Classic, controversial movie from 1915 (silent, naturally).
I’ve only seen clips. Thanks for the heads up. Is it 8 eastern?
of interest?
Great movie. I had it in a history of film class in college. The pretentious instructor got himself in a fine lather at how we were supposed to view this offensive movie. It was nice to have an easy a class instead of calc or physics for a change. That’s how the liberal arts students lived.
As for offensive, I only remember one scene where they did a fade from showing the white legislators in the Capitol to the black ones who were shown eating chicken when they faded to them. I don’t remember anything else offensive but I saw it almost 30 years ago. Yes, it was offensive seen in my, at the time, 1981’s eye but it was from 1915. So it’s hard to judge since we didn’t live at that time.
Worth watching again.
Man, I do remember how much I hated the teacher though. He couldn’t handle me finishing his final in the time it took me to read it. Man I hate liberal d-bag teachers. Still got an a. If I told him what I really thought of, “Citizen Kane” (overrated) I’m sure he would have dinged me.
I recorded it earlier. Incidentally, it appears the villian Gus (veteran D. W. Griffith heavy, Walter Long, in some sort of blackface) was not trying to rape the white woman, but she got frightened anyway and jumped to her death.
It’s been years since I had first seen it. Now I know where the Lost FReepers get some of their notions.