David Wark Griffith helped give cinema its syntax. His importance to the medium's basics is beyond measure. Griffith’s gradual discovery of what he could do with cameras and editing can be traced via the short subjects he did for Biograph early in his career. Films like the decidedly anti-capitalist "A Corner in Wheat" (1909), as well as "The Musketeers of Pig Alley "(1912), which investigates crime and gang activity, contain some of the most elemental techniques for producing narrative film, in
