American film director (1875 to 1948), one of the most influential figures of early narrative cinema, credited with popularizing techniques such as the close-up, cross-cutting and the feature-length film. His 1919 film Broken Blossoms was among the first American films to portray an interracial relationship sympathetically.
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Defining ContributionPioneered film editing techniques and expanded the art of the narrative film 1 Connections
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1. D. W. Griffith
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1875-01-22
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1948-07-23
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was an American film director
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he pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art of the narrative film
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View the SourceIntolerance (film) (Wikipedia)
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Intolerance is a 1916 American anthology silent film directed by D. W. Griffith.
Way Down East (Wikipedia)
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Way Down East is a 1920 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.
Orphans of the Storm (Wikipedia)
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Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and set in late-18th-century France, before and during the French Revolution.
Wikipedia: Judith of Bethulia
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Judith of Bethulia is a 1914 American silent epic film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was a script adaptation written by Grace Adele Pierce (1858-1923) of the Book of Judith.
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