Film Studies Daily Log

Wednesday, September 24

We watched The Girl and her Trust, a 1912 two-reeler from Biograph, directed by D.W. Griffith, remarking on the greater sophistication and, especially, character development when compared to the equally melodramatic Great Train Robbery.

We then turned to the next full-length film, Griffith's hugely influential and poisonously racist Birth of A Nation.

HW due Thursday: Read the handout with information on Birth and come to class prepared to be quizzed on it.