Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

The man was D.W. Griffith.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

Griffith was trying to clear his head of the champagne fuzz that encased it.

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.

Griffith Rhys Jones-or Caradog as he was commonly known-was the Conductor of the famous ' Côr Mawr ' of some 460 voices ( the South Wales Choral Union ), which twice won first prize at Crystal Palace choral competitions in London in the 1870s.

The outcry of racism was so great that Griffith was inspired to produce Intolerance the following year.

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.

This series was in the vein of other 1960s and 1970s sitcoms that dealt with widowhood, such as, The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, and Family Affair.

David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

Griffith was born in Crestwood, Kentucky to Mary Perkins and Jacob " Roaring Jake " Griffith, who were of Anglo-Welsh ancestry.

Griffith was raised as a Methodist.

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

When Griffith was 14, his mother abandoned the farm and moved the family to Louisville, where she opened a boarding house.

Griffith began his creative career as a playwright but met with little success ; only one of his plays was accepted for a performance.

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

" 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.

Although, strictly speaking, U. S. film director D. W. Griffith was not part of the montage school, he was one of the early proponents of the power of editing — mastering cross-cutting to show parallel action in different locations, and codifying film grammar in other ways as well.

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.

Although D. W. Griffith did not invent any new film techniques, he was the best film director working up to 1913, and this was because he made better dramatic and artistic use of the medium than other directors.

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

Suffering from overwork and strain after the long and difficult negotiations with the British government, and the work involved in establishing the Free State government, Griffith entered St. Vincent's Nursing Home, Dublin, during the first week of August 1922, following an acute attack of tonsilitis.

The association between Gish and D. W. Griffith was so close that some suspected a romantic connection, an issue never acknowledged by Gish, although several of their associates were certain they were at least briefly involved.

In San Francisco, Kuchar became involved with underground comics via his neighbors Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith.

The area is known as Jamieson's Special Survey in cadastral surveys. The survey extended east as far as Bulldog Creek Rd. Henry Dunn had leased the Survey from 1846 until 1851 and was succeeded by tenants such as the Griffith, Eaton, Peatey, McLear, Clydesdale, Wilson, Cottier and Gibson families, which were involved with the History of Dromana, and in the case of William Cottier, the establishment of the first of three Rye Hotels, in Dromana.

By this stage he was involved with the political work of Maude Gonne and Arthur Griffith, and was a vocal opponent of the visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland in 1897.

Spiegelman has often described the reasoning and process that lead Mouly to start the magazine: after the demise of Arcade, the ' 70s underground comics anthology he co-edited with Bill Griffith, and the general waning of the underground scene, Spiegelman was despairing that comics for adults might fade away for good, but he had sworn not to work on another magazine where he would be editing his peers because of the tension and jealousies involved ; however, Mouly had her own reasons for wanting to do just that.

Projects he has been involved with as a director, choreographer or performer, have received 4 Helen Hayes Awards ( D. C .' s equivalent of the Tony Award ) and 19 Helen Hayes Award nominations as well as the Ruby Griffith Award, Washington Area Theatre Community Honors ( WATCH ) Award nominations and DC Theatre Scene Award nominations.

These involved Ian Redpath ( Australia ) by Charlie Griffith ( West Indies ) in 1968-69 ; Derek Randall ( England ) by Ewen Chatfield ( New Zealand ) in 1978-79 ; and Sikander Bakht ( Pakistan ) by Alan Hurst ( Australia ) in 1978-79.

This would make the film the final production in which Griffith was actively involved.

Unhappy with their creative standards, she returned to work with Griffith in 1912.

David Lean also admitted he was deeply indebted to Ingram, and MGM studio chief Dore Schary once listed the top creative people in Hollywood as D. W. Griffith, Ingram, Cecil B. DeMille, and Erich von Stroheim ( in declining order of importance ).

Filming began on February 23, but just five days later, Griffith pulled out of the production due to " creative differences.

In the opinion of noted American racing historian Griffith Borgeson, he was " the greatest creative figure in the history of the American racing car ".

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.

They were not diplomats or jazz musicians, or even organizers of reading-rooms and photo-montage displays, but rugged capitalist entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, Hugh Cooper, Thomas Campbell, the International Harvester Co., and David W. Griffith.

One reel -- from eight to twelve minutes -- became the standard length from the year of Robbery, 1903, until Griffith shattered that limit forever with Birth Of A Nation in 1915.

In about seven years Griffith either invented or first realized the possibilities of virtually every resource at the disposal of the film maker.

Griffith had confronted Hoag on the building's front steps -- Hoag had been permitted no further -- and backed him against a wrought-iron railing.

Griffith looked at him suspiciously through red-rimmed eyes.

Griffith said, `` That's impossible.

Griffith raised placating hands.

But Hoag had not stayed on the front steps when Griffith disappeared into the building.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

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 ).