• thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    It was the 1915, Hollywood movie ‘Birth of Nation’ that re-invented and restarted the whole southern states thing. One, of only a handful, of movies that year, almost the entire population of the U.S.A. watched it. This was when full length movies a medium was still new and influential.