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A Corner in the Wheat 1909 Cast: Owen Moore
,George Nichols ,Charles Hill Mailes ,Jeanie
Macpherson, Blanche Sweet, Frank Powell Mack
Sennett Billy Quirk Henry Walthall Kate Bruce
William J. Butler Linda Arvidson, James Kirkwood,
Arthur V. Johnson, Edward Dillon, Grace Henderson,
Frank Evans, D.W. Griffith - Screenwriter, Frank
E. Woods - Screenwriter, Billy Bitzer -
Cinematographer
This is the first film in which Griffith attempts
social commentary. The scenario parallels the
problems of a poor farmer and the dealings of an
ill-fated "wheat king." Based on the novel "The
Pit" by FRANK NORRIS
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DW GRIFFITH AT BIOGRAPH COMPANY BY IRA H. GALLEN
New York City - 1908 - While David Wark Griffith
was looking for work on the theatre circuit, he
meets Max Davidson, an actor friend with whom he
had worked years before in the Louisville Stock
Company. At Davidson's suggestion, D.W. Griffith
accompanies him to a nickelodeon movie parlor in
lower Manhattan, where Griffith encounters moving
pictures for the first time.
Afterwards, it becomes apparent that Davidson's
reasoning was simply to show Griffith where he
could earn some extra money until some work on the
legitimate stage could be secured. Davidson
himself had already begun accepting acting jobs in
moving pictures and stressed to Griffith that the
standard rate of pay was five dollars a day with
the added incentive of a fifteen dollar fee if you
could sell them a scenario. To David Wark
Griffith, with the Southern heritage and scholarly
attitudes, he couldn't see himself condescending
to the level of moving picture acting.
An additional consideration was that legitimate
actors could be placed on a "blacklist" by
appearing in moving pictures, a policy implemented
by some Broadway producers, such as David Belasco,
who held to the opinion that the moving pictures
were a degradation of legitimate theatre. Where
moving pictures once shared the bill on the
vaudeville stage; upper class patrons who had once
accepted the form as entertainment now were of a
scornful opinion and left moving pictures for the
lower classes to derive whatever enjoyment they
could find from the medium.
Griffith and his wife, Linda, decide to try it out
with Griffith beginning first. He used the stage
name of Lawrence Griffith, preferring to leave his
real name until he could associate it with
some-thing more dignified, and attempts to sell a
script to the American Mutoscope & Biograph
Company.
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Affichage : 5129
Durée : 855 s |
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