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The
Hollywood Highland complex, based on the
Babylonian set for Intolerance
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INTOLERANCE
filming locations
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CREDITS
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DW Griffithís
vast historical drama, linking four stories of intolerance
through the ages, was a response to criticism of his
previous film, The Birth of
a Nation, and its glamorisation of the Ku Klux Klan.
A landmark in cinema, in its scope and ambition, the most famous sequence is the fourth 'Babylonian' section, which inspired the whole historical epic genre.
The vast ëBabyloní set, with its rearing elephants,
has become a symbol of overblown Hollywood extravagance.
It was left , towering over east Hollywood for four
years after filming, until being dismantled in 1919.It
stood at 4500 Sunset Boulevard
at the junction with Hollywood Boulevard in Silverlake.
Its memory lives on, though. The design of the gloriously kitsch Hollywood-Highland complex on Hollywood Boulevard is based on DW Griffith's vision of ancient Babylon, elephants and all.
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FILMING
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