D. W. Griffith

...tend to begin with Charlie Chaplin, who appeared as a performer and made his first pictures as a fledgling director in 1914, or D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation a year later. But the films that preceded those are as revelatory for their...

In this article: Thomas Alva Edison, Eadweard Muybridge, Edison Company, Stanford University, and California

...80 gallery exhibitions on the cinema since 1939 (in addition to its film screening programs), including gallery installations on D. W. Griffith, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, Ernie Gehr, Ray, Harryhausen, the UPA, Disney and...

In this article: Tim Burton, Ray Harryhausen, Disney, Warner Bros., Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Killers, and Alice in Wonderland

...of Mitchell's book, including her use of racial epithets, and ensuring that "GWTW" avoided the more virulent racial attitudes of D.W. Griffith's silent epic, "The Birth of a Nation." Although I am unable to put aside these factors when...

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...from the start, filmmakers working in Vermont were always likely to encounter climate issues. As early as 1920, legendary director D.W. Griffith's "Way Down East" braved brutal March conditions in White River Junction and Hartland.

In this article: Vermont, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble with Harry, Lillian Gish, John Michael Hayes, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Zemeckis, D.W. Griffith, California, and White Christmas

...the Ku Klux Klan as criminals and vigilantes. While that may sound like a pretty accurate depiction to us, you have to realize that D. W. Griffith's Birth Of A Nation released in 1919, depicted just the opposite; black men trying to ravish...

In this article: History, Oscar Micheaux, South Dakota, Ku Klux Klan, Within Our Gates, The Homesteader, and Birth Of A Nation

...and directors have always exercised enormous influence in their films on American attitudes and opinions, starting with D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" (1915), negatively portraying blacks in the South. It just goes to show...

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The Symbol of the Unconquered is one of two films that Oscar Micheaux, the first African- American filmmaker, wrote in response to DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, a 1915 film celebrating the Ku Klux Klan. Micheaux' film tells the story...

In this article: The Birth of a Nation, Ku Klux Klan, Oscar Micheaux, DW Griffith, and Troy, NY

Back in the days before 401(k)s-let alone Social Security-older people faced the kind of pressures portrayed by filmmaker D.W. Griffith in his melodramatic 1911 silent film What Shall We Do With Our Old? It's a sad tale of the...

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...-- will receive honorary memberships in the guild at the 62nd annual awardsfest on Jan. 30. Iger and Meyer will join the ranks of D.W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Louis B. Mayer, Darryl F. Zanuck, and Roger Ebert, who also received...

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...its screenplay is by Janelle Balnicke. Among those appearing are Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Lillian Gish, Amelia Earhart, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Adolph Zukor, Walt Disney and "Keystone Cops" creator Mack Sennett. "Mary," which played...

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