New York: The Epoch Producing Corporation, [1915].
Price: $500.00
Softcover. Deluxe souvenir program. Illustrated with photos from the film. Frontispiece portrait of Griffith. Quarto. String-tied with outer decorative wrappers over paper wrappers with title and illustration in gilt and pale blue on front. Tidemarks along the foredge, light bumping to the yapped corners and with some creases and chips to the decorative wraps, very good. [With]: Program from the Illinois Theatre of Chicago. Octavo. [4]pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers with oxidation to the staples.
Two programs for the D.W. Griffith film, *The Birth of a Nation*, based on the Thomas Dixon novel *The Clansman*, which helped popularize the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that portrayed the South States as victim of Northern aggression and the Ku Klux Klan as tragic heroes. The film's popularity helped contributed to a resurgence in the hate group during the early part of the 20th Century. While a landmark film, due to its epic scale, sweeping battle recreation, and technical achievements, it was a controversial film upon its release and remains so today.
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