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Article: 'Cabiria' born at dawn of feature films.(ARTS & CULTURE)(FROM THE VAULTS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2006
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Byline: Gary Arnold, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Among the motivations that prompted D.W. Griffith to undertake the large-scale productions that became "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915 and "Intolerance" a year later was professional jealousy. Still confined to one-reel (approximately 10-minute) melodramas, Mr. Griffith had to watch as a cycle of Italian imports with much longer running times, mostly ambitious romances and evocations of antiquity, were rewarded with prestige theatrical bookings in major cities - and international success.
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