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Some difficulties filming Birth of Nation picture
Excitement and anticipation are exhibited in the number of articles about "Birth of a Nation" the week prior to its screening at C. I. A.
'Birth of a Nation' at C. I. A. Jan 17, 18
"This most wonderful spectacle ever visioned is to be presented...on January 17 and 18.," gushes one collegiate writer at Denton Lass-O. The film was shown at the Old Main Building on the campus of C. I. A. (now TWU).
'Birth of a Nation' to be shown at Strand next W
'Birth of a Nation' is scheduled to be shown at the Strand the same week two men are lynched in Pilot Point.
News article on race riot threats in Memphis, Tennessee, following the lynching of a Black woman and her baby are placed next to advertisement for lingerie
Placement of an article about the lynching of a Black woman and her baby in Memphis, Tennessee, with threats of racial unrest and massacre in Memphis next to an advertisement directly targeting and titillatingly depicting undressed young women…
Coming
On January 17, 1917, and January 18, 1917, the College of Industrial Arts (TWU) will show "Birth of a Nation" by D. W. Griffith