“Race Movies”
    1910 William Foster
        First Black Film Company
    1916 Lincoln Pictures
        Noble Johnson
        1921 By Right of Birth
    1905 Oscar Micheaux
        Homesteader in North Dakota
        1918 Lincoln Pictures offers to buy his book “The Homesteader”
            John Baptist & Agnes
    “One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man can be anything”
    1920 Within Our Gates
    1925 Body and Soul
        Paul Robeson
    1931 Exile
        Micheaux only race film maker to make the transition to sound
    1935 Murder in Harlem
    1939 God’s Stepchildren
        Picketed by the Young Communist Party

Other Reaction

    1869 KKK disbanded
    1915 KKK sees new life
    The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America
        “The integrity of free speech and publication was not attacked seriously in this country until the arrival of the motion picture, when this new art was seized by the powers of intolerance as an excuse for an assault on our liberties.”

    1916 Intolerance
        The Mother and the Law
        Four Stories
            6 BC Babylon
            Crucifixion
            16 AD French Catholics slaughter Huguenots
            Modern Day

        Influences
            1914 Cabiria - Giovanni Pastrone
            San Francisco Exhibition
            Paintings
            Thoughts of Love
            Special fX
                Moving Camera
                Yuck
                Temple of Love
            Research
            Cross Cutting/Intercutting
                Parallels and consistencies through time and behavior
                Continuity no longer just physical or psychological - conceptual and thematic
        It did not work!

1918 Hearts of the World
1919 United Artists
    Douglas Fairbanks
    Mary Pickford
    Charles Chaplin
1919 Broken Blossoms
    Hendrik Sortov
1920 The Love Flower
    Carol Dempster
    Lost at Sea
Mamaroneck
1920 Way Down East
    Chilly
    Dummies
1930 Abraham Lincoln
1931 The Struggle
1935 Honorary Oscar
1940 Hal Roach’s One Million BC
Evelyn Baldwin
1948 The End . . .