Prior to directing films, Camus assisted filmmakers in France, including Jacques Feyder, Luis Buñuel, and Jacques Becker.

Prior to directing the film, Morris worked as a private detective.

Prior to his directing career, Darabont was a successful screenwriter with work on genre films that included: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob, The Fly II and an unproduced sequel to Commando .< ref >

Prior to becoming a professor at Columbia University in 1946, Barnouw spent the mid-1930s writing, producing, and directing a number of radio shows for the CBS and NBC radio networks.

Prior to this, Spider-Man intercepted them but couldn't be brought in since most of his crimes are in the West Coast.

Prior to Kennedy Center, it screened films in the auditorium of the National Gallery of Art.

Prior to this version, the book had inspired a number of now-less-well-known stage and screen adaptations, including a profitable Broadway musical and three silent films.

Prior to the production of The Living Desert, Disney was releasing his films through RKO Radio Pictures.

Prior to the beginning of each event, the Festival's board of directors appoints the juries who hold sole responsibility for choosing which films will receive a Cannes award.

Prior to the match, Schmeling carefully studied films of Louis's prior fights, dissecting apparent flaws in the Detroit fighter's technique.

Prior to this film, Dunne had been cast in dramatic films.

Prior to this point, there had been a few adaptations of comic series into films, but they were all live action.

Prior to Bill Clinton's presidency, she also posed nude for Penthouse magazine and was an actress in two films and one TV show.

Prior to their release, the films were nearly censored by Mussolini's government, but they were permitted because the story itself was set in Soviet Russia and was directly critical of that regime.

Prior to Behind the Green Door, most of the Mitchell Brothers ' 200 or so films had only been shown in their O ' Farrell Theater.

Prior to Sturges, other figures in Hollywood ( such as Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and Frank Capra ) had directed films from their own scripts.

Prior to this, New Line was responsible for genre films and cult classics such as Dark City, The Mask, the Austin Powers film trilogy, the fantasy Pleasantville, the Final Destination series, the Nightmare on Elm Street series, the film Friday ( and its two sequels Next Friday and Friday After Next ), the films of John Waters, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, the highly successful movie adaptation of Mortal Kombat ( as well as its ill-fated sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation ) and the Rush Hour films.

Prior to becoming a television star, Valdés was an extra in many films.

Prior to ER, Visnjic had small speaking roles in films such as The Peacemaker, Committed and Practical Magic.

Prior to his entry in films, he worked as a mechanic in Kozhikode and owned a metal workshop.

Prior to that he appeared in several films, and was best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998 – 2004.

Prior to Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Chan had worked for director Lo Wei who wanted to make him into the new " Bruce Lee " in films like New Fist of Fury.

Prior to forming the band, Masucci had music in two films by Hal Hartley, Flirt and The Book of Life.

Prior to Jeans, Shankar had directed three films, Gentleman, Kadhalan and Indian, all three of which had been successful ventures at the box-office.

Prior to their 1986 move to Disney, the critics approved / disapproved the films they reviewed with a yes / no verdict.

Prior to RTAA, Congress was mostly lobbied by industries seeking to create or increase tariffs to protect their industry.

Prior to the moving to its current headquarters in 2002, Burger King had considered moving away from the Miami area ; Miami-Dade County politicians and leaders lobbied against this, and Burger King stayed.

Prior to the establishment of HTB, what later became members of it lobbied against multi-media advertising on public transport under the ban of the Citizens Party.

Prior to the 1981 general election, PLAC lobbied all the major Irish political parties at the time – Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Labour Party – to urge the introduction of a Bill to allow the amendment to the constitution to prevent the Irish Supreme Court so interpreting the constitution as giving a right to abortion.

Prior implementations of language-processing tasks typically involved the direct hand coding of large sets of rules.

Prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Pollock v. Farmers ' Loan & Trust Co., all income taxes had been considered indirect taxes imposed without respect to geography, unlike direct taxes, that must be apportioned among the states according to population.

Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin had been elected President of Russia in June 1991 in the first direct presidential election in Russian history.

Prior to World War II, the only known route to fluorocarbons was by direct reaction of fluorine with the hydrocarbon.

Prior to this time, many early ranchers had driven cattle over the Great Western Cattle Trail from Texas to Dodge City, Kansas, the present townsite of Elk City being in the direct path of that famous trail.

Prior to the existence of direct broadcast satellite services, home users would generally have a motorised C-band dish of up to 3 metres in diameter for reception of channels from different satellites.

Prior to the 1995 publication of A Test of Time, Thomas L. Thompson, a theologian associated with the Copenhagen School, had insisted that any attempt to write history based on a direct integration of biblical and extra-biblical sources was " not only dubious but wholly ludicrous ".

Prior to the advent of the web, such support had to be done either via an online service or a private Bulletin board system run by the company and accessed over a direct phone line.

Prior to 2010, federal loans were also divided between direct loans -- originated and funded by the federal government -- and guaranteed loans, originated and held by private lenders but guaranteed by the government.

Prior to colonisation and the introduction of metals and wire, food was laid out on clean sticks, bark, large leaves and other vegetation to minimize direct contact with the hot rocks and reduce burning.

Prior to the early 1970s, the communities of Onaping Falls were company towns with no direct municipal government.

Prior to the 1867 law, tenements often covered more than 90 percent of the lot, were five or six stories high, and had 18 rooms per floor of which only two received direct sunlight.

Prior to the construction of Exit 8 on Interstate 95 ( which provides direct access to southern Beaufort County ), U. S. 278 went from Ridgeland through Old House and Okatie toward Bluffton, along present-day state routes 336, 462, and 170.

Prior to Round 10, the court overturned the nine week suspension, with Justice John Hedigan making direct recommendation that the AFL Tribunal establish its own appeals process as part of his judgement.

Prior to the headline tour, Taproot acted as direct support to Chevelle on their tour alongside 30 Seconds to Mars.

Prior to 1997, this connection was direct.

Prior to the 19th century there was little interest in questioning the biblical chronology, but with the growth of biblical criticism and the wide popularity of the documentary hypothesis-the theory that the Pentateuch, including the Book of Genesis, was composed not by Moses but by unknown authors living at various times between 950 and 450 BC-it became increasingly urgent both to supporters of the traditional view ( i. e., that Genesis was an accurate historical record written by Moses under the direct guidance of God ) and the new ( the documentary hypothesis ) to find concrete arguments to support their respective views.