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5 days ago · Chief among these innovators was D.W. Griffith. It is true that Griffith’s self-cultivated reputation as a Romantic artist—“the father of film technique,” “the man who invented Hollywood,” “the Shakespeare of the screen,” and the like—is somewhat overblown.
5 days ago · Hearts of the World (also known as Love's Struggle) is a 1918 American silent World War I propaganda film written, produced and directed by D. W. Griffith. In an effort to change the American public's neutral stance regarding the war, the British government contacted Griffith due to his stature and reputation for dramatic filmmaking.
2 days ago · デヴィッド・ウォーク・グリフィス （David Wark Griffith、 1875年 1月22日 - 1948年 7月23日 ）は、 アメリカ合衆国 の 映画監督 、 俳優 、 脚本家 、 映画製作者 。. 映画文法の基礎を築いた人物であり、様々な映画技術（ モンタージュ 、 カットバック ...
2 days ago · Hitchcock remarked that he was influenced by early filmmakers George Méliès, D.W. Griffith and Alice Guy-Blaché. His silent films between 1925 and 1929 were in the crime and suspense genres, but also included melodramas and comedies.
5 days ago · In 1919 Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, the four most popular and powerful film artists of the time, jointly formed the United Artists Corporation in order to produce and distribute—and thereby retain artistic and financial control over—their own films.
5 days ago · Raff and Gammon persuaded Edison to buy the rights to a state-of-the-art projector, developed by Thomas Armat of Washington, D.C., which incorporated a superior intermittent movement mechanism and a loop-forming device (known as the Latham loop, after its earliest promoters, Grey Latham and Otway Latham) to reduce film breakage, and ...
5 days ago · The early directors like D.W. Griffith had spent decades directing live stage actors in the theatre and knew how an audience would respond. And Griffith, especially, was good at it. He was directing melodramas in third- and fourth-tier circuits, where you go to small towns, and if you didn’t entertain these people, they’d throw ...
