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The Controversy Of Silent Films During The Silent Film Era

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During the silent film era, people revolved around watching motion pictures. Films are similar to dreams, were one can escape for a while. Although, sometimes a film could relate to someone in the audience going through something for instance, divorce, immigration, women’s suffrage, poverty and political corruption to name a few. Today we think the silent era films were innocent only because people during that time were very conservative, but we are wrong because people enjoyed watching glamour, exoticism, and sex appeal. However, the majority disliked films that related to discrimination and racism. A film that started controversy was The Birth of a Nation that was directed and co-produced by D.W. Griffith in 1915. This film portrayed colored
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