Birth of a Nation (1915)
Directed by D.W. Griffith · Cinematography by Joseph Carl Breil, Billy Bitzer
TV-PG195 min35 frames
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What is Birth of a Nation about?
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
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What does the cinematography of Birth of a Nation look like?
Across 35 sampled frames, Birth of a Nation builds its coverage from medium shots, with wide compositions carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Joseph Carl Breil keeps much of it in soft, naturalistic light. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in most of the frames.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Birth of a Nation (1915) are #32322d, #070909, #57514b, #76716c, #24221e, #8eb69a — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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