Biologists made little more than speculation of Griffith's report of transformation until genetics research in 1951.

He was unwilling to rely on Griffith's carrying his message, and he had no confidence the police would act on it.

His new production company became an autonomous production unit partner in Triangle Film Corporation along with Thomas Ince and Keystone Studios ' Mack Sennett ; the Triangle Film Corporation was headed by Griffith's partner Harry Aitken, who was released from the Mutual Film Corporation, and his brother Roy.

Griffith's work in the teens was highly regarded by Kuleshov and other Soviet filmmakers and greatly influenced their understanding of editing.

The result of this was that D. W. Griffith's films had at least twice as many shots in them as did those of other American directors.

Another of the still very rare examples at this date is in Griffith's The Massacre, which was made at the end of 1912.

The biggest success of these years was D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), made for Triangle.

Possibly as a result of Griffith's influence, 1915 was a big year for symbolism, allegories, and parables in the American cinema.

As well as all this there was Griffith's habit of moving the action into another shot in an adjoining space, and then back again if it was at all possible, which produced a marked change in background, which also made its small contribution to the discontinuity between shots.

All this was simple compared to D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), in which four parallel stories are intercut throughout the whole length of the film, though in this case the stories are more similar than contrasting in their nature.

Griffith's best guess was that A: T and G: C were attractive pairs.

At that time, Crick was not aware of Chargaff's rules and he made little of Griffith's calculations, although it did start him thinking about complementary replication.

Griffith's experiment, reported in 1928 by Frederick Griffith, was one of the first experiments suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process known as transformation.

Griffith's throat had been damaged by poison gas during World War I and his voice was a horse whisper, prompting Hawks to later state " I thought he ought to be great in talking pictures because of that voice.

The team name was officially changed to Washington Senators around the time of Clark Griffith's death.

Francis Crick recognized the potential importance of the Griffith protein-only hypothesis for scrapie propagation in the second edition of his " Central dogma of molecular biology ": while asserting that the flow of sequence information from protein to protein, or from protein to RNA and DNA was " precluded ", he noted that Griffith's hypothesis was a potential contradiction ( although it was not so promoted by Griffith ).

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

( Coincidentally, Zip the What-Is-Its real name was William Henry Jackson or Johnson ( according to various sources ); Griffith's full name is William Henry Jackson Griffith, after his great-grandfather, the noted photographer.

* The first mob film, D. W. Griffith's The Musketeers of Pig Alley was released in 1912.

In 1905, Griffith's Improved Vacuum Apparatus for Removing Dust from Carpets was another manually operated cleaner, patented by Walter Griffiths Manufacturer in Birmingham, England.

Part of the reason for this was Griffith's advancing age, as he was wanting to spend more time with his family as he was pushing seventy.

Griffith's work was largely ignored by the engineering community until the early 1950s.

But Griffith's first use of cross-cutting in The Fatal Hour, made in July 1908, has a much stronger suspense story served by this construction than those in the earlier Pathé examples.

The idea developed slowly through the war years, until in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms ( 1918 ) all the Close Ups of Lillian Gish are heavily diffused by the use of layers of fine black cotton mesh placed in front of the lens.

Starting with the mostly original score composed by Joseph Carl Breil for D. W. Griffith's groundbreaking epic The Birth of a Nation ( USA, 1915 ) it became relatively common for the biggest-budgeted films to arrive at the exhibiting theater with original, specially composed scores.

Quarterback John Elway's 41-yard completion to wide receiver Rod Smith and 2 receptions by tight end Shannon Sharpe for a total of 26 net yards setup fullback Howard Griffith's 1-yard touchdown run.

" by Bill Griffith, transcript of Griffith's talk at the 2003 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels

After cancelation, the two would continue to either have lunch, have kept in touch ( primarily by phone ), have run into each other or to join themselves in 2 separate TV reunions, for nearly 45 years until Griffith's death in July 2012.

In 1921, the Photokinema sound-on-disc system developed by Orlando Kellum was employed to add synchronized sound sequences to D. W. Griffith's failed silent film Dream Street.

Bitzer provided assistance during Griffith's directorial debut, 1908's The Adventures of Dollie, which was shot by Arthur Marvin.

The apex of Bitzer and Griffith's collaboration came with The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), a film funded in part by Bitzer's life savings, and the epic Intolerance ( 1916 ).

The virginal " good girls " seen in the cinema of D. W. Griffith, and the silent movie " bad girls " portrayed by Theda Bara, both show the continuing influence of symbolism, as do the Babylonian scenes from Griffith's Intolerance.

* Mount Airy-Town With an Identity Crisis A behind the scenes look at Mount Airy, and the city-popularized by Andy Griffith's Mayberry.

A cautious and thorough researcher, and a reticent individual, Griffith's tendency was to publish only findings that he believed truly significant, and Griffith's findings were rapidly confirmed by researchers in Avery's laboratory.

Avery biographer and colleague at The Rockefeller Institute, microbiologist Rene Dubos, recruited by The Rockefeller Institute from France, later described Griffith's findings as " exploding a bombshell in the field of pneumococcal immunology ".

Sports Illustrated reported in its April 18, 2005, edition that Griffith's rage may have been fueled by an anti-gay slur directed at him by Paret during the weigh-in.

In Canto XI of the same book a hermit named Māṇḍakarṇi is mentioned: " For he, great votarist, intent -- On strictest rule his stern life spent -- ... -- Ten thousand years on air he fed ..." ( English quotations are from Ralph T. H. Griffith's translation ).

Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film in the United States.

Several of Griffith's later films were also successful, but his high production, promotional, and roadshow costs often made his ventures commercial failures.

Porter rejected Griffith's script, but gave him an acting part in Rescued from an Eagle's Nest.

At Biograph, Griffith's career in the film industry would change forever.

A strong expressive use of a fire effect occurs in D. W. Griffith's A Drunkard's Reformation ( 1909 ).

Griffith's increased use of cross-cutting between parallel actions helped him to get more shots into his films than other directors, but he also had another method for doing this.

However, this sort of thing never happened in D. W. Griffith's films, or in European films.