Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

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88 Photoplay Magazine its expression, and then perhaps a bit of a previous scene which laid the foundation fur the hatred. "That method is now used in a million different manners, and in a way lias possibly transformed the entire procedure of picture-making." It was not long before his brain, unshackled from what had been done bv others, intent only on doing what ought to be done, devised the "fade-in" and "fade-out," a feature which combines with nice accuracy the utmost of realism and the ultimate of idealism ; then the men who had been calling Griffith crazv and worse, "swiped" bis novel ideas and are using them with the calm serenity which is a characteristic of theatrical piracy. These startling developments did not come all at once, and with every step forward Griffith took, his competitors took one backward in terming him "ridiculous." varied in expression in all the eloquently vituperative patter which rivalry | >sess in stage controversies. One man. a Mr. Kennedy in the Biograph, stood by him at first : as the order-* from exhibitors piled up others gave him support, and the glad hand began to swing toward him. He took it serenely, and shook it genially, for he does not know what malevolence is. No one then dreamed of what he still had in mind, no one contemplated a four or five-reel picture, much less a thirteen reel like "The Birth of a Nation ;" neither did Griffith dream it. He knew. Do not fail to read Part IV of the Griffith story in the August issue. Marin Sais: A Kalem Queen and Two of Her Pets