After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

Slapstick ( The Three Stooges is an excellent example of this kind of comedy ) was popular in the earliest silent films, since they didn't need sound to be effective, and they were popular with non-English speaking audiences.

For example, aside from the vocabulary, he did acknowledge many Americans of non-White ancestry in The Woggle Bug Book, though in a stereotyped manner for the sake of comedy.

For example, Life of the Party ( 1930 ) was originally produced as an all-color, all-talking musical comedy.

A lesser-known example is Jérôme Savary's La fille du garde-barrière ( 1975 ), an homage to silent-era films that uses intertitles and blends comedy, drama, and explicit sex scenes ( which led to it being refused a cinema certificate by the British Board of Film Classification ).

For example, Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps features the gimmick of a young couple who find themselves handcuffed together and who eventually, almost in spite of themselves, fall in love with one another, and Woody Van Dyke's 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man portrays a witty, urbane couple who trade barbs as they solve mysteries together.

Sometimes it appears as a genuine tool, but often it is parodied – for example, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game included tools such as the ultra-plasmic awl, and the BBC Radio 4 science-fiction comedy Nebulous offered the sonic crowbar.

" The Threepenny Opera is also an early example of the modern musical comedy genre.

George Bernard Shaw, for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review, arguing that comedy should touch as well as amuse, " I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter.

The characters in these early, baroque zarzuelas were a mixture of gods, mythological creatures and rustic or pastoral comedy characters ; Antonio de Literes's popular Acis y Galatea ( 1708 ) is yet another example.

An example would be WBAI's broadcasting the track " Filthy Words " from a George Carlin comedy album, which eventually led to the 1978 Supreme Court case of FCC v. Pacifica Foundation.

For example, in Thomas Otway's comedy The Soldier's Fortune ( 1681 ) a character says: " Be sure they be lewd, drunken, stripping whores ".

For example, Tamsin Greig, who plays Debbie Aldridge, has appeared on television comedy shows such as Green Wing, Love Soup and Black Books.

For example, to market a romantic comedy movie, a director staged a phony " incident " during a supposed wedding, which showed a bride and preacher getting knocked into a pool by a clumsy fall from a best man.

The Times, for example, felt that the juxtaposition of the blood tragedy and the frothy comedy was " ill-conceived ".

In certain contexts it may be used to cover the whole period of the later Stuart monarchs as far as the death of Queen Anne and the accession of the Hanoverian George I in 1714 ; for example Restoration comedy typically encompasses works written as late as 1710.

Not all remakes use the same title as the previously released version ; the 1966 film Walk, Don't Run, for example, is a remake of the World War II comedy The More the Merrier.

This definition has also expanded to include lewd types of comedy that rely on physical jokes, for example, the wedgie.

His love of language influenced many of his comedy routines-for example one otherwise fairly routine joke began with the line " I was vouchsafed this vision by a pockmarked Lascar in the arms of a frump in a Huddersfield bordello ..." He was also a master of painting a beautiful word picture and then letting the audience down with a bump: " The other day I was gazing up at the night sky, a purple vault fretted with a myriad points of light twinkling in wondrous formation, while shooting stars streaked across the heavens, and I thought: I really must repair the roof on this toilet.

* An example of an EBS test parody from a TV comedy show

" He encouraged Marcus to rest, calling on the example of his predecessors ( Pius had enjoyed exercise in the palaestra, fishing, and comedy ), going so far as to write up a fable about the gods ' division of the day between morning and evening — Marcus had apparently been spending most of his evenings on judicial matters instead of at leisure.

The Clouds can be considered not only the world's first extant ' comedy of ideas ' but also a brilliant and successful example of that genre.

" Holloway's film career continued simultaneously with his stage work ; one example was the 1956 comedy Jumping for Joy.

When the play was first produced, it was discussed as an example of the revival of laughing comedy over the sentimental comedy seen as dominant on the English stage since the success of The Conscious Lovers, written by Sir Richard Steele in 1722.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

The sound can be heard, for example, when Spike Jones sings " Der Fuehrer's Face " ( from the 1942 Disney animated film of the same name ), repeatedly lambasting Adolf Hitler with: " We'll Heil!

An example of a compostable polymer is PLA film under 20μm thick: films which are thicker than that do not qualify as compostable, even though they are biodegradable.

The ratio between shot footage and footage forming the final edited film would often be high, for example 53 takes per a finished take in The Kid.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

The 1951 children's film Duck and Cover is a prime example.

An example may be Paul Verhoeven's big budgeted, highly sexualized Showgirls ( 1995 ), initially intended to be a drama film about the rise of a Las Vegas stripper, that flopped both critically and commercially when released theatrically ; afterward, it enjoyed success on the home video market, generating more than $ 100 million from video rentals.

Another example is the place of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) in American and British gay culture, although a widely viewed and historically important film in greater American culture.

The Beastmaster is an example of the strange vectors which can lead to cult filmdom, as its reputation stems as much from ubiquitous cable-TV overplay as anything in the film itself.

An example of an editing error can be seen in the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), where a scene of people climbing a slope at the start is seen from below and then replayed from above.

Another example occurs in the 1998 film Waking Ned, when two of the film's characters, Jackie and Michael, are walking through a storm towards Ned's house.

For example, the Marx Brothers ' classic film Duck Soup, at the climax of the film, the camera shows a shot of Groucho Marx speaking a line, followed by a shot of something else happening, followed by another shot of Groucho.

Perhaps the best example of a film that straddles the line between his works of personal chaos and psychological confusion is Cronenberg's " adaptation " of his literary hero William S. Burroughs ' most controversial book, Naked Lunch.

Films showing many people ( for example, leaving a factory ) were often made for commercial reasons: the people being filmed were eager to see, for payment, the film showing them.

Another example is Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, which, like the original film, polarized the audience, with some fans considering the original version to be the definitive cut.

For example, the sentence " the film was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the film " or as " the film made me laugh ".

The photo-sensitive side of photographic film is also an example of a colloid.

The The Great Train Robbery was ground-breaking and is still shown in film schools today as an example of early editing form.

One famous example of montage was seen in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the start of man's first development from apes to humans.

In " The Master's Dollhouse: Rear Window ," Tania Modleski argues that Hitchock's film, Rear Window, is an example of the power of male gazer and the position of the female as a prisoner of the " master's dollhouse ".

Each of these art forms, and the criticism thereof, is primarily concerned with a sole creative force: the author of a novel ( not, for example, his editor or type-setter ), the composer of a piece of music ( though sometimes the performers are given credence, akin to actors in film today ), or the painter of a fresco ( not his assistants who mix the colours or often do some of the painting themselves ).