He is best known as the director of the epic 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance ( 1916 ).

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.

Peter Bogdanovich's affectionate 1976 film Nickelodeon deals with the turmoil of silent filmmaking in Hollywood during the early 1910s, leading up to the release of D. W. Griffith's 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation.

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 ).

There are several starting points for cinema ( particularly American cinema ), but it was Griffith's controversial 1915 epic Birth of a Nation that pioneered the worldwide filming vocabulary that still dominates celluloid to this day.

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

Published in 1916, ( although back-dated to 1915 ), this epic historical novel narrates upheaval and revolution in 18th-century China, and was favorably received by critics, who praised its detailed and exotic depictions of China.

Hostility between the groups flared in July 1979 when protesters disrupted a screening of the 1915 epic, The Birth of a Nation directed by D. W. Griffith, a cinematographic portrayal of the formation of a Ku Klux Klan.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

The First Army took part in the epic retreat of the Serbian Army through the Albanian mountains during the winter of 1915 and 1916, during which it suffered heavy casualties due to hunger, frostbite, attack from Albanian bands ( Albania officially supported the Entente ) and exhaustion.

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.

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 ).

Through Reliance-Majestic Studios, Griffith produced The Clansman ( 1915 ), which would later be known as The Birth of a Nation.

The biggest success of these years was D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), made for Triangle.

* 1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.

Another of the early fictional films to be used for propaganda was The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), although it was not produced for the purposes of indoctrination.

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One of the most influential silent films from the beginning of the twentieth century is Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), the first half of which established many conventions for War films and Motion Pictures in general.

D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ) used whites in blackface to represent all of its major black characters, but reaction against the film's racism largely put an end to this practice in dramatic film roles.

After the 1915 release of the movie The Birth of a Nation, which glorified lynching and the Reconstruction-era Klan, the Klan re-formed.

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.

She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith's seminal Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ).

Lillian went on to star in many of Griffith's most acclaimed films, including The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), Broken Blossoms ( 1919 ), Way Down East ( 1920 ) and Orphans of the Storm ( 1921 ).

The book was so popular that Dixon went on to write a complete trilogy, the second part becoming source material for the silent film The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ).

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

The 1915 film Birth of a Nation is an example of an allegorical invocation of white nationalism during this time.

* The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 )

She wrote the three-act drama for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), which called for new works to rally public opinion against the recently released film, The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ).

The Providencia Land and Water Development Company property was used as a location for some early films, most significantly the battle scenes in the silent classic about the American Civil War, The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ).

However, prior to 1915, the word Zahl ( simply number ) was used for an element's assigned number in the periodic table.

In 1915, cuts within the duration of a scene were still relatively infrequent in his films, and when they do occur they were frequently from Long Shot or Medium Long Shot ( which were the shots he most used ) to a Big Close Up of an insert detail, which only occupied a small part of the frame in the previous shot.

The use of metal aircraft structures was pioneered before World War I by Breguet but would find its biggest proponent with Anthony Fokker who used chrome-molybdenum steel tubing for the fuselage structure of all his fighter designs, while the innovative German engineer Hugo Junkers developed two all-metal, single-seat fighter monoplane designs with cantilever wings: the strictly experimental Junkers J 2 private-venture aircraft, made with steel, and some forty examples of the Junkers D. I, made with corrugated duralumin, all based on his experience in creating the pioneering Junkers J 1 all-metal airframe technology demonstration aircraft of late 1915.

The term " Fascism " was first used in 1915 by members of Mussolini's movement, the Fasci of Revolutionary Action.

The Irish player John Rea ( 1915 – 1983 ) used hammers made of thick steel wire, wound with wool.

She was used for harbour service from 1881, as a barracks from 1905, was renamed HMS Calcutta in 1909, HMS Fisgard II in 1915, and was sold in 1932.

James Tiptree, Jr. ( August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987 ) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death.

Henri Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), on the other hand, emphasized the difference between scientific, clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time His work on time and consciousness " had a great influence on twentieth-century novelists ," especially those modernists who used the stream of consciousness technique, such as Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, ( 1915 ), James Joyce, Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Virginia Woolf ( 1882 – 1941 ) Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ).

In the realm of classical music, semi-spoken music was popular stylized by composer Arnold Schoenberg as Sprechstimme, and famously used in Ernst Toch's 1924 Geographical Fugue for spoken chorus and the final scene in Darius Milhaud's 1915 ballet Les Choéphores.

Color photography by taking three separate plates was used by other pioneers, such as Russian Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in the period 1909 through 1915.

Terms such as " stolen " were used in the context of taking children from their families – the Hon P. McGarry, a member of the Parliament of New South Wales, objected to the Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915 which then enabled the Aborigines ' Protection Board to remove Aboriginal children from their parents without having to establish that they were in any way neglected or mistreated ; McGarry described the policy as " steal the child away from its parents ".

" Bull ", meaning nonsense, dates from the 17th century, while the term " bullshit " has been used as early as 1915 in American slang, and came into popular usage only during World War II.

In Britain, some of the earliest ornithological works that used the word ecology appeared in 1915.

Nicholas refused to grant the bride or their son, George Mikhailovich ( 1910 – 1931 ) a title initially, legitimising George and incorporated him into the Russian nobility under the name " Brassov " in 1915, although he used the title of count under the monarchy from 1915 and, along with his mother, was granted a princely prefix in exile by Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia in 1928.

Dual-tone sirens became more common in the 1950s, but have been used in some areas since about 1915.

Chemical weapons were used by the German Empire in Ypres, Kingdom of Belgium in 1915, when chlorine gas was released.

Cordite was used initially in the. 303 British, Mark I and II, standard rifle cartridge between 1891 and 1915 ; however, shortages of cordite in World War I led to United States – developed smokeless powders being imported into the UK for use in rifle cartridges.

: A plaque placed in 1915 at the intersection of Edgewood Avenue and US 1 ( Post Road ) makes reference to the first United States Postal Service Road, first used in 1678.

Despite this, the weapon went unused in World War I until February 26, 1915, when it was briefly used against the French outside Verdun.

On July 30, 1915, it was first used in a concerted action, against British trenches at Hooge, where the lines were just 4. 5m ( 5 yards ) apart — even there, the casualties were caused mainly by soldiers being flushed into the open and being shot by more conventional means rather than from the fire itself.

During World War I, the Allies in early 1915 used the island to try to capture the Dardanelles Straits, some 50 km away.