Ellise Shafer administratorThe white fiberglass elephant statues at the Hollywood & Highland shopping center are being removed in a rejection of filmmaker D.W.
Griffith’s racist legacy.According to the Los Angeles Times, the new owners of the famous center where the Academy Awards are typically held are removing the elephant statues and “all of the faux Mesopotamian elements” as part of a $100 million makeover.Crews began dismantling the statues on Thursday night, which were used on the set of filmmaker D.W.
Griffith’s 1916 film “Intolerance,” as the Times reported. The movie was a follow-up to Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation,” which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and was condemned by the NAACP.
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