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...GRIFFITH: AN AMERICAN LIFE by Richard Schickel...
...Kentucky farm boy, the son of a Confederate war hero, David Wark Griffith seemed more suited to be a child of 19th century lost causes than a pioneer of the art form of the future. But once the young actor walked into Biograph film studios on New York City's East 14th Street, the movies came to possess him as his romance of romances...
...tracks Griffith's long parabola, Richard Schickel also provides an exhilarating, authoritative account of the early days of film when anything seemed possible on-and offscreen. During the green director's first year, 1908, he cranked out 60 one-reelers in six months, following up with 151 more in 1909. He put in a seven-day week, sunrise to sunset. Along the way, Griffith practically invented the autocratic personality of film director. On the set he tended to treat actors as children, looking down his "fine, cantilevered nose," as Lionel Barrymore put it. He was not above firing...
...know that there are too few, far too few, in the Arts departments of this University. Mr. Lagon will, we are afraid, emerge fundamentally unchallenged from his years at Harvard; perhaps his intellectual timorousness is the consequence. Let us pray only he has to pay the price. William K. Griffith GSAS Dept. of Government David M. Steiner GSAS Tutor in Government Lowell House
...Jazz led 31-29 after the first quarter of play, with Griffith leading the way with 13 points. Robinson and Huston brought the Cavaliers back in the second period and they took 53-50 advantage to the dressing room at intermission...