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