DW Griffith was a southerner ... most modern medium and technology and used it to look back, not forward. The camera lens became a kind of time machine, a deeply reactionary one in his hands.

James Agee on D.W. Griffith, 1948 D.W. Griffith’s Birth ... Remember that when you stand in front of a camera!’” Intolerance weaves together four stories: the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C ...

D.W. Griffith — born on Jan. 22 ... diffused lighting, moving cameras and high-angle photography. When Griffith produced the first epic film, “The Birth of a Nation,” in 1915, it included ...

Griffith’s disgustingly racist yet titanically ... The cavalry charges of the K.K.K., done with moving cameras that hurtle backward at the speed of the gallop, are visually exhilarating and ...

Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film.

and the finest of directors — the man who had a bigger influence on movies than anyone else — was D.W. Griffith, who entered into this world on Jan. 22, 1875 in Oldham County, Ky., and stands ...

He turns toward the camera, rests his head on his hands and ... One hundred years ago, D.W. Griffith’s highly fictionalized history of the founding of the Ku Klux Klan, “The Birth of a Nation ...