5 videodiscs : sound, black and white, color, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in
OCLC
ocn314188794
Credits
Cast for Way down east: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman, Creighton Hale, Burr McIntosh
D.W. Griffith, father of film: narrator, Lindsay Anderson
Cast for The avenging conscience: Henry B. Walthall, Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh
Cast for Edgar Allan Poe [sic]: Herbert Yost, Linda Arvidson
Cast for Abraham Lincoln: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, Kay Hammond
Cast for The struggle: Hal Skelly, Zita Johann, Evelyn Baldwin
Cast for Sally of the sawdust: W.C. Fields, Carol Dempster, Alfred Lunt, Effie Shannon, Erville Alderson, Glen Anders, Charles Hammond, Roy Applegate
Way down east, Abraham Lincoln: photographed by G.W. Bitzer and Hendrick Sartov
The avenging conscience, Edgar Allan Poe: photographed by G.W. Bitzer
The struggle: photographed by Joseph Ruttenberg
Sally of the sawdust: photographed bt Harry Fischbeck ; music composed and performed by Donald Sosin
Title from container.
Way down east based on the play by Lottie Blair Parker.
The avenging conscience based on Tell-tale heart and Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe.
Sally of the sawdust from the play "Poppy" by Dorothy Donnelly.
Way down east is col. tinted; D.W. Griffith : father of film is col. and b&w; others are b&w.
Includes special features.
DVD; Dolby digital.
Abraham Lincoln, The struggle, and D.W. Griffith : father of film have sound; others are silent with musical acc. and intertitles.
[v. 1]. Way down east (1920, 149 min.) / directed by D.W. Griffith ; screenplay by Anthony Paul Kelly -- -- [v. 2]. The avenging conscience, or, "Thou shalt not kill" (1914, 91 min.) / written and directed by D.W. Griffith -- Edgar Allan Poe (1909, 7 min.) ; directed by D.W. Griffith ; screenplay by D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods -- [v. 3]. Abraham Lincoln (1930, 93 min.) / produced and directed by D.W. Griffith ; screenplay by Stephen Vincent Benet and Gerrit Lloyd ; story by John W. Considine, Jr. -- The struggle (1931, 93 min.) / produced and directed by D.W. Griffith ; screenplay by Anita Loos and John Emerson -- [v. 4]. Sally of the sawdust (1925, 113 min.) / produced and directed by D. W. Griffith ; screenplay by Forrest Halsey. -- [v. 5]. D.W. Griffith : father of film (1993, 156 min.) / a Photoplay production ; co-produced by Thames Television plc & Thirteen/WNET for Channel Four ; written, produced and directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill