D.W. Griffith, the Gish Sisters and the origin of "Hollywood Babylon" (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 1)
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The Birth of a Nation by Gritith
Griffith's second bid for immortality would be called intolerance. It was not a plea for racial tolerance. If any coherent message could be ted to this epic film, it's that griffith was striking back at critics who had been intolerant of the birth of a nation. In the one quarter of in lerance set in modern times, griffith would make villains out of social workers who take a mother's child away,. believing they know what's in the heroine's best interest. But their intervention has tragic consequences. This segment, originally titled the mother and the law, was supposed to be the whole of griffith's follow up to the birth ofa nation. After he
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