A Corner in Wheat

An early short film by D.W. Griffith with a social conscience. When a group of weathy tycoons decide to raise the price on wheat, the poor working class people are left in starve and stand in long bread lines. One of the first times Griffith attempted cross-cutting between two scenes, which creates the most effective sequence, juxtaposing an empoverished bread line with a group of wealthy people lauging it up at a dinner party. Features a kind of you-reap-what-you-sow kind of justice (pun probably intended). There's poetry in the final shot of a downtrodden farmer sowing his seeds in an empty field with his back the camera.