The more often I watch this, the more I am astonished and awed by it. Oh, to see it in a big cinema, with an orchestra playing! When Mr Blake goes to Hollywood, he will insist on similar spectacle.
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It is certainly a major advance on his “Birth of a Nation” made only a few years before (which looks very crude in comparison).
Hollywood continued to progress till the late1940s – however there has (in my opinion) been a falling away in recent decades. Partly due to the “anti trust” break up of the studeo system (part of the American obession with corporation bashing), partly the rise of union power (which makes it difficult to make films in Hollywood at all), and partly (perhaps) because of a general decline in American culture.