DW GRIFFITH AS IT IS IN LIFE 1910 SILENT MARY PICKFORD 1911

DW GRIFFITH by IRA H. GALLEN
It was an era that laid the foundation upon which was built the Golden Age of Cinema; an era whose development and advancement of the moving picture as an art form was inextricably tied to one man's creative and innovative genius.

The man's name is D. W. Griffith--David Wark Griffith--and his story is that of the period between 1908 and 1913 when he created a method of storytelling in purely cinematic terms that was to raise the moving picture permanently out of the category of a scientific curiosity.

This he did by the use of techniques that broke precedents and created a vocabulary of visual devices for the emergence of film as art as well as by the development of a stock company of actors and actresses with him at the American Mutuscope and Biograph Company in New York, who would later emerge as some of the greatest individual talents during the glory years of the Golden Age

David Wark Griffith's film creation, THE BIRTH OF A NATION, was to make history and achieve immortality when released in 1914. With THE BIRTH, Griffith was to bring together the words "art" and "film" as a permanent equation for the first time. Only five years after his initial explorations into the then crude world of moving picture images, his epic, THE BIRTH, was both an historical creation as well as a history making event in its own right.

The American artist, whom the world would come to recognize simply as D.W. Griffith, became as much a household name as any of his creations on film, and for him the status of "genius" was to be given; a father figure in the birth of film art. To describe "genius" in finite terms as it applies to the methods of D.W. Griffith is to seek after that which is beyond precise definition. He felt degraded by motion pictures and therefore sought to raise the level of the medium by breaking all of the conventions and existing practices of filmmaking as they then existed.

Despite the overwhelming importance of D.W. Griffith to the development of cinema art; his name, his work and the work of those who helped him create his moving pictures have become a generally unknown commodity amongst the American public.


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[nswanjy]

very nice old movie thanx for video

[gnocchitimms]

It's ridiculous to ask such a question regarding a film that was made almost 100 yrs. ago. Societal mores were very different including racist attitudes. If you study any sort of history you will find numerous incidents of much of what we today find immoral, amoral, and politically incorrect. Being judgmental about the past is only useful if it serves as a lesson for today...

[FaerieCrone]

@MUSCLELOVER4me Well said. Everywhere I go on YouTube lately someone always has to bring that into everything.

[101punkchick]

this film made me realize that i should never leave my father alone when he's old and appretiate him more now. out of all the movies i've seen in this century, this old one made me realize this.

[pigeonpsycho]

ah, this was around the time the Jews installed the Federal Reserve... and down hill America went..

[bloodanddirt]

@georgieonmymind your family sounds bad-ass

[georgieonmymind]

my family the maynards owned a silent cinema from 1911. It's really wonderful to be able to see films of that time :-)

Thank you so much

[MUSCLELOVER4me]

I have no clue how or why racism is being discussed. This is a cute old film. There is no political agenda attached to it. Nor is thee any plot delivering a message regarding society. Some people just have to get up on a soap box and shoot off there mouth and pick things apart looking for things that aren't there corrupting the movie, it's entertainment value raining on everyone's parade. This is a very wholesome flick - don't look for things that aren't there.

[QueensLadyDay]

@9TheMajor WAKE UP!!! This is America! RACISM is the ONLY topic......ask a Native American....IF you can find ONE in your neighborhood!!

[kkallebb]

Pigeon farm? Do they still have those?

[Char503]

Cont.: He eventually met and married my Grandmother. She was raised on a farm on the James River and was from a LARGE family. When he first met my Great Grandfather he was asked about his family, "Tell us about your people, Ed". His reply was earnest and simple, "Well, Mr. Smith, I don't have any people, but I am hoping to have a family and get some". Grandfather and Grandmother had 7 children and were happily married for 30 years. He died of a heart-attack at age 55. Family was his life!