A Rare Recording of Film Director DW Griffith Audiobook Libro.fm

David Wark Griffith January 22 1875 July 23 1948 best known for directing the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation is considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture pioneering many aspects of film editing and expanding the art of the narrative film In 1919 together with Charlie Chaplin Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Griffith founded the movie studio United Artists with the goal of enabling actors and directors to make films on their own terms as opposed to the terms of commercial studios In this 1930 recording actor Walter Huston and director DW Griffith discuss Griffiths film The Birth of a Nation