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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1923, Novello made his American movie debut in D. W. Griffith's The White Rose.

More accurately, point six of Griffith's abstract reports that R tended to transform into S if a large amount of live R, alone, were injected, and that adding much heat-killed S made transformation reliable Griffith also induced some pneumococci to transform back and forth.

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

Intolerance was made partly in response to criticism of Griffith's previous film, The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), which was attacked by the NAACP and other groups as perpetuating racial stereotypes and glorifying the Ku Klux Klan.

D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), the first great American film, made heroes of the KKK in Reconstruction.

In 1908, Lucas made his motion picture debut in Griffith's production, The Greaser's Gauntlet.

On Griffith's valuation the various local and public assessments were made.

In 1924, he traveled to Germany with Griffith and made the pseudo-documentary Isn't Life Wonderful, co-starring Griffith's muse and then girlfriend Carol Dempster.

Barrington made 63 in the Second Test at Sabina Park, Jamaica, again stopping Griffith's run up as the crowd went wild.

Policymakers made much use of the statistical data recently collated in Griffith's Valuation ( 1853 – 68 ).

In the years following the war, Dreyer made an appearance as director at Nordisk Film with the drama Præsidenten ( The President, 1919 ), followed by the ambitious Blade af Satans Bog ( Leaves from Satan's Book, 1921 ), inspired by the American director D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ) in both technique and theme.

Mary Philbin made her screen debut in 1921 and during the 1920s she became a highly successful film actress and starred in a number of high profile films, most notably in D. W. Griffith's 1928 film Drums of Love.

* February 8: D. W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks box office and film length records, running at a total length of 3 hrs 10 minutes.

He had early success in film as the Chevalier de Vaudrey in D. W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm with Lillian Gish.

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

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

On May 8, 1945, at the news of Germany ’ s surrender and the fall of the Third Reich, Natascha made the mistake of reminding him of this vow, and in lieu of a champagne toast, he indulged in what was intended to be the smoking of a single, celebratory cigarette.

* High five, a celebratory gesture made by two people

The music journalist Ron Wynn noted " the Trammps ' prowess can't be measured by chart popularity ; Ellis ' booming, joyous vocals brilliantly championed the celebratory fervor and atmosphere that made disco both loved and hated among music fans.

After SpaceShipOne landed, White Knight and the chase planes made celebratory passes over the runway.

A great celebratory feast is held on Anuenue, and plans for the future are made.

The hamlet is made famous every 21 years when the gigantic Aughton Pudding is baked over a celebratory weekend.

A ticker tape parade is a parade event held in a built-up urban setting, allowing large amounts of shredded paper ( originally actual ticker tape, but now mostly confetti ) to be thrown from nearby office buildings onto the parade route, creating a celebratory effect by the snowstorm-like flurry.

Half the action takes place at a celebratory dinner where Marlene mixes with historical and fictional women who achieved success in a man's world, but always at some cost ; the other half in Marlene's family, where the cost is being paid.

The term " anthemic " is a modern word coined to describe music with a celebratory connotation.

Local public BDSM communities often have strong ties with distant BDSM communities, with popular educators traveling widely ; large events attracting attendees from wide areas ( and occasionally internationally ); popular speakers, authors, or players gaining relative celebratory status ; and websites attracting over a million members.

' Victors of the Nile ', a celebratory engraving published five years after the Battle of the Nile, depicting Nelson and his 15 captains.

Under the federal Holidays Act, Canada Day is observed on July 1 unless that date falls on a Sunday, in which case July 2 is the statutory holiday, although celebratory events generally take place on July 1 even though it is not the legal holiday.

Some in the media, in celebratory tones, declared disco dead and rock revived.

The Council asked him to appear once more for a farewell ritual and celebratory orations.

The only part of a ' dragon ' they know is the annual celebratory dragon-tail cake.

By June construction had reached the second level platform, and on Bastille Day this was used for a fireworks display, and Eiffel held a celebratory banquet for the press on the first level platform.

It wasn't until the celebratory banquet that evening that Hurst realised he had scored a hat-trick, assuming that the final whistle had been blown before he'd struck the ball into the net for his third goal.

" Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition " at the Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, in 1988 was the first comprehensive presentation of the Dutch architect's original works ever held in the U. S. The highlight of a celebratory “ Rietveld Year ” in Utrecht, the exhibition “ Rietveld ’ s Universe ” opened at the Centraal Museum and compared him and his work with famous contemporaries like Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.

The Council asked him to appear once more for a farewell ritual and celebratory orations.

The concert, which took place in April 2007 at Carnegie Hall, was a celebratory performance of Adams's work on his sixtieth birthday.

Thus there was a spirit of celebratory play.

In contrast, the Oaxacan region is known for its savory tamales, celebratory moles, and simple tlayudas, while the mountainous regions of the West ( Jalisco, etc.

The leader of the Leningrad Military District Andrei Zhdanov commissioned a celebratory piece from Dmitri Shostakovich, entitled " Suite on Finnish Themes " to be performed as the marching bands of the Red Army would be parading through Helsinki.

They can now be seen at carnivals, festivals, birthday parties, and other celebratory occasions.

However, it is customary for synagogues to conduct a siyum ( ceremony marking the completion of a section of Torah learning ) right after morning prayers, and the celebratory meal that follows cancels the firstborn's obligation to fast.

In Britain the term parade is usually reserved for either military parades or other occasions where participants march in formation ; for celebratory occasions the word procession is more usual.

Jenkins underwent heart surgery in November 2000, and postponed his 80th birthday celebrations, by having a celebratory party on 7 March 2001.

Although originally silver on the inside, the trophy became so corroded through celebratory champagne fillings that it is now plated with 22 carat gold for protection.

There was a tradition in China to make lots of loud celebratory sounds during a solar eclipse to scare the sacred " dog " away.

In 1905, when strife between Catholic and Protestant factions had eased ( one Protestant church published a celebratory pamphlet, Gerhard Ficker's Bonifatius, der " Apostel der Deutschen "), there were modest celebrations and a publication for the occasion on historical aspects of Boniface and his work, the 1905 Festgabe by Gregor Richter and Carl Scherer.

These inscriptions, found by Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen, have been thought by some archaeologists to be of a ritual, celebratory nature, due to their large size, careful construction and-in some cases-execution by craftsmen other than the authors.