The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent ( i. e., a Private Eye — hence the twist in the title ) Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins.

Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012 ) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.

At Esprit, Marker wrote political commentaries, poems, short stories and ( with Bazin ) film reviews.

In 1952 Marker made his first film, Olympia 52, a 16mm feature documentary about the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.

After working as assistant director on Resnais's Night and Fog in 1955, Marker made Sunday in Peking, a short documentary " film essay " that would characterize Marker's unique film style for most of his career.

The film was shot in two weeks by Marker while he was traveling through China with Armand Gatti in September 1955.

After working on the commentary for Resnais ' film Le mystère de l ' atelier quinze in 1957, Marker continued to form his own cinematic style with the feature documentary Letter from Siberia.

An essay on the gradual destruction of Siberia's culture and individuality, the film combines footage that Marker shot in Siberia, old newsreel footage, cartoons, stills and, at one point, an illustration of Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine, all accompanied by Marker's signature commentary, which takes the form of a letter from the director to his audience.

In 1959 Marker made the animated film Les Astronautes with Walerian Borowczyk.

In January 1961, Marker traveled to Cuba and shot the film ¡ Cuba Sí !.

Marker became known internationally for the short film La jetée ( The Pier ) in 1962.

Like he had with montages of landscapes and indigenous art, Marker created a film essay that contrasts and juxtaposes a variety of lives with his signature commentary ( spoken by Marker's friends, singer-actor Yves Montand in the French version and Simone Signoret in the English version ).

It was the last film in which Marker includes " travel footage " for many years.

In 1967 Marker published his second volume of collected film essays, Commentaires II.

That same year, Marker organized the omnibus film Loin du Vietnam, a protest against the Vietnam War with segments contributed by Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, William Klein, Michele Ray and Joris Ivens.

After the events of May 1968, Marker felt a moral obligation to abandon his own personal film career and devote himself to SLON and its activities.

Marker had been working on a film about Chile with ISKRA since 1973.

Marker used very little commentary in this film, but the film's montage structure and preoccupation with memory make it a Marker film.

Most are marked with a green " Michigan Historical Marker " sign that includes a description of the landmark.

Marker is often associated with the Left Bank Cinema movement that occurred in the late 1950s and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi and Armand Gatti.

During his early journalism career, Marker became increasingly interested in filmmaking and experimented with photography in the early 1950s.

In 1953 Marker collaborated with Resnais on the documentary Statues Also Die.

In one sequence, Marker repeats the same collection of shots three times with different commentary: the first one praising the Soviet Union, the second denouncing it, and the third taking an objective stance.

From this initial collection of filmmakers with left-wing political agendas, Marker created the group S. L. O. N.

Marker had collaborated with Belgian sociologist Armand Mattelart and ISKRA members Valérie Mayoux and Jacqueline Meppiel to shoot and collect the visual materials, which Marker then edited together and provided the commentary for.

Runyon was pleased with the changes and later said, " Lady for a Day was no more my picture than Little Miss Marker, which, like the former picture, was almost entirely the result of the genius of the scenario writers and the director who worked on it.

Much of the demo recording was accomplished at Art Laboe's Original Sound Studio, then with Gary Marker on the controls at Sunset Sound on 8-track.

The works Moon laid down did not see the light of day, as he was replaced by Cooder when they continued on material at Sunset Sound with Marker.

Bassist Jerry Handley had also departed, with Gary Marker stepping in.

* New longer and specific primers are designed for the DNA sequence, which is called the Sequenced Characterized Amplified Region Marker ( SCAR ).

Far from his grave being kept clean, it was unmarked until 1967, when a Texas Historical Marker was erected in the general area of his plot, the precise location being unknown.

The questions, asked by the unseen Marker, range from their personal lives, as well as social and political issues of relevance at that time.

After the documentary Le Mystère Koumiko in 1965, Marker made Si j ' avais quatre dromadaires, an essay-film that, like La jetée, is a photomontage of over 800 photographs that Marker had taken over the past 10 years from 26 countries.

** Note: This was edited by Marker essentially, this film is a 27-minute postscript to Le Joli Mai assembled from leftover footage and organized around a new commentary ( Film Comment ).

* Chris Marker: Notes from the Era of Imperfect Memory Blog devoted to Chris Marker

" The film Little Miss Marker ( and its remake, Sorrowful Jones ) grew from his short story of the same name.

It is West of Mile Marker 646 on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which stretches from the Mexican border at Brownsville, along the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico to St. Marks, Florida.

Russell Marker, at Syntex, discovered a much cheaper and more convenient starting material, diosgenin from wild Mexican yams.

Marker on the Harris County Annex 2 Building in Downtown Houston, indicating the site where Sam Houston lived from 1837 to 1838

* Vic Marker, Midwest Golden Gloves Champion from 1937-39.

In 1967 Resnais participated with six other directors, including Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, in a collective work about the Vietnam war, Loin du Vietnam ( Far from Vietnam ).

Marker at Methodist church. Following the Civil War, Darien was rebuilt, with financial aid coming in small part from the family of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who had been killed during the War but had written of his shame in participating in the destruction.

South of Rossville are Historic Mann's Chapel ( 1857 ) and an original State Road Mile Marker from 1833.

He is also memorialized there with an official Michigan Historical Marker and a plaque from the State Bar of Michigan for " Michigan Legal Milestones ", namely, his dissenting opinion in Korematsu v. United States, protesting the decision to uphold exclusion orders imposed upon persons of Japanese descent during World War II.

John Jeffries Burial Marker and Somers Mansion are landmarks from earlier times.

* Nevada Historical Marker 143 on Thocmetony, from a state of Nevada website

* May 18-Paramount releases Little Miss Marker, with Shirley Temple, on loan from Fox, in the title role.

Lasting from A. D. 702 ( Stela 21 ) to 798 ( Ballcourt Marker 3 ), this period lacks any hieroglyphic texts.