This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI Mr. Griffith and some of his methods of directionWhat everyone associated with the screen owes to him--About patience. I Have planned all along to dedicate this chapter to Mr. David Wark Griffith, and now that I have arrived at it, I find that my pen is unequal to the task. No mere chapter, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI Mr. Griffith and some of his methods of directionWhat everyone associated with the screen owes to him--About patience. I Have planned all along to dedicate this chapter to Mr. David Wark Griffith, and now that I have arrived at it, I find that my pen is unequal to the task. No mere chapter, nor book, could undertake to tell Mr. Griffith's importance to motion pictures. The things that he has accomplished in the past ten years, invariably in the face of great odds, almost pass belief. For Mr. Griffith I have the strong and mixed feeling that the child has for its benefactor, or the student for a beloved preceptor. At an age now where I can more appreciate the many trials that he endured I look back fondly to those days when Mary Pickford, Blanche Sweet, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron, and myself were beginning our careers and at the same time founding what has come to be known as the Griffith school. Nor were we all. If the list of actresses, actors and directors who spent the formulative days of their screen careers with Mr. Griffith were compiled I believe it would be found to include many of those who have reached the heights. Mr. George Loane Tucker, Mr. Thomas Ince, Mr. Marshall Neilan and Mr. Raoul Walsh, to name but four, were directors that he started on the road to success. Those were the days of the old Biograph. I am sure they were of the happiest that any of us ever have spent. We made two-reelers then. But we made good two-reelers. And the guiding genius of the organization was Mr. Griffith, tireless in his quest for something new, something big, something that would expand and elevate this new art to which he had pledged his very soul. His energy in those days, just as it is now, was astounding. Traveling...
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