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 ...

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.

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.