Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, March 7

Students finished their checklists of techniques in Birth o9f a Nation while we almost finished watching the film. The glorious Invisible Empire (to the strains of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries")had rescued Elsie Stoneman from Silas Lynch's vile clutches and rescued the Aryan brothers, Northern and Southern, from the marauding crazed negroes, and the two pairs of Stoneman/Cameron lovers had united in a double wedding ceremony. Only the final mystic vision of a peaceful Christian Aryan nation, and the choral singing of our national anthem, remains for Tuesday.