began to look like a factory. The sprinkling can that had given sustenance to red geraniums and calla lilies was needed no more.
Now before the Kinemacolor Company had started work at Whitestone they had held a contract with George H. Brennan and Tom Dixon for the production in color of Tom Dixon's "The Clansman." The idea was that the dramatic company touring through the Southern States in