Nineteen twelve is the first "golden year" in the career of D.W. Griffith. Titles such as The Female of the Species, The Massacre, The Sands of Dee, The Painted Lady, and The New York
Hat are generally regarded as classics of early cinema. Frame enlargements of an exterior shot in The Musketeers of Pig Alley and of the Gish sisters in An Unseen Enemy have
acquired the status of icons of silent film as an art form. However, the canonization process has touched upon a relatively small portion of the sixty-four films produced by Griffith during
this period. Their re-appraisal is one of the aims of this sixth installment in the multiyear research project commissioned by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Sacile, involving the
analysis of all the films where D.W. Griffith was credited as director, actor, writer, producer, and supervisor.
