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A Corner in Wheat (1909) was a Silent Films - Drama Film directed by D.W. Griffith .

A Corner in Wheat was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1994.

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The scene in which the farmer sows his seeds is an animated reproduction of Millet's famous painting 'The Sower'.
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1994.
One of the first films that Griffith used the technique of parallel editing on (a technique he pioneered). It was used to create the effects in the wheat suffocating scene.
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National Film Registry

A Corner in Wheat

Released 1909
Inducted 1994
(Short, Silent)




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