The birth of a nation D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation Clansman Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915) Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) 1875-1948 producer, director, screenwriter, presenter. Woods, Frank E. screenwriter. Bitzer, G. W. 1872-1944 director of photography. Breil, Joseph Carl 1870-1926 composer. Lanchbery, John composer (expression) Gish, Lillian 1893-1993 actor. Marsh, Mae 1895-1968 actor. Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale) 1878-1936 actor. Cooper, Miriam 1891-1976 actor. Alden, Mary 1883-1946 actor. Lewis, Ralph 1872-1937 actor. Reid, Wallace 1891-1923 actor. Stanbury, Patrick restorationist, writer of added commentary. David W. Griffith Corp production company. Twilight Time (Firm) publisher. Photoplay Productions restorationist, presenter. moving image videorecording Historical films. War films. Epic films. Film adaptations. Silent films. Feature films. Fiction films. Short films. Drama. Epic films. Feature films. Fiction films. Film adaptations. Historical films. History. Short films. Silent films. War films. cau 2018 Limited edition of 3000 units. monographic zxx videodisc 2 videodiscs (191 min.) : sound, tinted and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm) The epic story of two families, one Northern and one Southern, during and after the Civil War. D.W. Griffith's masterful direction combines brilliant battle scenes and tender romance with a vicious portrayal of African-Americans. disc 1. Feature film (the Photoplay Productions restoration) -- disc 2. Special features. Photoplay Productions presents ; Griffith Feature Films ; produced exclusively by D.W. Griffith ; production under the personal direction of D.W. Griffith ; D.W. Griffith presents ; story arranged by D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods. Based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon. Originally released as a motion picture in 1915. 1.33:1 aspect ratio. Restoration by Patrick Stanbury and the Photoplay Productions, taken from a tinted original print of the 1921 reissue of the 1915 The birth of a nation. Special features: Disc 1. 1930 sound reissue prologue (D.W. Griffith in conversation with Walter Huston, star of his 1930 sound film Abraham Lincoln); 1930 sound reissue intermission and introduction to act 2 (Huston recites sections from Woodrow Wilson's A history of the American people) -- Disc 2. Outtakes and original camera tests; Stills and collections gallery; Silent feature: The coward (1915 ; produced by Thomas H. Ince, directed by Reginald Barker ; released nine months after The Birth of a Nation premiered, this Civil War drama concerns the weak-willed son (Charles Ray) of a Southern officer (Frank Keenan), forced to enlist at gunpoint, and coming to terms with cowardice); Silent short: The rose of Kentucky (1911 ; directed by D.W. Griffith ; three years before shooting on Birth began, Griffith made his only other film featuring the Klan, in this case labeled the Night Riders, and cast as the villains); Silent short: Stolen glory (1912 ; directed by Mack Sennett ; Sennett, who had worked under Griffith at Biograph, had a great fondness for improvising comedy shorts around actual events, in this case a parade of the Grand Army of the Republic, the principal veterans organization for those who served in the Union Army during the Civil War); Silent short: The drummer of the 8th - original edit [and] Silent short: The drummer of the 8th - 2015 re-edit (1913 ; produced by Thomas H. Ince, directed by Jay Hunt ; presented in two versions. The re-edit shifts the position of later, seemingly out-of-order sequences encountered in the Library of Congress original negative holdings. Both cuts use all existing footage); The Birth of a nation score recording sessions in 5.1 audio; D.W. Griffith on Lux Radio Theater with Cecil B. DeMille; The birth of a nation: the legacy (directed, written and edited by John McCarty); The clansman: from stage to screen (directed and edited by Daniel Griffith); Text essay: We can never censor the past (by Kevin Brownlow); Text essay: The birth of a nation: the 2015 restoration (by Patrick Stanbury); Text essay: Fighting back: responding to The birth of a nation (by Ashley Clark). Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, Wallace Reid. Blu-ray; all regions; 1080p high definition; 5.1 and 2.0 DTS-HD MA. Silent film with music score and English intertitles. Director of photography, G.W. 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