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D.W. Griffith's First Movie by Trav S.D.

Today is the anniversary of the release date of D.W. Griffith’s first movie as director The Adventures of Dollie (1908) The film contains all of the qualities in utero that we associate with his best known masterwork, The Birth of a Nation: advances in story telling, sentimentality, and unfortunate racial attitudes.  The Adventures of Dollie concerns a band of Roma […]

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:56AM on July 14, 2014

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