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Chapters: D. W. Griffith, Flem D. Sampson, William J. Crowe, Kate Matthews, Rob Morris, Gene Snyder, Ray Burse, John Barbee. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: David Llewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 July 23, 1948) was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916). Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film. However, it also proved extremely controversial at the time and ever since for its negative depiction of Black Americans and their supporters, and its positive portrayal of slavery and the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith responded to his critics with his next film, Intolerance, intended to show the dangers of prejudiced thought and behavior. The film was not the financial success that its predecessor had been, but was received warmly by critics. Several of his later films were also successful, but high production, promotional, and roadshow costs often made his ventures commercial failures. However, he is generally considered one of the most important figures of early cinema. Griffith, of Welsh ancestry, was born in La Grange, Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith and Mary Perkins Griffith. His father was a Confederate Army colonel in the American Civil War and a Kentucky legislator. D. W. was educated by his older sister, Mattie, in a one-room country school. His father died when he was 7, upon which the family experienced serious financial hardships. At age fourteen, Griffith's mother abandoned the farm and moved the family to Louisville where she opened ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7888 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Filmographie de Joseph Barbera, Filmographie de D. W. Griffith, Filmographie de Michael Jackson, Tito Novaro, Filmographie de L'altermondialisme, Filmographie de L'environnementalisme, Roberto Gavaldón, Filmographie de Madonna, Henri Andréani, Robert Lorenz, Gonzalo Martínez Ortega, Desmond Harrington, Jean-Noël Adam, Tony Aboyantz, Morgan Padelford, Filmographie de Miley Cyrus, Raoul André, Filmographie de Vanessa Hudgens, Gianfrancesco Lazotti, Gabriel Aghion, Laurent Achard, Edmond Agabra, Alain Lavalle, Iradj Azimi, Vincent Lombard, Tristan Aurouet. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Cette page est la Filmographie de Joseph Barbera à ne pas confondre avec les productions de Hanna-Barbera. ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Sergei Eisenstein, D. W. Griffith, Robert J. Flaherty, Lou Tellegen, Lon Chaney, Sr., Jack Pickford, Mabel Normand, William Kennedy Dickson Filmography, B. Reeves Eason, Francis X. Bushman, August Blom, Alexander Dovzhenko, George Melford, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Lau Lauritzen Sr., Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Harry Davenport, Archer Macmackin, Yevgeni Bauer, Howard Estabrook, Birt Acres, James Young Deer, George Marshall, Edward Sloman, J. Warren Kerrigan, Boris Barnet, Francis Boggs, Ivan Perestiani, Vasily Goncharov, Conrad Wiene, Olga Preobrazhenskaya, Lucius J. Henderson, Léon Poirier, Fridrikh Ermler, Hampton Del Ruth, Yakov Protazanov, Vladimir Gardin, Hugo Ballin, Pyotr Chardynin, Tom Ricketts, Aleksandr Razumny, Henry Otto, Wallace Worsley, Horace B. Carpenter, Henri Fescourt, John G. Adolfi, Jacques Jaccard, Frederic Zelnik, William C. Dowlan, Mikhail Doller, Robert Wiene, Edward T. Lowe, Jr., Harry A. Pollard, George Jeske, George Irving, William F. Haddock, Frank Montgomery, Chester Withey, Colin Campbell, Lorimer Johnston, Raffles the Amateur Cracksman, André Hugon, Craig Hutchinson, Lamar Johnstone, Francis J. Grandon, Rae Berger, Alexandre Ryder, Julius Frankenburg, Frank Urson, Jacques de Baroncelli, Henri Pouctal, Maurice Mariaud, René Leprince, Henry Roussell, Robert Péguy, Guy Du Fresnay, Charles Burguet, Gaston Roudès, Ovanes Ohanian, Theodore Marston, John Griffith Wray, Ulysses Davis, Howell Hansel, H. Bruce Mitchell. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 298. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian: ; January 23, 1898 February 11, 1948) was a revolutionary Soviet Russian film director, film theorist and considered by many to be the 'Father of Montage' noted in particular for his silent films Strike, Battleship Pote...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=28380 ... Read more

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An exciting time during the birth of the feature film
If you are interested in silent films or David Wark Griffith, then you won't be able to put this book down until you are finished!Karl Brown worked for the Kinemacolor company as a teenager in the 1910s.Just when this company went out of business, D.W. Griffith and his stock company arrived in Los Angeles.He quickly became a camera assistant to cameraman Billy Bitzer.He worked on Griffith's THE AVENGING CONSCIENCE, BIRTH OF A NATION, and INTOLERANCE, among other films. His book is funny, exciting, and informative.He is in awe of Griffith and actress Lillian Gish.He works his hardest to satisfy Griffith's demands on the job, but this sometimes makes Bitzer jealous of him.Brown is confused by many of the things that Griffith does while making these films, but he soon learns why Griffith works this way. The book also includes a chapter on Brown's stint in the Army during World War I, where he was given a one-week leave of absence to help Griffith with BROKEN BLOSSOMS.This is the finest memoir by any silent film vetran that I've read, and I've read quite a few.

Quite a different account of a long gone era
Many books has been published about the silent movies era, from picture books to great actors to the eternal Chaplin and Pickford. This one is from one of Griffith cameramen's so for once, we stand behind the camera. Whatis different about Brown's account is the way the narration goes: hisautobiographical experience of going through that time where everything wasalmost new and a lot had to be done. He states the important and not soimportant anecdotic facts while using a sometimes ironic tone and asemi-chronological pace of remembrance. He even explain, matter-of-factly,some technical aspects of the trend, etc... This book has a lot to offerfor the silent movies or Griffith fans, especially if you have seen"Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance". This is not thetypical movie-related-good-for-the -fans-only book with Ohs! and Ahs! andWow! to sustain you throughout your reading. It is a very specific momentin the life of a guy who was there when movies were at their beginning, atime long gone...

A very personal memoir of a vanished period in film making.
D W Griffith figures as the patron and idol of Karl Brown. There is no doubt that D W Griffith, the director of "Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance". the supposed inventor of the "close-up"and discover of the Gish sisters, contributed immensely to the developmentof motion pictures as a distinct art form (perhaps THE art form of thiscentury). Even so, the Griffith which emerges from these pages is halftyrant and "control freak" who ultimately is made obsolete by apublic becoming increasingly sophisticated in its tastes. Karl Brown wastaken on as a junior camera man by Griffith, and it is through hisrecollections that the early years of the American cinema comes alive.Still, this is an autobiography so we are treated to a Norman Rockwellaccount of the early years of this century that illuminates the millieufrom which Griffith's work sprung. There is more than an element ofdefensiveness from Brown as he tries to reconcile Griffith's persona as a"gentleman" with his often reactionary views as exemplified in" A Birth of a Nation" ( afilm that was almost banned inAustralia and parts of the US). Griffith does not emerge from this workunscathed. Worth reading for historical interest. ... Read more

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Title: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of the "Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time.".(Book review)
Author: Micki McElya
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Date: June 22, 2010
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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. on March 22, 2010. The length of the article is 593 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation": A History of "The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time".(Book review)
Author: Jill Watts
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Title: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of "The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time"(Book review)
Author: J. Vincent Lowery
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Date: August 1, 2009
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This is nonfiction commentary.Chapters: The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, a Corner in Wheat, D. W. Griffith Filmography, Intolerance, Way Down East, America, Orphans of the Storm, the Greatest Thing in Life, Judith of Bethulia, That Royle Girl, the Battle of the Sexes, Hearts of the World, Sally of the Sawdust, Drums of Love, the New York Hat, the Sorrows of Satan, Abraham Lincoln, the Mothering Heart, the Musketeers of Pig Alley, Isn't Life Wonderful, What the Daisy Said, Home, Sweet Home, in Old California, Macbeth, Brute Force, a Flash of Light, Lady of the Pavements, the Lonedale Operator, Oil and Water, an Unseen Enemy, Enoch Arden, Love in an Apartment Hotel, the Painted Lady, a Temporary Truce, His Trust, to Save Her Soul, in Little Italy, the Battle at Elderbush Gulch, True Heart Susie, for His Son, in the Border States, His Trust Fulfilled, the Rocky Road, Those Awful Hats, the Informer, the God Within, So Near, Yet So Far, One Exciting Night, the Red Man's View, My Hero, the Lonely Villa, the Inner Circle, the Day After, the House With Closed Shutters, Three Friends, the Struggle, the Last Drop of Water, the Two Brothers, the Avenging Conscience, the Burglar's Dilemma, the Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch, a Drunkard's Reformation, Broken Ways, the Miser's Heart, the Lesser Evil, the Old Bookkeeper, a Romance of Happy Valley, the Taming of the Shrew, a Feud in the Kentucky Hills, the Transformation of Mike, Blind Love, an Outcast Among Outcasts, the Chief's Blanket, the Adventures of Dollie, the Greatest Question, Fate's Turning, Under Burning Skies, One Is Business, the Other Crime, Ramona, the Left-Handed Man, the Lady and the Mouse, the Escape, the Great Love, After Many Years, Two Daughters of Eve, Gold and Glitter, Brutality, a Romance of the Western Hills, a Chance Deception, a Timely Interception, Near to Earth, the Unchanging Sea, a Cry for Help, the Country Doctor, the Indian Brothers, the Hessian Renegades, an Adventure in the Autumn Woods... ... Read more