Major films of this type during the 1940s included Bicycle Thieves, Rome, Open City, and La Terra Trema.

In May 2010, Loach told Tom Lamont in an interview about the three films that have influenced him most: Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde ( 1965 ) and Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ).

He recounted its influence in a documentary on Italian neorealism, and commented on how Bicycle Thieves alongside Paisà, Rome, Open City inspired him and how this influenced his view or portrayal of his Sicilian genes.

Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves were awarded honorary Oscars, while ieri, oggi, domani and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Indeed, the great critical success of Sciuscià ( the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Oscar.

His meeting with Cesare Zavattini was a very important event: together they created some of the most celebrated films of the neorealistic age, like Sciuscià ( Shoeshine ) and Bicycle Thieves ( released as The Bicycle Thief in America ), both of which De Sica directed.

Working in Italian cinematography, he began as an assistant to Vittorio de Sica during the movie Bicycle Thieves in 1948.

* Ladri di biciclette ( Bicycle Thieves, American release title, The Bicycle Thief, 1948 ),

Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 )

Vittorio De Sica's 1948 film Bicycle Thieves is also representative of the genre, with non-professional actors, and a story that details the hardships of working-class life after the war.

It also influenced several Indian film directors including Bimal Roy, who made Do Bigha Zameen ( 1955 ), after watching Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ).

* Bicycle Thieves ( Vittorio De Sica, 1948 )

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In addition to the threat of television, there was also increasing competition from foreign films, such as Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), the Swedish film Hon dansade en sommar ( English title: One Summer of Happiness ) ( 1951 ), and Ingmar Bergman's Sommaren med Monika ( Summer with Monika ) ( 1953 ).

* Bicycle Thieves ( 1947 )

Inspired by Italian neo-realistic cinema, Bimal Roy made Do Bigha Zameen after watching, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ).

Satyajit Ray cited Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ) and French filmmaker Jean Renoir's The River ( 1951 ), which he assisted, as influences on his debut film Pather Panchali ( 1955 ).

Bimal Roy's Two Acres of Land ( 1953 ) was also influenced by De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and in turn paved the way for the Indian New Wave, which began around the same time as the French New Wave and the Japanese New Wave.

Bicycle Thieves (), also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Bicycle Thieves is the best known neo-realist film ; a movement begun by Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City ( 1945 ), which attempted to give a new degree of realism to cinema.

The original Italian title literally translates into English as Bicycle Thieves, biciclette and ladri being plural, but the film has usually been released in the United States as The Bicycle Thief.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

According to the data of the China Bicycle Association, a government-chartered industry group, in 2004 China's manufacturers sold 7. 5 million electric bicycles nationwide, which was almost twice 2003 sales ; domestic sales reached 10 million in 2005, and 16 to 18 million in 2006.

For his final show, he made a black and white short film, Boy and Bicycle, starring both his younger brother and his father ( the film was later released on the ' Extras ' section of The Duellists DVD ).

By 1977, the American Bicycle Association ( ABA ) was organized as a national sanctioning body for the growing sport.

Bicycle manufacturer Adolphe Clément-Bayard was the front passenger.

One of her novels, La Bicyclette bleue (" The Blue Bicycle "), published in 1981, was France's biggest bestseller.

* The Monty Python sketch ' Bicycle Repair Man ' was shot on Churchfield Road ; part of the sketch ' Hell's Grannies ' was shot on Acton High Street.

Although unclear why a skate park was rejected two Bicycle parks adorn the Aptos village, and quite possibly a third in the near future.

Around 1897, the popular cross-island Bicycle Path was completed and ran through Selden.

In 1935, a new public school building was built near the same location as the prior school building, near the intersection of Bicycle Path and Middle Country Road.

It was featured in the 1983 film Brainstorm, ridden by Christopher Walken, and in the popular cycling reference Richard's Bicycle Book by Richard Ballantine.

* Tralee Bicycle Club was founded in 1992.

In 1885, Starley's nephew John Kemp Starley took these new developments to launch the Rover Safety Bicycle, so-called because the rider, seated much lower and farther behind the front wheel contact point, was less prone to " a header " ( going over the bars ).

By 1878, recreational cycling was well enough established in Britain to lead to the formation of the Bicycle Touring Club, later renamed Cyclists ' Touring Club.

To bring the new design to a larger market, a cheaper variant of the AM bicycle design, the APB ( All-Purpose Bicycle ), was produced under licence by Pashley Cycles from 1992 to 2005.

Later that same year Trek Bicycle was incorporated.

In 1991, Pashley entered into an agreement to manufacture the new small-wheeled, full suspension Moulton ' All Purpose Bicycle ' or ' APB ' as it was more commonly known.

Caro was the chief strategist for the Bicycle Casino when it opened in 1984 and was named the general manager of the Huntington Park Casino in 1986.

From there, Espinoza became a brand manager for Trek Bicycle Corporation, where he worked until October 2006 until he was let go ..

Bicycle sharing systems have also been cited as a way to solve the " last mile " problem and connect users to public transit networks.