D.W. Griffith True or false-Was he known for his brilliant work in perfecting color in motion picture technolg

Question

the last word was technology.

Answer 1

My study of Griffith has never included his work with color film techniques. I believe that came AFTER his time period. His greatest work was "The Birth of a Nation" and it was in black and white.

Therefore--FALSE

Answer 2

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith, commonly known as D. W. Griffith (January 22, 1875–July 23, 1948) was an American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial film The Birth of a Nation (1915).

Griffith has been called the father of film grammar. Few scholars still hold that his "innovations" really began with him, but Griffith was a key figure in establishing the set of codes that have become the universal backbone of film language. He was particularly influential in popularizing "cross-cutting"—using film editing to alternate between different events occurring at the same time—in order to build suspense. That being said, he still used many elements from the "primitive" style of movie-making that predated classical Hollywood's continuity system, such as frontal staging, exaggerated gestures, minimal camera movement, and an absence of point of view shots. Some claim, too, that he "invented" the close-up shot.
Credit for Griffith's cinematic innovations must be shared with his cameraman of many years, Billy Bitzer. In addition, he himself credited the legendary silent star Lillian Gish, who appeared in several of his films, with creating a new style of acting for the cinema.

Answer 3

Two-strip technicolor was available during the latter part of Griffith's career, but he had no part in developing it, nor do I believe he ever used it. Most of his films were issued in various tints (surviving copies made from negatives are often untinted), but that was common practice with silents.