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Already mentioned ITT but David Wark Griffith's work

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Certainly the strongest element of Griffith’s influence is the way in which he respected his own films as a manifestation of a true new art form. Above and beyond any of the mechanics of photography and editing, this is what stands out. He recognised that film required a new method of acting and a new way of storytelling. In an interview published in the New York Times shortly after the premier of The Birth of a Nation, Griffith stated, speaking of the influence of film, “… the human race will think more rapidly, more intelligently, more comprehensively that it ever did. It will see everything – positively everything. … The time will come, and in less than ten years, when the children in the public schools will be taught practically everything by moving pictures. Certainly they will never be obliged to read history again.”