Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

Sylvester Stallone created one of the most successful sports drama franchises with Rocky ( 1976 ) and also directed the sequel Rocky II ( 1979 ).

and subsequently directed and co-starred with his friend Fred Astaire in the sequel That's Entertainment, Part II ( 1976 ).

In the 20th century, Looe island was owned ( and inhabited ) by two sisters, Babs and Evelyn Atkins, who wrote two books: We Bought An Island ( 1976, ISBN 0-245-52940-3 ) and its sequel Tales From Our Cornish Island ( 1986, ISBN 0-245-54265-5 ).

ITV produced a sequel series The New Avengers ( 1976 – 1977 ) with Patrick Macnee returning as John Steed, and two new partners.

By 1976, Queen were back in the studio recording A Day at the Races, which is often regarded as a sequel album to A Night at the Opera.

Robbins followed it up with a sequel, " El Paso City ," in 1976.

He is a major character in Herbert's Dune ( 1965 ) and Children of Dune ( 1976 ), and appears in some of the prequel and sequel novels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

In 1976 he wrote and demoed " Eenzame Kerst ", a song about a prisoner's lonely Christmas, for singer Willy Alberti hoping that he would record it ( as a possible sequel track to his crime-song " De Dievenwagen "); Alberti suggested that Hazes recorded it himself and helped him signing to Philips Records.

Many 1970s TV movies were a source of controversy, such as Linda Blair's Born Innocent ( 1974 ) and Sarah T .-Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic ( 1975 ), as well as Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway ( 1976 ) and its sequel, Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn ( 1977 ), which were vehicles for former Brady Bunch actress Eve Plumb.

In 1976, BBC Television adapted the book and its sequel into the popular TV serial, also entitled I, Claudius.

In 1972 Catmull made his earliest contribution to the film industry, an animated version of his left hand which was eventually picked up by a Hollywood producer and incorporated in the 1976 movie Futureworld, the science fiction sequel to the film Westworld and the first film to use 3D computer graphics.

James Wade wrote a sequel to the story, " The Silence of Erika Zann ", first published in The Disciples of Cthulhu ( 1976 ).

* The 1976 book The Jersey Devil and its 1998 sequel, Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil by James McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. tell the story of the Jersey Devil, and were the basis of the independent film, 13th Child: Legend of the Jersey Devil, Volume I.

In 1987, Sheen was cast to portray Ron in the unreleased Grizzly II: The Predator, the sequel to the 1976 low budget horror movie Grizzly.

It is a sequel to his epic 1976 book, Trinity.

It is for his more infamous productions that De Laurentiis's name has become known — the legendary King Kong ( 1976 ) remake, which was a commercial hit, Lipstick, the killer whale film Orca ( 1977 ); The White Buffalo ( 1977 ); the disaster movie Hurricane ( 1979 ); the remake of Flash Gordon ( 1980 ); Halloween II ( the 1981 sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic horror film ); David Lynch's Dune ( 1984 ); and King Kong Lives ( 1986 ).

A sequel to Westworld, Futureworld, was filmed in 1976, with only Brynner returning from the original cast to reprise his Gunslinger character.

Romany Jones led to a sequel featuring the characters played by Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts, Yus, My Dear ( 1976 ).

Unlike the 1976 remake, the sequel was a commercial failure.

A 2003 sequel miniseries called Frank Herbert's Children of Dune continued the story, adapting the second and third novels in the series ( 1969's Dune Messiah and its 1976 sequel Children of Dune ).

Walt Disney Productions filmed a successful sequel in 1976 called The Shaggy D. A.

* The film was followed in 1976 with a theatrical sequel, The Shaggy D. A., starring Dean Jones as a 45-year-old Wilby Daniels.

He later voiced Frosty in two more Rankin-Bass specials ; Frosty's Winter Wonderland ( 1976 ) and Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July ( 1979 ).

On the 2007 deluxe edition release, it is revealed that parts of this tape were used for the 1976 Griffith Park Planetarium launch of the original album, the 1987 remix, and various radio spots, all of which were included as bonus material.

The original Apple Computer, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company ( now Apple Inc .) in 1976.

One of them is instructing one of his players ( Rudi Stein in the 1976 original and Daragabrigadien in the remake ) to get hit on purpose in order to load the bases, knowing he has a very good batter coming up next ( Engelberg and Leak, respectively ).

The NOVA / Horizon episode The Case of the Bermuda Triangle, aired on June 27, 1976, was highly critical, stating that " When we've gone back to the original sources or the people involved, the mystery evaporates.

It was shelved until the following year, where it appeared with two songs removed from the original tracklist ( a live version of " Don't Cry No Tears " recorded in Japan in 1976, and a live version of " Pushed it Over The End " recorded in 1974 ).

This " Disneyfied " image of the gnome was built upon by the illustrated children's book classic The Secret Book of Gnomes ( 1976 ), in the original Dutch Leven en werken van de Kabouter.

In 1976, Bonewits moved back to Berkeley and rejoined his original grove there, now part of the New Reformed Druids of North America ( NRDNA ).

After two original photos, one negative and one first-generation copy had been found, the Senate Intelligence Committee located ( in 1976 ) a third backyard photo ( CE 133-C ) showing Oswald with newspapers held away from his body in his right hand ).

In 1974, the original VAZ-2101 was updated with new engines and interiors ; VAZ-2102 underwent the same improvements in 1976.

Scattered fragments of both the original Aramaic " Book of Giants " ( which were analysed and published by Józef Milik in 1976 ) and of the Manichaean version of the same name ( analyzed and published by W. B.

During 1976 – 77, in the midst of the original UK punk movement, bands emerged such as Manchester's Joy Division, The Fall, and Magazine, Leeds ' Gang of Four, and London's The Raincoats that became central post-punk figures.

The original Broadway production of Pacific Overtures in 1976 was presented in Kabuki style, with men playing women's parts and set changes made in full view of the audience by people dressed in black.

The New York Times review of the original 1976 production said " The lyrics are totally Western and — as is the custom with Mr. Sondheim — devilish, wittily and delightfully clever.

Walter Kerr's article in the New York Times on the original 1976 production said " But no amount of performing, or of incidental charm, can salvage " Pacific Overtures.

Although rowing's roots as a sport in the modern Olympics can be traced back to the original 1896 games in Athens, it was not until the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal that women were allowed to participate — well after their fellow athletes in similar sports such as swimming, athletics, cycling, and canoeing.

During this game, CBS would introduce a new theme that would be used the following season for the NFL Today pregame show between 1976 and 1981 in its original form, with a remake for 1982 followed by updates for 1983 and 1989 before its retirement.

In 1976 Sondheim appeared, together with theatre critic Frank Rich, John Weidman ( book for Pacific Overtures ) and members of the original cast of Pacific Overtures in a television program titled " Anatomy of a Song.

The soundtrack for the film, re-released in 1998 on CD, includes an expanded version of the score as well as the re-recorded tracks from the original 1976 LP.

The original band existed from 1970 to 1974 but their recordings were not released until 1976 or later.

The original configuration of The Band ended its touring career in 1976 with an elaborate live ballroom performance featuring numerous musical celebrities.

The last original Trakehner was Keith, born there in 1941, who died in November 1976 in Gilten shortly before his 35th birthday.

Scholars that continue to research the background of the Zohar include Yehudah Liebes ( who wrote his doctor's degree for Scholem on the subject of a Dictionary of the Vocabulary of the Zohar in 1976 ), and Daniel C. Matt, also a student of Scholem, who is currently reconstructing a critical edition of the Zohar based on original unpublished manuscripts.

* Hawk T. 1, the original version of the Hawk jet warplane first flown by the RAF in 1976

By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961, but in 1976, it was re-assigned to Matanzas Province, when the original six provinces of Cuba were re-organized into 14 new Provinces of Cuba.

One of the show's original judges, Fred Tupper, died on 15 March 1976.