It's true.
Radio interviews regarding this story quoted Lustman saying
he intended to have a panel discussion after the film,
discussing the film's place in cinema history along with the
films history regarding race relations as well as how things
have changed in Hollywood since. In the same story, a
representative of the local/L.A. NAACP was quoted as saying
he "doesn't believe in censorship but that film should not be
shown". He went on to say they could not accept the idea of
showing that film without any context or discussion. The story
you quote, which comes from Studio Briefing, doesn't
mention the panel discussion and I don't know if any of the
other press about the event, before or after it was cancelled,
did either. For that matter, Birth of a Nation is quite long as I
recall, which would make a screening and panel into a Really
Long evening.
Craig.
At 09:19 PM 08/10/2004 -0700, 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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