In 1949 and 1950, he produced ( and contributed scripts to ) three live TV series that frequently dealt with the supernatural: Volume One, Escape and Stage 13.

Russell appeared in British films from 1950 onwards, appearing in well-known productions such as They Who Dare ( 1954 ), One Good Turn ( 1955 ), The Man Who Never Was ( 1956 ) and The Great Escape ( 1963 ).

* Escape " Earth Abides " Part One ( November 5, 1950 )

* Escape " Earth Abides " Part Two ( November 12, 1950 )

The camp is best known for two famous prisoner escapes that took place there by tunneling, which were depicted in the films The Great Escape ( 1963 ) and The Wooden Horse ( 1950 ), and the books by former prisoners Paul Brickhill and Eric Williams from which these films were adapted.

Accounts of this escape, long overshadowed by The Great Escape, were recorded in the book Goon in the Block ( later retitled The Wooden Horse ) by Williams, the book Stolen Journey by Philpot, and the 1950 film The Wooden Horse.

* Brickhill, Paul ( 1950 ) The Great Escape ( W. W. Norton & Company ) ISBN 978-0-393-32579-9

After the war, Brickhill wrote the first major account of the escape in The Great Escape ( 1950 ), bringing the incident to a wide public attention.

In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense ( different from Civilian-groups of World War 2 ), a responsibility of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property in disaster, natural or manmade.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

Both these types, and those in between, are in existence by reason of a legislative interest in libraries that began at Albany as early as 1950, with the creation by the legislature of county library systems financed by county governments with matching funds from the state.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

Arne Kaijser ( born 1950 ) is a professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the head of the university's department of History of science and technology.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

Bohr worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in early 1948, and later at Columbia University from January 1949 to August 1950.

Roma finished in the lower half of Serie A for five seasons in a row, before eventually succumbing to their only ever relegation to Serie B at the end of the 1950 – 51 season ; around a decade after their championship victory.

Between 1851 and 1950 over 3, 000 patients died at the hospital.

ASROC started development as the Rocket Assisted Torpedo ( RAT ) program by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake in the early 1950 to develop as surface warship ASW weapon counter to the new post-WWII submarines which ran quieter, at much higher speed and could attack from much longer range with high speed homing torpedoes.

William Jefferson Blythe III, in 1950 at age four

The isotope effect was reported by two groups on the 24th of March 1950, who discovered it independently working with different mercury isotopes, although a few days before publication they learned of each other's results at the ONR conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

The British Railways Mark 1 coach brought into production in 1950 used the BR1 bogie, which was rated to run at.

The Blues transitioned to the straight-wing Grumman F9F-2 Panther on 13 July 1949, wherein the F8F-1 " Beetle Bomb " was relegated to solo aerobatics before the main show, until it crashed on takeoff at a training show in Pensacola in 1950.

While the complexity, size, construction, and general form of CPUs have changed enormously since 1950, it is notable that the basic design and function has not changed much at all.

In 1950, he was appointed Raffles Professor of History at the newly-established University of Malaya in Singapore.

The element was first made at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 by bombarding curium with alpha particles ( helium-4 ions ).

The Shops Act of 1950 consolidated previous legislation which provided that no one could be employed in a shop for more than six hours without having a break for at least 20 minutes.

The Gnome Press edition ( 1950 – 1957 ) was the first hardcover collection of Howard's Conan stories, including all the original Howard material known to exist at the time, some left unpublished in his lifetime.

In 1950, he became the first African-American instructor at the Art Students League, where he remained on faculty until 1971.

In 1950, his Painting was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his artwork was one of few purchased by the museum.

Jazz was an important influence in Alston's work and socila life, representing itself in other works like Jazz ( 1950 ) and Harlem at Night.

In the film serials Superman ( 1948 ) and Atom Man vs. Superman ( 1950 ), Kirk Alyn portrays Clark as a mild-mannered reporter who comes to Metropolis and secures a job at the Daily Planet, following the death of his foster parents.

Hold Back the Dawn was adapted as a radio play on the November 10, 1941 episode of Lux Radio Theater with Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward, again on the February 8, 1943 episode of The Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Susan Hayward, the July 31, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater starring Olivia de Havilland and Jean Pierre Aumont, the May 31, 1948 episode of Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino, the May 14, 1949 episode of Screen Director's Playhouse with Boyer and Vanessa Brown, the May 4, 1950 episode of Screen Guild Theater with de Havilland and Boyer and the June 15, 1952 Screen Guild Theater with Barbara Stanwyck and Jean Pierre Aumont.

Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as " Billie Dawn " led to her being cast in the 1950 film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

When on 16 October 1950 Geoffrey Bles in London published the first edition, three new Chronicles – Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Horse and His Boy – had also been completed.

* The Morning After Dawn ( 1950 )

First to Dawn Rees ( married 1940-divorced 1958 ) where there were two sons, Jim ( 1944 – 1965 ) and Tim ( born 1950 ).

Soviet actor Mikheil Gelovani depicted Joseph Stalin in 12 films made during the leader's lifetime-among them The Great Dawn ( 1938 ), Lenin in 1918 ( 1939 ), The Vow ( 1946 ), The Fall of Berlin ( 1950 ) and The Unforgettable Year 1919 ( 1952 )-which reflected his cult of personality ; those films were either banned or had the scenes featuring Stalin removed after the 1956 Secret Speech.

* Between Midnight and Dawn ( 1950 )

Graduating to top billing, Tucker starred in numerous action films during the 1950s, including Rock Island Trail ( 1950 ), California Passage ( 1950 ), Rage at Dawn ( 1955, where he played Frank Reno ), The Abominable Snowman ( 1957 ), The Quiet Gun ( 1957 ), and The Crawling Eye ( 1958 ).

* Between Midnight and Dawn ( 1950 )

* The City in the Dawn ( 1950 )

* Between Midnight and Dawn ( 1950 )

Under Warren Wright, Sr. and his wife Lucille Parker Wright who inherited the property on his death in 1950, Calumet was the number one money-earning farm in racing for twelve years and among the farm's great horses are Nellie Flag, Whirlaway, Armed, Citation, Two Lea, Mar-Kell, A Gleam, Twilight Tear, Mark-Ye-Well, A Glitter, Bewitch, Ponder, Coaltown, Hill Gail, Real Delight, Bardstown, Tim Tam, Forward Pass, Our Mims, Davona Dale, Alydar, and Before Dawn.

They had five children: Penny ( born 1943 ), David ( 1945 ), Dawn ( 1948 ), Ron ( 1950 ) and Amy ( 1959 ).