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Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section
The Story of David Wark Griffith
(Continued from page 146) ■where Booth leaps from the President's box to the stage of ford's theater was rehearsed something like fifteen or twenty times with the camera.
All of those I saw were gone over and over, with very slightly differing "business;" there was enough film thrown away to make scores of thirteen-reel pictures.
A favorite story at the studios is of the horror of a man interested in the making of "The Birth of a Nation," who saw Griffith throw out seventeen thousand feet of film and take the scenes over again !
He was one of the later fellows who thought D. W. G. crazy.
I asked Griffith: "What has made the Biograph go down in value since you left it?"
"I can't tell you," he said with a laugh; "I'd hate to say it about myself."
And then he talked about the reissues of his old pictures ; pictures that he would like to have forgotten, just as Browning shuddered at the revival of his early efforts.
(The next installment will
"I understand they are billing those old affairs as 'Griffith Masterpieces,' " he said, "and I can tell you they seem very bad affairs to me now.
"I used to think they were rather good pictures ; but everything has changed since then, acting, effects, methods, photography.— everything.
"Those pictures are my children. I admit, but their very existence is justification for my disowning them."
And now he has been nearly two years on his next picture, "The Mother and the Law."
Who is the author of the scenario? For part, at least, a poet who five thousand years ago wrote an epic in the cuneiform characters.
Griffith can quote beautiful passages from that cuneiformist. and, odd to say. they sound something like a futurist effort : they particularly look futuristic when read in the pasturistic original.
This master of the lens has been often three thousand years ahead of his rivals : in this, his latest, most ambitious picture. he has gone back five thousand years for a good portion of his story.
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