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Showing posts with label DW Griffith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DW Griffith. Show all posts
Sunday, April 18, 2021

Filmmaker D.W. Griffith and the Lauderdale Harbors land "purchase"

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  Griffith 1907/ Creative Commons By Jane Feehan This started out as a piece about famous filmmaker David Wark Griffith (1875-1948*) and his...
Friday, November 13, 2020

South Florida filmmakers held high hopes for local studios in the 1920s

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By Jane Feehan The motion picture industry in the U.S. was launched in the early 1900s by D.W. Griffith and a few other filmmakers. Of accla...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Hugh T. Birch and the property he didn't donate to Fort Lauderdale

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Birch State Park from the Intracoastal By Jane Feehan      Hugh Taylor Birch (1848-1943), a Chicago attorney and former counsel for Standard...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

Fort Lauderdale's Hotel Broward, first tourist hotel

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Opened in 1919 Florida State Archives/Florida Memory   By Jane Feehan Fort Lauderdale experienced rapid growth after World War I and needed ...
Sunday, September 6, 2020

Governors Club opens in 1937 setting Fort Lauderdale hospitality standards and legal precedent

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  Governors Club circa 1940 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan The Governors Club, located on Las Olas Boulevard, was built by   Robert H...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Kalem Company films Miami: "Paradise of the eastern south, the California that is right at home"

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Kalem actors circa 1915 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Miami attracted a series of filmmakers in its early days (see label...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Early filmmakers embrace Fort Lauderdale

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  (L to R) Fairbanks, Pickford, Chaplin, Griffith https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fairbanks_-_Pickford_-_Chaplin_-_Griffith.jpg By J...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

D.W. Griffith comes to Fort Lauderdale in 1919; nearly lost at sea

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Billy Bitzer & D.W. Griffith 1919 Florida State Archives/Florida Memory   By Jane Feehan Famed film director David Llewelyn Wa...