Before he was forced abroad for political reasons, director Jules Dassin made two classic noirs that also straddled the major / independent line: Brute Force ( 1947 ) and the influential documentary-style The Naked City were developed by producer Mark Hellinger, who had an " inside / outside " contract with Universal similar to Wanger's.

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

Before the cold war began in the late 1940s, Foot favoured a ' third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ), but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position, eventually embracing NATO.

Before the partition of India in 1947, the Sikhs were not in majority in any of the pre-partition Punjab districts.

Before the Americans left the Brocken in 1947, however, they disabled the rebuilt weather station and the television tower.

Before that, simply as brigadeiro, it existed from 1707 to 1864 and again from 1929 to 1947, not being considered a general rank.

Before Indian independence in 1947, Malappuram was a part of Malabar District in the Madras Presidency of British India.

Before joining the Cowboys, Schramm was part of the Los Angeles Rams from 1947 to 1956.

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Before 1947, the term Esquire was used by most senior government officers, especially the former members of the Indian Civil Service and the rest of the higher services of the Imperial Civil Services.

Before a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman stated, “ I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support the people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures .” That summer, Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed a plan for the economic reconstruction of Europe that would further entrench the division.

* Nordenfalk, C, ' Before the Book of Durrow ', Acta Archaeologica, 18, 1947, 147 ff., fig.

Before 1947, the word qirsh was spelled with the initial Arabic letter غ, after which the word began with ق.

Before Beatty became an actor in 1947, he began singing in gospel and barbershop quartets in St. Matthews, Kentucky, and at his local church.

Before Helen Langhanke died of a heart ailment in January 1947, Astor said she sat in the hospital room with her mother, who was delirious and did not know her, and listened quietly as Helen told her all about terrible, selfish Lucile.

Before 1990, NBC had carried Major League Baseball since 1947.

Before the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, India and Australia had played each other 50 times in Tests in a 49 year period from 1947 to 1996.

Before the Partition of India in 1947, Kargil was part of the Baltistan district of Ladakh, a sparsely populated region with diverse linguistic, ethnic and religious groups, living in isolated valleys separated by some of the world's highest mountains.

Before independence on 14 August 1947, during British colonial regime the Reserve Bank of India was the central bank for both India and Pakistan.

Before his departure in 1947 SY Director Bannerman began codifying procedures for overseas security.

Before 1947, the style His / Her Serene Highness ( Ő Főméltósága, literally: " His / Her High Dignity ") was in use in Hungary.

Before independence in 1947, Bhera was located in Shahpur District.

Before and during World War II, she played small parts in numerous British films, including The Ghost Train ( 1941 ), In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Temptation Harbour ( 1947 ), Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) and a small but scene-stealing role as Mrs. Dilber in Scrooge ( 1951, entitled A Christmas Carol in the US ).

Before joining Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1950, he had also played with the big bands of Count Basie ( 1947 – 1949 ) and Dizzy Gillespie ( 1949 – 1950 ).

Before the 20th century, most manufactured products were made individually by hand.

Before the September 11, 2001 attacks, most hijackings involved the plane landing at a certain destination, followed by the hijackers making negotiable demands.

Before the publication of this work most of the trouvère romances appeared in octosyllabic verse.

Before the introduction of the Phoenix missile, most other US aircraft relied on the smaller, less-expensive AIM-7 Sparrow ; classified as a Medium Range Missile ( MRM ).

Before this, cities and counties of sufficiently large populations such as most of Metro Atlanta already had Sunday alcohol sales at bars and restaurants, with local ordinances to abide by, such as having a certain amount of food sales in order to be opened and serve alcohol.

Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.

Before this action, though, he had for the most part opted to continue the Whig policy of limited expansion, preferring to maintain the then-current borders as opposed to promoting expansion.

Before 1931, i. e. through most of Ruth's most productive years, the umpire called the play based on the ball's final resting place " when last seen ".

Before that, it was about 7 censuses, most part of these previous censuses was undertaken during Soviet ( USSR ) control.

Before many copies of the book could be printed, however, the printing press and most of the printed copies were destroyed by a mob in Missouri.

Before long, bills weren't being paid, authors ' advances and royalties were delayed, budgets were cut back, and most of Donald's time was spent trying to soothe authors and agents who were indignant, and had every right to be, at the way they were treated.

Before the war, Carthage had the most powerful navy in the western Mediterranean.

Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having " a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides ".

Before the war, trade reform and price liberalization were the most successful part of the country's structural adjustment program under IMF sponsorship.

Before gelatin became widely available as a commercial product, the most typical gelatin dessert was " calf's foot jelly ".

Before long, much of the south and west was under the control of the Nationalists, whose regular Army of Africa was the most professional force available to either side.

Before Haiti established its independence from French administration in 1804, Haiti ranked as the world's richest and most productive colony.

Before the development of the general-purpose computer, most calculations were done by humans.

Before consolidation of many of these rural school districts in the last half of the twentieth century, Indiana high schools had fewer students than those of most other states ; basketball was a natural game for these schools since it only required five starters and a few reserves.

Before this date, the most precise measurement of the Imperial Standard Yard was metres.

Before came Orphée, later turned into one of his more successful films ; after came La Machine infernale, arguably his most fully realized work of art.

Before 1500 most swords were usually worn suspended from cords on a belt, edge-down.

Before that, most of these patterns were more connected to geographical regions than to any clan.

Before the actual discovery of mendelevium, the trivalent state was the most stable one in aqueous solution.