"THE BIRTH OF A NATION."

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 53, 31 August 1916, Page 3

"THE BIRTH OF A NATION."

Often the posters used for advertising moving pictures are, like the illustrations on packets of flower seeds, an artistic conception of What the real thing might be. But this is not so with " The Birth of a Nation," now being shown at the Town Hall. The posters give but a faint idea of the picture. To realise the scale of the production one must see it. Not only is the production notable for the magnitude of its conception, but it is also remarkable for its historical accuracy. Details of the dress of the times and scenes prior to and following the great Civil War are faithfully depicted. The scenes of actual warfare between North and South are highly reaiistic. Thousands of persons participate, and with such vigour do they play their parts that the onlooker is really led to believe that he is witnessing an actual conflict. Great events in history are also recalled on the screen. There is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, for instance. The thread of tho historical narrative is preserved by an element of romance, which is quite in keeping with the remainder of the production. The story is of Northern and Southern families who were friends before the war, and became separated by their different opinions on the slavery question. The scenes in the period after the war, with the exploits of the Ku Klux Klan, are no less sensational than the battle pictures.

" The Birth of a Nation" will be screened again this evening. On Saturday there will be a matinee, at which children will be admitted at half-price.