D. W. Griffith: The Lonely Villa (1909)

The Lonely Villa is a thriller film directed by David Wark Griffith: and written by Mack Sennett. It was produced by Biograph Company and released in 1909. In this film, Griffith makes masterful use of “intercutting“. This technique is intended to express the contemporaneity between two or more actions and consists in building a sequence by alternating the scenes that compose it according to the scheme: A1, B1, A2, B2… etc. In this film, Griffith alternates not two but three different scenes: the women barricaded in the house, the thieves who try to enter, the father who runs to rescue them. Griffith passes from one scene to the other, creating a fast-paced rhythm that drags the viewer into a progressive whirlwind of suspense. The intercutting technique of editing became common amongst American directors only from 1912. #Griffith Audio Tracks: Pendulum Waltz - Legends Of The River - Over Time - Opus One by Audionatix are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Artist: This video is included in the playlist History of Film: This channel is intended to be a Free Video Library for all those interested in the History of Cinema and for all those who want to understand the origins of its wonderful language. Please, support us by subscribing to our channel and sharing videos you like more. Thank you