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Oct 28, 2024 · 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. 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 ...
Jul 31, 2006 · Griffith had pushed even the two-reel films he directed at the Biograph to their limit of expressiveness. The nature of that expressiveness has been described in many different ways. To Griffith’s biographer Richard Schickel, the limitations and pressures of the Biograph years forced Griffith to focus on his best qualities as an artist.
- John Steinle
Between 1908 and 1910, he directed 206 short one-reel films, averaging about two films per week. Each reel of film lasted approximately ten minutes. From 1910 to 1912, Griffith directed 104 two-reel films. Initially, there was resistance in the industry to extending a film beyond one reel.
Griffith entered film in 1908 and by 1913 had directed hundreds of one-reel short films which are well-known for their creativity and clarity of expression. Although many of Griffith's feature length films, such as Broken Blossoms (1919), are small-scale dramas, his best-known films are the massive epics The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916).
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.
The total release footage rose by only 20%. Rather, the increase seems to have stemmed from a change in company policy – more than half of Biograph’s twice-weekly releases now consisted of split reels (containing two shorter films) rather than a single full-length subject – and Griffith apparently was responsible for their entire output.
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These are the films directed by the pioneering American filmmaker D. W. Griffith (1875–1948). According to IMDb , he directed 518 films between 1908 and 1931. 1908
