Claire Fontaine
Beginning in the 1910s, a separate film industry began to take root, in part, to remedy the negative depiction of blacks in motion pictures. One of the motivating forces behind this movement was the racist depictions of blacks in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915). Early responses to this, such as The Birth of a Race (1918) [click here to view a clip from the film] and the Lincoln Motion Picture Company's The Trooper of Troop K (1916), did not achieve box office success but ushered in a new subset of films in America, commonly referred to as "race movies."
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