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Griffith has six films preserved on the United States National Film Registry deemed as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant": Lady Helen's Escapade, A Corner in Wheat (both 1909), The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916) and Broken Blossoms (1919).
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Film TitleYear Of ReleaseYear Inducted12 Years a Slave2013202320 Feet From Stardom20132023Alambrista!19772023Apollo 1319952023The Registry contains newsreels, silent films, student films, experimental films, short films, music videos, films out of copyright protection or in the public domain, film serials, home movies, documentaries, animation and independent films. As of the 2023 listing, there are 875 films in the Registry.
Film TitleFilm TypeYear Of ReleaseYear Of InductionNarrative feature19681991Narrative feature19572012Documentary19972017Narrative feature19582008These 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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Between 1908 and 1913 (the years he directed for the Biograph Company), Griffith produced 450 short films, an enormous number even for this period. This work enabled him to experiment with cross-cutting, camera movement, close-ups, and other methods of spatial and temporal manipulation. On Griffith's first trip to California, he and his company dis...
D. W. Griffith has been called the father of film grammar. Few scholars still hold that his "innovations" really began with him, but Griffith was a key figure in establishing the set of codes that have become the universal backbone of film language. He was particularly influential in popularizing "cross-cutting"—using film editing to alternate betw...
Griffith was a highly controversial figure. Immensely popular at the time of its release, his film, The Birth of a Nation (1915), based on the novel and play The Clansman by Thomas W. Dixon, was a white supremacist interpretation of history, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People attempted to have it banned. After that e...
Seen today, almost a century after they were made, Griffith's films look stilted, sometimes wooden, with hokey acting. They will bore most viewers. But in their day they were making the rules and conventions for what film could show and do; they were the cutting edge of cinematic development. Even though Birth of a nation has been denounced and vil...
Resurrection(1909)In Old California(1910)Judith of Bethulia(1914)The Birth of a Nation(1915)Barry, Iris and Eileen Bowser. D. W. Griffith: American Film Master. New York: Garland, 1985. ISBN 0824057627Brown, Karl. Adventures with D. W. Griffith. New York: Da Capo Press, 1973. ISBN 0306800322Brownlow, Kevin. The Parade’s Gone By. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1968. ISBN 0520030680Drew, William M. D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance: Its Genesis and its Vision. Jefferson, NJ: McFarland & Company, 1986. ISBN 0899501710Aug 29, 2024 · Shooting on the film began in secrecy in late 1914. Although a script existed, Griffith kept most of the continuity in his head—a remarkable feat considering that the completed film contained 1,544 separate shots at a time when the most elaborate of foreign spectacles boasted fewer than 100.
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Jan 26, 2020 · While the overt racism of The Birth of a Nation remains the defining characteristic of Griffith's reputation in the present day, six films directed by Griffith are preserved on the U.S. National Film Registry, including The Birth of a Nation and Broken Blossoms.
