Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film in the United States.

He was fired for creating A Sixth Part of the World: Advertising and the Soviet Universe for the State Trade Organization into a propaganda film, selling the Soviet as an advanced society under the NEP, instead of showing how they fit into the world economy.

One of the first technological precursors of film is the pinhole camera, followed by the more advanced camera obscura, which was first described in detail by Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), and later perfected by Giambattista della Porta.

When the narrative of a fantasy film tends to emphasize advanced technology in a fantastic world, it may be considered predominantly a science fiction film.

Though his films are predominantly set in the United States, Jarmusch has advanced the notion that he looks at America " through a foreigner's eyes ", with the intention of creating a form of world cinema that synthesizes European and Japanese film with that of Hollywood.

" Dick's daughter, Isa Dick Hackett, said the film adaptation of Ubik is in advanced negotiation.

In the opening crawl of the film, replicants are said to be the result of " advanced robot evolution.

Geordi ultimately designs the " Jellyfish ", the advanced spacecraft that is piloted by Ambassador Spock in the film.

TiVo also provides a range of features when the TiVo DVR is connected to a home network, including film and television show downloads, advanced search, personal photo viewing, music offerings, and online scheduling.

His relatives and close friends stated that he always talked about filming a remake of the film that was closer to the original novel, but it never advanced beyond discussions to any serious form of production.

By the early 21st century computer-generated imagery, advanced film scanning, digital intermediate methods and film stocks with higher resolutions optimized for special effects work had together rendered VistaVision mostly obsolete even for special effects work.

However, the new film is set in a different continuity: Martin's Clouseau is considerably older than Sellers ', and although the 2006 film was promoted as taking place prior to the events of the first Pink Panther film, the time frame has been advanced to the present day.

As material science advanced, horror film maskmaking followed closely.

It was hugely successful as a commercial film and it advanced Alexander Korda and Charles Laughton's careers.

The term lent itself to several " in " jokes: in Mel Brooks ' film High Anxiety, which parodies many Hitchcock films, a minor plot point is advanced by a mysterious phone call from a " Mr. MacGuffin ".

Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini's fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis, whom he excoriates in the film as " machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts ".

The film currently holds 98 % on Rotten Tomatoes with an average of 8. 6 / 10 based on 43 reviews of which 42 were positive and 1 negative with the consensus: " This tense, paranoid thriller presents Francis Ford Coppola at his finest — and makes some remarkably advanced arguments about technology's role in society that still resonate today.

Carpenters for the film were locals and young men from the United States, fleeing conscription into the Vietnam War ; they were dressed in period costume and used tools of the period so that they could go about their business in the background while the plot advanced in the foreground.

Kryptonian civilization's level of technological advancement has ranged from being only a few centuries ahead of Earth ( such as in Kevin J. Anderson's Last Days of Krypton novel ), to being millennia ahead and referred to by Lex Luthor as " one of the most advanced civilizations in the Universe " ( in the Superman film series ).

Bowie portrayed physicist Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film, The Prestige ( 2006 ), which was about the bitter rivalry between two magicians in the late 19th century.

The film tells the story of Polish-French physicist Marie Curie.

The physicist who advised the makers of the fictional time-travel film Déjà Vu claims that a person could hypothetically travel into the future if they had a spaceship that could travel at almost the speed of light.

Coincidentally, in the film, physicist Dr. Elliott Lowell ( Donald Hotton ) says that the China Syndrome would render " an area the size of Pennsylvania " permanently uninhabitable.

It is a romantic comedy film about a nuclear physicist, his wife, and son that enter a well-equipped spacious fallout shelter during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

* Charles M. Falco, American experimental physicist and an expert on the magnetic and optical properties of thin film materials.

Among the 39 WSU alumni to receive the Regents ' Distinguished Alumnus Award since 1962 are recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Irwin Rose, broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, astronaut John M. Fabian, cartoonist Gary Larson, molecular evolutionist Allan Wilson, banking executive Phyllis J. Campbell, Entrepreneur Clint Hedin, sociologist William Julius Wilson, author and film director Sherman Alexie, veterinary researcher John Gorham, wheat breeder Orville Vogel, physicist Philip Abelson and physician Neva Abelson.

In the same year he starred in the film Arctic Blast, a disaster film, as physicist Jack Tate

Buried there are Carlo Collodi, creator of Pinocchio ; politician Giovanni Spadolini ; painter Pietro Annigoni ; poet and author Luigi Ugolini ; film producer Mario Cecchi Gori ; sculptor Libero Andreotti ; writer Giovanni Papini ; and physicist Bruno Benedetto Rossi.

A Brief History of Time is a 1991 American documentary film about the physicist Stephen Hawking, directed by Errol Morris.

Ralph Leighton ( born November 13, 1949 ) is an American biographer, film producer, and friend of the late physicist Richard Feynman.

An early Schmidt – Cassegrain camera was patented in 1946 by artist / architect / physicist Roger Hayward, with the film holder placed outside the telescope.

Frances Hellman is a physicist at University of California, Berkeley who studies the thermodynamic properties of novel solid materials, especially thin film semiconducting, superconducting, and magnetic materials.

Timothy E. Upham in the film Saving Private Ryan and the physicist Daniel Faraday on the television series Lost.

In 2011, workplace safety complaints were brought against Hustler and other adult film production companies by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, leading to several citations brought by Cal / OSHA.

The failure to use condoms by adult film stars was a violation of Cal / OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Program, Personal Protective Equipment.

Conservative columnist Cal Thomas also tried to dispel the allegations of anti-Semitism, saying " To those in the Jewish community who worry that the film ... might contain anti-Semitic elements, or encourage people to persecute Jews, fear not.

* Kevin Kline's character, Cal Gold, in the film The Anniversary Party recites part of " Dover Beach " as a toast.

* Cal ( film ), a 1984 film

The film ends with Cal and Abra sitting by Adam's bedside.

Bond, Wayne and the entire Southern Cal team were hired to appear in Salute ( 1929 ), a football film starring George O ' Brien and directed by John Ford.

He appeared in Days of Thunder ( 1990 ) as stock car crew member “ Buck Bretherton ” – in 2006 he revisited this film ’ s subject matter as the character of race car driver “ Cal Naughton, Jr .” in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

The film, which featured musical performances by the Cal Tjader Quintet, George Shearing, and the Del Vikings, was produced and directed by William Cowan and released in February 1958.

Cal was adapted for the screen by the author in 1984 starring Helen Mirren and John Lynch ( Mark Knopfler composed the film soundtrack ).

The film stars Jeff Morrow as the alien Exeter, Faith Domergue as Dr. Ruth Adams, and Rex Reason as Dr. Cal Meacham.

turns the TV on during a showing of the film, at the scene when Cal and Ruth are being abducted by the aliens and Cal says " They're pulling us up!

* Cal ( film soundtrack ) by Mark Knopfler ( 1984 )

In 1999 he starred in the film A Holiday Romance as Cal Peterson.

Baldwin Hills has been home to such celebrities as Ray Charles, Tina Turner, " Bubba " Smith, Nancy Wilson, Cal Worthington, Oscar-nominated film director John Singleton, comedian Jimmy Pardo, renowned architect Paul Williams, and the late Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley.

During his second year at WSU, he took a film class and became hopelessly hooked on animation, which motivated him to apply to California Institute of the Arts ( Cal Arts ).

Claudia has guest taught directing for film, television and / or theatre at Harvard, Columbia, NYU and Juilliard, Cal Arts and is currently a Professor at USC in the School of Cinema.

Among them are aging actor Cal Gold, Sally's co-star in the romantic comedy film she presently is shooting, his wife Sophia, and their two young children ; director Mac Forsyth, who is helming Sally and Cal's film, and his anorexic, neurotic wife Clair ; photographer Gina Taylor, whose relationship with Joe prior to his marriage and ongoing close friendship since troubles Sally ; business manager Jerry Adams and his wife Judy ; eccentric violinist Levi Panes ; Jeffrey, Joe's roommate-and lover-at Oxford ; and up-and-coming actress Skye Davidson, whom Joe has cast in the role Sally believes deservedly is hers.

Lynch has appeared in numerous films related to Northern Ireland's problems, such as Cal, In the Name of the Father, The Railway Station Man, Nothing Personal and Some Mother's Son, as well as the Irish-themed film Evelyn, with Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn and Julianna Margulies.

The film was produced by Cal Vista Studios — reportedly made at a cost of $ 237, 000 — and was directed by Dutch erotic photographer and filmmaker Philip Mond, who also did the camera work and designed the costumes and special make-up.