Intolerance

DVD 2002

Switches back and forth between four separate stories from Babylonian times to the twentieth century to show humanity's inhumanity and intolerance through the ages. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.

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Babylon (Extinct city) Drama

Jesus Christ Crucifixion Drama

Jesus Christ Miracles Drama

Jesus Christ Teachings Drama

Poverty Drama

Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572 Drama

Social problems Drama

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Description:

1 videodisc (197 min.) : sound, black and white tinted ; 12 cm
digital
optical
video file
DVD video

Target Audience Note:

Suggested rating: PG

Other Title:

D. W. Griffish's intolerance

Notes:

"A sun-play of the ages"--Title card
Home use only. Public performance rights NOT included
Remastered, with color tinted sequences
Special features include: Introduction by Orson Welles; excerpt of The last days of Pompeii (1913); excerpt of Cabiria (1914); excerpt of The fall of Babylon (alternate ending); pamphlets; about the score; the book
Videodisc release of the 1916 motion picture
Music composed by Joseph Turrin ; produced for video by Bret Wood
Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse, Vera Lewis, Miriam Cooper, Walter Long, Tom Wilson, Ralph Lewis, Lloyd Ingraham, A.W. McClure, John P. McCarthy, Howard Gaye, Lillian Langdon, Olga Grey, Erich von Ritzau, Bessie Love, William H. Brown, George Walsh, Margery Wilson, Eugene Pallette, Spottiswood Aitken, Ruth Handforth, Frank Bennett, Constance Talmadge, Joseph Henabery, Elmer Clifton, W.E. Lawrence, Alfred Paget, Seena Owen, Tully Marshall, Lillian Gish
DVD
Silent, with English intertitles and new score
BFI Top 100 List, no. 49

Control Number:

3144275

UPC:

738329026721

Other Authors:

Aitken, Spottiswoode, 1869-1933
Bennett, Frank, 1891-1957
Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944
Brown, William H
Clifton, Elmer, 1890-1949
Cooper, Miriam, 1891-1976
De Grasse, Sam, 1875-1953
Gaye, Howard, -1955
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993
Grey, Olga, 1897-1973
Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948
Handforth, Ruth, 1882-1965
Harron, Robert, 1894-1920
Henabery, Joseph, 1887-1976
Ingraham, Lloyd, 1874-1956
Kino International Corporation
Langdon, Lillian, -1943
Lawrence, W. E. (William E.), 1896-1947
Lewis, Ralph, 1872-1937
Lewis, Vera, 1873-1956
Long, Walter, 1879-1952
Loos, Anita, 1893-1981
Love, Bessie
M'Clure, Alexander W. (Alexander Wilson), 1808-1865
Marsh, Mae, 1895-1968
Marshall, Tully, 1864-1943
McCarthy, John, 1885-1962
Owen, Seena, -1966
Paget, Alfred, 1880-1925
Pallette, Eugene, 1889-1954
Ritzau, Erich von 1877-1936
Talmadge, Constance, 1898-1973
Turner, F. A. (Fred A.), 1858-1923
Walsh, George, 1892-1981
Wark Producing Corporation
Wilson, Margery, 1896-1986
Wilson, Tom, 1880-1965

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