The Lonely Villa (1909) D. W. Griffith
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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2021
- The Lonely Villa is a thriller film directed by • David Wark Griffith
written by Mack Sennett and based on the play Au telephone by André de Lorde . It movie was produced by Biograph Company and released the 10th of June 1909.
In this film, Griffith makes masterful use of "intercutting". This technique is intended to express the contemporaneity between two or more actions and consists in building a sequence by alternating the scenes that compose it according to the scheme: A1, B1, A2, B2… etc. In this film, Griffith alternates not two but three different scenes: the women barricaded in the house (7:52), the thieves who try to enter (8:29), the father who runs to rescue them (9:52). Griffith passes from one scene to the other, creating a fast-paced rhythm that drags the viewer into a progressive whirlwind of suspense.
The intercutting technique of editing became common amongst American directors only from 1912.
Starring
Anthony O'Sullivan as A Burglar (0:12)
Herbert Prior as A Burglar (0:12)
Owen Moore - A Burglar (0:12)
David Miles as Robert Cullison (0:40)
Marion Leonard as Mrs. Robert Cullison (0:40)
Mary Pickford as the eldest Cullison daughter (0:40)
Gladys Egan as the youngest Cullison daughter (0:40)
Adele DeGarde as the second eldest Cullison daughter (0:40)
Mack Sennett as the Butler (0:44) and a Policeman
Anita Hendrie as the Maid (0:46)
Charles Avery guest at the Inn
John R. Cumpson as At the Inn
Arthur V. Johnson as At the Inn
Violet Mersereau as At the Inn
Directed by David Wark Griffith
Written by Mack Sennet and André de Lorde
Cinematography by Billy Bitzer and Arthr Marvin
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It's a relief these days to watch a film in which the camera isn't jumping around all over the place, just letting the actors tell a story.
Well, I know... today this film seems ridicoulus but it was very innovative the way Griffith used intercutting in this film, that's why I uploaded it
Mary Pickford, Gladys Egan and Adele DeGarde played the children. Mary is the eldest. Egan and DeGarde both had respectable silent era careers.
Thanks God, there are so many strong doors in the house😄
Watching old movies is like looking back in time: the fashions, the furniture, etc.
Though there are no subtitles, I could follow the story, and I watched this movie from the beginning to the end with excitement.
D. W. Griffin was a genius. This is a great short film. I saw it years ago
Amazing. Even then Griffith knew not to show the husband arriving at the house in the nick of time, but to create a surprise of him arriving in the same scene where the robbers break in. This is still how they do in every sequence of this kind today. It's still very exciting even without closeups and coverage and screenwriterly tricks. Completely carried by the anticipation created in the editing and believable performances. Also very instructive about editing: it's so much less about how long the clips are than parsing out information in the correct order - if that's done fundamentally right, then the film will work.
This is really an amazing film for 1909, and the story telling technique simply with pictures alone is way ahead of contemporaries.
Spectacular
Excellent. Thanks for posting. Aside from the drama, I love looking at the clothes, the cars, the woodwork, etc. I looked up the actress who played the mother and see she was one of the first ‘Biograph Girls’.
In the scenes in the room with the telephone, they keep getting the side of the set in the picture
I bet with the film grain they used you could convert this to 4k easily... analogue tek amazes me even today
Thank you for uploading this.
Simply wonderful!!
I'm finding myself making up my own dialogue for it... and turning it into a joke while keeping it true to the story. And making one of the girls have a strange obsession with chairs.
the driver side-eyeing the camera @
Ich bin begeistert, jawohl
That was quite exciting!!!!
D W Griffith était un génie.