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by David Lee Guss
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Film homage D.W. Griffith Broken Blossoms 1919 Tucson Arizona 1970-2008 iPhone case by David Lee Guss. Protect your iPhone with an impact-resistant, slim-profile, hard-shell case. The image is printed directly onto the case and wrapped around the edges for a beautiful presentation. Simply snap the case onto your iPhone for instant protection and direct access to all of the phone's features!
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D.W. Griffith (1875-1948) is rightly called the Father of the American Film. His box office triumph The Birth of A Nation ushered in the era of... more
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Protect your with an impact-resistant, slim-profile, hard-shell case. The image is printed directly onto the case and wrapped around the edges for a beautiful presentation. Simply snap the case onto your for instant protection and direct access to all of the phone's features!
D.W. Griffith (1875-1948) is rightly called the "Father of the American Film." His box office triumph "The Birth of A Nation" ushered in the era of colossal film palaces.
From 1908 to 1931 he directed 535 films. But his late Victorian world view became increasingly dated in the "Roaring Twenties."
Lillian Gish (1884-1993) plays a young girl, not that much older than the child in my photo, in Griffith's intimate drama "Broken Blossoms" (1919).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=06m6aqHwUiw&feature=related
She is savagely beaten by her boxer father after hiding in a closet. Earlier he had forced her to put a smile on her face, a gesture she repeats, clutching her doll, at the end of her life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q516Ajza-DM&NR=1
Gish worked for Griffith from 1912 to 1921's "Orphans of The Storm," in which she co-starred with sister Dorothy (1896-1968). After a couple of independent films, both co-staring Ronald Coleman (1898-1958) and direct...
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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