DW GRIFFITH THE MENDED LUTE 1910

The Mended Lute 1909 cast: Owen Moore, Mack Sennett, Red Wing, Arthur V. Johnson, Florence Lawrence, James Kirkwood, Stanner E.V. Taylor - Screenwriter Billy Bitzer - Cinematographer

Summary: In June of 1909 Griffith had decided it was too hot and muggy to film in the city so, on the recommendation of the company's president J. J. Kennedy, he took his stock company of players and crew to Cuddlebackville in the Orange Mountains of New York state to work. The first production was The Mended Lute, "A stirring Romance of the Dakotas." Take note that this is a story entirely about Indians, and there were no white men depicted in the film. The highlight of the film is a canoe chase along the Never Sink River, which I had the oportunity to visit in the 1974, when working on a film about Griffith's days at Biograph.

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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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[creamofcardstv]

Is Florence your favorite silent movie star?

[creamofcardstv]

it's fun seeing these really early movie stars! Thumbs up!

[cynthiailly]

Poor Florence Lawrence. It's nice that a couple of her movies are up on youtube. Oh, by the way, Owen Moore who is also in this movie was Mary Pickford's first husband.

[hopejonesfan]

This movie was made in Cuddebackville NY on my families property. The waterfall is called Buttermilk Falls and the river is the Neversink.

[little1flo]

If its "Florence lawrence: the biograph girl," I just read it. It was very good. An excellent read for a biography of whose subject scant information remains. this movies is very nice and exemplifies flo's charisma and willingness to do "all things physical" for the camera. I wish more of her movies were available. You can see her in "Those Awful Hats" as the woman in the light outfit who comes in and sits down in the front after Mack Sennett finally calms down and sits down.

[iraRona]

Id like to read that story.