A three part survey of the life and work of D.W. Griffith. His formative years in the theatre and at Biograph were followed by his major successes between 1915-1921: “The Birth of a nation”, “Broken blossoms”, “Way down east” and “Orphans of the storm”. The subsequently influential “Intolerance” was a critical and commercial failure prefiguring the failure, in the twenties, of “America”, “Isn’t life wonderful” and “The Sorrows of Satan” and later, of his neglected sound films, “Abraham Lincoln” and “The Struggle”. Brownlow and Gill make extensive use of colour-tinted extracts from his films and interviews with Lillian Gish, Blanche Sweet, Karl Brown and others. Narrated by Lindsay Anderson.
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ACMI Identifier
317937
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Cinematography
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) - History
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Interviews
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion picture actors and actresses
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion picture industry
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion picture industry - California - Los Angeles
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion picture producers and directors - Biography
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Excerpts
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - History
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - United States - History
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures in propaganda
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Racism in motion pictures
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Silent films - United States - History
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Archival materials
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Interviews
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Motion pictures in propaganda
Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain
Music & Performing Arts → Motion picture actors and actresses
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White and Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)