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D.W.Griffith -pioneer and innovator - A detailed account of the filmТs making is told in the William M. Drew 1986 book titled D.W.Griffith''s Intolerance: Its Genesis and Its Vision.

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

On Griffith''s first trip to California, he and his company discovered a little village to film their movies in. This place was known as Hollywood. With this, Biograph was the first company to shoot a movie in Hollywood: In Old California (1910).

The production partnership was dissolved in 1917, so Griffith went to Artcraft (part of Paramount), then to First National (1919-1920). At the same time he founded United Artists, together with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks.

Griffith made only two sound films, Abraham Lincoln (1930) and The Struggle (1931). Neither was successful, and he never made another film. For the last seventeen years of his life he lived as a virtual hermit in Los Angeles. He died in 1948 on his way to a Hollywood hospital from a hotel where he had been living alone.



Intolerance: The massive lifesize set of the Great Wall of Babylon, seen in the fourth story, was placed at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard when the movie was completed. It became a notable landmark for many years during Hollywood''s golden era.

After filming wrapped, the Los Angeles Fire Department cited the Babylonian set as a fire hazard and ordered it to be torn down. D.W. Griffith discovered that he had run out of money and was therefore unable to finance its demolition. The set stood derelict and crumbling for nearly four years until it was finally taken down in 1919. By then it had fallen apart enough for it to be dismantled at a sufficiently low cost.

The marriage scenes in the life-of-Christ part of the film were staged and shot according to Jewish tradition, under the supervision of Rabbi Myers. He was the father of Carmel Myers, who played a slave girl in the Babylonian scenes.






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Beyond Babylon,Ф was inspired by neighborhood anti-Iraq war protests in
Hollywood, CA on the same spot where D.W. Griffith filmed the destruction of
Babylon for his silent epic УIntolerance.Ф The documentary short weaves
past and present to examine the true cost of war, from 536 B.C to World War
One to the beach memorials of Arlington West where white crosses stand
as a silent testament to the lives lost in the current war in Iraq.

The film utilizes editing techniques D. W. Griffith pioneered as well as 21st
century split video screens to pose questions about the current war in Iraq.
Is it worth it? What are the costs? Can we live with them? Are we ready to
pay the price?

Our friends and neighbors, protesting the war, give us their answers. July
4th, on a sunlit California beach, surrounded by crosses, a father whose
son died in Iraq emotionally relates the cost of this war.

УBeyond BabylonФ was filmed over two years, from the onset of anti-war
protests in October, 2002 to VeteranТs Day, November 2004, Arlington West.
By that time, over a thousand U.S. men and women had died, many
thousands wounded and disabled, with innumerable Iraqis among the
dead.

This film honors those who have died in Iraq and those who are still fighting
and dying today. War shatters families, leaving behind a wound that never
heals. ItТs not just the soldiers and their families who have gone to warЧ
we all have.
http://www.beyondbabylonthemovie.com/synopsis.html

Hollywood says:"Peace for Babylon!!!"
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