🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 23 March 1911, #filmmaking pioneer #DWGriffiths' silent short THE LONEDALE OPERATOR, starring
Blanche Sweet, George Nichols, and Francis J. Grandon, was released in 🇺🇸 It was groundbreaking in its innovative use of close-ups and new editing techniques.

🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 5 February 1919, #CharlieChaplin, #DWGriffiths, #MaryPickford, and #DouglasFairbanks formed UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION, with the aim of controlling their creative and commercial #filmmaking interests without the involvement of the major studios.

🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 5 September 1916, #DWGriffiths' highly innovative 3.5 hour silent historical epic "Intolerance," starring Vera Lewis and Ralph Lewis, was released in 🇺🇸

🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 23 March 1911, #filmmaking pioneer #DWGriffiths' silent short THE LONEDALE OPERATOR, starring
Blanche Sweet, George Nichols, and Francis J. Grandon, was released in 🇺🇸 It was groundbreaking in its innovative use of close-ups and new editing techniques.

🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 5 February 1919, #CharlieChaplin, #DWGriffiths, #MaryPickford, and #DouglasFairbanks formed UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION, with the aim of controlling their creative and commercial #filmmaking interests without the involvement of the major studios.

"Birth of a Nation" Silent Film and Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan #OnThisDay in 1915, a week before the silent film, “Birth of a Nation,” premiered at an Atlanta theater, William Simmons, along with 15 other men (including some who lynched Leo Frank) burned a cross ...

DW Griffiths film, Birth of A Nation presented a highly romanticized and racist portrait of the Reconstruction period in American history. See our latest blog on the events surrounding its premiere in 1915. #BirthofNation #DWGriffiths historianspeaks.org/f/birth-of-a...