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