The Birth of a Nation
1915
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He was the first filmmaker to realize that the motion-picture medium, properly vested with technical vitality and seriousness of theme, could exercise enormous persuasive power over an audience, or even a nation, without recourse to print or human speech. Griffith began his film career in late 1907 as an actor.
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 ...
Share: Courtesy: Kevin Brownlow. For D.W. Griffith, life was a spontaneous adventure. For years he travelled around the country trying to find success as an actor and playwright, and failing...
Dec 29, 1998 · In the wake of his death and the coming of age of the movie industry, D.W. Griffith has taken his place in American cultural history as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
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 ...
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.
Scene from The Birth of a Nation (1915), directed by D.W. Griffith. 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.
