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D. W. Griffith

Index D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American director, writer, and producer who pioneered modern cinematic techniques. [1]

119 relations: A Corner in Wheat, Abraham Lincoln (1930 film), Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Action fiction, African Americans, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Smith Barnes, America (1924 film), American Civil War, Artcraft Fluorescent Lighting Corporation, Battle of Opis, Billy Bitzer, Biograph Company, Biographical film, Broken Blossoms, Brute Force (1914 film), Carl Theodor Dreyer, Cecil B. DeMille, Centerfield, Kentucky, Charlie Chaplin, Cinematic techniques, Clark Gable, Close-up, Confederate States Army, Crucifixion of Jesus, D. W. Griffith filmography, D. W. Griffith House, David O. Selznick, Directors Guild of America, Douglas Fairbanks, Drama (film and television), Dream Street (film), Duel in the Sun (film), Dunning School, Edison Studios, Edwin S. Porter, Feature length, First National Pictures, Freedman, Hal Roach, Harry Carey (actor), History of film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heritage Museum, Hollywood Masonic Temple, Huguenots, In Old California (1910 film), Intolerance (film), Intracerebral hemorrhage, Isn't Life Wonderful, ..., Jack Shea (director), Jean Renoir, Jeanette MacDonald, John Ford, John Newland, Judith of Bethulia, Kevin Brownlow, Keystone Studios, King Vidor, Knickerbocker Hotel (Los Angeles), Ku Klux Klan, La Grange, Kentucky, Lady Helen's Escapade, Lady of the Pavements, Lev Kuleshov, Lillian Gish, Linda Arvidson, Lionel Barrymore, List of Freemasons, List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area, Los Angeles, Louisville, Kentucky, Mack Sennett, Mary Pickford, Methodism, Modernism/modernity, Mutual Film, NAACP, National Film Registry, New York City, Of Mice and Men (1939 film), Oldham County, Kentucky, One Exciting Night, One Million B.C., Orphans of the Storm, Orson Welles, Pancho Villa, Paramount Pictures, Racism in the United States, Raoul Walsh, Reconstruction era, Reliance-Majestic Studios, Republican Party (United States), Rescued from an Eagle's Nest, Roadshow theatrical release, San Francisco (1936 film), Screen test, Sergei Eisenstein, Slavery in the United States, Sociology of race and ethnic relations, Spencer Tracy, St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, Stanley Kubrick, The Adventures of Dollie, The Birth of a Nation, The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan, The Life of General Villa, The Musketeers of Pig Alley, The New York Times, The Philco Television Playhouse, The Struggle (film), Thomas Dixon Jr., Thomas H. Ince, Triangle Film Corporation, United Artists, Victor Fleming, W. S. Van Dyke, Wallace McCutcheon Sr., Way Down East. Expand index (69 more) »

A Corner in Wheat

A Corner in Wheat is a 1909 American short silent film which tells of a greedy tycoon who tries to corner the world market on wheat, destroying the lives of the people who can no longer afford to buy bread.

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Abraham Lincoln (1930 film)

Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln", is a 1930 Pre-Code biographical film about American president Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS (often pronounced as am-pas), also known as simply the Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

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Action fiction

Action fiction is the literary genre that includes spy novels, adventure stories, tales of terror and intrigue ("cloak and dagger"), and mysteries.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Alfred Smith Barnes

Alfred Smith Barnes (January 28, 1817, in New Haven, Connecticut – February 17, 1888, in Brooklyn, New York) was an American publisher and philanthropist.

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America (1924 film)

America, also called Love and Sacrifice, is a 1924 silent historical war romance film.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Artcraft Fluorescent Lighting Corporation

Artcraft Fluorescent Lighting Corporation was one of the top three manufacturers of fluorescent lighting fixtures in the United States, the of the industry, from the time of the public introduction of the fluorescent lamp at the 1939 World's Fair.

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Battle of Opis

The Battle of Opis, fought in September 539 BC, was a major engagement between the armies of Persia under Cyrus the Great and the Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nabonidus during the Persian invasion of Mesopotamia.

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Billy Bitzer

Gottfried Wilhelm "Billy" Bitzer (April 21, 1872 – April 29, 1944) was a pioneering American cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith.

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Biograph Company

The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916.

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Biographical film

A biographical film, or biopic (abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.

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Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, often referred to simply as Broken Blossoms, is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by D.W. Griffith.

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Brute Force (1914 film)

Brute Force (1914) is a short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, and starring Robert Harron and Mae Marsh.

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Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Theodor Dreyer (3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th.

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Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.

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Centerfield, Kentucky

Centerfield is an unincorporated community in Oldham County, Kentucky, United States.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Cinematic techniques

This article contains a list of cinematic techniques that are divided into categories and briefly described.

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Clark Gable

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King".

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Close-up

A close up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography and the comic strip medium is a type of shot, which tightly frames a person or an object.

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Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army (C.S.A.) was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

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Crucifixion of Jesus

The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judea, most likely between AD 30 and 33.

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D. W. Griffith filmography

These are the films directed by the pioneering American filmmaker D. W. Griffith (1875–1948).

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D. W. Griffith House

The D. W. Griffith House is a historic building in La Grange, Kentucky in the United States.

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David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick (May 10, 1902June 22, 1965) was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive.

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Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Dream Street (film)

Dream Street is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, and starring Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, and Ralph Graves in a story about a love triangle set in London, and based on two short stories by Thomas Burke, "Gina of Chinatown" and "Song of the Lamp".

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Duel in the Sun (film)

Duel in the Sun is a 1946 Technicolor epic Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, which tells the story of a Mestiza (half-Native American) girl who goes to live with her white relatives, becoming involved in prejudice and forbidden love.

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Dunning School

The Dunning School refers to a group of historians who shared a historiographical school of thought regarding the Reconstruction period of American history (1865–1877).

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Edison Studios

Edison Studios was an American film production organization, owned by companies controlled by inventor and entrepreneur, Thomas Edison.

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Edwin S. Porter

Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company.

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Feature length

In motion picture terminology, feature length is the length of a feature film.

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First National Pictures

First National Pictures was an American motion picture production and distribution company.

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Freedman

A freedman or freedwoman is a former slave who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

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Hal Roach

Harold Eugene Roach Sr. (January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer, director, and actor from the 1910s to the 1990s, best known today for producing the Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang film comedy series.

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Harry Carey (actor)

Henry DeWitt Carey II (January 16, 1878 – September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars.

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History of film

Although the start of the history of film is not clearly defined, the commercial, public screening of ten of Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895 can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hollywood Heritage Museum

The Hollywood Heritage Museum, also known as the "Hollywood Studio Museum," is located on Highland Ave.

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Hollywood Masonic Temple

Hollywood Masonic Temple, now known as the El Capitan Entertainment Centre and also formerly known as Masonic Convention Hall, is a building on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

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Huguenots

Huguenots (Les huguenots) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.

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In Old California (1910 film)

In Old California is a silent movie filmed in 1910.

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Intolerance (film)

Intolerance is a 1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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Isn't Life Wonderful

Isn't Life Wonderful? (1924) is a silent film directed by D. W. Griffith for his company D. W. Griffith Productions, and distributed by United Artists.

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Jack Shea (director)

Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director.

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Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.

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Jeanette MacDonald

Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow and One Hour With You) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime).

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John Ford

John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director.

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John Newland

John Newland (November 23, 1917 – January 10, 2000) was an American director, actor, television producer, and screenwriter.

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Judith of Bethulia

Judith of Bethulia (1914) is a film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play of the same name by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

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Kevin Brownlow

Kevin Brownlow (born 2 June 1938) is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor.

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Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California (which is now a part of Echo Park) on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett (1880-1960) with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel (1866-1946) and Charles O. Baumann (1874-1931), owners of the New York Motion Picture Company (founded 1909).

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King Vidor

King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades.

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Knickerbocker Hotel (Los Angeles)

The Hollywood Knickerbocker Apartments, formerly the Knickerbocker Hotel, is a retirement home located at 1714 Ivar Avenue in Los Angeles, California.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.

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La Grange, Kentucky

La Grange is a home rule-class city in Oldham County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Lady Helen's Escapade

Lady Helen's Escapade is a short American film produced in 1909, directed by D. W. Griffith.

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Lady of the Pavements

Lady of the Pavements (UK title: Lady of the Night) is a 1929 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lupe Vélez, William Boyd, and Jetta Goudal.

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Lev Kuleshov

Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (Лев Влади́мирович Кулешо́в; – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School.

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Lillian Gish

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer.

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Linda Arvidson

Linda Arvidson Johnson (July 12, 1884 – July 26, 1949), known as Linda Arvidson, was an American actress in silent films.

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Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director.

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List of Freemasons

This "List of Freemasons" page provides links to alphabetized lists of notable Freemasons.

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List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area

This is a list of people from the Louisville metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States.

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Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American film director and producer, known as the King of Comedy.

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Mary Pickford

Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Modernism/modernity

Modernism/modernity is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1994 by Lawrence Rainey and Robert van Hallberg.

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Mutual Film

Mutual Film Corporation was an early American motion picture conglomerate best remembered today as the producers of some of Charlie Chaplin's greatest comedies.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) selection of films deserving of preservation.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Of Mice and Men (1939 film)

Of Mice and Men is a 1939 American drama film based on the 1937 play based on the novella of the same title by American author John Steinbeck, and starring Burgess Meredith, Betty Field and Lon Chaney Jr. The supporting cast features Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery, Jr. The film tells the story of two men, George and his mentally-challenged partner Lennie, trying to survive during the dustbowl of the 1930s and pursuing a dream of owning their own ranch, instead of always working for others.

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Oldham County, Kentucky

Oldham County is a county located in the U.S. state and commonwealth of the Kentucky.

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One Exciting Night

One Exciting Night is a 1922 American Gothic silent Mystery film directed by D. W. Griffith.

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One Million B.C.

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists.

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Orphans of the Storm

Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 silent drama film by D. W. Griffith set in late-18th-century France, before and during the French Revolution.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Pancho Villa

Francisco "Pancho" Villa (born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Racism in the United States

Racism in the United States against non-whites is widespread and has been so the colonial era.

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Raoul Walsh

Raoul A. Walsh (March 11, 1887December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the brother of the silent screen actor George Walsh.

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.

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Reliance-Majestic Studios

Reliance-Majestic Studios was an early American movie studio in Hollywood, California, originally built around 1914 at 4516 Sunset Boulevard.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Rescued from an Eagle's Nest

Rescued from an Eagle's Nest is a 1908 American silent action-drama co-directed by Edwin S Porter and J. Searle Dawley for the Edison film studios.

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Roadshow theatrical release

A roadshow theatrical release (known also as reserved seat engagement) was a term in the motion picture industry for a practice in which a film opened in a limited number of theaters in large cities like New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and other major cities around the world for a specific period of time before the nationwide general release.

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San Francisco (1936 film)

San Francisco is a 1936 musical-drama directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

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Screen test

A screen test is a method of determining the suitability of an actor or actress for performing on film or in a particular role.

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Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (p; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.

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Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Sociology of race and ethnic relations

The sociology of race and ethnic relations is the study of social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities at all levels of society.

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Spencer Tracy

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor, noted for his natural style and versatility.

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St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

The St.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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The Adventures of Dollie

The Adventures of Dollie is a 1908 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith.

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The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation (originally called The Clansman) is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed and co-produced by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.

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The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905.

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The Life of General Villa

The Life of General Villa (1914) is a silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself, shot on location during a civil war.

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The Musketeers of Pig Alley

The Musketeers of Pig Alley is a 1912 American short drama and a gangster film.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Philco Television Playhouse

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American television anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955.

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The Struggle (film)

The Struggle is a 1931 American Pre-Code feature film directed by D. W. Griffith.

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Thomas Dixon Jr.

Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was a Southern Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, North Carolina state legislator, lawyer, author, white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan apologist.

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Thomas H. Ince

Thomas Harper Ince (November 16, 1880 – November 19, 1924) was an American silent film producer, director, screenwriter, and actor.

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Triangle Film Corporation

Triangle Film Corporation (also known as Triangle Motion Picture Company) was a major American motion-picture studio, founded in July 1915 in Culver City, California and terminated 7 years later in 1922.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Victor Fleming

Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer.

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W. S. Van Dyke

Woodbridge Strong “W.

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Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

Wallace McCutcheon Sr. (New York City, 1858 or 1862 – Brooklyn, New York, October 3, 1918) was a pioneer cinematographer and director in the early American motion picture industry, working with the American Mutoscope & Biograph, Edison and American Star Film companies.

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Way Down East

Way Down East is a 1920 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith

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