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      Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks woulda been the big names at the time; D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance came out about three weeks prior and was cleaning up pretty well at the 1916 equivalent of the box office

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        D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance

        I looked it up and wow, I didn’t realize that movies were already so big in 1916.

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          That was pretty much the year movies became that big; Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, released the previous year, more or less revolutionized the filmmaking process and near-singlehandedly codified long-form cinema as we know it today. Of course it also made the KKK the good guys, so, you know, some aspects coulda been better.