Cameron, Evan Wm.2019-05-082019-05-081968http://hdl.handle.net/10315/36203With the release of THE BIRTH OF A NATION in 1915, David Griffith established by common consent and emulation of his peers the prototype of international feature filmmaking – an exemplar of the possibilities of practice within a natural art. A year later he completed INTOLERANCE, the film that was to entice a young Russian, Vsevolod Pudovkin, to explain what was going on and thus complete the paradigm. Within this essay I explain what Griffith did, how he came to do and why the doing of it was so influential.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 CanadaArcher, WilliamBiographyBIRTH OF A NATION, THECABIRIACinematographyClansman, TheConstable, JohnCook, DavidDanto, ArthurDeMille, Cecil B.DemocratesDirectingDixon, ThomasEisenstein, SergeiFassbinder, Rainer WernerFilmmakingGish, DorothyGish, LillianGodard, Jean-LucGoldwyn, SamuelGriffith, David WarkHearing MoviesHistoryIbsen, HenrikINTOLERANCEJacobs, LewisKurosawa, AkiraLawson, John HowardLeonardo da VinciMusicNarrativeNaturalismNichols, DudleyORPHANS OF THE STORMPastrone, GiovanniPeacocke, LesliePopper, KarlPudovkin, VsevolodRealismSarcey, FrancisqueScreenwritingScreenwriting, History ofSeeing MoviesShakespeare, WilliamSinatra, FrankSirk, DouglasSophoclesSoundsWoolf, VirginiaCameron, EvanPresentation