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...celluloid epic patterns set by D. W. Griffith in 1915 have changed very little: you just take some romantic, legendary, historical period like Reconstruction in the South, add a zesty love affair or three between ideal "period" characters to raise the story above documentary level, and interpret history in some engrossing way. Nowadays you also spend five million dollars or so and tell people movies are better than ever, in hope that you will make back the five million...
...laughable. But one wonders in just what spirit the theme was presented. Like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Birth of a Nation is based a good deal on fact; the South was terribly oppressed after the war, and the K.K.K. did begin as a messianic organization. But like Miss Stowe, Griffith selected and shaded his facts to slant his subject; the Negroes especially suffer under his direction: with the exception of a few loyal, sensitive family retainers, all Negroes are coarse, crazed, slovenly animals. In conveying the impression that people are the same now, Griffith's Reconstruction becomes an actuality...
...operation of the device, Griffith explained, is based on Reich's principles of the behavior of the energy. Orgone is attracted to both organic and metallic materials, but is absorbed by organic matter, while being repulsed on contact with metals...
...three, Jeremy H. Griffith '60, Paul A. Jordan '60, and George W. Benedict '60, built the accumulator after reading a book by Dr. Wilheim Reich, "discoverer of orgone energy." Reich is also the author of several books on psychology...
Some people, Griffith noted, can feel the flow of orgone from the box in the form of heat or in a "cool, refrehing prickling" feeling, and some feel mild electric currents at the discharge tube...