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.

Only during the 1970s and 1980s did television chefs such as James Beard and Jeff Smith shift the focus towards home-grown cooking styles, particularly those of the different ethnic groups within the nation.

In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of many prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith and P. J. O ' Rourke.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

It was developed by John Smith in the 1970s to help inexperienced folders or those with limited motor skills.

Anthony Smith notes that the instrumentalist account “ came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, in the debate about ( white ) ethnic persistence in what was supposed to have been an effective melting pot ”.

Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack ( January 21, 1938 – July 1, 1995 ) was a gravelly-voiced American disc jockey, famous in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Merton Parkas were a mod revival band, formed in the Merton area of South London in the mid 1970s, by Danny Talbot ( vocals and guitar ), his brother, Mick Talbot ( keyboards ), Neil Hurrell ( bass ) and Simon Smith ( drums ).

Barbara T. Smith with Ritual Meal ( 1969 ) was at the forefront of the feminist body -, and performance art of the 1970s ; among others including: Carolee Schneemann, and Joan Jonas.

From the late 1970s and into the 1980s, Smith composed some of The Cure's songs on a Hammond organ with a built-in tape recorder, including a complete demo of the song " 10: 15 Saturday Night ".

From the 1970s, W H Smith began to expand into other areas of retail.

Later, women emerged who claimed to be strongly influenced by the Beats, including Janine Pommy Vega in the 1960s, Patti Smith in the 1970s, and Hedwig Gorski in the 1980s.

In the 1970s, Burroughs was friends with Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, and Patti Smith.

By the mid 1970s and early 1980s, the original wave of singer-songwriters had largely been absorbed into a more general pop or soft rock format, but some new artists in the singer-songwriter tradition ( including Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Mark Heard, Lucinda Williams, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Cyndi Lauper, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Stevie Nicks, Cheryl Wheeler, Loudon Wainwright III, The Roches and Warren Zevon ) continued to emerge, and in other cases rock and even punk rock artists such as Peter Case, Paul Collins and Paul Westerberg transitioned to careers as solo singer-songwriters.

The technique was first developed by Wolfgang Palm of PPG in the late 1970s and published in 1979, and has since been used as the primary synthesis method in synthesizers built by PPG and Waldorf Music and as an auxiliary synthesis method by Sequential Circuits, Ensoniq, Korg, Access and Dave Smith Instruments among others.

The 1970s television series Citizen Smith had the title character use the slogan in the title sequence.

Throughout the 15-year period leading up to the creation of Zimbabwe, Ian Smith was given support in both the UK and US by various groups, including the Conservative Monday Club who organized pro-Rhodesia demonstrations outside number 10 Downing Street several times during the late 1970s, and provided Smith with a platform at several receptions and major dinners.

Others involved with the group from the early 1970s included Ian Burn, Michael Corris, Preston Heller, Graham Howard, Joseph Kosuth, Andrew Menard, Terry Smith and from Coventry Philip Pilkington and David Rushton.

The group's Chairman was Michael Keith Smith, who had been a member of the Conservative Monday Club since the early 1970s, and served on its Executive Council, 1986-1993.

Hal Smith assumed the voice of Elmer Fudd in later Looney Tunes productions, and beginning in the early 1970s Mel Blanc would do him for various special television appearances.

While living in Montreal in the early 1970s he joined with authors Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf and Ray Smith to form the celebrated Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group.

Many Lower East Side artists worked at the store, including Patti Smith – who claimed not to have liked the experience because it " wasn't very friendly " – and Tom Verlaine, both rock musicians of the 1970s.

There has been significant and consistent commercial and retail development in the Westmorland Road-McAllister Drive-Consumer's Drive-Major's Brook Drive-Retail Drive corridor since the 1970s, including McAllister Place, the city's largest shopping mall, which opened in 1978, and with active year-to-year development since 1994.

He had opened for them in the 1970s as a member of The Vibrators, filled in for Cornwell during his time in prison for drug possession in 1980, worked with Burnel and Greenfield in their side-project Purple Helmets, and been added to the Stranglers ' line-up as a touring guitarist a short time before Cornwell's departure.

In Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America, historian Ellen Schrecker calls the FBI " the single most important component of the anti-communist crusade " and writes: " Had observers known in the 1950s what they have learned since the 1970s, when the Freedom of Information Act opened the Bureau's files, ' McCarthyism ' would probably be called ' Hooverism.

In New Zealand, the fast food market began in the 1970s with KFC ( opened 1971 ), Pizza Hut ( 1974 ), and McDonald's ( 1976 ), and all three remain popular today.

The two most notable U. S. school shootings in the early 1970s were the Jackson State killings in May 1970, where police opened fire on the campus of Jackson State University and the Kent State shootings also in May 1970 where the National Guard opened fire on the campus of Kent State University.

Despite the failure of Mickey Mantle's Country Cookin ' restaurants in the early 1970s, Mickey Mantle's Restaurant & Sports Bar opened in New York at 42 Central Park South ( 59th Street ) in 1988.

The Haven Bridge, which now carries the two trunk roads over the river, was opened in 1966, and the new road built in the early 1970s rather separated Skirbeck from Boston ; but the town largely avoided the development boom of the 1960s.

I-45 and I-345 were built and opened in the 1970s, with the final section, between Lamar Street ( exit 283A ) and the Central Expressway ( exit 283B ), opening on February 25, 1976.

The freeway was completed between the abandoned Tri-Borough Road interchange and the JFK Parkway in the 1970s but was not opened until 1992, when the rest of the freeway to Interstate 287 was completed after years of legal, environmental and budgetary problems.

The Josephine Falls visitor area was developed and opened to the public in the 1970s.

Originally a Girl Scout camp, it opened in June 1964 and probably ceased operations in the late 1970s or early 1980s.

The first portion of the route opened around Millville in 1969 while the section bypassing Vineland was completed in the 1970s.

Starting in the 1970s, a number of “ tech parks ” opened in North Stonington ’ s southeastern corner, adjacent to I-95. The dramatic growth in the town ’ s population had a direct impact on the size of the school system ; whereas in the late 1950s the average graduating class ran in the teens, by 1965 it had more than doubled to 42, and was 51 in 1968.

The central retail district gradually closed down as the area's first shopping malls opened in the early 1970s, pulling business away from downtown.

The Peppermill Mesquite casino, which opened in the 1970s, drove Mesquite ’ s diversified economy.

The Newington Mall opened in the 1970s ( replaced by the Crossings at Fox Run in the 2000s ), followed by the Fox Run Mall.

The building was eventually turned into a restaurant called the " Mystic Island Casino ", which burned down in the 1970s, and opened in a new building on Mathistown Road, which still operates to this day.

" The sanctuary of the Community Nazarene Church was opened in the early 1970s.

As a result of the flood the company decided to end production of the Piper PA-24 Comanche Piper opened a manufacturing division in Lakeland, Florida in 1972 and through the 1970s, the Piper PA-31 Navajo, Chieftain, and Cheyenne III were manufactured at the more than 710, 000 ft < sup > 2 </ sup > facility on the Lakeland municipal airport.

Aurora Farms Premium Outlets were opened in the early 1970s to serve tourists to the Aurora area.

The restaurant, like its city, remains almost the same as it was when it first opened its doors in the 1970s.

Interstate 10 ( I-10 ) opened in the 1970s, leading many tourist businesses to move from U. S. Highway 90 to I-10, one mile north of Highway 90.

In later years a garment factory opened, but closed in the 1970s.

The town experienced an economic boom in the middle 1970s when uranium mines opened north of town and coal mines west of town expanded production.