In its entirety, the film the birth of a nation which premiered 100 years ago by filmmaker e w griffin. In the next 45 minutes we will open our phone lines. Part of the real america series. Joining us is hari jones. The curator of the africanamerican civil war memorial Freedom Foundation and museum. From boston is the author of the book, the birth of a nation how a legendary filmmaker and a crusading editor reignited americas civil war. David lehr. Thank you for being with us. The phone lines are open. 2027084901 for those in mountain and pacific time zones. Dick lehr, we will begin with you. In terms of history it is a foundational moment in american film history. A breakout moment. Until the threehour plus epic, films were much shorter. 10 minutes or less. The ambitious d. W. Griffith wanted to tell a big story in a big way. He employed all kinds of innovative film techniques that people had not seen before. This was americas first blockbuster. It summarizes this foam. You called it
There you have it in its entirety which premiered 100 years ago by filmmaker dw griffith. We are going to open our phone lines as part of our reel america series. Joining us is hari jones, the curator of the African American some order civil war memorial and museum. Joining us is the author of birth of a nation. Thank you for being with us. Our phone lines are open. 20270 just how consequence are consequential was this film . In terms of film history, it was hugely consequential. It is a foundational moment in american film history. It was a breakout moment. Until then, films were 10 minutes or less. The incredibly ambitious dw griffith wanted to tell a big story in a big way and he produced this epic film employing all sorts of innovative techniques people had not seen before. This was literally americas first blockbuster film. This one sentence in your book that summarizes this film. You called it a masterpiece. You called it bigoted and slanted and set it was a dramatic flashpoint i
This visual thats been growing sense of the little girl three years old was murdered inside that apartment and now as i said, the mother and boyfriend are going to be in court today in the Investigation Continues about the death of james a mother and her boyfriend accused of killing a toddler will appear in court today. Kayleigh slusher was found dead in a napa apartment over the weekend. And a vigil has been growing outside of the toddlers home. Kron 4s will tran is live now with the latest. Will . And the Investigation Continues into kaylieghs death. Results of the autopsy have yet to be released. Police say kayleigh showed signs of Blunt Force Trauma and being sexually assaulted. Kayleighs grandmother called police on friday, saying she was afraid krueger was under the influence of drugs. The next day was when kayleigh was found dead. Police investigated and could not find any evidence of drug use. Stay with kron4 for more of our coverage of this story. Go to our website kron4 dot c
Night in just a few minutes. Thank you for waking up with us, i am pam cook. And dave clark, it is already chilly. Clouds are already increasing so it will be a very cool day and temperatures are starting off and a lot of cloud cover, things are definitely changing. Will this lead to any rain . We have 32 napa and we have that cold air sliding in 37 down to san jose, and San Francisco in the mid40s and 15 in tahoe, not a lot of organization here and it will give us a mostly cloudy day. Some 50s in the Higher Elevations and upper 40s too, here is tara. Steve, we have a hitand run we want to mention over in san mateo it looks like north key hoe and the victim know is the suspect and chp has an alert out for him. You can see this is a look at the south bay, not too much going on here and same thing on the peninsular, it is only slow going on that stretch of 192. You can see traffic on the righthand side of the screen and in hayward it is looking good. Finally those headlights that you see
Focus of tonights angle. How many times have we heard democrats claim to be the pro women party . They will have you believe they are all about girl power. When women succeed, america succeeds. And so we are unleashing the power of women to take are rightful place in our national. It is about a group of women who are always informed, becaus we have so much at stake. Its also about just an expression of voice. Voice. Okay. But where are those voices . When girls actually need to be protected from exploitation. When they are being sexualized for the pleasure of and the profit of pornographers. A lot of the same people go silent. Some of their allies in the media will even defend them. Which brings us to the film cuties now streaming on netflix. The filthy disgusting song commit now song by little girls across the United States and embraced by joe biden. One of the things that i admire about you is you keep talking about what i call equity , just decency, fairness, treating people with re