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Title

  • Intolerance

Summary

  • Four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572.The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.

Names

  • Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948, direction, production, writing.
  • Loos, Anita, 1893-1981, writing.
  • Marsh, Mae, 1895-1968, cast.
  • Harron, Robert, 1894-1920, cast.
  • Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993 cast.
  • Cooper, Miriam, 1891-1976, cast.
  • Gaye, Howard, -1955, cast.
  • Love, Bessie, cast.
  • Pallette, Eugene, 1889-1954, cast.
  • Talmadge, Constance, 1898-1973, cast.
  • Owen, Seena, -1966, cast.
  • Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [United States : D.W. Griffith, Inc., 1970]

Headings

  • -  Poverty--Drama
  • -  Social problems--Drama
  • -  Jesus Christ--Miracles--Drama
  • -  Jesus Christ--Crucifixion--Drama
  • -  Jesus Christ--Teachings--Drama
  • -  Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572--Drama
  • -  Babylon (Extinct city)--Drama
  • -  Silent films

Genre

  • Features
  • Sociological films and programs

Notes

  • -  PA311-405 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: D.W. Griffith, Inc.; DCR 1970; PUB 26Aug70; REG 17Jun85; PA311-405.
  • -  Assistant directors, George Siegmann, W.S. Van Dyke ; titles, Anita Loos ; camera, G.W. Bitzer ; assistant camera, Karl Brown ; editors, James Smith, Rose Smith ; art direction, Frank Wortman.
  • -  Mae Marsh, Fred Turner, Robert Harron, Sam De Grasse, Miriam Cooper, Lillian Gish, Howard Gaye, Bessie Love, George Walsh, Margery Wilson, Eugene Pallette, Spottiswoode Aitkin, Ruth Handforth, Constance Talmadge, Alfred Paget, Seena Owen.
  • -  Title on copyright descriptive material: D.W. Griffith's Intolerance.
  • -  Originally released in the United States in 1916 by Wark Producing Corporation.
  • -  Per copyright descriptive material, this edition includes re-compilation, editing, subtitling, implatation of tints and synchronization of an original piano music score.
  • -  LC also holds other versions of this title.
  • -  Summary from The films of D.W. Griffith by E. Wagenknecht and A. Slide.
  • -  NCN010309; Intolerance.
  • -  Sources used: Moving picture world, v. 29.2, p. 1795 & 1950-1951; McGill's survey of cinema--silent films, v. 2, p. 570; AFI catalog, feature films, 1911-1920; Wagenknecht & Slide's The films of D.W. Griffith, p. 62-89; M/B/RS Subjects file; M/B/RS Descriptions file; COPICS data base.
  • -  ref print; Received: 4/15/88; copyright deposit--adv. sel.; Copyright Collection.
  • -  Not viewed; updated by qu22.
  • -  Running time, footages and contents of versions have not been verified and versions have not been compared.

Medium

  • 3 reels of 3 (ca. 4428 ft.) : sd., b&w (tinted) ; 16 mm. ref print.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FDA 8397-8399 (ref print)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 88708469

Online Format

  • web page
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Loos, Anita, Writing, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Lillian Gish, Miriam Cooper, Howard Gaye, Bessie Love, et al. Intolerance. directeds by Griffith, D. W. , Ectionuction, Writing, produceds by Griffith, D. W. , Ectionuction, Writing [United States: D.W. Griffith, Inc, 1970] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/88708469/.

APA citation style:

Loos, A., Marsh, M., Harron, R., Gish, L., Cooper, M., Gaye, H. [...] Copyright Collection. (1970) Intolerance. Griffith, D. W., dir, Griffith, D. W., prod [United States: D.W. Griffith, Inc] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/88708469/.

MLA citation style:

Loos, Anita, Writing, et al. Intolerance. dir by Griffith, D. W. , Ectionuction, Writing, prod by Griffith, D. W. , Ectionuction, Writing [United States: D.W. Griffith, Inc, 1970] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/88708469/>.