Editing The Birth of a Nation (section)

===1911 version===
In 1911, the [[Kinemacolor Company of America]] produced a [[lost film]] in [[Kinemacolor]] titled ''The Clansman''. It was filmed in the southern United States and directed by [[William F. Haddock]]. According to different sources, the ten-reel film was either completed by January 1912 or left uncompleted with a little more than a reel of footage. There are several speculated reasons why the film production failed including unresolved legal issues regarding the rights to the story, financial issues, problems with the Kinemacolor process, and poor direction. [[Frank E. Woods]], the film's scriptwriter, showed his work to Griffith, who was inspired to create his own film adaptation of the novel, titled ''The Birth of a Nation''.<ref name=":22">{{Cite book |last=McKernan |first=Luke |title=Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897–1925 |publisher=University of Exeter Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0859892964}}</ref>{{sfn|Stokes|2007}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Usai |first=P. |title=The Griffith Project, Volume 8 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2019 |isbn=9781839020155}}</ref>