Arthur " Art " Clokey ( October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010 ) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.

Art Clokey also made a few highly experimental and visually inventive short clay animation films for adults, including his first student film Gumbasia ( 1955 ), the visually rich Mandala ( 1977 ) — described by Clokey as a metaphor for evolving human consciousness — and the equally bizarre The Clay Peacock ( 1963 ), an elaboration on the animated NBC logo of the time.

Such sections showed bright yellow-green specific fluorescence in the cells of the pseudophloem tissue ( Lee and Black, 1955 ).

In 1955, Paul Erdős showed that the density of amicable numbers, relative to the positive integers, was 0.

Also in 1955, Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat and Robley Williams showed that purified TMV RNA and its capsid ( coat ) protein can self-assemble into functional virions, suggesting that this assembly mechanism is also used within the host cell, as Delbrück had proposed earlier.

However, Lee showed a keen interest in Wing Chun, and continued to train privately with Yip Man and Wong Shun Leung in 1955.

1955: Pyotr Novikov showed that there exists a finitely presented group G such that the word problem for G is undecidable.

1955 Brothers Ed and Jim Gaylord showed their first prototype at the 1955 Paris motor show, but the car failed to reach production.

In 1955 he and biophysicist Robley Williams showed that a functional virus could be created out of purified RNA and a protein coat.

The General Location of National System of Interstate Highways Including All Additional Routes at Urban Areas Designated in September 1955, or Yellow Book after the cover color, showed generalized plans for the locations of Interstate Highways as designated in 1955.

The General Location of National System of Interstate Highways Including All Additional Routes at Urban Areas Designated in September 1955, or Yellow Book after the cover color, showed generalized plans for the locations of Interstate Highways as designated in 1955.

One particularly outstanding film from 1955, shot by Heinz Sielmann, showed woodpeckers inside a nest hole.

A 1955 study by Miles Tinker showed that “ all-capital text retarded speed of reading from 9. 5 to 19. 0 per cent for the 5 and 10 minute time limits, and 13. 9 per cent for the whole 20 minute period .” Tinker concluded that, “ Obviously, all-capital printing slows reading to a marked degree in comparison with Roman lower case .”

However in 1955 a report into the structure of the viaduct showed major repairs were needed that the company could not afford.

In 1955 the club set the record for the most spectators during a Division 3 game against IK Oddevold, when 18, 229 people showed up for the game.

Despite the obvious similarities, the 10-dinar banknote and its 1000-old-dinar predecessor with the same design are older ( 1955 ) and showed Arif Heralić, a metal worker working on a blast furnace in Zenica.

This heating, said Feynman, showed that the wave did indeed impart energy to the bead and stick system, so it must indeed transport energy, contrary to the view expressed in 1955 by Rosen.

In 1955, Cesbron's book Chiens perdus sans collier, the story of an orphan boy and a benevolent judge, was made into a movie starring Jean Gabin and Robert Dalban.

Brando made the Top Ten Money Making Stars, as ranked by Quigley Publications ' annual survey of movie exhibitors, three times in the decade, coming in at number 10 in 1954, number 6 in 1955, and number 4 in 1958.

In 1955 Lee did the speaking and singing voices for several characters in Disney's Lady and the Tramp movie: she played the human " Darling " ( in the first part of the movie ), the dog " Peg ", and the two Siamese cats " Si " and " Am ".

Later, other movie technologies were adapted for use in animation, such as multiplane cameras with The Old Mill ( 1937 ), stereophonic sound in Fantasia ( 1940 ), widescreen processes with Lady and the Tramp ( 1955 ), and even 3D.

In 1955, he directed John Steinbeck's East of Eden, which introduced James Dean to movie audiences, making him an overnight star.

In June 1955 he was the last remaining star of the studio's heyday, but with his contract up for renewal — Tracy opted to go independent for the first time in his movie career.

She is portrayed by Claire Bloom in Laurence Olivier's 1955 film adaptation of the play, Kristin Scott Thomas in Ian McKellen's 1995 adaptation of the play and by Winona Ryder in the 1996 movie Looking for Richard.

* Cecil Saint-Laurent, La Vie Extraordinaire de Lola Montès ( basis for the 1955 movie Lola Montès )

* The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp ( 1955 ) TV movie

* Santa Fe Passage, a 1955 American western movie

Hersholt's last role was in the 1955 movie Run for Cover.

* James Cagney reprised the role of George M. Cohan in the movie The Seven Little Foys ( 1955 ), but agreed only on the condition that he receive no money – he did the film as a tribute to Eddie Foy.

Recent examples include Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley ( originally published in 1955 ), Ira Levin's Sliver ( 1991 ), with the cover photograph depicting a steamy sex scene between Sharon Stone and William Baldwin straight from the 1993 movie, and, again, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho ( 1991 ).

* The 1955 movie Violent Saturday, with Victor Mature and Lee Marvin, was filmed in and around Bisbee, and shows many scenes of downtown Bisbee.

( Spreckels was used as a location for the 1955 Steinbeck movie East of Eden.

In 1955, the community's business infrastructure consisted of five churches, three general stores, a drug store, bank, locker plant, two hardware stores, two cream stations, two electric stores, three service stations, two implement dealers, three bulk stations, two cafes, one hotel, one movie theater, a recreation hall, two blacksmith shops, a plumbing supply shop, barber shop, four grain elevators, a lumber yard, a poultry egg and feed store, and two taverns.

Alfred Hitchcock shot the scenery for his 1955 movie The Trouble with Harry in Craftsbury.

Upon building Disneyland in 1955, Walt Disney regained a huge amount of popularity among the public, and turned his focus at producing his most ambitious movie ; Sleeping Beauty.

In 1955, Harpo made an appearance on the sitcom I Love Lucy, in which they re-enacted the famous mirror scene from the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup ( 1933 ).

His most notable Broadway performance ( later reprised in a 1958 movie ) was as " Big Daddy " Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 – 56 ).

Also of interest is Shootout at Medicine Bend shot in 1955, but released in 1957, which was Scott's last movie in black and white.

Love Me or Leave Me is a 1955 biographical film which tells the life story of Ruth Etting, a singer who rose from dancer to movie star.

* Charles Christie ( 1880 – 1955 ), movie studio owner

* 1955: Those Whiting Girls TV series ( executive producer ) ( unknown episodes )

* 1955 – Taco, Dutch singer-songwriter and producer

* 1955 – Henry Priestman, English singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and producer ( The Christians, It's Immaterial, and Yachts )

* 1955 – David Kirschner, American illustrator, producer, and author

* 1955 – Steve Berlin, American musician and producer ( Los Lobos, The Flesh Eaters, and The Blasters )

In 1955, theatrical producer Martin Gabel was working on a stage adaptation of the James M. Cain novel Serenade, about an opera singer who comes to the realization he is homosexual, and he invited Laurents to write the book.

Walter Bruce Willis ( born March 19, 1955 ), known professionally as Bruce Willis, is a German-born American actor, producer, and musician.

The producer was unable to come up with a title and accepted the studio's choice, They Come from Another World that was assigned in summer 1955.

Ringo Lam Ling-Tung (, Cantonese: Lam Ling-tung ), born in 1955 is a Hong Kong film director, producer and scriptwriter.

David Mirkin ( born September 18, 1955 ) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer.

* Andy Breckman ( born 1955 ), creator and producer of television series Monk, former Saturday Night Live writer, radio personality.

He also established himself as a favorite of producer Stanley Kramer, taking key supporting roles in the western High Noon ( 1952 ) ( starring Gary Cooper ), Not as a Stranger ( 1955 ), a hospital melodrama featuring Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra, and The Defiant Ones ( 1958, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier ).

Kevin Michael Costner ( born January 18, 1955 ) is an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and businessman.

* Peter Douglas ( born November 23, 1955 ), American television and film producer, son of Kirk Douglas

Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed (), usually known as Dodi Fayed ( 15 April 1955 – 31 August 1997 ) was an Egyptian film producer.

In 1955 television producer Frederick Ziv of ZIV Television Productions offered Crawford the lead role as " Chief Dan Mathews " in the police drama Highway Patrol, which dramatized law enforcement activities of the California Highway Patrol ( CHP ).

However, in August 1955, lead producer Lemuel Ayers died, leaving the production with little morale and even less cash.

) Only Jungle Jim, launched by producer Sam Katzman in 1949, kept going through 1955.

He was producer or executive producer for dozens of television programs and specials between 1955 and 1995.

* Butch Vig ( born 1955 ), American musician and producer, and drummer for the band Garbage

His " American Junior " company was by far the biggest producer of models, and held numerous patents on the two-line system until overturned during a patent infridgement suit, by Walker, against Leroy Cox, based on " prior art " from St. Clair in the 1955 trial.

* Dodi Al-Fayed ( 1955 – 1997 ), film producer, ( original burial site, subsequently moved to the Al-Fayed estate in Surrey )

In 1932 Britain overtook France to become Europe's largest car producer ( a position which it retained until 1955 ).