The Exemplary Practices of David Griffith, Part 2: INTOLERANCE – 'A Drama of Comparisons'

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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 (the second of two devoted to Griffith's achievement), I concentrate upon the unprecedented patterning of the screen times that he allotted to the supposed 'four stories' of INTOLERANCE, a seldom noted but remarkable foreshadowing of the strategies of the documentary tradition.

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Agee, James, Antonioni, Michelangelo, Barna, Yon, Biography, BIRTH OF A NATION, THE, Brownlow, Kevin, Directing, Dwan, Allan, Eisenstein, Sergei, Film Form and Film Sense, Filmmaking, Filmmaking, Documentary, Filmmaking, Russian and Soviet, Gance, Abel, Geduld, Harry M., Golden Mean, Griffith, David Wark, Hearing Movies, History, Huff, Theodore, INTOLERANCE, Levaco, Ron, Leyda, Jay, Music, Narrative, Naturalism, Pudovkin, Vsevolod, Realism, RED DESERT, Screenwriting, Screenwriting, History of, Screenwriting, Teaching of, Stroheim, Eric, Zukor, Adolph, Cameron, Evan

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