After filming wrapped, the Los Angeles Fire Department cited the Babylonian set as a fire hazard and ordered it to be torn down. D.W. Griffith discovered that he had run out of money and, therefore, was unable to finance its demolition. The set stood derelict and crumbling for nearly four years, until it was finally taken down in 1919. By then it had fallen apart enough for it to be dismantled at a sufficiently lower cost.

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