The phrase “Hollywood Babylon” entered the vernacular thanks to D.W. Griffith, one of Hollywood’s fi

The phrase “Hollywood Babylon” entered the vernacular thanks to D.W. Griffith, one of Hollywood’s first great directors, who followed up the racist smash The Birth of a Nation with a less-successful historical epic called Intolerance. Kennith Anger’s use of that film’s Babylon set, which was left to stand and decay for years after the film came and went, as the structuring image of his gossip bible, helps to set the ironic tone of the book.“Move those 10,000 horses a trifle to the right, and that mob out there, three feet forward,” was among the instructions Griffith allegedly gave during his direction of Intolerance. Though there was little historical evidence to support their presence, Griffith wanted white elephants for his immense epic, eight of them perched on massive mushroom pedestals, dwarfing the colossal court of Belshazzar’s palace and all built out of plaster alongside a dirt road which would become Sunset Boulevard.  The nitty gritty rise of the modern movie business, from an All-American KKK blockbuster, to the rebirth of its gardens of Babylon in a strip mall. A strange way to bookend one man’s career, no doubt – but that’s Hollywood. If anything, let us celebrate Intolerance not in fond memory of Griffith, but in homage of the industry artisans whose stories often go unsung.http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2018/6/26/dw-griffith-the-gish-sisters-and-the-origin-of-hollywood-babylon-fake-news-fact-checking-hollywood-babylon-episode-1https://ornatetheatres.com/index.php/the-vista-theater-los-angeles/https://lilliangish1893.com/intolerance-reviewed-by-thomas-c-kennedy-1916-motography/https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/09/03/the-monstrous-film-set-that-jumpstarted-hollywood/https://la.curbed.com/2015/5/26/9956894/watch-a-brief-history-of-the-1923-vista-theatre-in-los-felizhttps://filmfreedonia.com/category/experimental/ -- source link

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