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D. W. Griffith

noun

United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948). Synonyms: David Lewelyn Wark Griffith, Griffith.

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... in influence tracing, but it is unmistakably so to the expert. The recurring sibilants, the sound without sense, the fine architectural imagery, all point to the great Lady Alfred. The latter half of this stanza is due entirely to the strong influence of D. W. Griffith. The poem was, without doubt, written after the poet had been to see 'Broken Blossoms,' and the liberal hand from which that production was flung to a waiting world left its ineffaceable finger-prints ...

— Ptomaine Street • Carolyn Wells

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