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Purchase a tote bag featuring the photograph "Film Homage Billy Bitzer Miriam Cooper Intolerance 1916 Screen Capture Color Added 2012 #6" by David Lee Guss. Our tote bags are made from soft, durable, poly-poplin fabric and include a 1" black strap for easy carrying on your shoulder. All seams are double-stitched for added durability. Each tote bag is machine-washable in cold water and is printed on both sides using the same image.
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Miriam Cooper (1891-1976) played The Friendless One in D.W. Griffith's monumental Intolerance, 1916. Four stories from different historical periods... more
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Miriam Cooper (1891-1976) played "The Friendless One" in D.W. Griffith's monumental "Intolerance," 1916. Four stories from different historical periods were interwoven.
This vignetted close-up shot by Billy Bitzer is part of the then modern day story.
Griffith made "Intolerance" after being criticized for the offensive racism in "The Birth of a Nation."
The Babylon set was still standing in Hollywood in the early 1930's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF7ho_-1aWo
"Miriam Cooper (November 7, 1891 - April 12, 1976) was a silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D. W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh. She retired from acting in 1923 but was rediscovered by the film community in the 1960s, and toured colleges lecturing about silent films."
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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