 His first film was "Les amours de la reine Élisabeth" (1912) starring Sarah Bernhardt.He later composed and arranged scores for several other early motion pictures, including such epics as D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) and "Intolerance" (1916), as well as scoring the preview version of "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925), a score that is now lost.His love theme for "Birth of a Nation", titled "The Perfect Song", was published by Chappell & Co. in an arrangement for voice and keyboard.