The Exemplary Practices of David Griffith, Part 1: Establishing Events Historically
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1968
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Cameron, Evan Wm.
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With the release of THE BIRTH OF A NATION in 1915, David Griffith established by common consent and emulation of his peers the prototype of international feature filmmaking – an exemplar of the possibilities of practice within a natural art. A year later he completed INTOLERANCE, the film that was to entice a young Russian, Vsevolod Pudovkin, to explain what was going on and thus complete the paradigm. Within this essay I explain what Griffith did, how he came to do and why the doing of it was so influential.
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Archer, William, Biography, BIRTH OF A NATION, THE, CABIRIA, Cinematography, Clansman, The, Constable, John, Cook, David, Danto, Arthur, DeMille, Cecil B., Democrates, Directing, Dixon, Thomas, Eisenstein, Sergei, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, Filmmaking, Gish, Dorothy, Gish, Lillian, Godard, Jean-Luc, Goldwyn, Samuel, Griffith, David Wark, Hearing Movies, History, Ibsen, Henrik, INTOLERANCE, Jacobs, Lewis, Kurosawa, Akira, Lawson, John Howard, Leonardo da Vinci, Music, Narrative, Naturalism, Nichols, Dudley, ORPHANS OF THE STORM, Pastrone, Giovanni, Peacocke, Leslie, Popper, Karl, Pudovkin, Vsevolod, Realism, Sarcey, Francisque, Screenwriting, Screenwriting, History of, Seeing Movies, Shakespeare, William, Sinatra, Frank, Sirk, Douglas, Sophocles, Sounds, Woolf, Virginia, Cameron, Evan