All of the characters in Herman Wouk's City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder ( 1948 ) live in the Bronx, and about half of the action is set there.

* Cthulhu Live-a live action role-playing game version of Call of Cthulhu.

La Jetée was the inspiration for Mamoru Oshii's 1987 debut live action feature The Red Spectacles ( and, later for, parts of Oshii's 2001 film Avalon as well ) and also inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ).

At the end of the 1980s, the word " cartoon " was shortened, and the word " toon " came into usage with the live action / animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), followed two years later by the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures ( 1990 ).

She also appeared in the NBC television live action production of The Year Without a Santa Claus in December 2006.

" The 1976 Centenary Platform of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, an organization of Reform rabbis agrees that " Judaism emphasizes action rather than creed as the primary expression of a religious live.

* Chimera ( larp convention ), a live action role-playing convention held annually in Auckland, New Zealand

*** Dennis the Menace ( 1959 TV series ), a CBS network live action television show

*** Dennis the Menace ( 1987 film ), a made-for-television live action film released in 1987 ; aka Dennis the Menace: Dinosaur Hunter

While Captain Marvel did not recapture his old popularity, he later appeared in a Saturday morning live action TV adaptation and gained a prominent place in the mainstream continuity DC calls the DC Universe.

Devo also contributed two songs, " Theme from Doctor Detroit " and " Luv-Luv " to the 1983 Dan Aykroyd film Doctor Detroit, and produced a music video for " Theme from Doctor Detroit " featuring clips from the film with live action segments.

The live action series ran a little over 10 episodes, which was produced by Howard David Deutsch and directed by Savage Steve Holland.

Although the country was culturally, socially, and politically Western, Finns realised they had to live in peace with the USSR and take no action that might be interpreted as a security threat.

Since the live operators are cutting from one live feed to another, the physical action of the shots matches very closely.

Anderson (" Broncho Billy "), directing his own Western dramas for Essanay, but in 1911 Tom Mix brought the kind of costumes and stunt action used in live Wild West shows to Selig film productions, and became the biggest cowboy star for the next two decades.

This is then amplified by closer detailed live action representations of stations on " The Primrose Path ".

He began, however, getting more involved in live action films, producing classics like 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1954 ), and Old Yeller ( 1957 ).

Together they determine which sequences are to be shot as live action elements, which would work well in miniature, and which ( if any ) should be computer generated.

: The Visual Effects Editor incorporates visual effects into the current cuts of live action sequences, producing multiple versions of each shot.

Some fantasy-type films might also include quasi-religious or supernatural characters such as angels, lesser gods, fairies or in the case of live action / animation hybrids cartoon characters.

He experimented with lighting, camera techniques and special effects in order to achieve true integration of dance with film, and was one of the first to use split screens, double images, live action with animation and is credited as the person who made the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences.

At the age of ten, he and his friends played the sort of games that eventually came to be called " live action role-playing games " with one of them acting as a referee.

In an episode of the live action version of The Tick, in response to an explanation from Arther, the Tick responds, " I grok your mouth music mandingo.

In 1959, he directed a live action feature film, Ugler i Mosen, which also contained stop motion sequences.

* In the film " Æon Flux ", Earth's surviving humans live in Bregna, an enclosed and self-sufficient city-state.

The film ends with Bart killing Lamarr by shooting him in the groin at the " premiere " of Blazing Saddles outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, saving the town, and then joining Jim inside the theatre to view the end of the movie, persuading people of all colors and creeds to live in harmony, before they hand in their horses and ride off ( in a limousine ) into the sunset.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

Some of the cars on the agit-trains were equipped with actors for live performances or printing presses ; Vertov's had equipment to shoot, develop, edit, and project film.

" Secret Agent Man " had been recorded first in 1974 for Devo's first film and performed live as early as 1976.

Such entertainment may include watching a film or theatrical production and other live performance such as circus, plays, musicals, farces, monologues and pantomimes provide cinematic and theatric entertainment.

In 2000 Warner Music released Enya: The Video Collection on DVD in Europe, South Africa and Asia, collecting all her videos from " Orinoco Flow " up to and including " Wild Child ", except for the video from " Book of Days ", which was replaced by a live TV performance due to licensing complications relating to the video's use of footage from the film Far and Away.

There are also three theaters used for film and live performances.

This was filmed by Americans for exhibition outside the German-speaking world and was presented in special venues, not as a continuous film, but with the separate scenes interspersed with lantern slides, a lecture, and live choral numbers, to increase the running time of the spectacle to about 90 minutes.

These short ( often one small reel ) films were often simple visual aids and accompaniments to live lectures and speeches, and were carried from city to city, town to town, village to village ( along with the lecturers ) to indoctrinate the entire countryside, even reaching areas where film had not been previously seen.

The British film This is Not a Love Song ( 2003 ) was the first to be streamed live on the Internet at the same time as its cinema premiere.

The original title of the film, Fucking Åmål, refers to the girls ' feelings about their smalltown home: in a key scene one of the girls shouts in desperation " varför måste vi bo i fucking jävla kuk-Åmål " ( which roughly translates to " why do we have to live in fucking bloody cock-Åmål ").

Kelly's reasoning behind this was that he felt the kinetic force of live dance often evaporated when brought to film, and he sought to partially overcome this by involving the camera in movement and giving the dancer a greater number of directions in which to move.

A live film of the production was produced using " Electronovision ", a method of recording a live performance with multiple video cameras and converting the image to film.

The success of the series has led to the adaptation of several books into 14 films: ten animated, and four with live actors.

Bogart and Bacall also worked together on an early color telecast, in 1955, an NBC adaptation of The Petrified Forest for Producers ' Showcase ; only a black and white kinescope of the live telecast has survived.

Otomo is apparently going to be the executive producer of the live action adaptation of his manga series Akira.

Tommy Pallotta, who produced the film adaptation of Dick's A Scanner Darkly, said in a July 2006 interview that he " still the option for Ubik and will be looking to make a live action feature from it.

It is a fairly faithful adaptation of both stories, featuring a unique first-person camera perspective and segments of Švankmajer's trademark stop-motion and cut-out animation ( in an otherwise live action film ).

* The hermaphrodite humans of Gethen may have been produced as an adaptation to a harsh climate, or an experiment to see how people would live without gender.

In April 2010, he was cast in the live action adaptation of the short and fake Grindhouse trailer Hobo With a Shotgun, which was released in 2011.

Television producer Delbert Mann cast Kelly as Bethel Merriday, an adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel of the same name, in her first of nearly sixty live television programs.

In the same year, Newman co-starred with Eva Marie Saint and Frank Sinatra in a live — and color — television broadcast of Our Town, a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's stage play.

Disney has agreed to invest in a live action and 3D adaptation of Mulan starring international star Zhang Ziyi.

* Our Town ( television ), a live musical 1955 TV adaptation on Producers ' Showcase starring Frank Sinatra as the Stage Manager, Paul Newman as George Gibbs, and Eva Marie Saint as Emily.

In Peter Jackson's live action adaptation of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Gimli's character is occasionally used as comic relief and several of his appearances are intended to emphasize the difference between the Dwarves and Elves.

In May 2007, director Robert Rodriguez entered talks with Universal Studios and Warner Bros. to film a live action film adaptation of The Jetsons for a potential 2009 theatrical release, having at the time discussed directing a film adaptation of Land of the Lost with Universal.

The free adaptation combines live theater with animations by Nicola Console and Desideria Rayner's video projections.

The first production was staged as a live adaptation screened on 28 March 1956 by NBC TV and sponsored by Kraft Foods as part of the Kraft Television Theatre strand.

In 2001, CBS aired a live television adaptation of the play that was heavily publicized in the press due to the reunion of former Sound of Music stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in the lead roles.

In August 2003, Stephen Sondheim responded to a question about his next project that he was interested in something like a theme and variations — possibly a musical adaptation of Groundhog Day ; however, in a 2008 live chat said that " to make a musical of Groundhog Day would be to gild the lily.

Mewtwo also appears in the musical Pokémon Live !, a live action adaptation of the anime set after Pokémon: The First Movie, and is portrayed by Marton Fulop.

He conducted the live performances, including Welles's famous adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds broadcast on October 30, 1938, which consisted entirely of pre-existing music.

On the night before Halloween in 1938, Orson Welles directed The Mercury Theatre on the Air live radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic novel, The War of the Worlds.

The role of individual capital within that ecology, and the adaptation of the individual to live well within it, is a major focus of these theories.

Other post war productions included a live performance of Richard II, directed by Royston Morley and starring Alan Wheatley as Richard and Clement McCallin as Bolingbroke ( 1950 ); a made-for-TV production of Henry V, directed by Royston Morley and Leonard Brett, and starring Clement McCallin as Henry and Marius Goring as the Chorus ( 1951 ); a Sunday Night Theatre made-for-TV production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Desmond Davis, and starring Stanley Baker as Petruchio and Margaret Johnston as Katherina ( 1952 ); a television adaptation of John Barton's Elizabethan Theatre Company production of Henry V, starring Colin George as Henry and Toby Robertson as the Chorus ( 1953 ); a live performance of Lionel Harris ' production of The Comedy of Errors starring David Pool as Antipholus of Ephesus and Paul Hansard as Antipholus of Syracuse ( 1954 ); and The Life of Henry the Fifth, the inaugural programme of BBC's new World Theatre series, directed by Peter Dews and starring John Neville as Henry and Bernard Hepton as the Chorus.