D. W. Griffith: Interviews - Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chronology -- Filmography -- At the Sign of the Flaming Arcs / George Blaisdell/1914 -- David W. Griffith Speaks / Robert E. Welsh/1914 -- A Poet Who Writes on Motion Picture Films / Theatre Magazine/1914 -- Editorials in Films / New York Dramatic Mirror/1914 -- D. W. Griffith Answers Two Vital Questions / Robert Grau/1914 -- D. W. Griffith Producer of the World's Biggest Picture / New York American/1915 -- Five Dollar Movies Prophesied / Richard Barry/1915 -- Interviews with Prominent Directors: And the Greatest of These Is / David W. Griffith, Roberta Courtlandt/1915 -- The Story of David Wark Griffith: Part One / Henry Stephen Gordon/1916 -- The Story of David Wark Griffith: Part Two / Henry Stephen Gordon/1916 -- The Story of David Wark Griffith: Part Three / Henry Stephen Gordon/1916 -- The Story of David Wark Griffith: Part Four / Henry Stephen Gordon/1916 -- The Story of David Wark Griffith: Part Five / Henry Stephen Gordon/1916 -- The Real Story of Intolerance / Henry Stephen Gordon/1916 -- The Making of a Masterpiece / Edward Weitzel/1916 -- The Film World's Greatest Achievement Pictures and Picturegoer/1917 -- D. W. Griffith Champions England's Natural Light Moving Picture World/1917 -- Took Scenes in the Trenches New York Times/1917 -- Griffith Returns from the Front with Official Pictures Made under Fire-will Use Them in a Film Spectacle of War Exhibitors Trade Review/1917 -- Griffith-and the Great War / Paul H. Dowling/1918 -- Griffith, Maker of Battle Scenes, Sees Real War / Harry C. Carr/1918 -- Pictures and Projectiles New York Times/1918 -- Life and the Photodrama / Harry C. Carr/1918 -- How Griffith Picks His Leading Women / Harry C. Carr/1918 -- Humanity's Language New York Times/1919 -- Griffith Points Out Need of Tragedy on the Screen; Likes San Francisco Moving Picture World/1919 -- The Poet-Philosopher of the Photoplay / Hazel Simpson Naylor/1919 -- Exhibitor is a Co-Artist, Says D. W. Griffith, Returns from Los Angeles to Open Eastern Studio Exhibitors Trade Review/1919 -- The Filming of Way Down East / Charles Gatchell/1920 -- The Moral and the Immoral Photoplay / Frederick James Smith/1920 -- The Greatest Moving Picture Producer in the World / Mary B. Mullett/1921 -- Griffith Reveals Sartorial Secrets / Los Angeles Times/1921 -- D. W. Griffith's Screen Version of The Two Orphans Would Fill Its Author with Awe / Edward Weitzel/1921 -- An Intimate Closeup of D. W. Griffith Movie Weekly/1922 -- Griffith: Maker of Pictures / Harry C. Carr/1922 -- The Genius of a Masterpiece Shadowland/1922 -- Griffith Film Stirs Anger of Parisians New York Times/1922 -- Stereoscopic Films New York Times/1922 -- In and Out of Focus: D. W. Griffith / Louella Parsons/1922 -- What are the Chances of a Beginner Photoplay/1923 -- D. W. Griffith is Struggling to Pay His Debts / Sara Redway/1925 -- How Do You Like the Show? / Myron M. Stearns/1926 -- Don't Blame the Movies! Blame Life! / Selma Robinson/1926 -- He Might Be the Richest Man in the World / Frederick James Smith/1926 -- His Best Pictures Were the Least Expensive, Says D. W. / Tom Waller/1927 -- D. W. Griffith Addresses the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences AMPAS Bulletin/1928 -- Walter Huston Interviews D. W. Griffith / Walter Huston/1930 -- David Wark Griffith Tells 'Em Motion Picture Herald/1933 -- The Star-Maker Whose Dreams Turned to Dust / Mildred Mastin/1934 -- Film Master is Not Proud of Films: They Do Not Endure Daily Express/1935 -- D. W. Griffith Tells Plans Which Include Picture Making / Grace Kingsley/1936 -- Return of a Master / Herb Sterne/1939 -- Griffith Back to Live Here for Half Century / James Warnak/1944 -- Cinema's Fullest Scope Still Ahead-D. W. Griffith / Fred W. Fox/1947 -- Forty-Seven Questions from Seymour Stern to D. W. Griffith / Seymour Stern/1947 -- Flash-Back to Griffith / Ezra Goodman/1948 -- The Writings of D. W. Griffith -- Index. Publisher Marketing: D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the cinema to a new level of art, entertainment, and innovation, and at the same time he illustrated, for the first time, its potential to influence an audience and propagandize a cause. Collected together here are virtually all of the "interviews" given by D. W. Griffith from the first in 1914 to the last in 1948. Some of the interviews concentrate on specific films, including The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and, most substantially, Hearts of the World, while others provide the director with an opportunity to expound on topics of personal interest, including the importance of proper exhibition of his and other's films, and his search for truth and beauty on screen. The interviews are taken from many sources, including leading newspapers, trade papers, and fan magazines. They are often marked by humor and by a desire to please the interviewer and thus the reader. Griffith may not have been particularly enthusiastic about giving interviews, but he seems always determined to put on a good show. Ultimately, D. W. Griffith: Interviews provides the reader with a unique insight into the mind and filmmaking techniques of a director whose work and philosophy is as relevant today as it was when he was at the height of his fame in the 1910s and 1920s.

Contributor Bio:  Slide, Anthony Anthony Slide is an independent scholar who has published more than seventy-two books on popular entertainment. He has been a specialist appraiser of entertainment memorabilia for more than thirty years, an associate archivist for the American Film Institute, and the resident film historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.