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The Story of David Waik Griffith
back to my memory the stories a cousin, one Thurston Griffith, had told me oi the ku Klu\ Rlan.' and that regional impulse that comes to all men from the earth where they had their being stirred potently at my imagination.
"But there was nothing of personal exhilaration required to make a picture out of that theme; few others like it in subject ami power can be found, for it had all the deep incisive emotionalism of the highest patriotic sentiment.
"1 wouldn't say that the story part of that picture can ever be excelled, but as for
the picture itself, there will be others made that will make it appear archaic in comparison.
"For the feature picture has just begun to come into its own : my personal idea is that the minor pictures have had their day ; _.. the two and three and four
^^tf| ^^ reel ones are passing, if not
gone.
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Mary Alden (The mulatto)
Ralph Lewis (Stoneman) 9
"As I worked =the co mmercial side of the venture was lost to my view ; I felt
driven to tell the story — the truth about the South, touched by its eternal romance which I had learned to know so well.
"I may be pardoned for saying that now I believe I did succeed in a measure in accomplishing that ambition.
"It all grew as we went! I had no scenario, and never looked again at
BOme few notes 1 made as 1 read the
book, and which 1 read to inv company before we began. Naturally the whole
, was firmlj in mj mind, and possibly the personal exuberance oi which 1 have told you enabled nie to amplil\ and to im
plant in the scenes something ^\ the deep feeling I experienced in thai epo< h that had meant everything, and then had left nothing to my nearest, my kin. and those about me.
"There was not a stage star in my com pain; 'Little Colonel' Walthall had been OUt with Henry Miller, and had achieved some reputation, though by no means of stellar sort. Possibly he felt a bit of the impulse of locality, for his father was a Confederate colonel.
"Miriam Cooper, the elder Cameron sister, was a perfect type of the beauty prevalent below the Mason and Dixon line, and Mae Marsh was from the same part of the Union, while Spottiswoode Aitken — 'Dr. Cameron' — was related to a large group of distinguished Southern families.
"These people were not picked because of place of birth or of their personal feeling about the story ; still, it was a fortunate incident that they were what they were; it is hard to figure exactly how far what is bied in the bone will shine through the
mind.
"The casting frankly was all done by types ; M i s s
Henry Walthall (Ben Cameron)
Geo. Siegmann (Silas Lynch)