if true.. another travesty.
I certainly do not condone the tenets of this film, however it is still a classic & must be viewed within it's own context
it's a shame that generations in the future may never see the film if it is shuttered in favor of pleasing any group of people.
Rich==================
At 09:19 PM 8/10/04, posterdoctor wrote:
I was sent the following information about a cancelled LA showing of Birth Of A Nation. Can anyone confirm that this is a true story?
Thanks, Danny / Seattle
The owner of the Silent Movie Theater in Hollywood canceled a planned screening of D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation after the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP and a group called the National Alliance for Positive Action vowed to picket the theater. Although owner Charlie Lustman had planned to show the film with a disclaimer stating that he does not endorse the racist content of the film but wants to honor its place in cinema history, the two groups had charged that the film would continue to poison race relations. Lustman said that he had also received threatening phone calls and was concerned about the safety of patrons and 92-year-old Bob Mitchell, the onetime leader of the famed Mitchell Boys Choir, who was to provide organ music to accompany the film.
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