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Photoplay Magazine
George W. <" Billy") Bitzer, and the remarkable camera lar„ ;,, tup i.nv nft;rf, Tnrla^d hv i-Vip t^l.l^c nf which ground in the gigantic scenes of -Intolerance/ laT* ln lne uox omCe Juag«l t)\ tile tables 01
"Static" is the peculiar electric manifestation which Verity and of Art. it stands as a terrific ar
causes flashing white spots in tfie film; it is a bane of the . r r . , . .
business. Static is caused by cold, and the gentle heat raigliment 01 tUStian humanitV. Under the 111
from the attached bicycle lamp has obviated it in this Hiftm«»nt hrnnwVit hw imnlamiMo Vort
great picture. Under Mr. Bitzer s left hand is his orig ClKtmcnt Urougnt D\ implacable 1" act.
inal ' diaphragm fade-out" appliance, directly attached TllOSe SeveiltV-five millions of people OUt
to the lens. Everyone who knows anything about camera r . , , . .,,. r i •
operation is of course perfectly well aware that Mr. Bitzer 01 the hundred millions 01 Our population who
is ^Griffith of camera mp^even^ Mr. Gmth is the ^ wrfting ^ ,cenario, will be interested in
knowing where and how this theme was written.
It never was written. It was created hy suffering. I have told you of Griffith's combat with hypocrisy and imperious traditional Boetianism from the day he stepped forth from that impoverished manse of the Kentucky plantation, to and through his struggle for the survival of "The Birth of a Nation" ; of how in one community the creations of the negro vote, and in others where the negro was not maintained in his odor of martyrdom, the decayed prejudices of the Civil War were venomously injected into the controversy for artistic survival. "The Truth? What is Truth?" asked Pontius Pilate. And all through the centuries "nee. you and I and the other fellow have been shouting. "Truth is what / believe." After he had won the scrap and "The Birth of a Nation" pictured the registering of gold. Griffith determined to do one more photodrama. — and he said then, and says now. only one more. — and in that he would give some manner of response to Mr. Pilate.
He did not look over the card indices of scenarios which Frank Woods had listed, though he did think of the Bible and of the temperamental incident that happened between Cain and Abel because of jealousy and thereby hatred.
But a report of a Federal Industrial Commission fell into his hands and therein he found a large part of his never written scenario.
In that report was a mention of a certain combination of