Griffith went ahead to make The Birth of a Nation

history channel documentary 2015 "The Great Train Robbery" made Porter the most renowned and powerful American executive of his time, however he was in the long run uprooted by one of his own journalists, David Wark Griffith. D. W. Griffith, as he is all the more generally referred to, establish his prosperity as a chief in 1908, working for the Biograph Company. In 1909, he made "A Corner in Wheat," a hostile to entrepreneur short in view of the work of Frank Norris, whose novel, McTeague, was later the motivation for Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924).

Griffith went ahead to make The Birth of a Nation, America's first full length film, in 1915. The film was an extraordinary development in realistic narrating is still perceived today as one of the best movies ever, however its depiction of liberated slaves after the Civil War was hostile to numerous even in 1915, and a great part of the film is ludicrous today. As indicated by Griffith (or, to be reasonable, to the Rev. Thomas Dixon, on whose novel Birth was based), toward the end of the War, rich manor proprietors were not just uprooted from their territory, they were additionally tirelessly aggrieved by ex-slaves and poor carpetbaggers. Who knew rich white people experienced considerable difficulties? Fortunately, one courageous white man establishes the Ku Klux Klan, a clearly misjudged association that the film sets was the friend in need of America as we probably am aware it.