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Griffiths Great Idea Behind 18 000 Actors Civil War Epic
The article profiles D W Griffith and his film project The Clansman an epic Civil War reconstruction drama that used about 18 thousand actors and 3 thousand horses To portray authentic battles and Southern towns with a production staff building theaters towns and battlefields while Griffin explains his aim is to depict the era without race bias and to elevate film as art
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D. W. Griffith
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Liberty Theater
New York
David Wark Griffith
Thomas Dixon
War Department
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Lincoln
Mr. Griffith
Mr. Griffith Lane
Kentucky
Jacob Wark Griffith
Daniel Griffith
Moving Picture Corporation
Watch
Virginia
Literary Society
Louisville
Shakespeare
Charles Hoyt
Gertrude Coghlan
Walker Whitesides
Nance O'Neil
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James K. Hackett
Pippa
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Enoch Arden
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Jerusalem
Judith
Ku Klux Klan
Louisiana
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Sherman
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