View of the Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan. Testing motors of partly assembled Ford cars. Draftsmen at work inside the plant. View of differential, transmission, crankshaft and various other vehicle body parts.
A main street in a city in Michigan. Trolley car and a horse-drawn wagon pass in front of a building. Scene shifts to a wide road with pedestrians gathered in center, waiting to cross. An oncoming car swerves toward the pedestrians, who jump out of the way. A police officer waves the motorist to a stop, jumps on his running board and directs him to the side of the road. Another change of scene shows car driving in residential neighborhood along a divided road with grass and shrubs planted in the divider. The curbs are tree lined and there are ample sidewalks for pedestrians.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Men gather in Masters Hall in the State House of Representatives in South Carolina. Majority of African Americans sit in the hall. An African American speaker speaks in the hall in front of everyone. Another African American man eats on the table. They talk amongst themselves. A man drinks. One of them puts his shoes on the table. A man puts his legs on the table. They misbehave. Speaker asks everyone to wear shoes. White visitors seen in the gallery. An intermarriage bill passed in the meeting. People talk. African American people cheer.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Ku Klux Klan or KKK formation. White soldiers wear white masks and clothes on horses in South Carolina. They arrive to terrorize the African American disturber and barn burner. The African American soldiers stand. They terrorize the African American soldiers. The African American soldiers talk to a man. White soldiers go back on their horses.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. A man sits on a chair in front of a house in South Carolina. A lady stands nearby him. Other men stand near him. They all discuss on a paper. Little Colonel joins and discusses with them. African Americans and Whites meet in a hall. An African American speaker speaks in front of them. People stand in a field in front of a house. African American soldiers in a field. African Americans and Whites arrive for voting. African American soldiers take a man with them on gun point for not voting for them from a house. A man stands outside a house. The hands of the abducted man tied with ropes. The man is punished. Little Colonel discusses with all other men in this respect. The punished man talks to them.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. A man sits on a chair. He looks at a paper. A man arrives. Two African American soldiers with swords in their hands arrive with the man. They talk amongst themselves. They argue. The man gives a white mask and clothes to him. He goes back. A lady arrives near the man. She talks to him. She views the paper and discusses with him.