In the mid 1910s films started to become longer, greater and more complex. Intolerance was so great and lavish that many people had never seen anything like it before (there had been other colossal films, most notably Cabiria, an italian epic, filmed in 1914)
This is one of a group of fundraising poster stamps issued by the Council Against Intolerance in 1944. The Council’s goal as set forth in a fundraising letter dated September 1944 was to promote unity among Americans, to educate them to avoid prejudice and bigotry, and “… to defend our children from racial and religious hatred.” Other stamps featured Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
