DU Trivia: What was the first film shown in the White House

[LynneSin]

:bounce:

[underpants]

1. Farenheit 9/11

:shrug:

[Chef]

2. Film

Birth of a Nation

[LynneSin]

3. Ding Ding Ding....

....we have a winner

Congrats!!


President Woodrow Wilson was the one who viewed the first movie shown in the White House

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004972/trivia

[Kid_A]

4. He's right.

I think it was Woodrow Wilson who thought the film was incredibly important. And by "important" he meant "fucking disgraceful".

[Bertha Venation]

8. Yes? May I help you?

;)

[flamingyouth]

5. Birth of a Nation

To Woodrow Wilson, I believe. Edit - I didn't read the previous posts. :D

[JM]

6. The first one for W would have been

"A Bug's Life" to go along with his reading of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"

JM

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. That's not true!

We all know Bush can't read!

[terrya]

9. After seeing "Patton", President Nixon ordered the bombing of Cambodia.

True trivia.

[Westegg]

11. After seeing too many bad Ben Affleck movies...

...I ordered the bombing of Hollywood. A squadron of B-52s, payload-heavy, are circling above the city now, waiting to drop their ordinance when I say "Bennifer"...

Sorry. Somebody HAD to do it.

[Westegg]

10. I'm guessing "Birth of a Nation," during Wilson's reign...

Wilson called "BoaN" "history written with lightning." His version of history, anyway. Wilson's hard-core racist beliefs were very much in keeping with the themes of Griffith's film, which, however ground-breaking it was in cinematic terms (and it was very ground-breaking) is very hard to watch.