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...Place. In Fieldsboro, N.J., Mayor Charles Griffith and three councilmen, two months after election day, suddenly quit, grumbled: "We're not appreciated...
When Mary and Charlie, along with Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, set up U.A. in 1919, the idea was that U.A. would distribute films made independently by each of the partners. But, one by one, the original incorporators died off or stopped producing enough pictures to pay U.A.'s operating expenses. Mary and Charlie therefore began taking in new partners. But something always went wrong. Usually, Mary and Charlie thought the newcomers tried to run things too much their own way. So the newcomers had to go. In rapid succession, such notables as Sam Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, Alexander...
Last week the Museum's film students were well into a 67-week course called "The History of the Motion Picture (1895-1946)." They were seeing The Great Train Robbery (1903) and D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916), Chaplin's Easy Street (1917) and De Mille's Male & Female (1919). In coming weeks they will flock to see Valentino, The Big Parade with John...
Mary Pickford films are also scarce. The New York Hat, a 1912 Griffith-directed job, is a Museum favorite. But Miss Pickford has promised to give a selection of her later films to the Library of Congress...
Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith's 1915 melodrama featuring Lillian Gish, carpetbagging and Ku Kluxing in the Old South, has been voluntarily shelved by the Museum. Film Library officials, recalling that the picture started race riots in 1915 and again in 1921, admit the "greatness of the film" and "its artistic and historic importance." But because of "the potency of its anti-Negro bias . . . exhibiting it at this time of heightened social tensions cannot be justified." Students are advised that Birth of a Nation is still in the Museum's files and gets "limited circulation...