Originally named " UP Movietone ", in view of a partnership with the Movietone News service of 20th Century Fox, it went through several partnerships and name changes and was known as United Press International Television News or simply as UPITN, a name which also credited UPI's film and video service partner at the time, Britain's ITN television news service.

Originally conceived as anti-ship weapons, PT boats were publicly credited with sinking several Japanese warships during the period between December 1941 and the fall of the Philippines in May 1942.

Originally credited to the Boys Next Door.

Originally a sky god credited with creating the sky ( ilma means air in Finnish ), he is believed to have taken on the qualities of a smith through the Proto-Finnic contact with the Indo-European Balts.

Originally from London, England, they are often credited with giving the psychobilly subgenre — which fuses punk rock with rockabilly — its distinctive sound and style.

Originally, seven men were credited with co-founding the Grange: Oliver Hudson Kelley, William Saunders, Francis M. McDowell, John Trimble, Aaron B. Grosh, John R. Thompson, and William M. Ireland.

Originally a bootleg, it was turned into an official release, credited to " Chicane with Power Circle ".

Originally dismissed as a " white elephant " when it was being built, today it is credited by the mayor for being one of the reasons Morgantown had the lowest unemployment rate in the United States during the recession of the 2000's.

Originally, Bergman was credited on South Park as Shannen Cassidy out of concerns regarding possible conflicts with her continued work as Disney's official Snow White voice.

Originally cast as a minor character, McNab's credited status elevated to guest star and ultimately series regular over the course of her tenure in Buffy and Angel.

Originally, the area of Carlingford was called Mobb's Hill, named after the ex-convict settler William Mobb, who is credited for bringing oranges to Australia.

Originally awarded as an own goal to O ' Brien, the goal was subsequently credited to Hughes by the dubious goals committee as his first league goal for the club.

Originally created in support of charity, the popularity of the calendars has been credited for the increased fame of the Stade Français team, as well as rugby in general, in France.

Originally, Gbaja-Biamila was not credited with a third sack against Vikings quarterback Kelly Holcomb during the Packers vs. Vikings game on September 30.

Originally named Oak Mountain, it was renamed for Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, who is credited for being the first white man to set foot on and plant the American flag at its peak, and who built the Mount Lowe Railway to its foot in 1896.

#* Originally credited to Lennon – McCartney, the credit was revised in the 1990s to cite only John Lennon as its composer

Originally, the discovery of streptomycin was credited only to Schatz's supervisor, Selman Waksman who won the 1952 Nobel Prize for the discovery ./

Originally, the discovery of streptomycin was credited only to Schatz's supervisor, Selman Waksman, who would receive a Nobel Prize in 1952 for this work.

Originally credited as Vesta Williams, she was sometimes simply billed as Vesta beginning in the 1990s.

Originally a purely social affair, it soon gained a political function, a development credited to State Senator Garland Gray, a local lumberman.

Originally written for a regular broadcast on CFRB radio in Toronto on June 5, 1973, it became a media and public phenomenon, replayed several times a day by some United States radio stations, released as a hit audio recording in several forms, credited by Ronald Reagan for giving comfort to the United States in difficult times, and widely rediscovered and redisseminated as the United States faced new crises in the 2000s.

Originally, the Rebel Alliance was featured in the original trilogy of films in which they are the main protagonist, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, whereas its origins were referred in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

Originally opened in 1928 as a Warner Brothers movie theater, the recently restored and renovated Ambler Theater is a non-profit, community owned movie theater that shows independent, art and limited-distribution films.

Originally built in 1923, the stage of the Concrete Theatre has entertained audiences with vaudeville, boxing matches, silent films and later what were known as " the talkies ".

Originally dealing in photographic apparatus, the company began producing short films in 1897 to promote its make of camera-projector.

Originally, Bartlett intended to become a painter " in the 19th-century sense ", but became interested in animated films during a trip to Italy.

Originally intended to be a distraction piece for him to get his mind off of the heavily delayed Ashes of Time, it ended up being one of his most popular films.

Originally born under the name Hans Gutergast and cast on TV as a German Afrika Korps officer on The Rat Patrol, Braeden became famous and he landed other films and TV roles in the 1970s and 1980s.

Originally a stage actor, he works predominantly in supporting roles on television and in low-budget films.

Originally, Fiona Lewis, best known for appearing in several horror films around this time, played the role.

Originally, it was designed for measurement of low-conductive thin films, later adjusted for common semiconductors.

Originally written as a humorless grande dame, Schafer worked with the writers to create a character not unlike the scatterbrain roles played in 1930s films by Mary Boland and Billie Burke.

Originally a stage actor and musician, Segal appeared in several minor films in the early 1960s in addition to the well-known 1962 movie The Longest Day.

Originally the Crypt theatrical films were planned as a trilogy.

Originally appearing in the monthly ' Model Graphix ' magazine in Japan as a 3D photo novel using detailed models, this later set the stage for the animated films.

Originally it was only used for films featuring simulated sex only, but the BBFC found itself forced to award R18 certificates to hardcore films in 2000 after a series of legal appeals and a judicial review of those appeals.

Originally, Moranis and Thomas were not going to direct or write the film but ended up doing both with the guidance of executive producer Jack Grossberg, who had produced films by Mel Brooks and Woody Allen.

Originally aired on BBC2 in 2001, the programme was designed as an anthology series, in the style of Tales from the Crypt, and lampooned many aspects of the horror genre, homaging the British horror films of Hammer, Amicus and Tigon from the 1960s and 1970s.

Originally beginning with only 11 competitive categories in 1979, the first categories included " Best Juvenile Actor and Actress in a Motion Picture ", " Best Juvenile Actor and Actress in a TV Series or Special ", " Best Juvenile Actor and Actress in a Daytime TV Series ", and " Best Male and Female Juvenile Recording Artist ", as well as competitive categories honoring studios and networks for " family friendly " films and television programming.

* Originally director Frank Oz had Woody Allen in mind for the role of Dr. Leo Marvin, given Allen's reputation for quirkiness in his films.

Originally, comics were colored by cutting out films of various densities in the appropriate shapes to be used in producing color-separated printing plates.

Originally opening to negative reviews, the film later became liked and would regarded as one of Ray's best films, topped by the famous title song.

Originally, both Lusty Ladys showed 16mm peep show films only ; in 1983 live nude dancers were added and became the main focus of the businesses.

Playhouse Disney was once a two hour block, but had been cut back an hour, along with Circle Time Story, ( Originally " Mickey And Minnie's Storytime Theatre " between 1998 – 2001 ) which featured read-along stories from Disney movies and films.