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While directing Biograph shorts between the years 1907 and 1913 (at the
rate of two films per week), D.W. almost singlehandedly developed the language
of film. By the time he was mounting such epic, feature-length productions
as Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation, Griffith
had created the motion picture as we know it, while reaching his peak as
an artist of world renown. His later downfall does not diminish his stature
in history; on the short list of cinema pioneers, Griffith's
name is fixed at the top.
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