Word: bitzer
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Griffith and his great cameraman Billy Bitzer, here shown working with Henry B. Walthall in The Escape, were the Founding Fathers of cinematic art. They discovered the closeup, the cutback, the truck shot (camera moving forward or backward), the fadeout, the fuzz-focused heroine's head which, esthetically, is Hollywood's chief inheritance from them. Some of their action sequences in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), together with many by their brilliant, neglected contemporary, Thomas Ince, have seldom been equaled, never surpassed...