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D.W. Griffith, 1915, from Thomas Dixon's The Clansman. The Northern Stonemans and the Southern Camerons pass through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Lillian Gish is Elsie Stoneman. The last reels present the Ku Klux Klan as the restorer of white order. The NAACP protested in Los Angeles, New York, and Boston, where William Monroe Trotter led the campaign. Griffith and Billy Bitzer's parallel editing, irises, and battle staging became a working grammar for later features. The racism is in the plot and the images.
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In the list because she is in it. Elsie Stoneman, the senator's daughter, in a picture whose last reels present the Klan as rescue. The editing became grammar; the racism is the plot and the images. Watch her, and do not skip the rest. That is the condition of the film.
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