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Dw Griffith: Years Of Discovery 1
(The New York Hat)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| For the five years between 1908 and 1913, D.W. Griffith directed some 450 films for the Biograph Company, delivering at a rate of two or three films per week. These films, one and two reels in length, are sometimes regarded as apprentice works, films in which Griffith borrowed, invented, and perfected the forms and techniques that he Iater used to such memorable effects in The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1921), and lsnt Life Wonderful? (1924). But the Biographs were more than that. The twenty-two fiIms presented in this collectors version of D.W. Griffith Years Of Discovery: 1909-1913 are the centerpieces of that extraordinary group of films. Volume One includes such widely recognized masterworks as The Musketeers of Pig AIley and Corner in Wheat. But lesser-known social dramas Iike What ShaIl We Do With Our Old? and a comic gem called The Sunbeam are also incIuded. They rank among the best in a coIIection of short films that helped shape cinematic narrative for two generations. PIots are simpIe and direct, and if the fiIms are saturated with quasi-comic cliches and oId-fashioned insensitivities, they aIso reveal an extraordinary dramatic taIent of briIliant force. It is easy to see why the Griffith Biographs were so popular at the time. With an uncanny instinct for acting talent, Griffith assembled the foremost film ensembIe of his day, incIuding LiIIian and Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, LioneI Barrymore, Henry WaIthall, and Mae Marsh. Beyond that, the requirements of plot detail, the tight physicaI IocaIe of interior sets (we never see more that three sides of any room), and the need to establish character immediately resulted in a kind of cinematic shorthand which gave these shorts terrific compression. The Iimitations of time and space also meant that people, places, and objects frequently took on extraordinary metaphoric power they graduaIIy Iost as movies got longer. |
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