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Oct 28, 2024 · With the advice of the company’s two cameramen, Billy Bitzer (who would become Griffith’s personal cinematographer for much of his career) and Arthur Marvin (who actually shot the film), Griffith turned in a fresh and exciting film. His work earned him a full-time director’s contract with Biograph, for whom he directed more than 450 one- and two-reel films over the next five years.
Signature. David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, [2] he pioneered many aspects of film editing [3] and expanded the art of the narrative film. [4]
Oct 9, 2024 · D.W. Griffith (born January 22, 1875, Floydsfork, Kentucky, U.S.—died July 23, 1948, Hollywood, California) was a pioneer American motion-picture director credited with developing many of the basic techniques of filmmaking, in such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), Orphans ...
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Apr 2, 2014 · D.W. Griffith was one of cinema's earliest directors and producers, known for his innovations and for directing the 1915 film Birth of a Nation. Updated: Sep 14, 2022 9:28 PM EDT General ...
Oct 9, 2024 · D.W. Griffith: The Birth of a NationScene from the film The Birth of a Nation (1915), directed by D.W. Griffith. (more) In 1913 Griffith left Biograph and entered into an agreement with Mutual Films for the direction and supervision of motion pictures. From this association, among other films, came The Birth of a Nation.
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Jan 26, 2020 · Griffith's 1909 short Mrs. Jones Entertains was the film debut of actress Mary Pickford, and Griffith's 1912 short An Unseen Enemy was the film debut of actresses Lillian and Dorothy Gish. Pickford would star in many of Griffith's early shorts, and Lillian Gish would go on to star in all of Griffith's best-known films through 1921, and both would become two of Hollywood's first movie stars.
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David Wark "D. W." Griffith advanced the motion picture from a cheap amusement to an art form. Ironically, this theater-trained dramatist and would-be playwright developed many of the cinematic techniques that lifted the motion picture out of the shadow of the stage and gave it its own language and style. Griffith began acting in films in 1907 ...
