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W. Griffith and His Films. by Leona Rasmussen Phillips.

W. Contents: "Forethought;" "The Early Years;" "Biograph Years;" "The Interim Years;" "The Great Years" (The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance); "The After Years;" "The Waning Years;" "In Retrospect;" And Bibliography.

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David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. Widely considered as the most important filmmaker of his generation, he pioneered the feature-length movie and many enduring cinematic techniques, such as the close-up. His film The Birth of a Nation (1915) broke box-office records but also attracted much controversy, as it depicted African Americans in a negative light and glorified the Ku Klux Klan. Intolerance (1916) was made as an answer to his critics.

The Films of D. W. Griffith serves as an introduction to, and a cultural argument for, the work of the first widely acknowledged master filmmaker. Situating D. Griffith within film history and American studies.

Griffith: Master of Cinema or Racist Monster part 1 by Ira H. Gallen. An Introduction We all have our heroes in life, some look up to baseball players, politicians, astronauts, actors, singers and even filmmakers. My fascination from the time I graduated high school and left for college was to become a great film director like my idol D. Griffith. 9 November at 10:23 ·. The State of the Art Film Tools I Work with are Now Vintage.

Griffith, Director: The Birth of a Nation. David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually shape his movies. In 1897 Griffith set out to pursue a career both acting and.

For students of the motion picture, Griffith's is the mo. Perhaps no other director has generated such a broad range of critical reaction as . For students of the motion picture, Griffith's is the most familiar name in film history. Generally acknowledged as America's most influential director (and certainly one of the most prolific), he is also perceived as being among the most limited. Praise for his mastery of film technique is matched by repeated indictments of his moral, artistic, and intellectual inadequacies

Innovative Filming Techniques.

Griffith was one of cinema's earliest directors and producers, known for his innovations and for directing the 1915 film Birth of a Nation. An avid reader, the young Griffith eventually worked as a book clerk and later decided to pursue acting and write plays. Innovative Filming Techniques. By 1908, Griffith had entered the fledgling world of moviemaking. He did acting work for the New York City film companies Edison and Biograph and went on to become a director of hundreds of shorts for the latter company, working with actors like Lionel Barrymore, Mary Pickford and the Gish sisters.

In the Biograph films, Griffith experimented with all the narrative techniques he would later use in the epics The Birth . Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive, New York

In the Biograph films, Griffith experimented with all the narrative techniques he would later use in the epics The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916)-techniques that helped to formulate and stabilize Hollywood’s classical narrative style. A few of these techniques were already in use when Griffith started; he simply refined them. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive, New York. It would be fair to say that Griffith’s career as an innovator of film form ended with Intolerance, but his career as a film artist certainly did not. Griffith 1875-1948. Full name David Wark Griffith) American filmmaker

W. Full name David Wark Griffith) American filmmaker.