" When her enraged husband, Childless Man (Tom Arnold) dragged his unstable wife away as she protested, "I want my children back!" he argued: "You know they bring him!" A loud town school bell tolled, causing the town""s inhabitants to react fearfully - Spencer noted: "We""re in Twin Peaks here."Planet""seditor Perry White wanted an exclusive scoop on "the story of the century" - "the single most important interview since God talked to Moses.Coincidentally, Miss Thwaites lives at 16 Thornton Square, and she is reminded of the ""real, live murder" that occurred there ten years earlier: "It was a most mysterious case.]The pro-war propaganda filmThe Fall of a Nation (1916), writer/director Thomas Dixon Jr.""s follow-up film to D.W.Griffith""sThe Birth of a Nation, is widely considered to be the first film sequel.[Note: It is a lost film that no one alive has seen.] Dixon, whose 1905 bookThe Clansmanwas the source for Griffith""s 1915 film, sought to capitalize on the film""s financial success by writing and publishing a new novel in 1916 titled The Fall of a Nation - he then made it into a film.He reached o retrieve the partially-charred photo around the edges - the Woman he had once loved and created a baby with - but then callously and indifferently tossed it back into the fire to let it fully burn, as he lit his pipe with a flame at the end of the paper.