The Wheat King

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Movie
German title The Wheat King
Original title A corner in wheat
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1909
length 14 minutes
Rod
Director David Wark Griffith
script David Wark Griffith and Frank E. Woods
production Biograph Company
camera Billy Bitzer
cut James Smith
occupation

The Wheat King (Original title: A Corner in Wheat ) is an American film by David Wark Griffith from 1909. It is based on Frank Norris ' socially critical novel The Pit .

The Wheat King is an early example of the parallel montage established by Griffith as a narrative medium , with the help of which he depicts on the one hand the wealth of the stock market speculators and on the other hand the plight of the people who can no longer afford their daily bread due to speculation.

The Wheat King was included in the National Film Registry in 1994 as Griffith's first short film .

literature

  • Helmut Färber: A Corner in Wheat: by DW Griffith, 1909 . Färber, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-9800178-2-6 .
  • Tom Gunning: DW Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph . University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1994, ISBN 0-252-06366-X .
  • Tom Gunning: A Corner in Wheat . In: Paolo Cherchi Usai (Ed.): The Griffith Project: Volume 3. Films produced in July - December 1909 . British Film Institute, London 1999, ISBN 0-85170-749-1 , pp. 130-141.

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