His work was sponsored by the wealthy philanthropist Bridget Bevan, who continued to manage and support the schools after Griffith's death.

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.

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 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.

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 ).

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.

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 ).

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.

Browning followed and continued to act in Griffith's films, now for Reliance-Majestic Studios, including a stint as an extra in the epic Intolerance.

The strip is unique among syndicated multi-panel dailies for its characteristics of literary nonsense, including a near-absence of either straightforward gags or continuous narrative, and for its unusually intricate artwork, which is reminiscent of the style of Griffith's 1970s underground comics.

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.

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.

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.

In La Crosse, Wisconsin, a newspaper reviewer called it a " masterpiece " and the " Biggest Spectacle in History of Motion Pictures ," surpassing even D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation :" The photoplay and the spoken drama will be united for the first time in ... the million dollar masterpiece of Thomas H. Ince ... ' Civilization ' is an encyclopedia of the emotions.

Piggott was also one of the filming sites for Andy Griffith's acting debut, A Face In The Crowd.

White River Junction served as the location for the filming of director D. W. Griffith's film Way Down East, in part filmed on the ice floes of the Connecticut and White rivers, starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess.

* Davy Crockett lived in Christiansburg for some time and was bonded at Elijah Griffith's Hattery Shop which was located at today's 41 West Main Street.

Collins was also Minister for Finance in Griffith's cabinet.

One of Emshwiller's neighbors in Levittown was Bill Griffith, later acclaimed for his Zippy syndicated comic strip, and Griffith's parents sometimes posed as models for Emshwiller's illustrations.

The climactic battle scenes for D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation were filmed there.

Lawrence was referred to as the “ Biograph Girl ” because she worked for D. W. Griffith's Biograph Studios, while Pickford was " Little Mary.

The Big Chicken has also appeared in the comic strip " Zippy the Pinhead " as a part of artist Bill Griffith's fascination with roadside icons, such as West Hollywood's " Tail of the Pup ", and the ubiquitous " Muffler Man " who was used to hold full-sized car mufflers, giant hot dogs, tires, or other items promoting various roadside businesses.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ".

) Griffith's report was virtually ignored by clinicians, and by the medical sector as a whole.

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.

Griffith's fierce criticism of the Irish Parliamentary Party's alliance with British Liberalism was heavily influenced by the anti-Liberal rhetoric of Young Irelander John Mitchel.

Walsh played John Wilkes Booth in Griffith's epic The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ) for which he was also Assistant Director.

He also wrote music for some British films of the 1960s, he was involved in The Turning Point, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Leslie Browne, and he wrote scores for two silent film classics: D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation and John Ford's The Iron Horse.

" Mac Firbis is listed as John Forbes in the 1834 Tithe Allotments but there is no trace of him or his family in the 1856 Griffith's Evaluations.

Under Griffith's orders, Steve lures Rebecca, David, and John into a trap in which John is severely wounded.