But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

On the 2007 deluxe edition release, it is revealed that parts of this tape were used for the 1976 Griffith Park Planetarium launch of the original album, the 1987 remix, and various radio spots, all of which were included as bonus material.

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

Low-key lighting ( i. e. lighting in which most of the frame is dark ) slowly began to be used for sinister scenes, but not in D. W. Griffith films.

This is the one novel technique that D. W. Griffith and his cameraman Billy Bitzer may really have invented.

It is also important to note that Griffith described cross-cutting indiscriminately as the ‘ switch-back ’ or ‘ cut-back ’ or ‘ flash-back ’ technique, and that by the last of these terms he did not mean what we now understand by a ‘ flash-back ’.

It was in 1914 that D. W. Griffith began to bend the use of the Insert towards truly dramatically expressive ends, but he had not done this often, and it is really only with his The Avenging Conscience of 1914 that a new phase in the use of the Insert Shot starts.

; Forgotten Futures VII: Tsar Wars: Based on the late 19th century novels of George Griffith, Tsar Wars is a setting for the struggle between the anarchist Terror and the forces of oppression in the early 20th Century, and the return of the Tsar's heir to the utopia of 2030 AD.

Film historian Richard Griffith speaks of Capra's “... reliance on sentimental conversation and the ultimate benevolence of ordinary America to resolve all deep conflicts .” “ Average America ” is visualized as "... a still tree lined street, undistinguished frame houses surrounded by modest areas of grass, a few automobiles.

Prospect Cemetery is located in Glasnevin, although better known as Glasnevin Cemetery, the most historically notable burial place in the country and the last resting place, among a host of historical figures, of Michael Collins, Eamon DeValera, Charles Stewart Parnell and also Arthur Griffith.

* 1922 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Dáil Éireann.

Zippy is an American comic strip created by Bill Griffith.

It is distributed by King Features Syndicate to more than 100 newspapers, and Griffith self-syndicates strips to college newspapers and alternative weeklies.

( 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.

One of the victims, Michael Griffith, is run over and killed by a motorist while attempting to flee the attackers.

* April 17 – Mickey Mantle hits a 565 foot ( 172 m ) home run at Griffith Stadium in Washington D. C. Mantle's home run is believed to be the longest home run in baseball history by many historians.

* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann.

Some museum experiences have very few or no artifacts and do not necessarily call themselves museums ; the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, being notable examples where there are few artifacts, but strong, memorable stories are told or information is interpreted.

His protagonist, played by Andy Griffith ( in his film debut ,) is not a politician, yet his career suddenly becomes deeply involved in politics.

By Griffith Jones ' death, in 1761, it is estimated that up to 250, 000 people had learnt to read in schools throughout Wales.

Key proponents of this notion have included Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington, Thomas Griffith Taylor and possibly Jared Diamond, although his status as an environmental determinist is debated.

" Otis " from The Andy Griffith Show is this type of town drunk, as shown in the character of Bobby Singer in the CW series Supernatural, and as are many of the denizens of Moe's Tavern from The Simpsons such as Barney Gumble.

In Start the Revolution Without Me, Louis XVI is portrayed by Hugh Griffith as a laughable cuckold.

He is the host in the documentary film The Once and Future Griffith Observatory currently running in the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater located at the recently reopened Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California.

Films such as Sergeant York or the Ma and Pa Kettle series portrayed the hillbilly as wild but good-natured, and television programs of the 1960s, such as The Real McCoys, The Andy Griffith Show, and especially The Beverly Hillbillies portrayed the hillbilly as somewhat backward but with a wisdom that always outwitted more sophisticated city folk.

Credited as " Ronny Howard ", he portrayed the son of the title character ( played by Andy Griffith ) for all eight seasons of the show.

Christopher left the New York stage for Hollywood to attempt to gain work in television, where he guest-starred in several well-known series, including: The Andy Griffith Show ( he portrayed a new, young doctor scheduling Opie Taylor for a tonsillectomy ) and also as an IRS agent who came to collect taxes due from Aunt Bee ( who had won some prizes on a TV show ), Death Valley Days, The Patty Duke Show, The Men from Shiloh and Good Times ( he portrayed the military doctor examining J. J. Evans ).

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.

* George Lindsey, actor who portrayed Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show and Hee-Haw

Milton Berle always claimed that he played the five-year-old paperboy in the film, but the role was actually portrayed by Gordon Griffith.

In 1960 when Griffith was offered the opportunity to headline in his own sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show ( 1960 – 1968 ), Knotts took the role of Barney Fife, the deputy — and originally cousin — of Sheriff Andy Taylor ( portrayed by Griffith ).

Jackson was portrayed by Jason Griffith in the 2004 film Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, while his son, Jermaine Jackson Jr., portrayed him in the 1992 miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream.

Directed by D. W. Griffith, it glorified the Ku Klux Klan and portrayed a racist view of blacks and of their role in the American Civil War and Reconstruction in the South.

* Barney Fife, a character on The Andy Griffith Show portrayed by Don Knotts

From 1964-1965, Goddard starred in another one-season CBS series, Many Happy Returns, in which he portrayed Bob Randall, the young husband of Joan Randall, played by Elinor Donahue, formerly of Father Knows Best and The Andy Griffith Show.

Bernard " Barney " Milton Fife is a fictional character in the American television program The Andy Griffith Show, portrayed by comic actor Don Knotts.

The premiere episode of the Andy Griffith Show begins with Andy telling Opie he was raised by Aunt Bee, who is about to return to Mayberry after a five year sojourn in Morgantown, West Virginia ( the real-life hometown of Don Knotts, the actor who portrayed Barney Fife ).

Matlock is a character from the American television series Matlock, portrayed by Andy Griffith.

After Captain Docherty sent Arleigh Griffith for Hoag he was able to complete his detailed inspection of the third floor and to receive a report from his man covering the floors above before Griffith returned, buoyed up by a brief stop for another glass of champagne.

Category: Films directed by D. W. Griffith

A new revision — probably by Bishop George Griffith ( 1601 – 1666 ), of St Asaph-based on the revised English book of 1662, was published in 1664.

D. W. attended a one-room schoolhouse where he was taught by his older sister, Mattie Griffith.

Influenced by the Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), Griffith was convinced that feature films were commercially viable.

Produced by David Merrick, the show had a book by Leonard Gershe, music and lyrics by Harold Rome, and starred Andy Griffith as Destry and Dolores Gray as Frenchy.

" In September of the same year, Griffith mocked Adams by mimicking his Pippy the Ziphead creation with a strip showing stiff, Dilbert-like creations in an office setting and one of the characters saying, " I sense a joke was delivered.

Two years later, Brooks repaid the favor by appearing as a special guest ( with Nanci Griffith ) on McLean's first American TV special, broadcast as the PBS special Starry Starry Night.

Ironically, this led to the foundation of United Artists by Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, Pickford, and Chaplin, and to the loss of First National's biggest stars.

What became known as the popular ' classical Hollywood ' style of editing was developed by early European and American directors, in particular D. W. Griffith in his films such as The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance.

The true ‘ flash-back ’ was also developed in this period, but not at all by D. W. Griffith.

D. W. Griffith went further than this, by creating the visual equivalent of the poetic or musical refrain in The Way of the World ( 1910 ), by cutting in shots of church bells at intervals down the length of the film.

Stung by the criticism of his film, Griffith made a new film he had just finished, The Mother and the Law, into one of the strands of an even bigger film with an even bigger theme, Intolerance ( 1916 ).

Nevertheless, the Griffith style of film-making was still followed in its full idiosyncrasy, with extensive use of side by side spaces and a definite " front " for the camera, in most slapstick comedy.