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by David Lee Guss
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Our premium yoga mats are 24" wide x 72" tall x 0.25" thick and made from natural rubber with a blended microfiber top surface. The top of the mat has the image printed on it, and the back is solid black with textured dimples for better floor grip.
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Pioneer cinematographer Billy Bitzer (1872-1944) and director D.W. Griffith (1875-1948) filmed Way Down East in 1920.... more
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Pioneer cinematographer Billy Bitzer (1872-1944) and director D.W. Griffith (1875-1948) filmed "Way Down East" in 1920.
(They first collaborated in the one reel, 10 minute "Adventures of Dolly" in 1908.)
"Way Down East" climaxed in a blinding ice storm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnzxputIr-U
"East" was Griffith's last great box office triumph as his Victorian sensibilities became unfashionable in "The Roaring Twenties."
Orson Welles (1915-1985) considered Griffith the greatest of all silent film directors with Jean Renoir (1894-1979) the finest director of talking pictures.
@2013 David Lee Guss Film homage, Billy Bitzer, D.W. Griffith, Pathe camera, Way Down East, 1920-2013
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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