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The most fertile period of D.W. Griffith’s early career is generously preserved in this special edition of Biograph Shorts. A satisfied actor in early silent films, Griffith was hesitant when the American Biograph company offered him a director’s job in 1908, but his first film, “The Adventures of Dollie” (reconstructed here from a Library of Congress paper print), gave Griffith the filmmaking fever, and from 1908 to 1913 he averaged two or three shorts per week

Although many of these films appear on another compilation (D.W. Griffith: Years of Discovery–Jeff Shannon