![Die Parallelstrasse [The Parallel Street] (1962)](http://web.archive.org./web/20120428121148im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6MCZK1D9KkQ/0.jpg "Die Parallelstrasse [The Parallel Street] (1962)")
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DW GRIFFITH THE MASSACURE 1913
DW GRIFFITH THE MASSACURE 1913
The Massacre 1912 Cast: Charles Hill Mailes, Robert Harron, Blanche Sweet, Charles H. West, Spottiswood Aitken Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore Billy Bitzer -Cinematographer Summary: An exciting western adventure story and drama in one. The orphaned daughter (Blanche Sweet) of a farmer is raised by a step-father who subsequently seeks to marry her. She marries another man instead, and goes west with a wagon train with the man she really loves (Charles H. West) and their infant daughter. The wagon train is attacked by Indians and the family is separated -- after the cavalry has routed the Indians, the father searches for his wife and daughter and finds them alive, beneath the bodies of the homesteaders who were protecting them. www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.tvdays.com (400 DVD TITLES ) DW GRIFFITH AT BIOGRAPH BY IRA H. GALLEN What soon ends Griffith's association with the Biograph Company will be the events surrounding the production of three films THE BATTLE OF ELDERBUSH GULCH, THE MOTHERING HEART and JUDITH OF BETHULIA. All three are being made at the same time, each one was different and highly involved in scope and production value. They're made with the same cunning he used in his other battles with the front office. The question on the audiences lips was now reaching across all class boundaries; the DW Griffith method riveted them in their seats or had them sitting up on the edge of the seats, awaiting the outcome <b>...</b>
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Birth of Rare and Endangered Amur Leopard is a First at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens
Birth of Rare and Endangered Amur Leopard is a First at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens
Officials at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens announced a male leopard cub, born on Aug. 27, will go on exhibit on Saturday, Nov. 6. Initially, visitors will be able to view the cub at the indoor Komodo dragon exhibit, where they can see staff feeding and caring for him periodically. When the cub becomes independent he will be moved to the Zoo's leopard exhibit. While the cub occupies their exhibit, the Zoo's two Komodo dragons will be rotated daily in their outdoor exhibit as long as the weather is warm; otherwise, they will stay in the holding area for the exhibit. The cub had to be separated from his mother five days after his birth for hand rearing because he wasn't gaining weight as he should. A female sibling didn't survive. Although Jacksonville Zoo has successfully bred both generic leopards and Persian leopards previously, this is the Zoo's first time breeding the critically-endangered Amur leopard. Makarii, the ten-year-old mother, and Nicolai, the nine-year-old father of the cub, have been at the Jacksonville Zoo since December 2006. "The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens participates in many important conservation programs. But rarely do we get a chance to make a contribution to such a critical program," said Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens' Executive Director Tony Vecchio. "The Amur leopard is so close to the brink of extinction that every birth is significant." Amur leopards are classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. There are only approximately 50 <b>...</b>
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DW GRIFFITH THE ADVENTURES OF DOLLIE 1908
DW GRIFFITH THE ADVENTURES OF DOLLIE 1908
DW GRIFFITH BY IRA GALLEN It was an era that laid the foundation upon which was built the Golden Age of Cinema; an era whose development and advancement of the moving picture as an art form was inextricably tied to one man's creative and innovative genius. The man's name is DW Griffith--David Wark Griffith--and his story is that of the period between 1908 and 1913 when he created a method of storytelling in purely cinematic terms that was to raise the moving picture permanently out of the category of a scientific curiosity. This he did by the use of techniques that broke precedents and created a vocabulary of visual devices for the emergence of film as art as well as by the development of a stock company of actors and actresses with him at the American Mutuscope and Biograph Company in New York, who would later emerge as some of the greatest individual talents during the glory years of the Golden Age David Wark Griffith's film creation, THE BIRTH OF A NATION, was to make history and achieve immortality when released in 1914. With THE BIRTH, Griffith was to bring together the words "art" and "film" as a permanent equation for the first time. Only five years after his initial explorations into the then crude world of moving picture images, his epic, THE BIRTH, was both an historical creation as well as a history making event in its own right. The American artist, whom the world would come to recognize simply as DW Griffith, became as much a household name as any of his <b>...</b>
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DW GRIFFITH AS IT IS IN LIFE 1910 SILENT MARY PICKFORD 1911
DW GRIFFITH AS IT IS IN LIFE 1910 SILENT MARY PICKFORD 1911
DW GRIFFITH by IRA H. GALLEN It was an era that laid the foundation upon which was built the Golden Age of Cinema; an era whose development and advancement of the moving picture as an art form was inextricably tied to one man's creative and innovative genius. The man's name is DW Griffith--David Wark Griffith--and his story is that of the period between 1908 and 1913 when he created a method of storytelling in purely cinematic terms that was to raise the moving picture permanently out of the category of a scientific curiosity. This he did by the use of techniques that broke precedents and created a vocabulary of visual devices for the emergence of film as art as well as by the development of a stock company of actors and actresses with him at the American Mutuscope and Biograph Company in New York, who would later emerge as some of the greatest individual talents during the glory years of the Golden Age David Wark Griffith's film creation, THE BIRTH OF A NATION, was to make history and achieve immortality when released in 1914. With THE BIRTH, Griffith was to bring together the words "art" and "film" as a permanent equation for the first time. Only five years after his initial explorations into the then crude world of moving picture images, his epic, THE BIRTH, was both an historical creation as well as a history making event in its own right. The American artist, whom the world would come to recognize simply as DW Griffith, became as much a household name as any of his <b>...</b>
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RESCUED FROM AN EAGLES NEST 1908 starring DW GRIFFITH
RESCUED FROM AN EAGLES NEST 1908 starring DW GRIFFITH
DW GRIFFITH BY IRA H. GALLEN It was an era that laid the foundation upon which was built the Golden Age of Cinema; an era whose development and advancement of the moving picture as an art form was inextricably tied to one man's creative and innovative genius. The man's name is DW Griffith--David Wark Griffith--and his story is that of the period between 1908 and 1913 when he created a method of storytelling in purely cinematic terms that was to raise the moving picture permanently out of the category of a scientific curiosity. This he did by the use of techniques that broke precedents and created a vocabulary of visual devices for the emergence of film as art as well as by the development of a stock company of actors and actresses with him at the American Mutuscope and Biograph Company in New York, who would later emerge as some of the greatest individual talents during the glory years of the Golden Age David Wark Griffith's film creation, THE BIRTH OF A NATION, was to make history and achieve immortality when released in 1914. With THE BIRTH, Griffith was to bring together the words "art" and "film" as a permanent equation for the first time. Only five years after his initial explorations into the then crude world of moving picture images, his epic, THE BIRTH, was both an historical creation as well as a history making event in its own right. The American artist, whom the world would come to recognize simply as DW Griffith, became as much a household name as any of his <b>...</b>
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DW GRIFFITH AN ARCADEN MAID MACK SENNETT MARY PICKFORD
DW GRIFFITH AN ARCADEN MAID MACK SENNETT MARY PICKFORD
DW GRIFFITH BY IRA H. GALLEN It was an era that laid the foundation upon which was built the Golden Age of Cinema; an era whose development and advancement of the moving picture as an art form was inextricably tied to one man's creative and innovative genius. The man's name is DW Griffith--David Wark Griffith--and his story is that of the period between 1908 and 1913 when he created a method of storytelling in purely cinematic terms that was to raise the moving picture permanently out of the category of a scientific curiosity. This he did by the use of techniques that broke precedents and created a vocabulary of visual devices for the emergence of film as art as well as by the development of a stock company of actors and actresses with him at the American Mutuscope and Biograph Company in New York, who would later emerge as some of the greatest individual talents during the glory years of the Golden Age David Wark Griffith's film creation, THE BIRTH OF A NATION, was to make history and achieve immortality when released in 1914. With THE BIRTH, Griffith was to bring together the words "art" and "film" as a permanent equation for the first time. Only five years after his initial explorations into the then crude world of moving picture images, his epic, THE BIRTH, was both an historical creation as well as a history making event in its own right. The American artist, whom the world would come to recognize simply as DW Griffith, became as much a household name as any of his <b>...</b>
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THE LITTLE DARLING Directed by DW GRIFFITH SILENT FILMS & TV SHOWS on DVDS at TVDAYS.com
THE LITTLE DARLING Directed by DW GRIFFITH SILENT FILMS & TV SHOWS on DVDS at TVDAYS.com
The Little Darling 1909 cast: Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, John B. Cumpson, Owen Moore, Arthur Johnson, William A. Quirk, Henry B. Walthall, Anthony O'Sullivan, Verner Clarges, Charles Avery. Gertrude Robinson summary: A comic misunderstanding involving two old school friends. Lillie Green is expecting a visit from the daughter of an old school friend, and expects the visitor to be a little girl -- her boarders, all young men, prepare with toys and dolls, only to discover that the young lady is just that, a 17-year-old who is more interested in the young men than the toys they'd met her with. DW GRIFFITH at THE AMERICAN MUTOSCOPE & BIOGRAPH COMPAONY by IRA H. GALLEN It was an era that laid the foundation upon which was built the Golden Age of Cinema; an era whose development and advancement of the moving picture as an art form was inextricably tied to one man's creative and innovative genius. The man's name is DW Griffith--David Wark Griffith--and his story is that of the period between 1908 and 1913 when he created a method of storytelling in purely cinematic terms that was to raise the moving picture permanently out of the category of a scientific curiosity. This he did by the use of techniques that broke precedents and created a vocabulary of visual devices for the emergence of film as art as well as by the development of a stock company of actors and actresses with him at the American Mutuscope and Biograph Company in New York, who would later emerge as some of the <b>...</b>
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DW GRIFFITH THE MENDED LUTE 1910
DW GRIFFITH THE MENDED LUTE 1910
The Mended Lute 1909 cast: Owen Moore, Mack Sennett, Red Wing, Arthur V. Johnson, Florence Lawrence, James Kirkwood, Stanner EV Taylor - Screenwriter Billy Bitzer - Cinematographer Summary: In June of 1909 Griffith had decided it was too hot and muggy to film in the city so, on the recommendation of the company's president JJ Kennedy, he took his stock company of players and crew to Cuddlebackville in the Orange Mountains of New York state to work. The first production was The Mended Lute, "A stirring Romance of the Dakotas." Take note that this is a story entirely about Indians, and there were no white men depicted in the film. The highlight of the film is a canoe chase along the Never Sink River, which I had the oportunity to visit in the 1974, when working on a film about Griffith's days at Biograph. www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.tvdays.com (400 DVD TITLES) DW GRIFFITH BY IRA H. GALLEN It was an era that laid the foundation upon which was built the Golden Age of Cinema; an era whose development and advancement of the moving picture as an art form was inextricably tied to one man's creative and innovative genius. The man's name is DW Griffith--David Wark Griffith--and his story is that of the period between 1908 and 1913 when he created a method of storytelling in purely cinematic terms that was to raise the moving picture permanently out of the category of a scientific curiosity. This he did by the use of techniques <b>...</b>
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DW GRIFFITH IN THE BORDER STATES 1911
DW GRIFFITH IN THE BORDER STATES 1911
In the Border States 1910 cast: Charles H. West, Gladys Egan,W.Chrystie Miller, Dorthy West, Henery B. Walthal, Frank Evens, William J. Butler, Guy Hedlund, Edwin Dillion, John T. Dillon, Alfred Paget, Mack sennett, Henery Lehrman, Dell Henderson, Francois J. Grandon ). Stanner EV Taylor-story Summary: This film anticipates some of the subject matter of The Birth of a Nation, in simpler terms and with some sympathy to the north. A father bids a sad farewell to his family as he goes off to join the Union forces. Soon after he leaves, a frightened Confederate soldier arrives at the farm and asks for help from the young daughter that he finds there -- she protects him from the pursuing Union soldiers but tells him to leave because he is a Confederate. Sometime later, the father is assigned a perilous mission carrying secret Union papers and is wounded by Confederate soldiers. He makes his way back to his home and is sheltered by his daughters -- the older one goes for help while the younger one tries to comfort him. The Confederates arrive and he destroys the papers that he is carrying. The Confederate leader -- the same soldier who was on the farm earlier -- enters the home and is about to kill him, when he sees that the same little girl who helped him is protecting the Union soldier. He is persuaded to protect him, pretending that the man is already dead. www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.tvdays.com (400 DVD TITLES) DW <b>...</b>
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THOSE AWFUL HATS directed DWGRIFFITH
THOSE AWFUL HATS directed DWGRIFFITH
Those Awful Hats 1909 Arthur V. Johnson, Robert Harron, Florence Lawrence, Mack Sennett Linda Arvidson, Flora Finch, John Compson DW Griffith - Screenwriter Billy Bitzer -Cinematographer www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.youtube.com www.tvdays.com (400 DVD TITLES) DW GRIFFITH at BIOGRAPGH BY IRA H. GALLEN This film sent the bosses at Biograph into a fury because they felt that Griffith had wasted money shooting such a short production, including the special effects that were needed. But its a great parody and an unusually witty Griffith observation of the times, and of a certain problem -- involving those ridiculously outsized Victorian-style hats that were in fashion for women -- that could occur in going to the Nickelodeons of the era and trying to see a movie. Griffith spent a great deal of time at the Nickelodeon watching people's reactions to his films, and it was during this time that he noticed that if you sat behind a women who wore one of the large-sized Victorian hats, you couldn't see the screen in front. It's a Griffith first in his work of using a split screen effect as he shows a movie being projected on a wall, and people already in the theater watching. He also makes skillful use of the notion of the "establishing shot" -- the first woman that walks down the aisle looking for a seat is Linda Arvidson, and she doesn't take a seat but walks back out; it's here Griffith established what a normal woman's hat looks like. As the <b>...</b>
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DW GRIFFITH THE OATH AND THE MAN 1910
DW GRIFFITH THE OATH AND THE MAN 1910
THE OATH AND THE MAN 1910 www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com DW GRIFFITH AT BIOGRAPH COMPANY BY IRA GALLEN With his financial footing secured for the first time since his childhood, Griffith was soon turning out the type of productions that the Biograph Co. was looking for, namely films that would make good money. For Griffith, the newfound security left him free to turn his mind and attention to methods of improving upon the standards with which he was now beginning to work. He noticed that older actors photographed poorly under the handicap of the low speed orthochromatic film stock that was the standard of the era. As a counter to this fact, he began to develop much younger talent, a part of his job that he would find to be a great enjoyment to him. The quality that made these young actors and actresses special was a certain, almost indefinable quality that Griffith saw in them. It was quickly noticed in some, in others a more gradual process would bring the quality to the front. For many of the company that Griffith would bring together, this quality was a dormant commodity until it was exposed to a pseudo-Svengali, a "Bergman" of the past, a David Wark Griffith. Griffith himself would speak of it as "soul" when discussing the acting of his players and felt that the actor with "soul" could enter into his or her work with all the ardor they had to offer; they would feel and live their parts, and the results would be superior performances <b>...</b>
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They Came Before Columbus - Dr Ivan Van Sertima, Part 1
They Came Before Columbus - Dr Ivan Van Sertima, Part 1
This video is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ivan Van Sertima who made is transition on May 25th, 2009. A celebrated classic, They Came Before Columbus, deals with a number of contacts -- both planned and accidental, between Africans and Americans in different historical periods. Evidence for a physical/cultural presence of Africans in Early America is methodically examined. Dr. Van Sertima reveals to us a compelling, dramatic and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of black Africans in ancient America. With his considerable scholarship, Van Sertima examines the facts of navigation and shipbuilding, the sources of latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates, the scores of cultural analogies found nowhere else except in America and Africa, African languages and the transportation of plants, cloth and animals from Africa to the Americas. And from the diaries, letters and journals of the explorers themselves; from Carbon-14 dated sculptures found in the Americas; from the Arabic documents, charts, maps from the recorded tales of the griots to the Kings of Mali; from dated skeletons found as recently as 1975, the author builds his pyramid of evidence.
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The World in Data - Zeitgeist Europe 2009
The World in Data - Zeitgeist Europe 2009
Hans Rosling, Founder, Gapminder & Professor, Karolinska Institutet
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Conversations With History - Philip Bobbitt
Conversations With History - Philip Bobbitt
"Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century" Philip Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of Law, Columbia University Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Philip Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University. Focusing on the transformation of the state and warfare, Professor Bobbitt offers a new interpretation of terrorism. He explains the emergence of the market state, compares it to the nation state, analyzes the unique features of warfare in the new century, and brings into focus the distinctive qualities of today's terrorism. Professor Bobbitt also describes the challenges posed for national security and offers an agenda for changes that integrate strategy and law. globetrotter.berkeley.edu
