W. Griffith understood what might go wrong, and taught his actors to minimize their gestures.

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W. Griffith had the good sense to dispense with this technique in 1915.

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W. Griffith was first inventing the language of film, discovering how to tell a story in more visually powerful ways.

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W. Griffith pioneered split-screen and cross-cutting editing techniques to illustrate conversations between two people who may not be in the same room.

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W. Griffith had their own studio.

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