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1. • • 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.
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   How many two reel films did Griffith make?

   • From 1910 to 1912, Griffith directed 104 two-reel films. Initially, there was resistance in the industry to extending a film beyond one reel. Biograph even released some two-reelers as separate films, such as His Trust, Part I and His Trust, Part II (also referred to as His Trust and His Trust Fulfilled).

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   How many films did D W Griffith make?

   • 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. Those Boys! Was Justice Served? Oh, Uncle!

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   How did Griffith influence filmmaking?

   • In short, Griffith showed how the filmmaker could gain control over the emotional response that the audience had to a film. Many of these advances were the result of changing the basic unit around which a film was built—from the individual scene to the individual shot. Early filmmakers relied on the scene as the basic unit of action.

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   Which Griffith films were successful?

   • Several of Griffith's later films were successful, including Broken Blossoms(1919), Way Down East(1920), and Orphans of the Storm(1921), but the high costs he incurred for production and promotion often led to commercial failure.

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   How did Griffith create a movie?

   • Griffith began using several takes from multiple camera angles to create one scene using each shot to specific advantage. This was, perhaps, his most important contribution to the art. In 1913, Griffith stretched the running time of a movie to four reels with Judith of Bethulia.

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   What was Griffith's first film?

   • He went on to create the first American feature-length film two years later with The Birth of a Nation, which was twelve reels in length. With this film, Griffith brought together for the first time in one film most of the basic cinematic techniques that are still used in modern filmmaking.

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   Oct 28, 2024 · At first he made such two-reel films as Enoch Arden (1911), Man’s Genesis (1912), The Massacre (1912), and The Mothering Heart (1913), but these went virtually unnoticed by a public enthralled with such recent features from Europe as Queen Elizabeth and Quo Vadis?

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   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.

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   Jul 31, 2006 · By this time the Biograph allowed Griffith to expand some of his films to two reels, or about 25 minutes of running time. Lillian Gish stated that this gave Griffith more time to think and experiment.

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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.

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   Apr 2, 2014 · He started to develop two-reel works and eventually made the four-reel film Judith of Bethulia. ("Four-reel" meant the movie could play for an hour.) At Biograph, Griffith was highly...

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   Oct 9, 2024 · 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. His first film was The Adventures of Dollie (1908), about a baby stolen by and recovered from Gypsies.

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    He made Lady of the Pavements (1929), a part sound film, and only two full-sound films: Abraham Lincoln (1930) and The Struggle (1931). Neither was successful, and after The Struggle, he never made another film.