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Photoplay Magazine
Unda Arvidson and Wilfred Lucas in "After Many
Years," an adaptation of "Enoch Arden." At right,
Florence Lawrence in " Ingomar." The name of the
bewhiskered individual has not been handed down
to posterity.
for it sustained his contentions.
"Griffith showed at that beginning of his career the same qualities he has maintained ever since; careful advance consideration regarding every new step or departure from the beaten track ; those many great improvements he made in picture-making were not at all freakish nor radical ; they were studied out ; all of the changes that are admittedly his own creations, such as the switch-back, the fade-in and fade-out. the various forms of the close-up, the novelly beautiful lighting effects, the natural and reserved acting, the careful captioning, all were results of study and thought.
"He then, as now, would discuss with his associates, at least those who were not openly hostile to him, the advisability of introducing into his pictures sane human action, instead of using the exaggerated method then in vogue ; of all these remarkable changes I have mentioned, his scenario man, a Mr. Daugherty, was among the first to recognize the importance of the Griffith ideas.
"He was always a very hard worker ; he had to be, to produce as he soon did two one-reel pictures every week, and at the same time give them sufficient thought to evolve in his careful way the numerous improvements and take the steps forward
Blanche Sweet and Ralph Lewis in a scene from the .first
photoplay which appeared as a Griffith production,
" The Escape."