The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

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Amorphous phases are important constituents of thin films, which are solid layers of a few nm to some tens of µm thickness deposited upon an underlying substrate.

Remarkably, the growth of polycrystalline films is often used and preceded by an initial amorphous layer, the thickness of which may amount to only a few nm.

On 23 September 2011, Bille August announced that he has opened his studio in Hangzhou, China and taken a position as Tianpeng Media's Art Director, aiming to produce Chinese films for Tianpeng Media over the next few years.

In 1965, she appeared as herself in the Hollywood production Dear Brigitte ( 1965 ) starring James Stewart, one of the few American films in which she appeared.

Wisdom's films, in which he usually played a family man worker who outsmarts his boss, were some of the few Western films considered acceptable by the country's communist rulers, thus Albanians grew familiar and attached to Wisdom.

The number of films in the genre or at least using a few genre elements has grown steadily since Blade Runner.

A few of his silent films featured scenes in two-color Technicolor.

Most of Vertov's early work was unpublished, and few manuscripts remain after the Second World War, though some material survived in later films and documentaries created by Vertov and his brothers, Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman.

The majority of the films of this period set out to do no more than entertain the audience and had few pretensions to artistry or active engagement with social issues.

However a few German films and film-makers did achieve international recognition at this time, among them Bernhard Wicki's Oscar-nominated Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) ( 1959 ), and the actresses Hildegard Knef and Romy Schneider.

Meanwhile, the New York Film Festival only shows a few films in each year, but it still has big impact in the United States.

The films represent a movement from films consisting of one shot, completely made by one person with a few assistants, towards films several minutes long consisting of several shots, which were made by large companies in something like industrial conditions.

Smith and the other lesser producers were joined by Cecil Hepworth in 1899, and in a few years he was turning out 100 films a year, with his company becoming the largest on the British scene.

There were a few producers, such as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, which did not sell their films, but exploited them solely with their own exhibition units.

In 1898 a few films of similar kind were made, but still none had continuous action moving from one shot into the next.

The programme was made up of just a few films, and the show lasted around 30 minutes.

Such films were extremely rare, and almost entirely restricted to film versions of the life of Christ, which had reached three reels in length in the first few years of cinema.

When the worldwide film boom started, he, and the few other people in the German film business, continued to sell prints of their own films outright, which put them at a disadvantage.

From 1909 a small number of American films, and even one or two European ones, came to include a few dialogue titles, or " spoken titles " as they were called at the time.

This last is one of the few films of this kind to use atmospheric insert shots to heighten the mood.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a few pennies in its lap.

Myra dropped Cathy this morning, and Jim picked Cathy up and left Susan a few hours ago.

::::::( 6 ) my copy of the May 18 edition of the The San Francisco Chronicle as it was when I first picked it up ( as contrasted with my copy as it was a few days later: in my fireplace, burning )

Although some European film-makers picked up the trend towards using dialogue titles, they did not pick up on the move towards cutting them into the scene at the point at which they were actually spoken until a few years later.

Service picked up over the next few days to almost normal levels until, at 6: 00am on 3 March, traffic effectively ceased ( except for very limited satellite links ).

The passport of Satam al-Suqami was reportedly recovered " a few blocks from where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood "; a passerby picked it up and gave it to a NYPD detective shortly before the towers collapsed.

Marion did not seek any alimony, just a few personal belongings that would be picked up in a few days by her fiancé's private plane.

Very few people picked up snowboarding because the price of the board was considered too high at $ 38, but eventually Burton would become the biggest snowboarding company in the business.

For Behan's " testimony to make any sense, the court would have to believe that Holliday marched down Fremont Street carrying a shotgun ; put it aside in order to pull out his pistol ; fired the first shot, presumably at Billy Clanton ; and then picked up the shotgun in order to kill Tom McLaury — all in the space of a few seconds.

Despite the fact that the Lightning finished first in the conference and the Islanders qualified for the playoffs as the 8th and final seed, a few journalists had picked the Islanders to win based on their strong regular season performance against Tampa Bay.

Games scheduled for airing are generally picked two weeks before they occur, with a few matches that are selected by CBS and ESPN prior to the season.

A major change in popular culture came in 1983 when singer Linda Ronstadt, then considered one of the leading female vocalists of the rock era The gamble paid off, as all three albums became hits, the international concert tours were a success and Riddle picked up a few more Grammys in the process.

Atlanta grew because the city of Decatur did not want to become the railroad terminus in the 1830s, thus a spot at the Thrasherville encampment in western DeKalb was picked to become Terminus and then Marthasville, before becoming Atlanta a few years after its founding.

The tune nosed onto the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart at # 114 in late June and was quickly forgotten until a few months later, when it was picked up by radio stations as a tribute to " the late " Paul McCartney.

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Discovery Networks then picked up the pageant a few months after to air in January on TLC, along with an associated show, Countdown to the Crown, which aired on Friday nights leading up to the actual 2009 pageant.

Amazing Rhythm Aces opened for a few shows in California in May, while the Little River Band was picked up in June to open.

Still bent on making his way to Brazil, Abagnale was picked up a few weeks later by two NYPD detectives when he inadvertently walked past their unmarked police car.

The impromptu ceremony was a success and the following week a press release about his event released by Wilson was picked up by a few local newspapers, including a mention in the Los Angeles Daily News with the headline: " Take These Envelopes, Please ".

The band's set lists ( composed by committee a few minutes before going on stage ) could range from well-constructed to seemingly picked at random, and ( aside from " Secrets " as a frequent opener and " All World Cowboy Romance " or a cover as an encore ) there was a general reluctance to repeat any song placement or sequence that had worked in the past.

During the next few years, Premier picked up speed.

After exiting Larkin's employment in 1941, Vinson picked up a few vocal tricks while on tour with bluesman Big Bill Broonzy.