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D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913(2002)

Comedy Drama

Status: Released

Date: 2002-09-10

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Time: 5h 34m

The beginning of a master

Overview:

In the span of five years, pioneering director D.W. Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per week. One and two reels in length, these works showed the filmmaker inventing, borrowing, and perfecting techniques he later used to memorable effect in "The Birth of a Nation," "Intolerance," "Way Down East" and "Orphans of the Storm." Including Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Walthall, and Mae Marsh. Among the 22 titles included on this landmark release are such widely recognized masterworks as "The Musketeers of Pig Alley," "The Battle at Elderbush Gulch," "The New York Hat," and "A Corner in Wheat."

Languages: English.

Countries:

United States of America

ProductionCompanies:

British Mutoscope and Biograph Company

Movie: D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913

Top 8 Billed Cast

Elmer Booth

Lillian Gish

Clara T. Bracy

Walter Miller

Alfred Paget

Mary Pickford

Mack Sennett

Lionel Barrymore

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D.W. GRIFFITH: FATHER OF FILM (EPISODE 1) - Featurette

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