filmmaking techniques
- utilizing cross-cutting
- close-ups
- fade outs to distinctive effect (cultivating a deeper emotional milieu)
He started to develop two-reel works and eventually made the four-reel film Judith of Bethulia. ("Four-reel" meant the movie could play for an hour.)
1915 FEATURE-LENGTH WORK BIRTH OF A NATION
Nation, however, was blatantly racist and distorted history, with its demeaning depictions of African Americans and a storyline that positioned the creation of the Ku Klux Klan as a means of vengeance over a woman's death.
QUICK FACTS
- NAME
- D.W. Griffith
- OCCUPATION
- Film Actor, Theater Actor,Director
- BIRTH DATE
- January 22, 1875
- DEATH DATE
- July 23, 1948
- PLACE OF BIRTH
- Floydsfork, Kentucky
- PLACE OF DEATH
- Hollywood, California
- AKA
- David Griffith
- D.W. Griffith
- FULL NAME
- David Wark Griffith
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