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Last Saturday, OSTWS forced the Adams House Film Society to cancel its screening of "Birth of a Nation" on the grounds that the film was to be shown in a context which did not adequately mitigate its offensive racist elements. On Sunday, about fifty members of this organization gathered outside the location where the Currier House Film Society had planned to show "Birth of a Nation" at an introductory meeting for old and new film society members. The OSTWS demonstrators seemed intent on preventing the screening, as they had at Adams House. As it turned out, the issue was academic...
...development of film-making; each represents prodigious advances in film technology, direction and cinematography. The subjects of the two films are entirely different, a fact which we feel minimizes the importance of "Nation's" racism in terms of our reason for showing the film. Those who believe that the racist elements of the "Birth of a Nation" cannot go overlooked no matter why the film was shown, are welcome to come to film society meetings to express their feelings, should the occasion arise again. They will not find themselves alone in this...
SATURDAY NIGHT'S protesters did not silence D.W. Griffith, they did not prevent past and future showings of his films, they did not suppress racist ideas or ideas with which they disagreed. On the contrary, they said they'd welcome showings of Griffith's film in different, more avowedly controversial contexts, and on Monday afternoon they agreed to just such a showing. Even if the protesters' desire were to suppress Griffith's movie or ideas, they couldn't. It's silly to identify their action with official strong-arm tactics, or with other potentially dangerous attempts at dictatorial rule, because...
...That racist ideas do prevail among the orthodox--though they differ in important ways from those of Griffith's time--lies at the heart of any accurate criticism of Saturday night's action. The action was wrong not because it raised the issue of racism too forcefully, but because it didn't raise it forcefully enough--the demonstrators failed to present a meaningful discussion of racism at Harvard after they stopped the movie...
Gone With The Wind. GWTW is so deeply and insidiously racist that it would make Birth of a Nation look like "An Interview with Bobby Seale." At the Pi Alley in Boston for $3.50. Get there early. No political discussion...