American filmmaker who developed several cinematic techniques, such as fade-ins, fade-outs, close-ups, moving-camera shots, and flashbacks. The Birth of a Nation (1915) is among his many films. Griffith Joyner Delorez Florence Delorez Florence Griffith Griffith Andy Andrew Samuel Griffith Griffith Arthur Griffith David Wark Griffith Emile Alphonse John Griffith Chaney