D. W. Griffith To Make British Film
yyVVJD Wark Griffith, one of tins " classical directors of the silent •film, the creator of “The Birth ol a Nation,’.’ arrived in England in May to make a talking version of his mo>. popular silent picture, “Broken Blossoms,” the Biinehouse story by Thomas Burke, which made big.stars of Bit-hard Bart holiness and Lilian Gish. Griflith has a completely free hand. Be can cast for his film anyone lie wants —star or unknown. He have unlimited resources, lime, and money to make tins talkie tension, with’all the latest technical development's of the screen, as great as the original. Developments of llie past Id veais seem slight, though, beside the inventions that are credited to Griffith himself. He was the first to use the close-up, the fade out, the moving camera. By his three Hints, “The Birth of a Nation,” “Intolerance, and “Broken Blossoms,” lie lifted the cinema out of the nickelodeon stage to make it .world entertainment. Since talkies came his genius has been more or less idle.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18761, 18 July 1935, Page 13
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174D. W. Griffith To Make British Film Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18761, 18 July 1935, Page 13
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