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Griffith

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Noun

1. d. w. griffith, david lewelyn wark griffith, griffith

United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Griffith

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noun
1. 
Arthur. 1872–1922, Irish journalist and nationalist: founder of Sinn Féin (1905); president of the Free State assembly (1922)
2. 
D(avid Lewelyn) W(ark). 1875–1948, US film director and producer. He introduced several cinematic techniques, including the flashback and the fade-out, in his masterpiece The Birth of a Nation (1915)

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Griffith

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noun
a masculine name
D(avid) (Lewelyn) W(ark)1875-1948; U.S. film producer & director

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Griffith

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Irish nationalist leader who was a founder of the Sinn Fein movement for Irish independence (1905). He led the Irish delegation that negotiated the 1921 treaty with England that established the Irish Free State.
American filmmaker whose Birth of a Nation (1915) greatly influenced cinematic technique but is controversial because of its sympathetic portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan.

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