Delivered within five years, pioneering director DW Griffith some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three movies a week. One and two reels in length, showed the works of the filmmaker inventing, borrowing, and perfecting the techniques later as memorable in "The Birth of a Nation," "intolerance," "Way Down East" and "Orphans of used the Storm. "But the biographer was more than that, they helped shape cinematic narrative for generations to come. Plots aresimple and direct, revealing an extraordinary dramatic talent of brilliant force, and Griffith assembled the main complex film of its period features, including Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Walthall, and Mae Marsh. Among the 22 titles included in this release are generally recognized as masterpieces as "The Musketeers of Pig Alley," "The Battle of the lilac bush Gulch, The New York Hat" and "A Corner in Wheat." Together, these compact,interesting short films offer an unparalleled record of American life at the turn of the 20th century.
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