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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.
- Robert M. Henderson
Nov 3, 2009 · Griffith’s final film for Biograph, Judith of Bethulia, was an adventure for all involved, since Griffith’s company of actors and technicians (nearly all of whom would follow him when he left Biograph) had never made a film nearly as long or spectacular. Griffith assured Blanche, then seventeen, that her great (but short) co-star Henry B. Walthall would “measure up” as General Holofernes.
Oct 14, 2009 · Henri Matisse said, “My purpose is to render my emotion… I think only of rendering my emotion.” 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 ...
Oct 28, 2024 · History of film - D.W. Griffith, Silent Era, Biograph: There has been a tendency in modern film scholarship to view the narrative form of motion pictures as a development of an overall production system. Although narrative film was and continues to be strongly influenced by a combination of economic, technological, and social factors, it also owes a great deal to the individual artists who ...
Oct 9, 2024 · During his Biograph period D.W. Griffith introduced or refined the techniques of motion-picture exposition, including the close-up, a film shot in which a single object or face filled the screen; the scenic long shot, showing an entire panoramic view; and cross-cutting, a technique of editing scenes at various locations together and intermixing them to give the impression to the viewer that ...
- Robert M. Henderson
Griffith was forced to leave United Artists after Isn't Life Wonderful (1924) failed at the box office. United Artists founders Griffith, Pickford, Chaplin and Fairbanks sign their contract for the cameras in 1919. He made Lady of the Pavements (1929), a part sound film, and only two full-sound films: Abraham Lincoln (1930) and The Struggle (1931).
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Apr 2, 2014 · 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 ...