D. W. Griffith,
The Birth of a Nation
(1915)
“ We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue—the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word—that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare. ”
D. W. Griffith,
The Birth of a Nation
(1915)
“ Copyright law abroad tends to consider the following people authors of a film:The principal director The screenwriter, and/or other writers of dialogue The composer/lyricist (if the film is accompanied by sound) The cinematographer By extension, the authors of any works that may serve as the basis for a film's plot The longest-living of these authors died in 1948, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. ”
D. W. Griffith,
The Birth of a Nation
(1915)
“ WOODROW WILSON ¶ "The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation.....until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country." WOODROW WILSON ¶ The uncrowned king.¶ The Executive Mansion of the Nation has shifted from the White House to this strange house on the Capitol Hill, ¶ Stoneman's protege, Silas Lynch, mulatto leader of the blacks. ”
