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D. W. Griffith. 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]
D.W. Griffith. Director: The Birth of a Nation. David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually shape his movies.
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Jul 19, 2024 · D.W. Griffith, 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 of the Storm (1921), and The Struggle (1931).
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Jul 26, 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 ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Born on January 22, 1875, in Floydsfork, Kentucky, D.W. Griffith worked as an actor and playwright before turning to cinema, creating highly innovative filmmaking techniques. He directed the 1915 ...
The Fight for Freedom (director disputed) The Tavern Keeper's Daughter. The Black Viper. The Red Man and the Child. Deceived Slumming Party. The Bandit's Waterloo. A Calamitous Elopement. The Greaser's Gauntlet. The Man and the Woman.
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Jan 26, 2020 · Film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor David Wark "D.W." Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was a pioneering, yet controversial, creative force in early Hollywood. Griffith is credited with inventing or popularizing many foundational cinematic narrative techniques, and he was arguably the most important director in the first decade of Hollywood film production.
