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.

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

Marker was a philosophy student in France prior to World War II.

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.

Eckstine was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; a State Historical Marker is placed at 5913 Bryant St, Highland Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to mark the house where he grew up.

On October 12, 2007, the Market was honored by the dedication of a Pennsylvania State Historical Marker as the " South 9th Street Curb Market " at the NE corner of 9th and Christian Streets.

American Samoa Route Marker — Main Road.

The young lovers were played by Brian Davies and Preshy Marker.

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.

" Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: " Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique ... The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker.

Film critic David Thomson has stated: " Marker told me himself that Mongolia is correct.

" When asked about his secretive nature, Marker has said " My films are enough for them audience.

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

During this time period, Marker began to travel around the world as a journalist and photographer, a vocation he would continue the rest of his life.

In 1952 Marker published an illustration essay on French writer Jean Giraudoux, Giraudoux Par Lui-Même.

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

Around this time Marker met and befriended many members of what would be called the Left Bank Film Movement, including Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi, Armand Gatti and the novelists Marguerite Duras and Jean Cayrol.

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

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

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.

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.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.