To store matte information, the concept of an alpha channel was introduced by Alvy Ray Smith in the late 1970s, and fully developed in a 1984 paper by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff.

In the late summer of 1984, the Soviet Union also prevented a visit to West Germany by East German leader Erich Honecker.

Fighting in Afghanistan also intensified, but in the late autumn of 1984 the United States and the Soviet Union did agree to resume arms control talks in early 1985.

Spain, Portugal ( 1974 ), and several of the military dictatorships in South America returned to civilian rule in the late 1970s and early 1980s ( Argentina in 1983, Bolivia, Uruguay in 1984, Brazil in 1985, and Chile in the early 1990s ).

Ultimately, the name change campaign lasted for a three year period from 1982 to 1984 ( Datsun badged vehicles had been progressively fitted with small " Nissan " and " Datsun by Nissan " badges from the late 1970s onward ) until the Nissan name was given prominence in 1983-although in some export markets vehicles continued to wear both the Datsun and Nissan badges until 1986.

* 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, a comedy based around a fictional 1970s rock band, was filmed in the style of a documentary and includes such details as fake album covers and historical videos done in the styles of the late 1960s and 1970s.

This was mainly due to the song " I Am What I Am ", which became a hit at dance clubs, and then on the Club Play chart in late 1983 / early 1984.

However, in late autumn of 1984, the U. S. and the Soviet Union did agree to resume arms control talks in early 1985.

Chernenko did not return to the Kremlin until the late autumn of 1984.

In training for that race, the late Stefan Bellof set the all-time lap record for the Nordschleife in his Porsche 956, which is still unbeaten at 6: 11. 13, or over on average ( partially because no major racing has taken place there since 1984 ).

He was released from house arrest in late 1984 and ordered back to his native village of Owando.

Medley also had solo success: In 1984, he scored country hits with " Till Your Memory's Gone " and " I Still Do " ( which crossed over to the adult contemporary charts and later became a " cult " hit with the Carolina Beach / Shag dance club circuit ); and in late 1987, his duet with Jennifer Warnes — "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life ", which appeared on the soundtrack for Dirty Dancing — topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture ( for the three songwriters, which did not include Medley ) as well as a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ( which, of course, did ).

* 1981 – Roland TB-303 The Bass Line is a synthesizer with built-in sequencer manufactured from late 1981 to 1984.

By the late 1980s, the capacity of the South Korean motor industry had increased more than fivefold since 1984 ; it exceeded 1 million units in 1988.

Breakwater Construction in Seosan coast ( 1984 ) The result was that South Korean construction companies concentrated on the rapidly growing domestic market in the late 1980s.

Carter Winston, from " The Survivor ", has a small but important role late in the 1984 tie-in novel The Final Reflection by John M. Ford.

Let It Be < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s release had attracted attention from the major record labels, and by late 1984 several had expressed interest in signing the Replacements.

Filmed in late 1983 and early 1984, the primary plot centres on two families, the Kemps and the Becketts, as an international crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts and escalates.

With competition from digital and polyphonic synthesizers and the introduction of MIDI, production of Rhodes instruments ended in late 1984.

In late January 1984 the gradual decline in his health that characterized his tenure suddenly intensified due to growing intoxication in his blood, as a result of which he had periods of failing consciousness.

While driving his car in late 1984 in this state of frustration, Simon listened to a cassette of the Boyoyo Boys ' instrumental " Gumboots: Accordion Jive Volume II ".

A few of the great famines of the late 20th century were: the Biafran famine in the 1960s, the disaster in Cambodia in the 1970s, the Ethiopian famine of 1984 – 85 and the North Korean famine of the 1990s.

" These pseudonyms include: Jamie Starr and The Starr Company ( for the songs he wrote for The Time and many other artists from 1981 – 1984 ), Joey Coco ( for many unreleased Prince songs in the late 1980s, as well as songs written for Sheena Easton & Kenny Rogers ), Paisley Park ( occasionally used in the early 1990s for his production credits on songs, including those written for Martika and Kid Creole ), Alexander Nevermind ( for writing the 1984 song " Sugar Walls " by Sheena Easton ), and Christopher ( used for his song writing credit of " Manic Monday " for The Bangles ).

His lengthiest interview was featured as the cover story in The Comics Journal # 127 in the late 1980s.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

In a 1995 interview with Kurt Loder, Love divulged that in the late 1980s, guitarist Joe Strummer of The Clash told her that she was " the worst guitar player he'd ever heard ", but she insisted she had improved by the early 1990s: " I'm fine ...

In an interview with the magazine N ' Digo published in late June 2008, he spoke of today's mainstream urban music seemingly relishing the addictive euphoria of materialism and sexism, perhaps being the primary cause of many people harboring resentment towards the genre and its future.

As a result, McGuinn ended up replacing three of Parsons ' lead vocals with his own singing on the finished album, a move that was still rankling Parsons as late as 1973, when he told Cameron Crowe in an interview that McGuinn " erased it and did the vocals himself and fucked it up.

In a September interview with Heidi Watney of the New England Sports Network, Johnny Bench, who was watching a Cleveland Indians / Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, did an impression of late Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray after Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis, a native of Cincinnati, made a tough play.

" By the late 1970s, its ideas were so generally recognized to be seriously defective that one of its own main proponents, A. J. Ayer, could say in an interview: " I suppose the most important ... was that nearly all of it was false.

The commander of the Montoneros, Mario Firmenich, in a radio interview in late 2000 from Spain later stated that " In a country that experienced a civil war, everybody has blood in their hands.

However, during a 2011 interview with former castmate Ed Asner on the O ' Reilly Factor, Asner stated that Moore " has become much more conservative of late.

In his 1997 interview with Arthur Marx in Cigar Aficionado magazine, Falk said " One evening when I arrived late, she looked at me and asked, ' Young man, why are you always late?

In late June 2012, in an interview given by the rebels ' chief to Ashark Al-Awsat, Riad al-Asaad said that in recent time about 20-30 Syrian officers defect to Turkey each day.

On 1 December 1976, Queen were the intended guests on London's early evening Today programme, but they pulled out at the last-minute, which saw their late replacement on the show, EMI labelmate the Sex Pistols, give their seminal interview.

Michael Jackman, writer for Detroit's " Metro Times ," did an interview with Meatmen singer Tesco Vee, who said that the song's origins dated to the late 1970s and early 1980s in Detroit, when hardcore punk bands, unable to get booked in bars and in a city lacking all-ages clubs, would do " punk nights " at gay men's bars, creating what Vee called a " worlds collide " sort of thing.

A journalist asked Tate in a late July interview if she believed in fate, to which she replied, " Certainly.

" In an interview with George T. Simon in 1948, Sinatra lamented the inferior quality of music he was recording in the late forties and in comparison with " those great Glenn Miller things " from eight years earlier.

They had assessed the mechanically interconnected Citroën 2CV suspension at that time ( according to an interview by Moulton with Car Magazine in the late 1990s ),

In a TLC interview done in the late 1990s, Kelley said one of his biggest fears was that the words etched on his gravestone would be " He's dead, Jim ".

In an interview with the late Neil Campbell, Eloy Rodriguez describes the importance of biodiversity:

The 2CV suspension was assessed by Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton in the mid-1950s ( according to an interview by Moulton with CAR magazine in the late 1990s ); this inspired them to design the Hydrolastic suspension system for the Mini and Austin 1100, to try to keep the benefits of the 2CV system but with added roll stiffness in a simplified design.

In an interview with IGN. com, Astin explained that the recording session started late, which resulted in him having to leave early to honor a prior commitment to his friend ( and fellow Goonies castmate ), Joe Pantoliano.

He stated in an interview that he considered his childhood unusual: " In some ways, it was a show-business upbringing — a lot of traveling, a lot of late nights — not what you'd call traditional.

After being introduced, guests for the interview segment were escorted from backstage by a woman in formal dress dubbed by production staff and listed in the credits as " Ms. Smythe " (" Miss Smythe " until the late 1980s ), always followed by her real name.

A collection of the " Dapper John " stories originally created in the late 70s, along with an original cover, a new interview and other features, was published as an iPad app in December 2011 by digital publisher Panel Nine.

In an interview with Arsenio Hall in the late 1980s, Muhammad Ali, stated that his two biggest influences in boxing were Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis.