00:00So here we are on Hollywood Boulevard and the elephants that we can see behind and all this decor
00:04It comes from a film called Intolerance which came out in 1916.
00:07and it is a film that is considered the first Hollywood blockbuster
00:12since it is a film that cost more than 1,750,000 dollars
00:16and at the time, at least in 1916, there were no films being made for that budget.
00:22This film, Intolerance, was directed by David Park Griffith.
00:25who also made a film a year earlier called Birth of a Nation
00:28a film which, in many of its aspects, its editing and its dynamism, revolutionized the codes of cinema
00:34but a film that is also considered deeply racist.
00:38Besides, that's where the paradox lies, since it's a film that is extremely important.
00:41who reinvents the codes but who sends out messages that are ignoble
00:47and which are a thousand leagues away in any case from what we can imagine today.
00:53Well, it's important to show you this right in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard.
00:55a rather impressive setting for an equally impressive film.
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