D.W. Griffith News

Dear Mick: In the early days of film, audiences paid little notice to who directed a film.

I recently reviewed The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan by Rory McVeigh for the academic journal American Studies.

It's easy to get mixed up when talking to Paul D. Miller. You want to call him DJ Spooky, or Spooky, and you almost want to say That Subliminal Kid -- a nickname he stole from a character in a Burroughs novel.

Movies are always the largest part of my list. Rather than let my family and fiancee guess, I usually give them an idea of what I want.

In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer interviewed Cobden, Illinois, resident Stace England .

It must be challenging to play the drums solo, but it must be even more so to improvise an hour-long soundtrack to a silent movie.

Dir. D.W. Griffith . Griffith's last normally scaled project before he embarked on his epic The Birth of a Nation , this impressive thriller is especially notable for its central portion, a dream sequence extraordinary for the period that makes use of dramatic lighting effects and compositions derived from 19th century paintings.

The Pike County Historical Society paid tribute to some of the county's most famous people Oct.

A scene from the new epic film The Founding of a Republic. In 1915, D.W. Griffith created The Birth of a Nation upon the backdrop of the American Civil War and changed the Hollywood film industry forever.

Beefy Star was the First Celluloid "Lord of the Jungle" Elmo Lincoln, the original "Tarzan" of the movies, was born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt in Rochester, Indiana on February 6, 1889, into a middle-class family of seven.

So dear readers, I am back from vacation. Funny, I returned to find out that just because I don't enjoy the sappy, crappy flick 'Yankee Doodle Dandy ' I am a bigot.

Are the young Harry Potter actors not the best? They are, because they're not ridiculous celebrity assholes, instead choosing acting in Broadway shows, going to Ivy League schools, and throwing down... 'Lady of the Pavements' FILM: Closing this weekend's Silent Film Festival is Lady of the Pavements, D.W. Griffith's last silent film -- a splendid ...

Yeah, you thought the movies were unique to Hollywood--or New Jersey, or Niles, where many of the early silents were shot.

"Yankee Doodle Dandy." American movies began lighting screen fireworks even in silent days.

PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson famously described D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" as "history written in lightning." Others have had less flattering things to say about this racist classic, even if it did virtually invent the modern feature film.

Today is Sunday, June 7, the 158th day of 2009. There are 207 days left in the year.