TITLE CARD: "THE BRINGING OF THE AFRICAN TO AMERICA PLANTED THE FIRST SEED OF DIS-UNION" (DG, GRIFFITH)

TITLE CARD: "THE ABOLITIONISTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY DEMANDING THE FREEING OF THE SLAVES"

MS OF WHITE SPEAKER GESTURING, BLACK MEN IN SUITS ON STAGE, FAMOUS UNFINISHED PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT WASHINGTON

AUDIENCE AT ABOLITIONIST MEETING APPLAUD, MAN WALKS DOWN AISLE WITH YOUNG BLACK BOY, TAKING UP A COLLECTION

ELSIE AFFIXES WIG TO HER FATHER'S HEAD, 19TH CENTURY INTERIOR SETTING

TITLE CARD: "LATER WE SEE ELSIE'S BROTHERS AT THE STONEMAN COUNTRY HOME IN PENNSYLVANIA."

TITLE CARD: "HERE'S THE LETTER I'VE WRITTEN BEN CAMERON."

CU OF LETTER "DEAR BEN, TRUE TO MY PROMISE, MY BROTHER AND I ARE COMING TO VISIT YOU, ARRIVING IN PIEDMONT ON FRIDAY NEXT. WE ARE BOTH JUST DYING TO SEE YOU AGAIN AND TO MEET YOUR KITH AND KIN."

TITLE CARD: "IN THE SOUTHLAND. PIEDMONT, SOUTH CAROLINA, THE HOME OF THE CAMERONS, WHERE LIFE RUNS IN A QUAINTLY QUIET WAY."

TITLE CARD: "BEN CAMERON, THE ELDEST SON, LATER TO BE KNOWN AS 'THE LITTLE COLONEL'."

WAGON FULL OF BLACKS, SLAVES AND CHILDREN, PASSES IN FRONT OF HOUSE WITH PICKET FENCE AND COLUMNS, YOUNG BLACK CHILD FALLS OUT OF THE BACK OF THE WAGON. BLACK MAN PICKS HIM UP AND SPANKS HIM AS HE THROWS HIM IN BACK OF WAGON

MAN WALKS DOWN SIDEWALK OF ANTEBELLUM SOUTHERN TOWN SMOKING A CIGAR, TIPS HIS HAT TO WOMAN IN PASSING CARRIAGE DRIVEN BY BLACK COACHMAN

SOUTHERN BELLE IN CARRIAGE PULLS AWAY AND WHITE GENTLEMAN CONTINUES DOWN STREET

SOUTHERN FAMILY SITS ON FRONT PORCH OF LARGE HOME, YOUNG WHITE GIRL AND YOUNG BLACK GIRL WITH PIGTAILS STICKING UP IN THE AIR RUNS AWAY. PARENTS IN ROCKING CHAIRS, HUGE WHITE FLUTED COLUMNS, YOUNG SOUTHERN WHITE GENTLEMAN ARRIVES AND KISSES WOMAN AND GREETS MAN READING THE NEWSPAPER

MS OF SOUTHERN MEN LOOKING AT NEWSPAPER, MAN IN ROCKING CHAIR HAS KITTEN ON HIS LAP AND PUPPIES AT HIS FEET, RAG RUG ON PORCH, MAN SMOKES A CIGAR, 19TH CENTURY RE-ENACTMENT

CU OF PUPPIES AT MAN'S FEET

YOUNG WOMAN ENTERS PORCH AND SHOWS BROTHER A LETTER, SOUTHERN WHITE ANTEBELLUM FAMILY ON THE PORCH

19TH CENTURY SOUTHERN FAMILY READS LETTER ON PORCH, LITTLE GIRL JUMPS ON FATHER'S LAP, EXCITED

HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE ARRIVES AT SOUTHERN HOME, TWO MEN EMBRACE

SOUTHERN FAMILY AND GUESTS ENTER THE LARGE HOME, GRAND DOUBLE STAIRWAY, BLACK SLAVES OR SERVANTS STAND BY

TITLE CARD: "OVER THE PLANTATION TO THE COTTON FIELDS."

CU BLACK HANDS PICKING COTTON

CU OF WHITE FLOWER OF THE COTTON PLANT, COTTON FLOWER

CU OF TIN TYPE OR DAGUERREOTYPE OF PRETTY WHITE GIRL

TITLE CARD: "HE FINDS THE IDEAL OF HIS DREAMS IN THE PICTURE OF ELSIE STONEMAN, HIS FRIEND'S SISTER, WHOM HE HAS NEVER SEEN."

WHITE COUPLE TAKES WALK IN COTTON FIELD AS SLAVES PICK COTTON

19TH CENTURY RE-ENACTMENT, WHITE FAMILY IS GREETED BY BLACK SLAVES, CLAPPING AND DANCING, WEARING BANDANAS, SOME IN BLACKFACE

MS OF BLACK SLAVES DANCING FOR MASTER

BLACK SLAVES DANCE, RE-ENACTMENT

TITLE CARD: "THE GATHERING STORM, THE POWER OF THE SOVEREIGN STATES THREATENED BY THE NEW ADMINISTRATION."

VIGNETTE CLOSE UP OF HEADLINE "IF THE NORTH CARRIES THE ELECTION, THE SOUTH WILL SECEDE"

TITLE CARD: "THE SOUTH WILL NEVER SUBMIT TO THE NORTH'S DICTATION!"

TITLE CARD: "THE STONEMAN BOYS CALLED BACK TO THEIR NORTHERN HOME BY THE IMPENDING CLOUDS OF WAR. THE CHUMS PROMISE TO MEET AGAIN."

TITLE CARD: "PHIL STONEMAN VOWS THE OLD VOW THAT HIS ONLY DREAMS SHALL BE OF HER."

TWO WHITE MEN SAY GOODBYE ON PORCH, FAMILY JOINS IN, SHAKING HANDS, DEPARTING, WAVING GOODBYE

WHITE ANTEBELLUM FAMILY WAVES GOODBYE FROM PORCH, YOUNG LADY STAYS WITH DREAMY LOOK

SAD AND DREAMY WHITE WOMAN ON PORCH TURNS AND ENTERS HOUSE

TITLE CARD: "THE FIRST CALL FOR 75,000 VOLUNTEERS. PRESIDENT LINCOLN SIGNING THE PROCLAMATION. AN HISTORICAL FACSIMILE OF THE ACTUAL OCCURRENCE ACCORDING TO NICOLAI AND HAY."

TITLE CARD: "ABRAHAM LINCOLN USES THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY TO CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS TO ENFORCE THE RULE OF THE COMING NATION OVER THE STATES."

TITLE CARD: "THE THUNDER OF THE IMPENDING CONFLICT ECHOES THROUGHOUT THE LAND."

NORTHERN WOMAN, LILLIAN GISH, RUNS IN DESPAIR BACK TO HER MOTHER ON PORCH, THEY COMFORT EACH OTHER

TITLE CARD: BIRTH OF A NATION, END OF PART ONE

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OUTDOOR CELEBRATION OF SOUTHERNERS, CARRYING THEIR FLAG THROUGH A CHEERING HAPPY CROWD, CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS, MEN HOLD UP GLASSES TO TOAST

CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS MUSTER, MAN PLAYS BUGLE, CUTS TO CELEBRATION IN THE STREET AS PEOPLE STOP DANCING AND THE SOLDIERS LEAVE

CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS ON HORSE AND FOOT LEAVE FOR WAR

CONFEDERATE SOLDIER SAYS GOODBYE TO HIS LITTLE SISTER, THREE BROTHERS IN UNIFORM SAY GOODBYE TO THEIR FAMILY

SOLDIER SAYS GOODBYE TO HIS FAMILY INSIDE HOME, PICKS UP LITTLE SISTER AND HUGS HER

CROWDS WAVE AS SOLDIER GETS ON HORSEBACK AND LEAVES, (MANY BLACKS ARE ACTUALLY WHITE ACTORS IN BLACKFACE)

SOUTHERN FAMILY ON PORCH COMFORTS ONE ANOTHER

TITLE CARD: TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF TERRIFIC STRUGGLE HAS TORN TO SHREDS THE ONCE HAPPY LAND. 'THE LITTLE COLONEL' RECEIVES A LETTER FROM HOME."

CU OF HANDWRITTEN LETTER, "...I'M JUST DYING, DYING TO SEE YOU. WELL, I'M GROWING UP TOO - THEY SAY I'M SUCH A BIG GIRL NOW YOU WOULDN'T KNOW ME. YOUR LOVING LITTLE BIG SISTER..."

TITLE CARD: "NEWS FROM THE FRONT. LITTLE SISTER WEARS HER FIRST LONG DRESS AS THE CEREMONIAL TO THE READING OF HER BROTHER'S LETTER."

WOMAN IN HOUSE TRIES ON HAT AS SISTER WAITS OUTSIDE KNOCKING, THEY BOTH OPEN PARASOLS AND LEAVE

PEOPLE OUTSIDE ON DIRT STREETS OF SOUTHERN TOWN, MESSENGER ARRIVES ON HORSEBACK

SCARED WOMEN CAN'T OPEN FRONT DOOR OF HOUSE AS MOB ARRIVES IN TOWN, UNION SOLDIERS WITH RIFLES

UNION SOLDIERS RIOT AND LOOT IN STREET, OLD MAN FALLS AFTER BEING SHOT

MOB ATTACKS TOWN, BLACK MAN WITH SWORD AND WOMAN KICK AT BODY IN STREET

TITLE CARD: "THE SCALAWAG WHITE CAPTAIN INFLUENCES THE NEGRO MILITIA TO FOLLOW HIS ORDERS."

TERRORIZED WOMEN LOOK FOR A PLACE TO HIDE AS SOLDIERS WRECK HOUSE

BLACK AND WHITE UNION SOLDIERS SEARCH HOUSE

CONFEDERATE SOLDIER WITH RIFLES MEET AND RUN TOWARDS CAMERA

UNIT OF CONFEDERATE TROOPS RUN OVER BRIDGE AND TOWARDS CAMERA, IN A HURRY

UNION SOLDIERS START FIRE IN SOUTHERN HOUSE

SMOLDERING FURNITURE IN HOUSE

UNION SOLDIERS AND BLACK MILITIA FLEE

BATTLE IN THE STREETS

CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS OUTSIDE HOUSE

TITLE CARD: "AFTER THE RESCUE."

TITLE CARD: "TENDER MEMORIES FOR 'THE LITTLE COLONEL'."

TITLE CARD: "WHILE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WEEP A GREAT CONQUEROR MARCHES TO THE SEA."

TITLE CARD: "THE TORCH OF WAR AGAINST THE BREAST OF ATLANTA. THE BOMBARDMENT AND THE FLIGHT."

CHAOS AND GUNSMOKE, PEOPLE RUSHING, MAN ON HORSEBACK

CONFEDERATE SOLDIER CARRIES INJURED MAN, DROPS HIM AND HE DIES, ALONG SPLIT RAIL FENCE

TITLE CARD: "THE LAST GRAY DAYS OF THE CONFEDERACY. ON THE BATTLE LINES BEFORE PETERSBURG. PARCHED CORN THEIR ONLY RATION."

TITLE CARD: "THE ENTRENCHMENTS OF THE OPPOSING ARMIES SEPARATED BY ONLY A FEW HUNDRED FEET."

SOLDIERS IN TRENCH WITH CANNON AND SAND BAGS AND RIFLES, AMERICAN UNION FLAG

WS OF BATTLEFIELD, SMOKE FROM CANNONS

TITLE CARD: "THE LITTLE COLONEL' RECEIVES HIS ORDERS AND LEADS THE FINAL DESPERATE ASSAULT AGAINST THE UNION COMMAND OF CAPTAIN PHIL STONEMAN."

CIVIL WAR BATTLE SCENES

CONFEDERATE BATTLE LINE, MEN RISE AND CHARGE

CRAZED COLONEL LEADS ATTACK, RUNS TOWARDS CAMERA

SOUTHERN FAMILY SITS AND WAITS DEPRESSED, PRAYING

TITLE CARD: "THE LITTLE COLONEL' PAUSES BEFORE THE LAST CHARGE TO SUCCOR A FALLEN FOE."

SOLDIER IS DYING

UNION SOLDIERS CHEER FROM THE TRENCHES

CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS IN TRENCHES WAVE FLAG

CRAZED CONFEDERATE OFFICER CARRIES FLAG TO THE ENEMY LINE AND SHOVES IT IN ONE OF THEIR CANNONS

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DEAD BODIES LINE THE TRENCHES, CANNON AND SOLDIERS

TITLE CARD: "NEWS OF THE LOSS OF BOTH YOUNGER SONS AND OF THE ELDEST NEAR DEATH IN A WASHINGTON HOSPITAL."

TITLE CARD: "THE LITTLE COLONEL IN THE MILITARY HOSPITAL SET UP IN THE PATENTS OFFICE IN WASHINGTON WHERE ELSIE STONEMAN IS A NURSE."

CU OF LILLIAN GISH AS ELSIE STONEMAN

CU OF WOMAN SINGING

HOSPITAL WARD WITH LILLIAN GISH FRONT AND CENTER READING LETTER TO SOLDIER

HOSPITAL WARD

THE SOLDIER SHOW'S GIRL THE THE IMAGE HE KEPT OF HER, CUT TO IMAGE, DAGUERREOTYPE

WOMAN WEARING CAPE AND HAT IS STOPPED BY SOLDIER FROM ENTERING HOSPITAL WARD

TITLE CARD: "MY ONLY SON MAY BE DYING IN THAT ROOM! I AM GOING IN!"

MOTHER FINDS HER INJURED SON IN HOSPITAL AND KNEELS BY HIS SIDE

MAN IN UNIFORM SPEAKS TO WOMEN,MOTHER PLEADS FOR HER SON'S LIFE, IS UPSET AND RESTS HER HEAD ON SON

WOMEN WRING HANDS AND YOUNG GIRL LEAVES AND COME BACKS

MILITARY OFFICIALS BOW TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND LEAVE ROOM, OTHERS ENTER AND SHAKE HANDS,TWO WOMEN (THE MOTHER AND LILIAN GISH) ASK LINCOLN TO SPARE SON

MOTHER IN CAPE TALKS TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN, SHE FALLS TO HER KNEES TO THANK HIM

PRESIDENT LINCOLN PASSES A LETTER TO MOTHER AND SHAKES HER HAND, THE WOMEN TEARFULLY EMBRACE AND LEAVE

TITLE CARD: "MR. LINCOLN HAS GIVEN BACK YOUR LIFE TO ME."

TITLE CARD: " MRS. CAMERON STARTS BACK FOR PIEDMONT TO ATTEND THE AILING FATHER."

TITLE CARD: "BACK HOME WITH THE GOOD NEWS."

TITLE CARD: "APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE ON THE AFTERNOON OF APRIL 9TH , 1865. THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE TO GENERAL U. S. GRANT, USA, FACSIMILE OF THE ACTUAL SCENE."

TITLE CARD: "THE END OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY, BUT THE BEGINNING OF DANIEL WEBSTER'S DREAM OF A UNITED NATION, WITH THE STATES "ONE AND INSEPARABLE, NOW AND FOREVER."

TITLE CARD: "COLONEL CAMERON IS DISCHARGED AND LEAVES FOR HOME."

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GIRL FIXES PLATE OF BEANS, CUT TO CU OF BEANS, OLD "MAMMY" CHARACTER (IN BLACKFACE) BRINGS SOME LACE SCRAPS

SOUTHERN GIRL PLACES SOME COTTON BATTING ON HER DRESS AND COLORS IT WITH SOOT FROM THE FIREPLACE, TRIES TO DRESS UP HER RAGS, DISAPPOINTED

SOLDIER ARRIVES AT OLD HOME, STARES AT UNKEMPT HOUSE

SOLIDER RETURNS HOME, HOLE IN HIS HAT AND OVERSIZED COAT, OPENS GATE AND ENTERS, SISTER GREETS HIM ON PORCH, HE PULLS OFF THE COTTON ON HER DRESS, THEY EMBRACE

STATESMAN MEETS WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN,THEY SIT AND ARGUE

ELDERLY STATESMAN LEANS ON CANE AND ARGUES WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN

NORTHERN LEADER LEAVES LINCOLN'S OFFICES, LINCOLN IS PENSIVE

FAMILY AND FORMER SLAVE (WHITE MAN IN BLACKFACE) EXIT HOUSE AND HANG UP SIGN FOR "BOARDING", GET TO WORK

COUPLE ENTERS CROWDED THEATER FOR SHOW.

RE-ENACTMENT OF FORD'S THEATER,AUDIENCE FINDS THEIR SEATS, COUPLE LOOKS THROUGH OPERA GLASSES

AUDIENCE APPLAUDS, ACTORS ON STAGE, ACTRESS ACCEPTS FLOWERS, CUT TO COUPLE (LILLIAN GISH) WATCHING

PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND OTHERS ENTER BOX AT FORD'S THEATER, RE-ENACTMENT, HE NODS AT CHEERING AUDIENCE, AND SITS NEXT TO AMERICAN FLAG

BODYGUARD SITS IN CHAIR

PRESIDENT AND MRS. LINCOLN IN THE BOX

TITLE CARD: "TO GET A VIEW OF THE PLAY THE BODY GUARD LEAVES HIS POST."

TITLE CARD: "TIME: TEN-THIRTEEN. ACT 3, SCENE 2"

TITLE CARD: "JOHN WILKES BOOTH."

ACTORS ON THE STAGE, LINCOLN LEANS OVER TO SEE THE PLAY, FEELS A CHILL AND PULLS SOMETHING OVER HIS SHOULDERS, CUTS TO BOOTH

LINCOLN IS SHOT FROM BEHIND, WILKES BOOTH JUMPS TO STAGE AND FLEES

WILKES BOOTH YELLS ON STAGE AND FLEES

CHAOS AND PANDEMONIUM IN THEATER

MEN TALK EXCITEDLY ABOUT ASSASSINATION, BLACK SERVANT (WHITE ACTOR IN BLACKFACE)

TITLE CARD: "YOU ARE NOW THE GREATEST POWER IN AMERICA."

TITLE CARD: "THE NEWS IS RECEIVED IN THE SOUTH."

CU OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN

TITLE CARD: "OUR BEST FRIEND IS GONE. WHAT IS TO BECOME OF US NOW?"

TITLE CARD: "AND NOW BEGAN AN ERA OF CRUEL CHICANERY AND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL AS A RESULT OF THE CARPETBAGGERS' STUDIED DEGRADATION OF THE CONQUERED SOUTH."

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