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D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916) still staggers the mind with the Babylon set, which remained standing in Hollywood well into the 1920's. Audiences... more
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D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916) still staggers the mind with the Babylon set, which remained standing in Hollywood well into the 1920's. Audiences then had a hard time following the four cross cutting stories, from different time periods.
Even today it is a demanding task to watch, especially at the film's climax.
Here is a snippet from the fall of Babylon sequence. Note the use of a vignetting iris and the masking to accentuate a portion of the frame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF7ho_-1aWo
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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