76: Birth of a Nation
I Don't Speak German
IDSG
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🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
And so 2020 - notable mostly for being IDSG's second year - comes to an end. This time, in a change to the advertised program, and with apologies for our absence throughout most of this last month, we return with another of our period movie discussion episodes, this time looking at D. W. Griffith's epic, lauded, infamous, three-hour, silent-era blockbuster of hate, prejudice, and bigotry, Birth of a Nation.
Content warnings very much apply.
The promised Part 2 of our coverage of Tom Metzger should be along as the first IDSG of the new year.
Thank you all for sticking with us through thick and thin, sending us words of encouragement... and special thanks to those of you who helped us out financially. Let's hope we all have a better one in 2021. We have plans for the show in the new year, so stay tuned and stay safe.
Links/Notes:
Notes: Birth of a Nation (1915) Full Movie on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGQaAddwjxg
The Clansman (1905) Full Text: https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/dixonclan/menu.html
Birth of a Nation at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation
Dan Olson "Triumph of the Will and the Cinematic Language of Propaganda." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ1Qm1Z_D7w
DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation at Millennium Park (6/20/16): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQNp-VHAueE
Within Our Gates (1920) Library of Congress (no score): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtwrCto9az0
Within Our Gates (1920) (lower quality, but with a score): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1E0NrcnwAE
Movies Silently debunks myths about Birth of a Nation: https://moviessilently.com/2015/09/07/silent-movie-myth-the-birth-of-a-nation-was-the-first-feature-and-the-first-film-shown-at-the-white-house/
Wikipedia, Timeline of Highest-Grossing Films: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Timeline_of_highest-grossing_films
Behind the Mask of Chivalry, Nancy Maclean: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Behind_the_Mask_of_Chivalry/xOamVVhPQ6UC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mask+of+chivalry+nancy+maclean&printsec=frontcover
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| 0:00.0 | This is I don't speak German. I'm Jack Graham, he him, and in this podcast I talk to my friend Daniel Harper, |
| 0:20.9 | also he him, about what he learned from years of listening to today's Nazis, |
| 0:26.6 | white nationalists, white supremacists, and what they say to each other when they don't think |
| 0:31.9 | we're listening. |
| 0:33.2 | Be warned, this is difficult subject matter. |
| 0:36.2 | Content warnings always apply. And we're back after a uncheduled Christmas break. It's episode 76 of I don't speak German. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome back after the, well I won't say Merry Christmas because we're firm believers in the |
| 1:06.2 | war on Christmas here, so happy holidays. |
| 1:10.5 | Don't lie Jack, we really just had to to as one of our commenters said we had to take the time off for Hanukkah that was the reason. |
| 1:18.6 | Oh yes yes that's right one of our loyal commenters pointed out, yeah, that we're both Jewish and gay, |
| 1:25.8 | which is devastating. Which neither one of which are in any way a negative thing personally. |
| 1:30.4 | No, no, no, whatever, you know. No, I mean, yes, but it is. It's a devastating critique and he's |
| 1:37.4 | penetrated to the heart of our of our perfidy. Well done that man. Yeah. What a dickhead. |
| 1:47.0 | I don't know for a fact that this is the the not seeing who calls himself Billy Corn Pop, |
| 1:52.0 | but I know that he uses similar language |
| 1:54.6 | to the Nazi who calls himself Billy Corn Pop |
| 1:56.8 | and the same avatar as the Nazi who calls himself Billy |
| 1:59.8 | Corn Pop. |
| 2:00.4 | So, yeah, and calls himself corn pop so yeah we're we can we can we can |
| 2:07.2 | read between the lines here well he's a he's a loyal listener and commenter so good for you. It's how it goes. |
| 2:16.0 | Corn pop. Yeah. I don't read any of this Jack just like deams at Toby sometimes and goes like what the |
| 2:21.8 | fuck is he ought about? |
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