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The Story of David Wark Griffith
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Lillian Gish and Henry Walthall in "Home, Sweet Home.
one of the earliest of the multiple reel
productions.
Here is a quartet of pioneer Biographers in one of the
first Griffith creations. ' 'fust Gold, ' ' due out of the Biograph
archives especially for Photoplay. From left to right:
Lionel Barrymore, Alfred Paget. Charles West
and fames McDermott.
for which he is responsible.
"He has a faculty of doing nothing hastily, while at the same time working at top speed.
"Everything new he did then, was ridiculed; everything new he does now. is imitated.
"What he did then, made pictures immensely popular ; what he began to do as soon as he got his feet fixed in the stirrup s. was to interest educated people.
"It was six years of work and success before Griffith's name became at all known outside of the studio. The Biograph would not allow any publicity to any of their directors or artists.
"Mary Pickford was not known to the public, only in so far as the outside people named her on their own volition, 'Little Mary.'
"But not even the distinction of being known by face was the right of the producer ; not one picture fan then knew there was a man named Griffith producing the new pictures which were impressing the people of the whole country; no one but producers knew of him : and they began to talk about him and quickly followed his lead, though not without much preliminary captious reviling.