It was "Birth of a Nation" that made Griffith famous, although it was also somewhat notorious for the KKK. It was this "Parties and Diversity" that destroyed Griffith's career.
It was the first ambitious attempt in film history to challenge montage like Don Quixote. Can't say whether he won or not, the audience at the time lost. Without his experiments, however, the Soviet school of montage might have been altered by the fact that butterflies did not flap their wing discs. Maybe we won't see the battleship Potemkin, and the success of Coppola's Godfather II.
I saw this version, and different time and space render different colors. The poor filter effect and the vignetting around it are quite Lomo-like.
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