When1: 1913
When2: 1930
Who: David Wark Griffith [Griffith, David Wark]
What: director
Where: USA
works\ Judith of Bethulia [1913: first spectacular]; Birth of a Nation [1915: about the Civil War. G. W. Bitzer or Billy Bitzer, cameraman, used close-ups, fade outs, back lighting, iris picture dissolves, fuzzy close-ups, panoramic long shots, cut-backs between simultaneous scenes, last second rescues, and effective lighting. Lillian Gish acted]; Intolerance [1916: Set had palace of Belshazzar of Babylon. Movie used 400 reels and had Babylon, Renaissance-France, Crucifixion, and modern-slum parts. Lillian Gish acted]; Abraham Lincoln [1920]; Way Down East [1920: melodrama]; Isn't Life Wonderful [1924]; Abraham Lincoln [1930: sound]
Detail: He lived 1875 to 1948.
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