THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915): THE CENTENNIAL PHOTOPLAY PRODUCTIONS RESTORATION ON TWILIGHT TIME BLU-RAY
Disc 1 The Feature Film (191 Minutes) Restored by Patrick Stanbury Score by John Lanchbery in Both 5.1 and 2.0 Audio 1930 Sound Reissue Prologue D.W. Griffith in conversation with Walter Huston, star of his 1930 sound film Abraham Lincoln. 1930 Sound Reissue Intermission and Introduction to Act 2 Huston recites sections from Woodrow Wilson’s A History of the American People.
Disc 2 Outtakes and Original Camera Tests Stills and Collections Gallery Silent Feature: The Coward (1915 ~ Produced by Thomas H. Ince, Directed by Reginald Barker) Released nine months after The Birth of a Nation premiered, this Civil War drama concerns the weak-willed son (Charles Ray) of a Southern officer (Frank Keenan), forced to enlist at gunpoint, and coming to terms with cowardice. Silent Short: The Rose of Kentucky (1911 ~ Directed by D.W. Griffith) Three years before shooting on Birth began, Griffith made his only other film featuring the Klan, in this case labeled the Night Riders, and cast as the villains. Silent Short: Stolen Glory (1912 ~ Directed by Mack Sennett) Sennett, who had worked under Griffith at Biograph, had a great fondness for improvising comedy shorts around actual events, in this case a parade of the Grand Army of the Republic, the principal veterans organization for those who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Silent Short: The Drummer of the 8th Original Edit The Drummer of the 8th 2015 Re-Edit (1913 ~ Produced by Thomas H. Ince, Directed by Jay Hunt) Presented in two versions. The Re-Edit shifts the position of later, seemingly out-of-order sequences encountered in the Library of Congress original negative holdings. Both cuts use all existing footage. The Birth of a Nation Score Recording Sessions in 5.1 Audio D.W. Griffith on Lux Radio Theater with Cecil B. DeMille The Birth of a Nation: The Legacy Directed, Written and Edited by John McCarty The Clansman: From Stage to Screen Directed and Edited by Daniel Griffith Text Essay: We Can Never Censor the Past by Kevin Brownlow Text Essay The Birth of a Nation: The 2015 Restoration by Patrick Stanbury Text Essay Fighting Back: Responding to The Birth of a Nation by Ashley Clark
LANGUAGE: English VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 1.33:1 AUDIO: English 5.1 DTS-HD MA / English 2.0 DTS-HD MA 1915 / Color Tinted 191 MINUTES NOT RATED
D・W・グリフィス監督が南北戦争の時代を再現したスペクタクル大作。1930年に付けられたジョン・ランチベリーによる音楽（5.1chと2ch）を収録。特典：ボーナスディスク。輸入盤ブルーレイ。英語音声(5.1ch/2ch)のみ。リージョン・フリー。限定3000枚。
トラックリスト“映画の父”Ｄ・Ｗ・グリフィスが１９１４年に製作、翌１９１５年に発表したモニュメント的な超大作。物語は南北戦争直前からその後の時代を背景に、南部と北部の二つの家の人々がそれまで親しくしていたにもかかわらず敵対して戦い、やがて戦後の混乱から起こる人種闘争は、両家の男女の恋をも引き裂いてゆく。南北戦争の戦場シーン、そしてリンカーン大統領の暗殺をはじめとする歴史的な事件を再現して叙事詩として描く壮大さ。まだ映画は幼年期で、アメリカ映画のほとんどは１～２巻の短編であり、芸術とは程遠い見世物的な作品が中心であった当時において、本作の様な大作を作りだし、映画が芸術であることを実証してみせたグリフィスには只々敬服。さらに映画手法である、クロス・カッティング、フラッシュバック、超ロング・ショットによるモブ・シーン、様々な形でのマスキングなど今日の世界の映画に大きな影響を与えてきた歴史的意義も見て取れる。
発売日：2018.5.22
THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915): THE CENTENNIAL
PHOTOPLAY PRODUCTIONS RESTORATION ON TWILIGHT TIME BLU-RAY
Disc 1
The Feature Film (191 Minutes) Restored by Patrick Stanbury
Score by John Lanchbery in Both 5.1 and 2.0 Audio
1930 Sound Reissue Prologue
D.W. Griffith in conversation with Walter Huston, star of his 1930 sound film Abraham Lincoln.
1930 Sound Reissue Intermission and Introduction to Act 2
Huston recites sections from Woodrow Wilson’s A History of the American People.
Disc 2
Outtakes and Original Camera Tests
Stills and Collections Gallery
Silent Feature: The Coward
(1915 ~ Produced by Thomas H. Ince, Directed by Reginald Barker)
Released nine months after The Birth of a Nation premiered, this Civil War drama concerns the weak-willed son (Charles Ray) of a Southern officer (Frank Keenan), forced to enlist at gunpoint, and coming to terms with cowardice.
Silent Short: The Rose of Kentucky
(1911 ~ Directed by D.W. Griffith)
Three years before shooting on Birth began, Griffith made his only other film featuring the Klan, in this case labeled the Night Riders, and cast as the villains.
Silent Short: Stolen Glory
(1912 ~ Directed by Mack Sennett)
Sennett, who had worked under Griffith at Biograph, had a great fondness for improvising comedy shorts around actual events, in this case a parade of the Grand Army of the Republic, the principal veterans organization for those who served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Silent Short: The Drummer of the 8th Original Edit
The Drummer of the 8th 2015 Re-Edit
(1913 ~ Produced by Thomas H. Ince, Directed by Jay Hunt)
Presented in two versions. The Re-Edit shifts the position of later, seemingly out-of-order sequences encountered in the Library of Congress original negative holdings. Both cuts use all existing footage.
The Birth of a Nation Score Recording Sessions in 5.1 Audio
D.W. Griffith on Lux Radio Theater with Cecil B. DeMille
The Birth of a Nation: The Legacy Directed, Written and Edited by John McCarty
The Clansman: From Stage to Screen Directed and Edited by Daniel Griffith
Text Essay: We Can Never Censor the Past by Kevin Brownlow
Text Essay The Birth of a Nation: The 2015 Restoration by Patrick Stanbury
Text Essay Fighting Back: Responding to The Birth of a Nation by Ashley Clark
LANGUAGE: English
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 1.33:1
AUDIO: English 5.1 DTS-HD MA / English 2.0 DTS-HD MA
1915 / Color Tinted
191 MINUTES
NOT RATED