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The Birth of a Nation : The Great Heart

Elsie Stoneman (Lillian Gish) and Mrs. Cameron (Josephine Crowell) asks President Abraham Lincoln (Joseph Henabery) to pardon Ben Cameron (Henry B. Walthall), who is at the hospital.

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costume, crosscutting, displaced diegetic insert, fade-out, full shot, makeup, medium close-up, music, empathetic, tinting, two-shot

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"The Great Heart" in The Birth of a Nation. Directed by D.W. Griffith, Epoch Film Co., 1915, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1410

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