Considered by many as the father of film, director, producer, screenwriter, and actor David Wark “D.W.” Griffith was a pioneering, yet controversial, creative force in early Hollywood. Griffith is credited with inventing or popularizing many foundational cinematic narrative techniques, and he was arguably the most important director in the Hollywood film production of the early 1900s. The contributions that D. W. Griffith made to the film industry were determined and analyzed by examining several sources: D'Ooge, Craig. “The Birth of a Nation: Symposium on Classic Film Discusses Inaccuracies and Virtues.” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, June 27, 1994 – Vol. 53, No. 13; Schickel, Richard. D.W. Griffith: An American Life. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984); and Stokes, Melvyn. D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). In is difficult to make an analytical compariso...