Vanity Fair, Conde Nast’s most fashionable magazine reviewed D.W. Griffith’s film, The Birth of a Nation and gave a somewhat balanced account of the production. The journalist clearly recognized that the movie was “unfair to the Negro” yet “remarkable for it’s photography”.
Click here to read Lillian Gish’s memory of her days working on the movie…
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