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...EARLY 1915 David Wark Griffith finished a small film based on contemporary news reports. The Mother and the Law dealt with the oppression of the lowly by the rich and intolerant. Feeling that its theme was bigger than his treatment, Griffith began to expand the film and then became interested in parallel situations set in former societies. Some seventeen months later he had spent two million dollars, hired thousands of extras, and built acres of sets on a film eight hours long. Distributors refused to book a feature that ran for two evenings, and Griffith...
...scale of Intolerance is only slightly less astounding than the amount of control Griffith had over it. Its Babylonian main hall, over a mile deep, was fashioned to the smallest detail by carpenters whom Griffith instructed day to day. There was no more a script or a scenarist than there were blueprints or a set-designer: Griffith shot from his head...
...Griffith undertake such a huge project? What did he expect to do with all the historical and human material he had amassed? How could he think to organize...
...William Griffith's research project of Communism, Revisionism and Revolution, whose files contain large amounts of documentary materials on world communism and radical movements...
...Pool and Griffith's work with Viet Cong documentary materials, particularly detailed interviews with Viet Cong...