Having failed as a stage actor and writer, D.W. Griffith got his lucky break at the age of 33 as a screen actor in the new medium that was cinema. Although he wasn't a very good actor, and you could say that his early work was dull, the fact that he was unfulfilled as an artiste until his early 30's explains why there was an explosion of his short films within the first year of writing.
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