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INTOLERANCE ( 1916 )
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The success of The Birth of a Nation had established Griffith as the industry's foremost producer— and had induced millions of people to take the movies seriously. Griffith now determined to make a picture that would far outdo his previous masterpieces and built a production that would give any studio pause even today. No one knew anything about the new picture, except that it was employing thousands of extras and a pretentious cast. The latter included Tully Marshall, Seena Owen, Sam DeGrasse, Elmer Clifton, Bessie Love, Joseph Henabery, Ralph Lewis, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Constance Talmadge, Erich von Stroheim, and Lillian Gish. In the picture above, Griffidi sits at the left. The girl behind the cameraman is Dorothy Gish, who probably dropped
in to kibitz.
Cooper is doing the acting.
BELOW
The new picture, released in the fall of 1916, was Intolerance. Griffith depicted the spirit of intolerance through the ages by means of four parallel stories: the fall of Babylon, the story of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots, and a modern story about capital and labor. To link the four stories he used Walt Whitman's lines "Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Uniter of here and hereafter," with Lillian Gish rocking a symbolic cradle. The set shown below— the court of Catherine de' Medici— is a good example of the detailed perfection of background and costumes. Catherine, played by Josephine Crowell, stands directly in the center.