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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: DW Griffith: Years of Discovery 1909 - 1913 Volume 2
  name:
    name part: Griffith, DW
    role:
      role term: filmmaker.
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 116 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: For the five years between 1908 and 1913, DW 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 later used to such memorable effects in The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1921), and Isn?t Life Wonderful? (1924). But the Biographs were more than that. The twenty-two films presented in this collector's version of DW Griffith: Years Of Discovery: 1909-1913 are the centerpieces of that extraordinary group of films. Volume Two includes such widely recognized masterworks as The Battle at Elderbush Gulch and The New York Hat. But lesser-known social dramas like The House of Darkness. They rank among the best in a collection of short films that helped shape cinematic narrative for two generations. Plots are simple and direct, and if the films are saturated with quasi-comic cliches and old-fashioned insensitivities, they also reveal an extraordinary dramatic talent of brilliant 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 ensemble of his day, including Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Walthall, and Mae Marsh. Beyond that, the requirements of plot detail, the tight physical locale 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 limitations of time and space also meant that people, places, and objects frequently took on extraordinary metaphoric power they gradually lost as movies got longer. Many of the Griffith Biographs rank with the finest movies he ever made; collec…
  note: In Process Record.
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Originally produced by Flicker Alley in 1909.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: In English, Silent
  subject:
    topic: Early Film
  subject:
    topic: Film Studies
  subject:
    topic: Movies
  identifier: 1161426 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VDU
    record creation date: 160324
    record change date: 20260324170826.7
    record identifier: in00003775578
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng