Early drives used very large spools, which necessarily had high inertia and did not start and stop moving easily.

Early VCRs used an incandescent bulb as the light source, which regularly failed and caused the VCR to erroneously think that a cassette is loaded when empty, or would detect the blown bulb and stop functioning completely.

* Early 1944: the USA government, to try to stop men from being drowned in sunken army tanks, asked the company Mine Safety Appliances ( MSA ) for a suitable small escape breathing set.

In the United Kingdom travel agencies have been asked to stop offering tourism packages to the Stampede, and in 2010, 92 members of the UK Parliament signed an Early Day Motion asking their Canadian counterparts to ban rodeo.

Early in 2007, NXP ( formerly Philips Semiconductors ) and Freescale ( formerly Motorola Semiconductors ) decide to stop their participation in Crolles2 Alliance.

Early level crossings had a flagman in a nearby booth who would, on the approach of a train, wave a red flag or lantern to stop all traffic and clear the tracks.

* Early " failure " is a normal part of trying to stop, and more than one attempt at stopping smoking prior to longer-term success is common.

Early in his term, he called for the legalization of drugs as a means to stop trafficking and money laundering, and was largely ignored by both the international press and other American governments.

Early on the last day they made a stop at Etonbury Middle School in Arlesey, off the A1 road to London, where about 100 children welcomed them and to wave them on their way.

Early in the series, she loses her faith and trust in Celcia for she thought she'd betrayed the elven race for helping out Those Who Hunt Elves and sought to stop TWHE by using a powerful spell, but ended up opening a portal and bringing more earth-originated material through.

Early warning and preventive control is the strategy adopted by locust-affected countries in Africa and Asia to try to stop locust plagues from developing and spreading.

Early on in the design process, there had been some consideration of the idea to use a small existing rail station on the other side of the highway for this stop.

A minor engagement in which Early attempted to stop Sheridan's march up the Valley.

Early in 2006, Buehrle was ordered by General Manager Kenny Williams to stop sliding around on the tarp during rain delays.

By Dawn's Early Light ( 1990 ) portrays an accidental limited nuclear exchange between the US and the Soviet Union after a " false-flag " attack on Soviet territory by Russian ultra nationalist terrorists seemingly launched from a US base in Turkey, and attempts to stop hostilities before they spiral into an all-out nuclear war.

Early on the morning of 1 December 1993, and under the influence of alcohol, the driver of a train from London Victoria failed to stop at the terminus and took the train through the buffers, across the station concourse and into the wooden station building, which had survived intact for 92 years.

Early on the morning of 20 May, the very popular Princess Sirindhorn addressed the country on television, calling for a stop to the violence.

Early on in his career, he was typecast as a bubbling, ugly, and crude sidekick, and it wasn't until encouragement from his daughter to stop doing comedic roles that he went on to star in a film with friend Alan Tam and was awarded a Hong Kong best actor award.

Serenity encounters Jubal Early, a ruthless professional bounty hunter who will stop at nothing to retrieve River.

As Early starts to leave, Simon tries to stop him, but in the process is shot in the leg.

Early carburetor-based systems used a programmable throttle stop using a bidirectional DC motor.

Early Derbyshire lead mines were fairly shallow, since methods to remove water were inefficient and miners had to stop when they reached the water table.

Such a bed trick has been a dramatic convention since antiquity and was used more than 40 times by every major playwright in the Early Modern theatre era except for Ben Jonson.

Early in the 1981 – 82 season, Smyl recorded a five-point game, notching a hat trick and two assists, in an 8 – 4 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on October 31, 1981.

* Early films by, about or starring Charlie Chaplin at the Internet Archive

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

Early films by Edison ( whose company invented a motion camera and projector ) and others were short films that were one long, static, locked-down shot.

; Early sound films

Early films by Surrealists include:

Early zombie films like Victor Halperin's White Zombie ( 1932 ) and Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie ( 1943 ) concerned living people enslaved by a Voodoo witch doctor ; many were set in the Caribbean.

Early silent films had a frame rate from 14 to 24 FPS which was enough for the sense of motion, but it was perceived as jerky motion.

Early Westerns were mostly filmed in the studio, just like other early Hollywood films, but when location shooting became more common from the 1930s, producers of Westerns used desolate corners of Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, or Wyoming.

Early films include four written by A.

Ozu's films were most favorably received from the late 1940s, with works such as Late Spring, 1949, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, 1952, Tokyo Story, 1953 — considered to be his masterpiece — Early Spring, 1956, Equinox Flower, 1958, his first film in colour, Floating Weeds, 1959 and Late Autumn, 1960.

Early appearances in TV series and films include Asylum, Six Pairs of Pants, Faith in the Future, Big Train and Hippies.

Early in his career it was dyed pink, as evidenced by color film posters of the time and by allusions to it in films, with character names such as " Pinky.

Early films often used alien life forms as a threat or peril to the human race, where the invaders were frequently fictional representations of actual military or political threats on Earth.

Early science fiction films expressed fears about automation replacing workers and the dehumanization of society through science and technology.

Early in December 1922, William Van Doren Kelley, inventor of the Prizma color system, cashed in on the growing interest in 3D films started by Fairall's demonstration and shot footage with a camera system of his own design.

Early silent films, such as The Perils of Pauline had similar themes.

Early films relating to the circumstances of the independence, partition and the aftermath include Nemai Ghosh's Chinnamul ( 1950 ), Dharmputra ( 1961 ), Ritwik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara ( 1960 ), Komal Gandhar ( 1961 ), Subarnarekha ( 1962 ); later films include Garm Hava ( 1973 ) and Tamas ( 1987 ).

Early releases utilized camera angles seen in horror films, which allowed enemies to lurk in areas that are concealed from the player's view.

Early in his career he was recognised for his unconventional choice in portraying negative roles in films such as Darr ( 1993 ), Baazigar ( 1993 ) and Anjaam ( 1994 ).

Early animation films, like their live-action silent cousins, would come with a musical score to be played by an organist or even an orchestra in larger theatres.

Early examples of the genre in the United States include the " beach films " of the 1950s and ' 60s, such as the Gidget series and the Beach party films.

Early in her adult career, Lana played bit parts in Natalie's films ; but, in the 1960s, her own career took off.