Dw Griffith (David Llewelyn Wark Griffith) was born in Crestwood Kentucky. When Griffith began his creative career as a play writer he struggled to grab success during poverty, only one of his plays managed to become a performance so Griffith decided to become an actor and appeared in many plays as an extra.
In 1907Griffith still writing as a playwright decided to travel to New York and attempt to sell his scrip to Edison Studios producer Edwin Porter. Unfortunately Porter rejected his script but decided to give him a main role in ‘Rescued from and eagles Nest’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lflJ6ZVKgo Enjoying this Griffith decided to explore the motion picture business, and then in 1908 Griffith accepted an acting job for the American Mutoscope and Biograph company Widely known as Biograph. In 1908 Biographs main director Wallace McCutcheon grew ill and his son Wallace McCutcheon Jr took his place, but unfortunately he was not able to keep and bring the studio its success it had been experiencing, so as a result Biographs head Henry Marvin decided to give the position to Griffith who then went on and made his first movie ‘The Adventures of Dollie’ for the company still at a young age. Because of company resistance to his goals and his cost overruns on his films Griffith left Biograph, and took his actors with him and Joins the Mutual Film Corporation. Griffith then formed a studio with the Majestic studio manager Harry Atiken and the company was then known as Reliance- Majestic studios and was then later renames Fine Arts Studio.
Griffith is widely known for his crosscutting, close-ups, iris shot, flashbacks and also the invisible cut Griffith liked to use this as he thought it helped the action stay fluid instead of cutting to different scenes make it all muddled up for viewers it helped the scenes flow more smoothly.
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