For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.

" Anthony Boucher found the novel " as impressive in its cumulative depiction of a specialized scientific background as anything since Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Robert A. Heinlein's Future History in the 1940s, Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity in the 1950s, and Frank Herbert's Dune in the 1960s, and many other science fiction classics all first appeared under Campbell's editorship.

According to Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Richard acquired his stage name by combining his short name with his roommates ' names, Hal and Del.

* " Proof ", a 1942 hard SF short story by Hal Clement

However, Hal Hinson of the Washington Post criticized it as “ woefully short on originality .”

Hal Roach Studios / Qintex, the studio responsible for the Our Gang ( Little Rascals ) short films series of the 1930s, was also involved with KI.

( Perry repaid the reference: he guest-starred in an Our Gang short, A Tough Winter, intended as the pilot film for a Fetchit short subject series producer Hal Roach had planned, but which never materialized.

In 1998, she appeared in Hal Hartley's film The Book of Life as Magdalena — a modern-day character based on the Biblical Mary Magdalene — and had a cameo role as a Playboy Bunny in A Bunny Girl's Tale, a short film directed by Sarah Miles, in which she also performs " Nina in Ecstasy ," an outtake from Is This Desire?

" MS Fnd in a Lbry " ( probably intended to be understood as " Manuscript Found in a Library ") is a satirical science fiction short story about the exponential growth of information, written by Hal Draper in 1961.

Some of the films used in the sequence are The Birth of a Nation, The Jazz Singer, Gone with the Wind, Babes in Arms, Holiday Inn, Ub Iwerks ' cartoon Little Black Sambo, Walter Lantz's cartoon Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat, the Screen Songs short Jingle Jangle Jungle, the Merrie Melodies short All This and Rabbit Stew, and, from the Hal Roach comedy School's Out, Our Gang kids Allen " Farina " Hoskins and Matthew " Stymie " Beard.

Hal Roach, producer and director of Pathé Pictures, saw the Lupe tests and hired her a role in the short film Sailors, Beware!

After her debut in the short film Sailors, Beware !, Vélez appeared in another short film with Hal Roach What Women Did for Me in 1927.

Hal Roach died from pneumonia on November 2, 1992, two months short of his 101st birthday, at his home in Bel Air, California.

Charley Chase ( October 20, 1893 – June 20, 1940 ) was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies.

On the Wrong Trek was supposed to be the final Charley Chase short subject ; by 1936 producer Hal Roach was now concentrating on making ambitious feature films.

In 1945 she returned to Hollywood for a short time to work as a film producer for Hal Roach and Eagle Lion.

The Little Rascals refers primarily to the television package of producer Hal Roach's Our Gang theatrical short film comedies, specifically those made between 1929 and 1938.

Other producers, such as Jerome Robbins and Hal Prince, preferred to hire Mostel on short contracts, knowing that he would become less faithful to the script as time went on.

This course of events is alluded to in the novel World of Ptavvs and a still functioning suicide amplifier itself is discovered in the short story " Peter Robinson " by Hal Colebach, at which point it is destroyed.

Voice actor Hal Smith took over the role of Winnie the Pooh for the 1981 short Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons.

Guy only wore the yellow ring for a short time before Hal Jordan, possessed by Parallax, destroyed it.

Douglas, who had served as assistant director on Our Gang for some time, made his directorial debut on a 1935 Hal Roach All Stars short, The Infernal Triangle.

By 1936, producer Hal Roach, who had built his studio around making popular two-reel comedies, had slowly begun phasing out his short subjects production as movie theaters opted for double feature programs instead of the traditional program of selected short subjects and one feature.

The story of Valentinian and Aëtius was recounted in the pages of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant.

The story was written by Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein, the game's designers, who had rejected the original plan to base it on an unused movie script.

After the release of the game, a story for a supposed successor in the adventure genre was conceived by Joe Pinney, Hal Barwood, Bill Stoneham, and Aric Wilmunder.

During the several years between the novel's publication and the film's production, Peter Sellers reportedly engaged in a determined quest to obtain the rights to bring the story to the screen and portray its lead character, sending several postcards and letters signed " Chance " to Jerzy Kosinski and Hal Ashby.

This idea was given a fictional treatment by popular AP writer Hal Boyle on July 9 with his story " Trip on a Flying Saucer.

Written by Harry Blyth ( under the pen-name Hal Meredeth ) it appeared in the story paper The Halfpenny Marvel # 6, on December 20, 1893.

The January 1961 Kentucky Guardsman reported a story noting Harold Rogers recognition in his selection as soldier of the year, stating, " Specialist Fourth Class Harold ( Hal ) Rogers has been named “ Soldier of the Year ” by vote of the 125 member Battery A of the Fifth Observation Battalion at Lexington.

Negativland encouraged the spread of the story by steadfastly refusing further comment, supposedly on the advice of their attorney " Hal Stakke ", another fictional person invented by the band.

* Batman: In Darkest Knight re-imagines the story of Bruce Wayne as the power ring of Abin Sur selects him to be the next Green Lantern of Sector 2814 instead of Hal Jordan, thus making him Green Lantern instead of Batman.

" The story begins, " Hal had known Rob and Irene, Jill, Harvey, Tottle, and Pesky since elementary school, and they were all 40 going on 60.

The Squad itself is cut from the story for brevity ; only Flag and Hal Jordan remain.

With story by Dave Gibbons and art by Ryan Sook, these 12 pages evoke Hal Foster's classic Prince Valiant.

According to Hal Barwood, he and Matthew Robins got the inspiration for Dragonslayer from The Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence in Fantasia, and later came up with a story after researching St. George and the Dragon.

In the first issue of the " New Guardians " story arc, Sinestro reveals that the white power battery wants Hal Jordan.

The strip itself began with Hal Foster's adaptation of the story.

It is read by Jeremy Bulloch who played Hal the archer in the TV story.

Despite the many criticisms of the speech in later years, Hal Bochin ( who wrote a book about Nixon's rhetoric ) suggests that Nixon succeeded at the time because of his use of narrative, spinning a story which resonated with the public:

After taking down a major diamond score, Frank's fence, Joe Gags ( Hal Frank ), is murdered for being on the take-pushed out of a 12th story window.

The screenplay by Hal Kanter and Harry Tugend is based on the screenplay Lady for a Day by Robert Riskin, which was adapted from the Damon Runyon short story " Madame La Gimp ".

Waid wanted the story to incorporate all of the characters featured in the book at the time: Green Lantern ( Hal Jordan ), Catwoman, Deadman, the Phantom Stranger, the Demon, the Blackhawks, and Superman.

Ch ' p also appeared in a flashback story in the current Green Lantern series (# 31 ) training in the same class as Hal Jordan.