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.

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

Marker was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve.

Some sources and Marker himself claim that he was born in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

In 1949 Marker published his first novel, Le Coeur net ( The Forthright Spirit ), which was about aviation.

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

While making La Jetee, Marker was simultaneously making the 150-minute documentary essay-film Le joli mai, released in 1963.

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

In 1984, Marker was invited by producer Serge Silberman to document the making of Akira Kurosawa's film Ran.

Marker created a 19-minute multimedia piece in 2005 for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City titled Owls at Noon Prelude: The Hollow Men which was influenced by T. S. Eliot's poem.

( Marker was represented in Agnes Varda's 2008 documentary " The Beaches of Agnes " by a cartoon drawing of a cat, speaking in a technologically altered voice.

The avatar was created by Exosius Woolley and first appeared in the short film / machinima, " Ouvroir the Movie by Chris Marker.

** Note: In a 1995 interview Resnais states that the final version of the commentary was a collaboration between Marker and Jean Cayrol ( source: Film Comment ).

** Note: Marker was eventually credited as a writer for this one, apparently, he wrote the dialogue ( Film Comment ).

** 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 ).

** Note: This gem was written by Marker.

Ohio Historical Marker for the Battle of Phillips Corner, which was part of the Boundary Dispute between Michigan and Ohio.

I was especially intrigued by the institution of the Marker and his function in rating master-songs .... I conceived during a walk a comic scene in which the popular artisan-poet, by hammering upon his cobbler's last, gives the Marker, who is obliged by circumstances to sing in his presence, his come-uppance for previous pedantic misdeeds during official singing contests, by inflicting upon him a lesson of his own.

The London Town Square was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1971, Marker number 2988.

His conversion of diosgenin into progesterone by a four-step process now known as Marker degradation was an important step in mass production of all steroidal hormones, including cortisone and chemicals used in hormonal contraception.

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.

As a student, Mamoru Oshii was fascinated by the film La jetée by Chris Marker.

Teams would be alerted to the upcoming Speed Bump by a Route Marker clue prior to it, while the Speed Bump itself is displayed in a manner similar to the Yield showing the affected team's picture at a stand near to the regular Route Marker.

It was recorded during informal studio sessions between Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig in Marker's home basement recording studio in Madison, Wisconsin on prior to Shirley Manson joining the group.

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.

Marker dedicating the Purvis City Park to those who served in World War II.

He plays Fender Telecasters on live performances of " Save You " ( from Riot Act ), " World Wide Suicide " ( from Pearl Jam ), and " Marker in the Sand ", among others.

Murtha, Mangarin Ruins, and the Second Landing Marker of the troops of Gen. MacArthur during the World War II near Aroma Beach ( about 2 km from Poblacion ), which is itself a favorite spot for local residents.

The road peaks at Mile Marker 13 where on clear days it is possible to see the skyline of downtown Orlando to the northeast and Space Mountain, Cinderella Castle, Spaceship Earth ( Epcot ), The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, and the Contemporary Resort of Walt Disney World to the southeast.

Pilar ' World War II Marker

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.

War Department ( UK ) | War Department Ordnance Survey Marker, Bermuda.

File: Battle of Talladega Historic Marker. JPG | A historic marker commemorating General Andrew Jackson's victory over the Red Sticks at the Battle of Talladega during the Creek War.

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.

Marker at location of outbreak of the Ōnin War

War Department ( UK ) | War Department Ordnance Survey Marker, Bermuda.

War Department ( UK ) | War Department Ordnance Survey Marker, Bermuda, showing the WD Broad arrow symbol ( top ).

* Freestone Point Earthworks Civil War Trails Historical Marker

Slightly northwest of the Civil War obelisk is Old Capitol Historical Marker.

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

Marker noting the passing of William Byrd II and company surveying the Dividing Line, 1728, Henry County, Virginia