D.W. GRIFFITHS 1916 THE BIRTH OF A NATION Movie Poster ORIGINAL! 1-Of-A-Kind! HISTORIC POSTER! ECONOMY PROOF! Start Price USD 7,500.00 Current Price USD 7,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, November 13, 2008 End Time Saturday, December 13, 2008 Location Studio City, Calif. See more about 'D.W. GRIFFITHS 1916 THE BIRTH OF A NATION Movie Poster' Description Mrs.Miniver NOW HAS AN eBay STORE!! JUST click here * * * * * Up for sale is one of the most important artifacts ever to be discovered relating to the history of cinema - An ORIGINAL (29"x158") 1916 Movie Poster Banner for DW Griffith's THE BIRTH OF A NATION! One of the TOP 5 most important and famous movies of all time! Also THE most infamous and controversial movie ever made. Still the most talked about movie in history. The first epic and beginning of the motion picture industry as we know it today. LANDMARK and IMPORTANT are understatements for this poster. This original is THE SINGLE ONLY surviving example of this poster. It is amazing this survived at all! ALMOST ALL film posters pre-1920 no longer exist and have been lost. There are only about a dozen original posters known to exist on The Birth of a Nation, this being the rarest by far! I have priced the start of this auction at a VERY modest and LOW $6500, about 1/10th of the price other original posters on The Birth of a Nation have auctioned for. Also, this poster does not have the offensive image of the clansman shown on some of the other originals. This poster is in UNTOUCHED - UNRESTORED ORIGINAL CONDITION! (see photo below) D. W. Griffith David Llewelyn Wark Griffith, known by D.W. Griffith, (January 22, 1875–July 23, 1948) was best known as the director of the controversial movie The Birth of a Nation. He began his career as a "playwright" but found little success. He then tried acting. Finding his way into movies, Griffith began to direct a large number of films. From 1908 and 1913 Griffith produced more than 450 films! These films enabled him to experiment with close-ups, cross-cutting, camera movement, and many other film techniques which he is largely credited with "inventing." Griffith's also discovered Hollywood as a place to make films. Griffith, while working with Biograph, was the first to shoot a movie in Hollywood California way back in 1910. Griffith was also convinced that feature films could be financially viable despite widely opposed views within the motion picture industry. He subsequently left Biograph, and his people, including most of the actors, followed him (including Lillian Gish) to start his new production company - David W. Griffith Corp. He soon produced The Birth of a Nation, the first epic ever created! This film was so successful it set Griffith up with almost unequalled power in the motion picture business.  He then co-founded United Artists with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, the few others with similar clout. Griffith's partnership in UA (United Artists) did not last long. He was never able to achieve the same success as he did with the The Birth of a Nation. He had a few other viable films but none of them would have the impact or cultural relevance of The Birth of a Nation. The last two decades of his life Griffith lived alone. He died in 1948 in Hollywood. May 5, 1975 Griffith was honored with his likeness 10-cent postage stamp issued by the United States Government. Some of the greatest film directors of all time including Orson Welles, Charles Chaplin, and John Ford have all acknowledged influence from Griffith's work. He has been called, "The father of film grammar." Some of Griffith's best known films: Judith of Bethulia (1914) The Birth of a Nation (1915) Intolerance (1916) Broken Blossoms (1919) Way Down East (1920) Orphans Of The Storm (1921) America (1924) D.W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln' (1930 sound) Buying this poster is ECONOMY PROOF! Why waste your money in the stock market? It can crash regardless of any decision you make and can even crash regardless of any decision made by the company related to the stock - Leaving you with a near worthless piece of paper that won't inspire anyone! With the purchase of an historic document such as this Birth Of A Nation poster, it doesn't matter what happens to the economy, you will still have the inspirational document which can be displayed and enjoyed. The magnificence of art and historic documents have an inherent value that relates to civilization and society. Unless civilization itself crashes then this piece will hold its value and if civilization itself crashes - Who will care about money? This poster is definitely ECONOMY PROOF! Please write with any questions, and if you are in the market for top quality original vintage movie posters and Star Wars, then please click here Place a Bid!