THE BIRTH OF A NATION

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• Birth of a Nation was originally called the Clansman.
• It was a highly controversial film.
• The portrayal of black men being played by white actors and painting their faces black.

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• The film was presented into two parts by an intermission.
• It was the first 12 reel film in America.
• The film tells a story about the relationship of two families in the American Civil War.

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• There were widespread African-American protests against The Birth of a Nation.
• The films release is also credited as being one of the events that inspired the formation of the second era.
• The association of president Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized

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• The Birth of a Nation, along with the trial and lyniching of Leo Frank for the 1913 murder of Mary Phangan in Atlanta.
• It was used as a recruiting tool for the K.K.K.
• Under President Woodrow Wilson, it was the first American motion picture to be screened at the White House.

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