The Birth of a Nation

January 26, 2011
The Birth of a Nation
Call Number: DVD00682
by  D W Griffith; Frank E Woods; G W Bitzer; Lillian Gish; Mae Marsh; Ralph Lewis; Wallace Reid; Henry B Walthall; Thomas Dixon; Alpha Video Distributors.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Narberth, PA : Alpha Video, 2005
Notes: Approx. 192 min. Black and white. Silent film. Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1915. Based on the novel The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon.
Summary: Recounts the events leading up to and immediately fter the Civil War. Ben Cameron, a brave yet disillusioned Confederate soldier, creates a covert group of impassioned Southerners called the Ku Klux Klan as an answer to the supposed problem of the rise and rule of blacks and carpetbaggers. Bent on revenge, Ben leads his KKK followers in a war to suppress the black threat to white society, ultimately restoring “order” to his beloved South
OCLC #: 60756779
Added: January, 26 2011
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True Heart Susie

October 27, 2010
True Heart Susie
Call Number: DVD00552
by D W Griffith; Marian Fremont; Grenville Warwick; Lloyd Ingraham; Lillian Gish; Robert Harron; Clarine Seymour; Wilbur Higby; Loyola O’Connor; Mae Marsh; William H Brown; Mildred Harris; G W Bitzer; Rodney Sauer; Fine Arts Film Company.; Triangle Film Corporation.; Image Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English  
Publisher: Chatsworth, CA : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, [2007]
Notes: Silent film made in 1919 (62 mins Black & White); Includes bonus film: Hoodoo Ann
Summary: True heart Susie: A young girl sells the family cow to anonymously finance her sweetheart’s education, only to find he’s left her for a modern woman.
OCLC #: 14936834, 171037027
Added: October 27, 2010
Also: available on VHS at VHS00010
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Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages

June 1, 2009

Intolerance
Call Number: VHS00919

VHS00919 Copy 2
by D W Griffith; Anita Loos; G W Bitzer; Mae Marsh; Robert Harron; F A Turner; Sam De Grasse; Vera Lewis; Miriam Cooper; Walter Long; Tom Wilson; Ralph Lewis; Lloyd Ingraham; A W McClure; John McCarthy; Howard Gaye; Lillian Langdon; Olga Grey; Erich von Ritzau; Bessie Love; William H Brown; George Walsh; Margery Wilson; Eugene Pallette; Spottiswoode Aitken; Ruth Handforth; Frank Bennett; Constance Talmadge; Joseph Henabery; Elmer Clifton; W E Lawrence; Alfred Paget; Seena Owen; Tully Marshall; Lillian Gish;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Republic Pictures Home Video, [1991]
Notes: Originally released in 1916 (123 mins.);
Summary: Legendary director D.W. Griffith masterfully interweaves four stories of intolerance through the ages in the sweeping 1916 epic, his personal outcry against the bloodshed of World War I. The common theme of man’s inhumanity to man unites tales depicting the fall of Babylon, the life of Christ, St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of the Huguenots and a modern crime story. All four resolve simultaneously in one powerful heart-stopping climax of images and emotions.
OCLC #: 52451208
Added: June 1, 2009
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Abraham Lincoln

January 29, 2009
D.W. Griffith presents Abraham Lincoln
Call Number: DVD00017 Copy 1
DVD00017 Copy 2
by Stephen Vincent Benét; D W Griffith; Walter Huston; Miracle Pictures (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [United States?] : Miracle Pictures, 2002.
Notes: Originally released in 1930 (97 mins.);
Summary: Directed by D.W. Griffith, this Lincoln effort was one of the great talking films of the post-silent film era. These brief vignettes about Lincoln’s early life include his birth, early jobs, his affair with Ann Rutledge, his courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln/Douglas debates. His presidency and the Civil War are followed in more detail, and the film concludes with the assassination.
OCLC #: 61726946
Added: January 29, 2009
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Way Down East

December 31, 2008
Way Down East: A Simple Story of Plain People
Call Number: VHS00655 Copy 1
VHS00655 Copy 2
VHS00655 Copy 3
by D W Griffith; Lillian Gish; Richard Barthelmess; Lowell Sherman; Lottie Blair Parker; Joseph Rhode Grismer
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Copy 1: Burbank, CA : Viking Video Classics, ©1986.; Copy 2 New York : Kino International Corp., [1992], ©1920. Copy 3: Nutley, N.J. : Griggs-Moviedrome, 198-?
Notes: Originally released in 1920 (Copy 1: 110 mins.; Copy 2: 149 mins.; Copy 3: 108 mins.); Based on the novel and William A. Brady’s play by Lottie Blair Parker; both editions are tinted;
Summary: A young orphan girl is seduced and has a baby which dies. She is taken on as a servant by a farming family, but when her guilty past is revealed the farmer turns her out of the house into the wintry countryside. The girl almost drowns, but is rescued by the farmer’s son who marries her.
OCLC #: Copy 1: 16396157; Copy 2: 28522982; Copy 3: 21062557
Added: December 31, 2008
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley & Selected Biograph Shorts 1912-1913

December 30, 2008
The Masterworks of D.W. Griffith: The Musketeers of Pig Alley and Selected Biograph Shorts, 1912-1913
Call Number: VHS00615
by D W Griffith; G W Bitzer; Mae Marsh; Blanche Sweet;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Kino Video, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released between 1912 – 1913 (117 mins.);
Chapters: The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) — The Burglar’s dilemma (1912) — The Sunbeam (1912) — The Painted lady (1912) — One is business, the other crime (1912) — Death’s marathon (1912) — The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913).
OCLC #: 28228681
Added: December 30, 2008
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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

December 15, 2008
Broken Blossoms
Call Number: VHS00500 Copy 1
VHS00500 Copy 2
by D W Griffith; Lillian Gish; Donald Crisp; Richard Barthelmess; Thomas Burke; Viking Video Classics.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Copy 1: [Burbank, CA] : Viking Video Classics, [1986]; Copy 2: New York, NY : HBO Video, ©1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1919 (71 mins.); Based on the story The Chink and the child, from Thomas Burke’s Limehouse nights; Silent with music track added;
Summary: A pioneering work about interracial love: A Chinese youth in London takes in a brutalized girl who collapses in his shop after having been beaten by her father, and shows her the only kindness she has ever known. When she is killed by her enraged father, the Chinese kills the man and then takes his own life
OCLC #: Copy 1: 42482860, Copy 2: 42479135
Added: December 15, 2008
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Abraham Lincoln

Walter Huston in D.W. Griffith’s Abraham Lincoln
Call Number: VHS00481
by Stephen Vincent Benét; D W Griffith; Walter Huston; Blackhawk Films.; GoodTimes Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Goodtimes Home Video Corp., 1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1930 (97 mins);
Summary: Dramatization of the life of Abraham Lincoln.
OCLC #: 17545488
Added: December 15, 2008
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The Mary Pickford Collection of Early Silent Short Subjects

November 20, 2008
The Mary Pickford Collection of Early Silent Short Subjects
Call Number: VHS00382
by  Mary Pickford; D W Griffith; Thomas H Ince; Independent Film Exchange.; Biograph Company.; Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.);
Format: VHS
Language: English 
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Hollywood’s Attic, ©1996.
Notes: Originally produced as short motion pictures between 1909 and 1918 (85 mins.); In old Madrid: Independent Film Exchange ; director, Thomas H. Ince (1911). Lonely villa: Biograph Company ; director, D. W. Griffith (1909). Sweet memories: Independent Film Exchange (1911). Her first biscuits: Biograph Company ; director/writer, D. W. Griffith (1909). The female of the species, a psychological tragedy: Biograph Company ; director, D. W. Griffith (1912). 100% Canadian: National War Finance Committee (1918). The New York hat: Biograph Company ; director, D. W. Griffith (1912). The violin maker of Cremona: Biograph Company ; director, D. W. Griffith (1909). 1776, or, The Hessian renegades: Biograph Company ; director, D. W. Griffith (1909);
Chapters: In old Madrid (11 min.) — Lonely villa (8 min.) — Sweet memories (10 min.) — Her first biscuits (6 min.) — The female of the species (10 min.) — 100% Canadian (7 min.) — The New York hat (10 min.) — The violin maker of Cremona (10 min.) — 1776, or, The Hessian renegades (10 min.).
OCLC #: 39510554
Added: November 20, 2008
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The Orphans of the Storm

November 13, 2008
The Orphans of the Storm
Call Number: DVD00385 Copy 1
DVD00385 Copy 2
by D W Griffith; Lillian Gish; Dorothy Gish; Monte Blue; Joseph Schildkraut; Adolphe d’ Ennery; Image Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Copy 1: [S.l.] : Image Entertainment, ©1998.; Copy 2: Narberth, PA : Alpha Video, 2003.
Notes: Originally released in 1921 (150 mins.); Edition features digitally restored orchestral score – arranged and performed by Brian Benson; Adapted from “The two orphans” by A. D’Ennery;
Summary: Two sisters are caught up in the French revolution of 1789.
OCLC #: Copy 1: 41303135; Copy 2: 56091742
Added: November 13, 2008
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

November 6, 2008
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Call Number: VHS00308
by D W Griffith; Lillian Gish; Mae Marsh; Alfred Paget; Kartes Video Communications.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Indianapolis, IN : Kartes Video Communications, 1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1913 (25 mins.);
Summary: The Battle at Elderbush Gulch begins with Mae Marsh and her little sister meeting Lillian Gish and her family on the stagecoach bound for the frontier settlement of Elderbush Gulch. The girls’ arrival is welcomed with enthusiasm until the ranch foreman for their uncle, with whom they’ve come to live, refuses to let them keep their puppies in the house. Left outside, the pups run away and fall into the hands of two young Indians who, amazed at their good fortune, prepare to eat them. Marsh’s screams alert her uncle, who comes running with his gun and shoots one of the braves. Unfortunately, the victim turns out to be the son of the chief. To avenge the death of his son, the chief organizes an attack on Elderbush Gulch.
OCLC #: 15503347
Added: November 5, 2008
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The Birth of a Nation

October 28, 2008
The Birth of a Nation
Call Number: VHS 00025 Copy 1
VHS 00025 Copy 2
VHS 00025 Copy 3
VHS 00025 Copy 4
by D W Griffith; Thomas Dixon;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:
Copy 1,2: Los Angeles, CA : Republic Pictures Home Video, [1991]
Copy 3: New York, NY: Kino Video, 1993, ©1915.
Copy 4: Indianapolis, Ind. : Kartes Video Communications, [198-?]
 
Notes: Originally released in 1915 (154 mins.)
 
Copy 3 edition notes: includes a 30-minute epilogue with rare stills and outtake footage
 
Copy 4 edition notes: 94 mins.,This collector’s edition of The Birth of a Nation was made from a 1933 print produced under the personal supervision of D.W. Griffith. It includes the orginal musical score for the movie which was adapted by Griffith to the 24 frames-per-second running speed needed for sound
 
Summary: A civil war spectacular that portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War. The story depicts the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade blacks, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man’s honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan.
OCLC #: 24232563
Added: October 28, 2008
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Home Sweet Home

October 16, 2008
Home Sweet Home
Call Number: VHS00111
by D W Griffith; Lillian Gish; Dorothy Gish; John Howard Payne;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: [Sandy Hook, Conn.] : Video Yesteryear, ©1985.
Notes: Originally released in 1914 (76 mins.); Edition includes one program note-card featuring a photo of Lillian Gish; Silent film with musical accompianment of Rosa Rio at the Hammond Organ;
Summary: The biographical sketch of a dissipated young man (reputedly John Howard Payne) is followed by three vignettes, each illustrating how Payne’s title song inspired people to strengthen their weakening morals.
OCLC #: 19932898
Added: October 16, 2008
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Judith of Bethulia

October 14, 2008
Judith of Bethulia
Call Number: VHS00123 Copy 1
VHS00123 Copy 2
VHS00123 Copy 3
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; John Howard Payne; D W Griffith; Lillian Gish; Dorothy Gish; 
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Copy 1: Unknown; Copy 2: Phoenix, AZ : Grapevine Video, , [198-?]; Copy 3: Los Angeles, Calif. : Republic Pictures Home Video, 1992
Notes: Originally released in 1914 (55 mins); first edition of unknown origin; second edition made by Grapevine Videos;  Silent film with organ score performed by Gaylord Carter;
Summary: Based on the narrative poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich in which a wealthy and pious Jewish widow disguises herself as a courtesan, goes to the camp of the Assyrian general who is besieging her city, and cuts off his head.
OCLC #: 26320141; Copy 3: 26320141
Added: October 14, 2008
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True Heart Susie

September 12, 2008
True Heart Susie
Call Number: VHS00010
by D W Griffith; Lillian Gish;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Richmond, Va. : Moore Video
Notes: Silent film made in 1919 (62 mins);
Summary: Susie is a country girl and William is a country boy. The girl loves the boy and will sacrifice anything to give him true happiness and an opportunity to realize his ambitions. She makes sacrifices unknown to him and he rises, while she remains just a country girl. She puts him beyond her reach, and within the reach of another who is chiefly interested in making a desirable marriage. He marries the other, never dreaming of the final sacrifice.
OCLC #: 14936834
Added: October 6, 2008
Also: available on DVD at DVD00552
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