D.W. Griffith made a sex-ed movie about eugenics and it VANISHED. Good riddance or tragic loss?
A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.
Direction
Griffith's 'educational' era — Birth of a Nation's racist cousin
Production
Progressive Era sex panic made cinematic and then DESTROYED BY TIME
Director
D.W. Griffith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1910s 'social hygiene' films that used VD fears to police working-class women's sexuality. Griffith jumped on the trend after his racial epic made him controversial.
Only known from a 1914 copyright deposit description and trade reviews. No footage, no stills, no script survives — a complete ghost film from cinema's most documented era.
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