This is unrealistic in real life and is not frequently seen in film or on television outside US daytime serials, but it is an accepted soap opera convention sometime referred to as a Two Shot West.

Unlike daytime serials which are shot on video in a studio using the multicamera setup, these evening series were shot on film using a single camera setup, and featured much location-shot footage, often in picturesque locales.

Many of his works have been made into popular films and television serials, including Les Chouans ( 1947 ), Le Père Goriot ( 1968 BBC mini-series ), and La Cousine Bette ( 1974 BBC mini-series, starring Margaret Tyzack and Helen Mirren ; 1998 film, starring Jessica Lange ).

Nimoy's film and television acting career began in 1951, but after receiving the title role in the 1952 film Kid Monk Baroni, a story about a street punk turned professional boxer, he played more than 50 small parts in B movies, TV shows such as Perry Mason, and Dragnet, and serials such as Republic Pictures ' Zombies of the Stratosphere ( 1952 ).

The film originated with Lucas ' desire to create a modern version of the serials of the 1930s and 1940s.

A number of his early major roles were in film serials, such as The Masked Rider ( 1919 ), in Chapter 2 of which he can be glimpsed onscreen for the first time, The Hope Diamond Mystery ( 1920 ) and King of the Wild ( 1930 ).

* Pearl White ( 1889 – 1938 ), American silent film star, famous for doing her own stunts in her serials The Perils of Pauline

The Clutching Hand was the first Mystery villain to appear in film serials.

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Each incarnation of the Misfits has made use of horror film and science fiction film-inspired themes and imagery, with makeup, clothing, artwork, and lyrics drawn from B movies and television serials, many from the 1960s and 1970s.

The silent film pioneer Louis Feuillade directed five Fantômas serials starring René Navarre as Fantômas, Bréon as Juve, Georges Melchior as Fandor, and Renée Carl as Lady Beltham.

* List of film serials by studio lists the film serials made by Columbia Pictures

The action-packed story, unfolding in a manner reminiscent of Saturday matinee movie serials, about the adventures of an archaeologist was written by Carlton Cuse and Jeffrey Boam ; this film was their third collaboration, after Lethal Weapon 2 and 3.

Veteran stunt man Dave Sharpe, a man of shorter than average height, often doubled for women in film serials of the 1930s and ' 40s.

Shortly after they made their first film at Warner Brothers in 1938, Universal borrowed all of the Dead End Kids except for Bobby Jordan and Leo Gorcey and made twelve films and three 12-chapter serials under the team names of " The Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys " and " Little Tough Guys.

In total the various teams that began life as ' The Dead End Kids ' made 89 films and three serials for four different studios during their 21 year long film career.

The term was used to distinguish the main film from the short films ( referred to as shorts ) typically presented before the main film, such as newsreels, serials, animated cartoons and live-action comedies and documentaries.

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In 1992, Superman co-creator Joe Shuster told the Toronto Star that the name derived from 1930's cinematic leading men Clark Gable and Kent Taylor, but the persona from bespectacled silent film comic Harold Lloyd and himself.

** Christopher Reeve in the Superman film series, who was praised for making the disguise's effectiveness credible to audiences, portrayed Clark Kent as massively clumsy, paranoid, and, of course, mild mannered.

Since the shorts were produced during the rise of film noir in cinema, the change was usually represented as a stylized sequence: Clark Kent's silhouette is clearly seen behind a closed door's pebble glass window ( or a shadow thrown across a wall ) as he strips to his Superman costume.

Later in the film, when the need to change is more urgent ( as he believes the city is about to be poisoned by Lex Luthor ), he simply jumps out a window of the Daily Planet offices, changing at super-speed as he falls ( the film merely shows the falling Kent blurring into a falling Superman ) and flies off.

Reeves, who first appeared as the character in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men, was older than subsequent Superman actors.

In 1978, the first of four Superman films was made in which Clark Kent and Superman were portrayed by Christopher Reeve ( with teenage Kent played by Jeff East in the first film ).

This was followed nearly two decades later by a fifth film called Superman Returns with Brandon Routh giving a performance very similar to Reeve's.

The film has a fair amount of quasi-Biblical imagery suggestive of Superman as a sort of Christ-figure sent by Jor-El " to show humans the way.

" ( See also Superman ( film )# Themes ).

The indirect " Christianization " of Superman in the Reeve films ( admitted by film producer Pierre Spengler on the DVD commentaries ) has provoked comment on the Jewish origins of Superman.

More recently, a slightly different take on the re-cutting of films was seen in a 2006 revision of the 1980 film Superman II.

However the new version of the second Superman film ( known as The Richard Donner Cut ) restores as much of the original director's conception as possible, making it a considerably different picture.

More than half of the footage filmed for Superman II by the originally credited director ( Richard Lester ) has been removed from the film and replaced with Donner footage shot during the original principal photography from 1977 – 1978.

In 2006, Spacey played Lex Luthor in the Bryan Singer – directed superhero film, Superman Returns.

In 2009, the story of Luthor's rise and fall as U. S. President was adapted as a direct-to-video animated film entitled Superman / Batman: Public Enemies.

Lyle Talbot was the first actor to portray the character in a live-action film, appearing in the 1950 serial Atom Man vs. Superman.

He is regularly captured by Superman and sent to prison, only to escape — in a manner similar to the comics — at the opening of the next film.

Gene Hackman portrays Lex Luthor in the 1978 Superman film, along with two of its sequels, Superman II ( 1980 ) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ).

* 1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American businessman and film producer, founded Marvel Studios

Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.

* Johnny Belinda ( 1948 film ) by Elmer Blaney Harris.

David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Marleen Gorris, Dutch film director

* 1948 – Jed Johnson, American interior designer and film director ( d. 1996 )

Errol Mark Morris ( born February 5, 1948 ) is an American film director.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

Arden portrayed the character on radio from 1948 to 1957, in a television version of the program from 1952 to 1956, and in a 1956 feature film.

* 1948 – Christopher Guest, American film actor and director

* 1948 – Errol Morris, American film director

Fellini also worked with Rossellini on the anthology film L ' Amore ( 1948 ), co-writing the screenplay and in one segment titled, " The Miracle ", acting opposite Anna Magnani.

In 1948, Hawks made Red River, an epic western reminiscent of Mutiny on the Bounty starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in his first film.

Olivier later used some of these same ideas in his 1948 film version of the play.

Laurence Olivier's 1948 moody black-and-white Hamlet won best picture and best actor Oscars, and is still, as of 2011, the only Shakespeare film to have done so.

from the trailer of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( film ) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 )

( Santana was also the name of the cabin cruiser featured in the 1948 film Key Largo ).

It is also true that none of Cocteau's works has inspired as much imitation: Francis Poulenc's opera La Voix humaine, Gian Carlo Menotti's " opera bouffa " The Telephone and Roberto Rosselini's film version in Italian with Anna Magnani L ' Amore ( 1948 ).

* 1875 – D. W. Griffith, American film director ( d. 1948 )

* 1874 – Fred Niblo, American film actor, director, producer ( d. 1948 )

* 1879 – Charles Bryant, British actor and film director ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director

* 1948 – John Carpenter, American film director