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A Corner in Wheat

  • 1909
  • G
  • 14 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,6/10
2896
IHRE BEWERTUNG
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
Eine TragödieDramaKriminalitätKurz

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAn unscrupulous and greedy speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.An unscrupulous and greedy speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.An unscrupulous and greedy speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.

  • Regie
    • D.W. Griffith
  • Drehbuch
    • D.W. Griffith
    • Frank Norris
    • Frank E. Woods
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Frank Powell
    • Grace Henderson
    • James Kirkwood
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,6/10
    2896
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • D.W. Griffith
    • Drehbuch
      • D.W. Griffith
      • Frank Norris
      • Frank E. Woods
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Frank Powell
      • Grace Henderson
      • James Kirkwood
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    • 10Kritische Rezensionen
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    Frank Powell
    Frank Powell
    • The Wheat King
    Grace Henderson
    Grace Henderson
    • The Wheat King's Wife
    James Kirkwood
    James Kirkwood
    • The Farmer
    Linda Arvidson
    Linda Arvidson
    • The Farmer's Wife
    W. Chrystie Miller
    W. Chrystie Miller
    • The Farmer's Father
    Gladys Egan
    Gladys Egan
    • The Farmer's Little Daughter
    Henry B. Walthall
    Henry B. Walthall
    • The Wheat King's Assistant
    Kate Bruce
    Kate Bruce
    • Woman in Store
    • (Nicht genannt)
    William J. Butler
    • Ruined Wheat Trader
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    Charles Craig
    • Man on the Floor of the Exchange
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    • …
    Frank Evans
    • Man on the Floor of the Exchange
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    • …
    Edith Haldeman
    Edith Haldeman
    • Woman in Store
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Robert Harron
    Robert Harron
    • Man on the Floor of the Exchange
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Ruth Hart
    • Woman in Store
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Arthur V. Johnson
    Arthur V. Johnson
    • Wheat Trader in Bowler Hat
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    • …
    Henry Lehrman
    Henry Lehrman
    • Man on the Floor of the Exchange
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Jeanie Macpherson
    Jeanie Macpherson
    • Banquet Invitee
    • (Nicht genannt)
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    Owen Moore
    Owen Moore
    • Man on the Floor of the Exchange
    • (Nicht genannt)
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    • Regie
      • D.W. Griffith
    • Drehbuch
      • D.W. Griffith
      • Frank Norris
      • Frank E. Woods
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    First Use of A Freeze Frame

    Directors use the technique of freeze frames in movies to emphasize a crucial point where the picture pauses in midstream, somewhat like a photograph. The first film to use this effective cinematic tool was December 1909's "A Corner of Wheat." D.W. Griffith showed the despair of the poor effected by greed in his--and film's--historic freeze frame.

    "A Corner of Wheat" marked Griffith's year-and-a-half of directing films. His innovations in cinematic techniques began to really pile up from this point. The movie highlights his now familiarity with cross-cutting and parallel editing, unfolding a story with two perspectives--here the ravenous rich contrasting against the despairing poor. The depth of field in the beginning and ending shots of the farmers walking towards the camera planting wheat reflect an understanding of using the entire frame to capture the essence of the atmosphere of the narrative.

    This is the first time Griffith addressed social disparity and holding those responsible for such unfairness. Based on a 1902 Frank Norris book, "The Pit," Griffith was able to effectively slim down the novel into several concise scenes within a one-reel movie.
    7MrCritical1

    Just Desserts

    A Corner in Wheat is a little meditation on capitalism, derived from Frank Norris, weaving together narrative fragments linked by their relation to wheat. The film begins with farmers sowing grain and taking their meager harvest to market. Capitalist speculators engineer the "corner in wheat" of the title, establishing full control over the world's supply. We see, intercut with this coup and the main capitalist's ensuing celebrations, the effects on others: another speculator is ruined, the farmers return home empty-handed, the urban poor go hungry and begin to riot when bread becomes unaffordable. The riot is squelched, but the "Wheat King" meets with his just desserts, inadvertently buried under an avalanche of grain, while the farmers continue to toil.

    7* (10* Rating System)
    Michael_Elliott

    Griffith

    Corner in Wheat, A (1909)

    *** 1/2 (out of 4)

    One of D.W. Griffith's best shorts. This one deals with an evil tycoon who makes the price of wheat go up for his own profit but by doing this is causes the poor to suffer. Here's another film where Griffith takes out his anger of being poor and he hits all the right notes making this a high energy and downright dirty tale. The way Griffith shows the poor is wonderfully done and the ending is great as well. Of historical importance, this was the first film to get reviewed in a NY newspaper, which also makes the historians believe that this was the first film reviewed anywhere in the world. Films were discussed in papers before this one but this was the first to actually get its own review.
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    Some Good Techniques For Its Time

    For the cinematic limitations of its time, there are some good techniques in this short drama. The story, which is about a ruthless man trying to control the wheat market, is interesting though often heavy-handed - but it's the way it is filmed that makes it of interest. The actual story is preceded by a look at farmers growing wheat, and it includes a nicely planned shot of the sowers going back and forth, in a way that cleverly gets around the fixed camera limitations of the time. The main story shows good technique as well, using well-conceived cross-cutting to emphasize the differences between the world of those who rely on the wheat and the world of those who profit from it. It has an effective closing shot, too. It's pretty good drama and an interesting example of how these very old films were made.
    Cineanalyst

    Griffith: Parallels

    (Note: This is the first of three short films by D.W. Griffith that I care to highlight by commenting on them. The others are "The Girl and Her Trust" and "The Battle at Elderbush Gulch".)

    D.W. Griffith usually made only three types of films: melodramas, social commentary and suspense (usually either battle scenes or the last-minute rescue, or both). His features often contain all three genres. His films were often set during the Victorian age or the Civil War era, or some other turning point in American history. His films of modern setting drip of Victorian sentiments. Mostly, his films were theatrical (the stories, interior shots and acting, most consistently). Griffith's films are categorical because he, apparently, rarely used scripts and was the rare filmmaker that interacted with the scenarists, and thus invented the role of director.

    "A Corner in Wheat" is simple: it is social commentary. Based on a Frank Norris story, the anti-monopoly narrative fits with a recurrent theme of Griffith's films--sympathy for the poor. (It's rather hypocritical, however, considering that Griffith worked for a member of the Motion Picture Patents Company.) The story, albeit better than its contemporaries, is not of much interest, or, rather, is not why I highlighted this short film.

    In 1903, Edwin S. Porter crosscut scenes out of temporal order in "The Great Train Robbery". Parallel-action crosscutting as dissection of a scene with spatially separate actions appeared as early as 1907 in Pathé and Vitagraph films. The crosscutting in "A Corner in Wheat" is exceptional because it functions as contrast between the wheat magnate's dinner party and the wheat farmers not being able to afford bread at a market. I'm not sure who helped Griffith with the editing, but it was probably James Smith, as usual. The parallel editing is appropriately slow paced, so again in the comeuppance dénouement. As well, the final shot was a good attempt at poignancy. The rest of the photoplay, especially the camera positioning, is primitive.

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      One of the first films in which D.W. Griffith used the technique of parallel editing (a technique he pioneered). It was used to create the effects in the wheat suffocating scene.
    • Patzer
      When the Wheat King reads the letter regarding his increase in wealth, he is wearing gloves. After he falls into the wheat pit, there is an un-gloved hand reaching for the heavens; however, when they pull him out, he is once again wearing gloves.
    • Verbindungen
      Edited into Proposta in quattro parti (1985)

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 13. Dezember 1909 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprachen
      • Noon
      • Englisch
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    • Drehorte
      • Biograph Studio, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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      • Biograph Company
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