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.

In 2009, Weaver starred as Mary Griffith in her first made-for-TV movie, Prayers for Bobby, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award.

It won the Academy Award for Directing and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Corinne Griffith ) and Best Cinematography.

It also won a Razzie Award in a special category called " Worst Screenplay Grossing Over $ 100 Million " while Jami Gertz was nominated for Worst Supporting Actress, eventually losing to Melanie Griffith for her performance in Mulholland Falls.

For her role as Honey Whitlock, Griffith was nominated for Worst Actress at the 2000 Golden Raspberry Awards.

Bush nominated Thomas B. Griffith in his place, who was confirmed in 2005 under the terms of the Gang of 14 Deal.

Soon after Knox returned from Egypt, Sir Samuel Griffith retired as the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, and in October 1919, Prime Minister Billy Hughes nominated Knox for apppointment as the second.

On the night of the murder, Tony and Domenic Sergi, nominated as principal suspects by the Woodward Royal Commission, were on a " pub crawl " in Griffith with a number of police officers ; Giuseppe and Rocco Barbaro went to Sydney and, then, the Gold Coast, not returning to Griffith until 20 July ; Francesco Barbaro, brother-in-law of Tony Sergi and cousin of Savero Barbaro ( who was arrested 3 months earlier of marijuana production ), stayed at the Griffith Ex-Servicemen's Club ; and Robert Trimbole was at Randwick, Sydney, at a restaurant.

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.

Griffith Thomas commented that the retention of the words " militant here in earth " defines the scope of this petition: we pray for ourselves, we thank God for them, and adduces collateral evidence to this end.

Frustrated with their lack of concern for quality, Chaplin joined forces with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D. W. Griffith to form a new distribution company — United Artists, established in January 1919.

In 1908, Griffith accepted an acting job for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, commonly known as Biograph, in New York City.

As a result, the Biograph head Henry Marvin decided to give Griffith the position ; and the young man made his first movie for the company, The Adventures of Dollie.

They offered the job of making their films to D. W. Griffith, an unimportant actor and playwright, who took up the job, and found he had a gift for it.

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.

D. W. Griffith made a small number of the latter type of film in his first two years at Biograph, but had little interest or aptitude for the genre.

After he had been at Biograph for a year, Griffith started to make some films that had much less story content than any previous one-reel films.

Griffith applied all the ideas for film staging that he had worked out in his Biograph films to a bigoted white southerner's epic view of the Civil War and its aftermath.

D. W. Griffith, who used it relentlessly, was responsible for the popularization of this device.

He also pushed the insert into areas of visual sensuality inaccessible to D. W. Griffith, with such images as a Close Up of a silver-plated revolver nestling in a pile of silken sexy ribbons in a drawer in Old Wives for New ( 1918 ).

As for Griffith, in Birth of a Nation there are just eight cuts to reverse-angle shots in the scene in Ford's Theatre, while elsewhere throughout the two-and-a-half hour length of this film there are only four more true reverse-angle cuts.

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.

Directors of dramatic films who had worked Griffith also followed his style fairly closely, and it the standard for films made by his Fine Arts section of the Triangle company.

; 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.

As for Capra's subject matter, film author Richard Griffith tries to summarize Capra's common theme:

On April 19, 1909, the Biograph Company director D. W. Griffith screen-tested her at the company's New York studio for a role in the nickelodeon film Pippa Passes.

Sennett directed his first film this year with D. W. Griffith, but was uncredited for his work.