Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

A second experimental trans location was tried in 1978 with a different mated pair, and they were allowed to remain on the island for close to nine months.

He concurrently began pursuing a solo career, debuting with the experimental electronic fusion album The Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto ( 1978 ), and later released the pioneering album B-2 Unit ( 1980 ), which included the electro classic " Riot in Lagos ".

In parallel with Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley formed a more experimental and post-punk band, The Tiller Boys, along with Eric Random and Francis Cookson, while Steve Garvey joined The Teardrops in 1978, along with The Fall's Tony Friel and Karl Burns ; both bands were releasing material in late 1970s and broke up at the same time as Buzzcocks.

* Snark, an experimental rescue submersible in the film Gray Lady Down ( 1978 )

Liber Null ( 1978 ) by Peter J. Carroll further developed this new, experimental perspective on magic.

Wu received the first Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978 for her experimental work.

In 1978, the EC, Japan, USA and USSR joined in the International Tokamak Reactor ( INTOR ) Workshop, under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ), to assess the readiness of magnetic fusion to move forward to the experimental power reactor ( EPR ) stage, to identify the additional R & D that must be undertaken and to define the characteristics of such an EPR by means of a conceptual design.

Shermer completed his master's degree from California State University in experimental psychology in 1978.

As early as 1978, the synthpop pioneers Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto of the Yellow Magic Orchestra produced an electronic album Cochin Moon based on an experimental fusion between electronic music and Bollywood-inspired Indian music.

* Earthworks High School – an experimental school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 1971 – 1978.

Although a handful of experimental systems existed as early as the 1960s, the first large-scale online catalogs were developed at Ohio State University in 1975 and the Dallas Public Library in 1978.

* Kalloway, M. J. ( 1978 ), An experimental 4-phase d. p. s. k.

Fowler won the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society in 1963, the Vetlesen Prize in 1973, the Eddington Medal in 1978, the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1979, and the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe ( shared with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ).

From 1973 to 1978, Ockels performed experimental investigations at the Nuclear Physics Accelerator Institute in Groningen.

* Panda Bear ( musician ) ( born 1978 ), an experimental American musician and founding member of Animal Collective

In 1978, experimental physicist Amory Lovins had published many books, consulted widely, and was active in energy affairs in some fifteen countries as synthesist and lobbyist.

* Clauser, 1978: J. F. Clauser and A. Shimony, Bell ’ s theorem: experimental tests and implications, Reports on Progress in Physics 41, 1881 ( 1978 )

Vasily Ivanovich Gnedov (), better known by the pen name Vasilisk Gnedov (; 3 March 1890 — November 20, 1978 ), was one of the most radically experimental poets of Russian Futurism, though not as prolific as his peers.

Hitler: A Film from Germany ( 1978 ), a 4-part, 442-minute experimental film on Hitler, directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, starring Heinz Schubert.

The Little Band scene is the name given to an experimental post-punk scene which flourished in Melbourne from 1978 until early 1981.

There is also a breeders ' exemption ( research exemption in the 1991 Act ) that allows breeders to use protected varieties as sources of initial variation to create new varieties of plants ( 1978 Act ), or for other experimental purposes ( 1991 Act ).

* Leyland Atlantean Nottingham City Transport ARC 666T " Andrew Pickering " built in 1978 ( numerous experimental features made this vehicle unique amongst NCT's Atlanteans ,)

The Orioles have had their games broadcast on WBAL for much of the team's history in Baltimore over three separate stints ( the other two were from 1957 to 1978, and 1988 to 2006 ).

In 1978, America was introduced to competitive cheerleading by the first broadcast of Collegiate Cheerleading Championships on CBS.

* 1978 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.

The successful show was broadcast from 1978 to 1986.

* John Lafayette, in the 1978 ABC television special " A Home Run for Love " ( broadcast as an ABC Afterschool Special ).

Sports anchor Andy Hardy handled the play-by-play, and for one game in 1978, his broadcast partner was his friend, Florida State alumni and movie actor Burt Reynolds.

* The vote count from the 1978 elections was broadcast on the radio, and has been shown numerous times in television documentaries.

Mornington Crescent first appeared in the opening episode of the sixth series of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, broadcast on 22 August 1978.

Famously, he strung along the opposition and was expected to make his declaration of election in a broadcast on 7 September 1978.

Four 13-episode series of Blake's 7 were broadcast between 1978 and 1981.

Four series ( each consisting of thirteen 50-minute episodes ) were made and first broadcast in the United Kingdom between January 1978 and December 1981 on BBC 1.

Titled " Small Tune on a Penny Wassail ", it was broadcast on 26 December 1978.

A set of Christmas specials that was originally broadcast between 1978 and 1982 followed in October 2009.

Their 1978 show at Madison Square Garden was the first concert to be broadcast live via satellite across the Atlantic Ocean.

The television series Hawkmoor created by Lynn Hughes and starring John Ogwen as Twm and Jane Asher as Lady Johane Williams was broadcast by the BBC in 1978, depicting Twm as a Welsh Robin Hood / freedom fighter protecting the Welsh people from the repression of English-born Sheriff John Stedman ( Jack May ) and the cruel ( Catholic ) Vicar Davyd ( Philip Madoc ).

The Pirate Planet is the second serial of the 16th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 30 September to 21 October 1978.

The series was broadcast in other countries: Netherlands ( 26 January 1972 ), Poland ( 13 February 1972 ), USA ( 13 February 1972 ) Belgium ( 7 September 1973 ) Greece ( autumn 1974 ) and Australia on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( premiering in Melbourne at 8pm Sunday 10 October 1971, and again in 1978 ).

A TV movie called Bud and Lou, based on a book by Hollywood correspondent Bob Thomas, was broadcast in 1978.

It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for three series, ending in 1978.

Mork & Mindy is an American science fiction sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC.

Incomplete segments from show 151 ( broadcast on 10 December 1977 ), an episode from 1978 and two episodes from 1979 are also known to have survived.

The show was broadcast in its entirety only once, in the United States and Canada, November 17, 1978, on the U. S. television network CBS from 8: 00 pm to 10: 00 pm, Eastern Standard Time ( EST ), and on the Canadian television network CTV from 7: 00 pm to 9: 00 pm, Eastern Standard Time.

The 20th Grammy Awards were held February 23, 1978, and were broadcast live on American television.

In 1978, NBC broadcast Ringo, a television special featuring Ringo Starr that was loosely based on the plot of The Prince and The Bagett.