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At the height of neorealism, in 1948, Visconti adapted I Malavoglia, a novel by Giovanni Verga, written at the height of the 19th century realist verismo movement ( in many ways the basis for neorealism, which is therefore sometimes referred to as neoverismo ), bringing the story to a modern setting, which resulted in remarkably little change in either the plot or the tone.
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At and 1948
In common, with another important Monty Python predecessor, At Last the 1948 Show, many episodes were wiped as was common practice at the time due to the lack of any apparent market for them prior to the invention of home video.
The episodes are renumbered 1 to 9, although, in fact they are episodes 1-2, 5-6, and 9-13 ( a similar fault was made on the release of At Last the 1948 Show ).
At the Eighth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Party which lasted from 26 February – 8 March 1948, Xoxe was implicated in a plot to isolate Hoxha and consolidate his own power.
At first Gaza Strip was officially administered by the All-Palestine Government, established by the Arab League in September 1948.
Chapman, Cleese, and Tim Brooke-Taylor later joined Feldman in the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show.
" At the end of January 1953, Stalin's personal physician Miron Vovsi ( cousin of Solomon Mikhoels, who was assassinated in 1948 at the orders of Stalin ) was arrested within the frame of the plot.
At the time of Myanmar's independence in 1948, the Tatmadaw was weak, small and disunited.
At last, the official word was released on 1 November 1948: GM resumed management control of Adam Opel AG.
At the end of 1948, he returned to the style and themes of his prewar surrealistic art.
At the first elections in 1948, most of those elected to the Legislative Council were predictably members of the Planters and Taxpayers Association.
At independence in 1948, Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, was a Commonwealth realm, with the monarch represented by the Governor General.
At the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egyptian forces entered the former British Mandate of Palestine from Sinai to support Palestinian and other Arab forces against the newly declared State of Israel.
At the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egypt took control of Hebron.
At the first regional meeting of the newly founded National Student Association in the spring of 1948, Washington and nine other delegates proposed student representation on faculties, and a " Bill of Rights " for students ; both measures were roundly defeated.
At the time of the Games food, petrol and building rationing was still in place in Britain ; because of this the 1948 Olympics came to be known as the " Austerity Games ".
At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, the party platform reflected this division and contained only platitudes in favor of civil rights.
Many see Beyond the Fringe as the forerunner to British television programmes That Was the Week That Was, At Last the 1948 Show and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
He starred in several British television comedy shows, including At Last the 1948 Show and Marty, the latter of which won two BAFTA awards.
The television sketch comedy series At Last the 1948 Show featured Feldman's first screen performances.
Feldman was co-author, along with Cleese, Chapman and Brooke-Taylor of the " Four Yorkshiremen " sketch, which was also written for At Last the 1948 Show.
Following his At Last the 1948 Show, Feldman was given his own series on the BBC called Marty ( 1968 ); it featured Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod, with Cleese as one of the writers.
* At Last the 1948 Show ( 1967 )
* At Last The 1948 Show
He was a member of the cast of the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show with John Cleese ( as well as Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman ), and later appeared in Marty Feldman's television comedy series Marty.
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