date:
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 8:30pm
Location(s)
Walt Whitman Arts Center
2nd & Cooper Streets
Camden, NJ, 08102
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Writing History With Lightning by Charlotte Burger
Explores the impact of America's first feature film: D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic, "The Birth of a Nation." A stylistically innovative film, it overnight turned movies from a cheap novelty into a respected art form. At the same time, it unleashed a firestorm of controversy that tested the fragile state of race relations in early 20th century America. (USA, 2007, 10 min)
