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Griffith began his career as a hopeful playwright, but failed. He soon found his way as an actor. Finding his way into the motion picture business he soon began to direct a huge body of work. Between 1907 and 1913 (the years he directed for the American Biograph Company), Griffith produced an astounding 500 short films. Such output allowed him to experiment with CrossCutting?, camera movement, close-ups, and other methods of spatial and temporal manipulation. Convinced that longer films (then called "Features") could be financially viable, he became a co-founder of Triangle (1915), which produced /BirthofaNation?, and later, as a reaction to the criticism Birth of a Nation received, his most ambitious project, /IntolerancE? . The film was a flop, and Triangle went bancrupt in 1917, so he went to Artcraft, then to First National (1919-20). At the same time he founded United Artists, together with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. |
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Griffith began his career as a hopeful playwright, but failed. He soon found his way as an actor. Finding his way into the motion picture business he soon began to direct a huge body of work. Between 1907 and 1913 (the years he directed for the American Biograph Company), Griffith produced an astounding 450 short films. Such output allowed him to experiment with CrossCutting?, camera movement, close-ups, and other methods of spatial and temporal manipulation. Convinced that longer films (then called "Features") could be financially viable, he became a co-founder of Triangle (1915), which produced /BirthofaNation?, and later, as a reaction to the criticism Birth of a Nation received, his most ambitious project, /IntolerancE? . The film was a flop, and Triangle went bancrupt in 1917, so he went to Artcraft (part of Paramount), then to First National (1919-20). At the same time he founded United Artists, together with CharlieChaplin, MaryPickford and DouglasFairbanks?. |
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