DW Griffith Years of Discovery 19091913 (2002)

In the span of five years pioneering director DW Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per week One and two reels in length these works showed the filmmaker inventing borrowing and perfecting techniques he later used to memorable effect in The Birth of a Nation Intolerance Way Down East and Orphans of the Storm Including Lillian and Dorothy Gish Mary Pickford Mack Sennett Lionel Barrymore Henry Walthall and Mae Marsh Among the 22 titles included on this landmark release are such widely recognized masterworks as The Musketeers of Pig Alley The Battle at Elderbush Gulch The New York Hat and A Corner in Wheat