THE AVENGING CONSCIENCE
Thou Shalt Not Kill

Psychological thriller is based on Edgar Alien Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart". Made just before the Birth of A Nation, the film incorporated a number of unusual photographic techniques and special effects that would be used later in The Birth Of A Nation.

Directed by D.W. Griffith. With Henry B Walthall, Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh.

USA 1914. 80m Silent Film with added Copyrighted music score.
ISBN 1-55881-318-7
$19.95

THE BIRTH OF A NATION

An epic and biased filming of the civil war and the reconstruction as seen through the eyes of a southerner. Prior to the Birth of a Nation, films were usually one or two reel curiosities that people walked out on at the close of vaudeville shows. Film was anything but an art form or a vehicle for serious expression. The Birth of a Nation was the cinematic landmark that blew apart all conventions. Its feature length dismayed theatre owners who thought audiences would never sit still for such a long film. Nevertheless, the audiences stayed and they were awed; the grand spectacle, the brilliant storytelling techniques (intercutting battlefield shots of soldiers' with their families praying for their safe return) closeup shots, the iris, panning, scanning --these were the magical elements that established the language of cinema. The Birth of a Nation has been available in a number of versions running as little as 70 minutes. This 197 minute NYFA edition is the longest and most complete version known to exist. Included on this tape is a sound interview with Griffith filmed for the 1930's re-release.

Directed by DW Griffith. Screenplay by Griffith and Frank E Woods after the novel by Thomas F Dixon Jr. Photo by G.W. Bitzer. With Henry B Walthall, Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper, Lilian Gish, Mary Alden, Donald Crisp.

USA 1915 197m (Double cassette)
Silent film with added music score.
ISBN 1-55881-324-1
$29.95

INTOLERANCE

After the controversy about racism which followed the Birth of A Nation, Griffith dismissed his critics as "intolerant" and, as his answer to them, he made this epic on the issue of intolerance. Using the simple image of a mother rocking a cradle, he interweaves four different stories set in four different space/ time locals. Nothing seems to unify any of these stories except for the issue of intolerance perpetrated by people upon each other. Although not well received by mass audiences of the day, the film's editing and narrative techniques were immediately recognized as visionary and influenced the editing techniques of both Eisenstein and Pudovkin who expounded upon Griffith's style and developed the breathless montage techniques that became synonymous with the Russian cinema.

1918 201m (Double cassette)
Silent film with added music score.
ISBN 1-55881-325-X
$29.95

TRUE HEART SUSIE

A simple farm girl sacrifices to send her true love to school, where he falls in love with another.

Directed by D. W. Griffith.Cast; Lillian Gish, Loyala O'Connor, Robert Harron, Waiter Higby, Clarine Seymour, Kate Bruce & Raymond Cannon.

1919 85 min. Silent film with added music score.
ISBN 1-55881-319-5
$19.95

DREAM STREET

A preacher of the streets represents that which is good & pure. Evil, temptation & deceipt is personified by a con-man street musician. Against this backdrop is told a story of two brothers who vie for the hand of the same girl.

Directed by D. W. Griffith. Carol Dempster, Ralph Graves, Charles Mack and Tyrone Power.

1921 140 min.Silent film with added music score.
ISBN: 1-55881-320-9
$19.95

HOME SWEET HOME

Brings together three separate stories of temptation and evil. Uniting every story is John Howard Payne’s song "Home Sweet Home". As the characters begin to fall into depravity and crime they are lifted by the song up to a new level of decency and humanity.

Directed by D. W. Griffith. Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Blanche Sweet, Robert Harron & Donald Crisp.

61min ISBN: 1-55881-316-0
$19.95

WAY DOWN EAST

A country girl visits the big evil city where she is seduced and abandoned by a playboy. She then finds herself living through a series of tragic and dehumanizing events; a child barn out of wedlock who dies and, after an attempt to get back on her feet, blackmail. A desperate escape from her past ends with her floating down the river on a cake of ice!

Directed by D. W. Griffith. Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman & Creighton Hale.

1920 190m (Double cassette)
Silent film with music score.
ISBN: 1-55881-317-9
$29.95

BROKEN BLOSSOMS

An impossible love between a Chinese boy & a pitiful waif who has been mistreated by her father. Directed by D. W. Griffith cast; Lillian Gish & Donald Crisp.

1919 90m Silent film with music score.
ISBN: 1-55881-327-6
$19.95

SALLY OF THE SAWDUST

A comedy of epic proportions that will touch & move you like the finest drama! Fields is Professor McGargle, the circus juggler/conman/pickpocket with a heart of gold; he has spent the better part of his life raising a young waif. W. C. Fields, Carol Dempster & Alfred Lunt. Directed by D. W. Griffith.

1925 91 min. Silent film with music score.
ISBN: 1-55881-321-7
$19.95