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	D. W. Griffith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Llewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875–July 23, 1948) was an American film director (commonly known as D.
		Griffith was particularly influential in popularizing "cross-cutting" in film editing to combine different locations in one scene and to build suspense.
		Griffith began his career as a hopeful playwright but met with little successs.
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		David Lewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director (commonly known as D. Griffith) probably best known for his film The Birth of a Nation.
		Scholars no longer dispute that few or any of Griffith's "innovations" actually began with him, but still he is given credit for a set of codes that have become the universal back-bone to the film language.
		Griffith remains a character both praised and disdained in the history of the cinema.
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	D. W. Griffith (1875-1948)
		David was raised on the farm and received his early education in a one-room country school and from his older sister, Mattie, a school teacher.
		Griffith followed Intolerance with Hearts of the World (1918), the most notable of several films he directed on behalf of the Allied cause in World War I. Hearts of the World incorporated actual footage taken in England and at the front in France, although the bulk of the film was shot in California.
		Griffith’s social conscience is again apparent in his impassioned indictment of the class injustices and male chauvinism that were wreaked upon the poor by the wealthy ruling class of the monarchy.
	www.gildasattic.com /dwgriffith.html (4571 words)

	Bio of D.W. Griffith
		David Wark Griffith was born in La Grange, Kentucky on January 22, 1875.
		Griffith decided to leave Biograph and, when he did, he took his stock company of actors with him.
		Griffith, on the other hand, continued to prosper and in 1915 he put forth his most ambitious effort, the twelve-reel destined to be classic Birth of a Nation, based on Thomas Dixon's southern tilted Civil War era drama.
	www.2020site.org /griffith/bio.html (1232 words)

	D. W. Griffith
		David Wark Griffith's achievement is two-fold: he developed for Americans a syntax for expression in the movies, and he showed how the feature film could be a significant commercial and cultural element of American culture.
		Griffith also sought out younger performers who were less bound to the broad style of stage acting and more open to the nuances required for acting for a camera.
		By the end of the silent era, Griffith was saddled with a reputation for extravagance, which was undeserved, and sentimentality, which was an integral part of his personality, although a steadily less compelling component of his films.
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	DEEP FOCUS: D. W. Griffith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Griffith could be very effective when he restrained his actors, but such minimalism in acting does not occur frequently in his films.
		Griffith's family was not successful working their new farm either, and they were once more forced to move to Louisville where they tried, with little success, to run a boarding house.
		Griffith sold newspapers to help the family, and later dropped out of high school to work at a better job as a n elevator operator at a dry goods store.
	alumni.imsa.edu /~mitch/directors/griffith.html (1442 words)

	American Experience \| Mary Pickford \| People & Events \| PBS
		When David Wark Griffith was born on a Kentucky farm in 1875, his father, Jacob Griffith, had already been a doctor, a soldier, a prospector for gold, and a state legislator.
		In 1896 Griffith was swept away by his experience as an extra in two plays starring the great actress of the day, Sarah Bernhardt.
		Griffith's prop boy was the first one to greet her, and reported to the director that she was "a looker." Griffith met with Pickford and was taken with her fresh beauty.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pickford/peopleevents/p_griffith.html (932 words)

	D.W. Griffith
		It was Colonel Griffith, otherwise known as "Roaring Jake", bellowing to the county that his son, David Wark Griffith, was born.
		Griffith, the good gray director, works, he remains calm and quiet, much of his power over his actors lying in his voice, an amazing voice cutting through all the noise about him.
		Griffith, to whom be was secretly married back in the days when he engaged her under the name of Linda Arvidson for The Adventures of Dolly, the first piece be ever directed.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/12_dwg_8.htm (1605 words)

	David Wark Griffith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His father was Brigadier-General Jacob Wark Griffith of the second Kentucky Cavalry, known as "Roaring Jake" because it was reputed his commands carried two miles along the valleys.
		Griffith was taught by his sister, Mattie, reading nothing but classics, although accepted as merely popular reading at that time in that region.
		Griffith worked in his brother's paper, weekly, as wrapper on mailing list, wages fifty cents a week, and food dependent upon what farmers traded for subscriptions in way of supplies and produce.
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	d.w. griffith \| biography (1878-1948)
		By 1920, Griffith could reasonably be said to have pioneered the expressionist use of colour tinting, the concept of widescreen cinema, and the commissioning of original music scores.
		Mrs Griffith has described in her autobiography (When the Movies Were Young, published in 1925) how the Biograph Company, originally created to make the peepshow devices called Mutoscopes to rival Edison's Kinetoscopes, were by 1908 desperateley searching for good material.
		Griffith's stories obsessively examined the theme of virtue under siege — he was repeatedly shutting his young lovers, his innocent heroines, his helpless children into traps from which they were usually (but certainly not always) rescued only at the last moment.
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	AllRefer.com - D. W. Griffith (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1913, taking his cue from the longer "spectacle" films produced in Italy, Griffith made the first American film of four reels, Judith of Bethulia (1913), and followed with the then-immense ten-reel Birth of a Nation (1915), an anthology of film technique and a landmark in the history of cinema.
		Griffith had experimented with sound as early as 1921, but his movies with full sound were not commercially successful.
		Griffith, When the Movies Were Young (1925); Lillian Gish's autobiography (1969); K. Brown, Adventures with D. Griffith (1973); R. Schickel, D.
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	Search Results for "Griffith" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Griffith, D. W., (David Wark Griffith), 1880-1948, American movie director and producer, b.
		Griffith, Arthur, 1872-1922, Irish statesman, founder of Sinn Fein.
		The founder (1900) was Arthur Griffith, who in 1899 established the first of the patriotic journals, The...
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	Filmmaker biographies: David Wark Griffith - pioneer movie director
		It was Griffith who had saved the ailing Biograph Studios from bankruptcy and, through his incredible talent, had made it a leader in the fledgling movie industry.
		Griffith’s second film, “The Redman and Child” did nearly as well and Biograph had found not only a new director, but its salvation as well.
		Griffith did manage to make a number of two-reelers, but it was always under protest from the company.
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	D.W. Griffith
		David Wark Griffith was born on January 22, 1875, to a rural Kentucky family still suffering economically from the ravages of the War Between the States.
		Griffith believed that he was making a strong statement against the brutality of war as his father had experienced it, while championing the underdog South against northern oppression.
		If Griffith's consummate artistry is responsible for the technical excellence of The Birth of a Nation, the much maligned hack writer Thomas Dixon gave him two of the film's most memorable and disturbing images--the fl rapist attacking his white victim and the Klan riding to the rescue.
	www.lsinstitute.org /Griffith.html (4843 words)

	D.W. Griffith at The Biograph Company
		He was born in Crestwood, Kentucky, on January 22, 1815, the son of Jacob Wark Griffith, a former colonel in the Army of the Confederacy.
		Griffith is nearly six feet tall with a handsome, elongated face.
		Griffith was very young when his father passed away; with the family wealth also gone, he looked for work along with the other able members of his family.
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	David Wark Griffith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Griffith left Biograph in 1913 to join Reliance-Majestic as head of production, and in 1914, he began his most famous film, based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon.
		In response to this criticism, Griffith made what many consider his finest film, Intolerance (1916) { View scenes from the production (-1-,-2-)}, in which the evils of intolerance were depicted in four parallel stories--a framework that required a scope of vision and production never before approached.
		Of the many actors trained by Griffith and associated with his name, Mary PICKFORD, Dorothy and Lillian GISH, and Lionel Barrymore are the most famous.
	chemistry.mtu.edu /~pcharles/GISH/dwg.html (419 words)

	D. W. Griffith biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in Crestwood, Oldham County, Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a Confederate Army colonel and Civil War hero, David Wark Griffith has been called the father of film grammar.
		Scholars no longer dispute that few or any of his "innovations" actually began with him, but still he is given credit for a set of codes that have become the universal back-bone to the film language.
		On December 15, 1999, declaring that Griffith "helped foster intolerable racial stereotypes," The Directors Guild of America's National Board - without membership consultation - announced it would rename the D.W. Griffith Award, the Guild's highest honor.
	david-wark-griffith.biography.ms (451 words)

	Round About: Articles & Columns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Griffith was born on Jan. 22, 1875, on a farm near Centerfield, Ky., in southern Oldham County.
		Griffith drew his ideas from his experiences of the simple pleasures of farm life and the goodness of the people who lived such a life.
		Griffith was bitten by the acting bug and went on to perform in many road shows.
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	David Wark Griffith Biography / Biography of David Wark Griffith Biography Biography
		David Wark Griffith (1875-1948), American filmmaker, was a pioneer director-producer who invented much of the basic technical grammar of modern cinema.
		On Jan. 22, 1875, D.W. Griffith was born at Crestwood, Oldham County, Ky., the descendant of a distinguished (but impoverished) Southern family.
		For 10 years he was a supporting player in provincial companies, using the stage name Lawrence Griffith to protect his family's honor but his real name for the plays and poetry he was trying to publish.
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		Griffith introduced the idea of two stories going on at the same time and perfected the use of flashbacks and cross cutting to tell the dual plot lines.
		Griffith's use of ethnic and racist stereotypes of African Americans as stupid and lusting after women and of the Ku Klux Klan as the saviors of the South have made this one of the most banned films in American History.
		Griffith's depiction of his racist beliefs in this film also turned out to be his down fall.
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	The religion of director D. W. Griffith
		Although May's discussion of Griffith's Methodist background is useful here, he does not really address the way the director's own religious orientation came to shift from his original Methodism.
		Griffith was buried in Mount Tabor Methodist Church Graveyard in Crestwood, Kentucky.
		The enormous popular response to Griffith's film indicated that its depiction of fls was neither offensive nor aberrational in the eyes of contemporary white audiences.
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	illusion and griffith
		Griffith was born in La Grange, Kentucky, and was educated in local schools.
		Griffith's films were frequently several hours in length, contained powerful dramatic situations and vivid characters, and were produced with technical virtuosity.
		Griffith made two talking pictures—Abraham Lincoln (1930) and The Struggle (1931)—but they were not as successful as his silent films.
	www.personal.psu.edu /dept/inart10_110/inart10/illu.html (750 words)

	David Wark Griffith's Intolerance
		This image shows the way Griffith used lighting, composition, and masking to direct our eyes to the important subjects in the frame.
		Here's the unifying motif in D. Griffith's Intolerance, an image of tenderness and repetition, a symbol of time and the never-ending back and forth of tolerance and intolerance.
		The still to the right (click on it to get a larger image) occurs in a dramatic scene in which camera movement intensifies the feeling of grandeur, beauty, and joy of the people of Babylon and their city.
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	Malaspina Great Books - D. W. Griffith (1875-1948)
		David Wark Griffith (January 22,; 1875 - July 23,; 1948) was an American director (also known as D.W. Griffith).
		Born in Crestwood, Kentucky, David Wark Griffith has been called the father of film grammar.
		Scholars no longer dispute that few or any of Griffith's "innovations" actually began with him, but still he is given credit for canonizing a set of codes that have become the universal back-bone to the film language.
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	Themes in The Birth of a Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		David Wark Griffith's epic, The Birth of a Nation, was released in 1915 to critical and commercial acclaim.
		Dyer is right to identify D.W. Griffith's Southern leanings (where the majority of the action in the film occurs) but despite such imbalances, the fundamental message remains clear: regional differences can be transcended when viewed in racialized terms.
		Michael Rogin explains Griffith's ideological contribution to American film Blackface, White Noise which he writes "was to join ‘the intimate and the epic'; he linked the personal and the historical through racial fantasy.
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	David Wark Griffith Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Scholars no longer dispute that few or any of his "innovations" actually began with him, but still he is given credit for a set of codes that have become the universal backbone to the film language.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/David_Wark_Griffith (708 words)

	D.W. Griffith: Directorial Debut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		David Wark Griffith, born in a small Kentucky town, revolutionized the Motion Picture industry as a director during the Silent Film Era.
		Contained here, is an article from 1916 which recounts the tale of how Griffith was chosen to direct his first movie.
		Also included is a biography of D.W. Griffith, and a complete filmography of the movies he directed and supervised.
	www.2020site.org /griffith (248 words)

	D. W. Griffith: Hollywood Independent
		Born David Wark Griffith on January 22, 1875, Griffith was a stage actor and playwright who entered the fledgling film industry during the era of the Edison patents monopoly.
		Griffith transitioned from actor to director at the American Biograph Company, one of the member studios of the Motion Picture Patents Company (aka The Edison Trust).
		Griffith partnered with Harry E. Aitken, a film pioneer who had formed Majestic films independent of the Trust.
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