The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

All this is simple enough, but in telling the story Porter did two important things that had not been done before.

In addition to over, Porter and Duff defined the compositing operators in, held out by ( usually abbreviated out ), atop, and xor ( and the reverse operators rover, rin, rout, and ratop ) from a consideration of choices in blending the colors of two pixels when their coverage is, conceptually, overlaid orthogonally:

Porter discovered important aspects of motion picture language: that the screen image does not need to show a complete person from head to toe and that splicing together two shots creates in the viewer's mind a contextual relationship.

Because of Ribaldi, Porter is able to forgive his father, and the two are eventually reconciled.

* Eric Porter portrayed Professor Moriarty in two episodes of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes: " The Red-Headed League " and " The Final Problem ", and briefly in the Return of Sherlock Holmes episode: " The Empty House ".

* 1954: Quincy Porter, Concerto Concertante for two pianos and orchestra

Producer Bob Porter of Prestige Records once said that " The difference between Blue Note and Prestige is two days ' rehearsal.

Merman followed this with two more Porter musicals.

The city holds two major festivals every year: the Popcorn Festival and the Porter County Fair.

Stephen Jacobs, a soldier at the battle of Bunker Hill, located on the river two miles ( 3 km ) below in 1817, where he purchased of Augustus Porter, paying eight dollars an acre.

* James D. Porter, Jr. — Judge of the 12th Judicial Circuit of Tennessee 1870-1874, Tennessee governor 1875 – 1879, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad Company 1880-1884, Assistant Secretary of State under President Grover Cleveland 1885-1887, Minister to Chile under President Grover Cleveland 1893-1895, Chancellor of the University of Nashville 1901, President of Peabody Normal College 1902, later President of those two schools ' merging ( George Peabody College ) until 1909

The CDP combines the area around Malone and Porter, two small towns located just off U. S. Route 12, southeast of Elma and northwest of Oakville, and along a shortline that is part of Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad.

Trinity College and the University of Dublin have a complex relationship, and while a " difference or distinction " between the two is often asserted, it has also been said that they are " one body " – this was the finding of the High Court of Justice of Ireland delivered by the then Master of the Rolls in Ireland, Andrew Maxwell Porter, on 2 June 1888, which reviews a legal history where he finds that the two terms seem often to have been used interchangeably.

The government rotates between Jimerson Town and Irving on the Cattaraugus Reservation every two years, its current term began in November 2010 when Robert Odawi Porter took office.

While the first two Stax singles failed to chart, the third, the Hayes / Porter composition ( with similarities, including the title, to a gospel standard ) " You Don't Know Like I Know " hit # 7 R & B in 1966.

In 1999, Northwestern student journalists uncovered information exonerating Illinois death row inmate Anthony Porter two days before his scheduled execution, and the Innocence Project has since exonerated 10 more men.

However the UVF saw fit to continue the battle in 2001, using its satellite group the Red Hand Commando to kill two of the LVF's leading figures, Adrian Porter and Stephen Warnock.

See Annals of a Publishing House ; William Blackwood and his Sons ... ( 1897 – 1898 ), the first two volumes of which were written by Mrs Oliphant ; the third, dealing with John Blackwood, by his daughter, Mrs Gerald Porter.

Then, after a performance where Kean went out of his way to botch the opening night of " Switzerland " by historical novelist Jane Porter in February 1819, for whom Kean had had a personal dislike, Bucke pulled the play out of contempt for Kean's conduct .. After much cajoling to still perform the play by the theatre staff, Mr. Bucke then later had it republished with a preface concerning the incident, including excerpts from correspondences between the involved parties, which was later challenged in two books, The Assailant Assailed and A Defense of Edmund Kean, Esq.

He is married to Jill Pryor, and has two children, Adams and Porter, as well as a dog named Nic.

During the Peninsula Campaign, McClellan created two more, commanded by men he considered more loyal to him: V Corps ( Porter ) and VI Corps ( Franklin ).

In the film, he is portrayed by two actors, Scott Porter as a younger Rex Racer, and Matthew Fox as the older Rex Racer and Racer X.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.

At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

The ambulance is drawn by two `` charming '' little horses.

moreover, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

It is reasonable to affirm two propositions: Jews have been perceived by non-Jews as all things to all men ; ;

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

Of the two, The Life Of Bright is incomparably the better biography.

`` But if there is no line, how can there be two countries??

This agreeable state of affairs is explicable, I think, on two counts.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.