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Apr 23, 2024 · D.W. Griffith (born January 22, 1875, Floydsfork, Kentucky, U.S.—died July 23, 1948, Hollywood, California) was a 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 ...
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Apr 26, 2024 · Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln", is a 1930 pre-Code American biographical film about Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith. It...
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Apr 25, 2024 · Billy Bitzer (born April 21, 1874, Boston—died April 29, 1944, Hollywood) was a U.S. motion-picture cameraman who, in partnership with the pioneer director D.W. Griffith, developed camera techniques that set the standard for all future motion pictures and stimulated important experimentation in the field.
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Apr 28, 2024 · Even before making that controversial film, director D.W. Griffith had made numerous one-reelers centered on the events of the Civil War. While some war films emphasize the inhumanity of battle ...
Apr 16, 2024 · 3 min to read. A Berkshire Evening Eagle clip from Jan. 1, 1916, hypes the upcoming screening of the D.W. Griffith film "The Birth of a Nation," which portrays the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force. EAGLE ARCHIVES. At noon on a Friday, two men in the robes of the Ku Klux Klan rode their horses down Pittsfield’s North Street. The date was Jan. 7 ...
Apr 28, 2024 · The iconic “The Musketeers of Pig Alley” by D.W. Griffith, marked its debut on an auspicious Halloween day, October 31, 1912, creating a seismic shift in the cinematic world. This exceptional film is widely acknowledged as the first gangster film to grace the cinematic universe, its debut serving as the catalyst for a genre that would rule ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Instead it was William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, working in the West Orange, New Jersey, laboratories of the Edison Company, who created what was widely regarded as the first motion-picture camera. History of film details the history of cinema, a popular form of mass media, from the 19th century to the present.
