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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