Dream Street: how DW Griffith transformed cinema – but stifled his career
DW Griffith at The White House in 1921 Credit: Bettmann This year, a slew of major silent films celebrate their centenaries – reflecting, in 1921, a vigorous torrent of new productions coming through after the economic drain of the Spanish Flu and First World War. Chaplin’s evergreen The Kid was among these, as were the hit war epic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik, which made Rudolph Valentino an international sex symbol. What none of these films boasted, though, was an experiment with sound, six years before The Jazz Singer changed the medium for good. The man to try it...
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