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1. Artwork on the connotation not only entertains Civil War films as white racism
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3. Technically, close-up large vista cross clip
The bringing of the African to America planted the first seed of disunion.
With a father who was a Confederate war hero, Griffith's political philosophy was inevitably influenced.
The contradiction between plantation and industry
In the Civil War of 1861-1865, the southern army was completely defeated. After a hundred years of "American Civil War films", the Americans were unable to get out of the influence of the war.
As a civil war movie,
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civil war movie
The beautiful and harmonious black slaves in the South before the war were industrious
Justice for Southerners at War
This was the "real" Civil War in Griffith's mind: the good lives of innocent Southerners were destroyed in a crushing war waged by brutal Northerners.
Whether it was the overwhelming popularity of "National Birthday" by the American masses at the time ($18 million at the box office, $2 per show), or the notorious history of racial discrimination. There is no denying the milestone significance of "Birth".
From "Birth", the film is no longer a short film just for entertainment, but a serious art that expresses connotation.
Aside from Griffith's alleged prejudice about the Klan, which was influenced by the Civil War, this film's exploration of narrative film language and editing techniques (Soviet montage) photography can be said to be the early pinnacle of pioneering.
As early as 1903, Potter (Edison's assistant)
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Including the enlarged round hole at the beginning of each lens and the narrowed round hole at the end, it has the effect of fading in and fading out. circle in circle out
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The two armies confront each other
Lincoln assassinated
convenes congress
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