He falls as the representative of the government and a thousand high and noble crowd aspirations.

The mimic audience in the restored Ford's Theatre rises in panic.

This crowd is interpreted in especial for us by the two young people in the seats nearest, and the freezing horror of the treason sweeps from the Ford's Theatre audience to the real audience beyond them.
The real crowd touched with terror beholds its natural face in the glass.
Later come the pictures of the rioting negroes in the streets of the Southern town, mobs splendidly handled, tossing wildly and rhythmically like the sea.

Then is delineated the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, of which we have already spoken.

For comment on the musical accompaniment to The Birth of a Nation, read the fourteenth chapter entitled "The Orchestra, Conversation and the Censorship." In the future development of motion pictures mob-movements of anger and joy will go through fanatical and provincial whirlwinds into great national movements of anger and joy.
A book by Gerald Stanley Lee that has a score of future scenarios in it, a book that might well be dipped into by the reader before he goes to such a play as The Italian or The Battle, is the work which bears the title of this chapter: "Crowds." Mr.Lee is far from infallible in his remedies for factory and industrial relations.