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The birth of a nation : the birth of a race /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: TDVD9138 | TritonPublisher: Burbank, CA : Triton Multimedia, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Edition: [Special edition]Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 200 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1584480432
  • 9781584480433
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (expression): Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946. Clansman
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.H5 B5 2000
Online resources: Production credits:
  • Birth of a nation: Compilations and editing of the 1915/1921 scores, R.J. Miller ; additional original music, R.J. Miller. Birth of a race: scenario by John W. Nobel, Rudolph DeCordova, George Frederic Wheeler ; directed and supervised by John W. Nobel ; photography by Herbert O. Carleton ; animated paintings and art titles by Ferdinand Pinney Earle ; music by Joseph Breil.
Cast: Birth of a nation: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Seigmann, Walter Long.Summary: The story of two families, North and South, who are caught up in the Civil War and then the Reconstruction period. Includes an abbreviated version of "The birth of a race" (1918) which was conceived as a protest against the racism of "Birth of a nation."
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-03102 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050305420

1990 videodisc release of the 1915 motion picture.

Adapted from Thomas Dixoon's novel, The clansman.

"This edition has been digitally transferred from the finest 35mm print at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. While not a formal restoration of the 1915 edition ... it has been transferred at the correct frame rate of 16 fps with authentic color tones electronically re-created. The original score by Joseph Broil has been compiled and reorchestrated by RJ Miller, recorded and remixed completely in the digital domain"--Container.

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