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Oct 9, 2024 · 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.
- Robert M. Henderson
Nov 3, 2009 · In the preceding year, as extraordinary European films like Benjamin Christensen’s The Mysterious X (released as Sealed Orders in the U.S.) and Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria were arriving on American shores, D. W. Griffith had been tearing at the seams of his constraining Biograph contract. As with so many early commentaries on the movies ...
Oct 14, 2009 · Film history textbooks dutifully catalog the elements of cinematic grammar and expressiveness that D. W. Griffith invented or refined in his five years at Biograph (in collaboration with his cinematographer G. W. “Billy” Bitzer [1872–1944], who worked at the Museum Film Library late in his life, providing invaluable information on the ...
Griffith directed Sweet in Judith of Bethulia, the last film he made for Biograph. Filmed in 1913 and released in 1914, it was one of the first full-length feature films. Within several years of its release, the company stopped making movies. After a period of decline, Biograph ceased operations in 1928.
Oct 9, 2024 · When an opening for a director developed at Biograph, Griffith was hired. During the next five years, from 1908 to 1913, Griffith made more than 400 films for Biograph, the majority in the one-reel format, lasting approximately 12 minutes.
- Robert M. Henderson
Apr 25, 2013 · From 1908-1913, during his prolific era at the Biograph Company, Griffith’s experimentations with narrative film syntax emerged through an ideologically illegible range of film stories and devices.
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Nov 13, 2011 · That Griffith's tenure at Biograph coincides almost to the year with the tumultuous period of industrial and formal change typically referred to as “the transitional era” is but one of many reasons that historians view the director as central to the period's developments.
