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Photoplay Magazine
Here are some of the tremendous characters of "The Birth of a Nation. " Do you recognize them — out of the attire of '61 and in the garb of 1916? So powerful ivere these assumptions that each has since been associated ivith the personality of the player.
Miriam Cooper (Margaret Cameron)
Walter Long (Gus)
the cabinet, Miss Wilson, and the wives and daughters of the cabinet ministers.
On the following evening a similar production was made attended by the Chief Justice and Associate justices of the supreme court, the diplomatic corps, and senators and congressmen — an audience of five hundred.
In recording the history of this picture, Frank Woods again takes the center of the stage as the moving movie. Impulse.
It was in 1913 that Mr. Woods suggested to Mr. Griffith the value of the Dixon book as a feature picture.
A year or so before, based on a scenario by Mr. Woods, the Kinemacolor people had made what was called a "Clansman" film.
But the picture was so bad. from the difficulties of photography, and lack of discriminating direction, that it was never assembled for exhibition.
Griffith inclined to the idea and re-read the book and — but here is his own little story of tlie undertaking:
"When Mr. Woods suggested 'The Clansman' to me as a subject it hit me hard ; I hoped at once that it could be done, for the story of the South had been absorbed into the very fibre of my being.
"Mr. Dixon wrote to me suggesting the project, and I re-read the book at once.
"There had been a picture made by an
Spottisuoode
Ait ken (Dr.
Cameron )
Mae Marsh (Flora Cameron)
other concern, but this
had been a failure ; as
the theme developed in
my mind, it fascinated
me until I arrived at
the point where I had
to make the picture; if I had known that
the result would mean disaster I do not
think it would have mattered to me ; truly I
never was sure that the result would be a
success ; that first night showing at the
Auditorium, if anyone had offered me just
a shade over what it had cost. I would have
taken the money just as quickly as I could
reach for it.
"There were several months lost in the negotiations for the rights, as by that time other producers had gained the same idea, like mvself. undeterred by one failure having already been made.
"As I studied the book, stronger and stronger came to work the traditions I had learned as a child : all that my father had told me. That sword I told you about became a flashing vision. Graduallv came