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Birth of a National Fantasy

Part III: Storytelling, Culture, Tech, & Hollywood
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The historic film, The Birth of a Nation was released in the early days of Hollywood on March 21, 1915. The film ran for 3 hours and 15 minutes. Tickets were sold for a whopping $2 in NYC movie houses (worth $60 today). It was the 1st ever film to be shown in the White House to the excitement of President Woodrow Wilson. Since then, it has appeared in countless film school textbooks.

This film is taught in schools because of its striking talent to rewrite history in order to shape the future. What about this movie is so historic? It is the film that rebirthed the Ku Klux Klan into its most vile form and is known as the most racist film in history.