One reel -- from eight to twelve minutes -- became the standard length from the year of Robbery, 1903, until Griffith shattered that limit forever with Birth Of A Nation in 1915.

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There were widespread protests against The Birth of a Nation, and it was banned in several cities.

The Birth of a Nation was used as a recruiting tool for the KKK.

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He is best known as the director of the epic 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance ( 1916 ).

Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film in the United States.

Title screen from Birth of a Nation.

Through Reliance-Majestic Studios, Griffith produced The Clansman ( 1915 ), which would later be known as The Birth of a Nation.

Historically, The Birth of a Nation was the first blockbuster.

What became known as the popular ' classical Hollywood ' style of editing was developed by early European and American directors, in particular D. W. Griffith in his films such as The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance.

The biggest success of these years was D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), made for Triangle.

As for Griffith, in Birth of a Nation there are just eight cuts to reverse-angle shots in the scene in Ford's Theatre, while elsewhere throughout the two-and-a-half hour length of this film there are only four more true reverse-angle cuts.

* 1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.

Bestselling author Pat Conroy, in his preface to the novel, describes Mitchell's portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as having " the same romanticized role it had in The Birth of a Nation and appears to be a benign combination of the Elks Club and a men's equestrian society.

Mitchell read the books of Thomas Dixon, Jr., and in 1916, when the silent film, The Birth of a Nation, was showing in Atlanta, she dramatized Dixon's The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire ( 1907 ).

Another of the early fictional films to be used for propaganda was The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), although it was not produced for the purposes of indoctrination.

Starting with the mostly original score composed by Joseph Carl Breil for D. W. Griffith's groundbreaking epic The Birth of a Nation ( USA, 1915 ) it became relatively common for the biggest-budgeted films to arrive at the exhibiting theater with original, specially composed scores.

Scene from The Birth of a Nation

John Wesley originally called this experience the New Birth.

Birth rates were originally measured by the ‘ Crude Birth Rate ’ – births per year in population per every thousand people.

John Wesley originally called this experience the New Birth.

These recordings, originally issued as 78 rpm records, were later compiled as Birth of the Cool ( 1957 ).

This is reflected in a proposition of his version of Pancasila he proposed to the Investigating Committee for the Preparation for Independence, in which he originally espoused them in a speech known as " The Birth of the Pancasila " on June 1, 1945:

Birth and death records show that his father's name was originally Puxley but he preferred the name Purley.

The pamphlet was published originally by Oliver Layton Press, New York ; Kupferberg also printed it under his publishing label, Birth Press, and an illustrated version from Grove Press came out in 1967.

Consequently, Nestorius argued that the Virgin Mary should be called Christotokos, Greek for " Birth Giver of Christ ", and not Theotokos, Greek for " Birth Giver of God ".

From 1 September 2010, Robinson hosted a new series on National Geographic Channel called Birth of Britain which was repeated on Channel 4 beginning in January 2011.

Fundamentalism is a movement, rather than a denomination or a systematic theology, which gained ascendance after the release of a ten-volume set of essays, apologetic and polemic, written by many well-known conservative Protestant theologians to defend what they saw as Protestant orthodoxy — covering a wide range of topics, from defenses of the Divinity of Jesus Christ, his Virgin Birth, of the historicity of Biblical narratives, Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, and of Biblical inerrancy against the prevalent higher-critical theories of the day, to the falsity of theological systems such as Christian Science, " Millennial Dawnism ", Mormonism, to the errors of " Romanism "— over the course of 1910-1915, called The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, from which the movement receives its eponymous name.

In La Crosse, Wisconsin, a newspaper reviewer called it a " masterpiece " and the " Biggest Spectacle in History of Motion Pictures ," surpassing even D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation :" The photoplay and the spoken drama will be united for the first time in ... the million dollar masterpiece of Thomas H. Ince ... ' Civilization ' is an encyclopedia of the emotions.

The combination of Ixchel with several aged midwives on the Birth Vase recalls the Tz ' utujil assembly of midwife goddesses called the ‘ female lords ’, the most powerful of whom is described as being particularly fearsome.

Their next album, recorded with Mike Mogis and released in 2004, was called Wet from Birth.

Capitol also developed a noted jazz line, including the Capitol Jazz Men, and issued the Miles Davis – led sessions called " Birth of the Cool ".

In 1922 a book was published called Birth Control by a Roman Catholic doctor, Halliday Gibson Sutherland.

The town gained notoriety in 1998, when Mayor Edwin Rivera Sierra traveled to Russia and acquired a huge statue of Christopher Columbus called " Birth of the New World ".

* The chapter called " Birth of a New School " and large sections of " Ezra Pound and the Measuring Worm ," " There is Never Any End to Paris ," and " Winter in Schruns " have all been re-added.

He had the first convention of the American Birth Control League raided, and later called its members " prophets of decadence ".

These painters were featured in a touring exhibition during 2008 called " The Birth of the Cool " in California museums along with midcentury design, music and film.

She wrote the three-act drama for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), which called for new works to rally public opinion against the recently released film, The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ).

Less attracted to pop music, Spiegl once called the Beatles phenomenon " the greatest confidence trick since the Virgin Birth ".

Dobbs was the author of a four-volume history / memoir of the Minneapolis struggles, Teamster Rebellion, Teamster Power, Teamster Politics & Teamster Bureaucracy, and had completed two volumes of a planned history of the Marxist movement in the United States at the time of his death, called Revolutionary Continuity: The Early Years, 1848-1917 & Birth of the Communist Movement, 1918-1922.

Wesker wrote a book chronicling the entire process from initial submissions and rejections of the play through to rehearsals, Zero's death, and the disappointment of the critical reception for the Broadway opening called The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel.

* The Birth of Japan ( 日本誕生, Nippon Tanjō ), also called The Three Treasures ( 1959 )

Wesker wrote a book chronicling the out-of-town tribulations that beset the play and culminated in Zero's death called The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel.

The play's author, Arnold Wesker, wrote a book chronicling the out-of-town tribulations that beset the play and Mostel's death called " The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel.

Starscream first appears in episodes # 1 of Beast Wars Second, called " The Birth of a New Army.

Most of these were based on the earliest infancy gospels, namely the Infancy Gospel of James ( also called the " Protoevangelium of James ") and Infancy Gospel of Thomas, and on their later combination into the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew ( also called the " Infancy Gospel of Matthew " or " Birth of Mary and Infancy of the Saviour ").