Cut to the Chase: Is D. W. Griffith the Father of Cinema? – Hidden History of Hollywood

02/23

Cut to the Chase: Is D. W. Griffith the Father of Cinema?

Focus-frame exercise; montage exercise; re-cutting exercise

The Great Train Robbery

Edwin S. Porter

(1903)

The Comet

W.E. B. Du Bois

(1920)

“Princess Steel”

W.E. B. Du Bois

(1905)

Battleship Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein

(1925)

“Dickens, Griffith and the Cinema Today”

Sergei Eisenstein

The Birth of a Nation

D. W. Griffith

(1915)