Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ), Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery ( 1897 ), Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw ( 1898 ), and the stories of Arthur Machen.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

* In Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), a portrait serves as a magical mirror that reflects the true visage of the perpetually youthful protagonist, as well as the effect on his soul of each sinful act

The myth had a decided influence on English Victorian homoerotic culture, via André Gide's study of the myth, Traite du Narcisse (' The Treatise of the Narcissus ', 1891 ), and the only novel by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

* A canto was quoted and used as an underlying theme of the 1945 screen adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray: " I sent my soul through the invisible, some letters of that after-life to spell, and by and by my soul did return, and answered, ' I myself am Heaven and Hell.

While Salomé, An Ideal Husband and The Picture of Dorian Gray had dwelt on more serious wrongdoing, vice in Earnest is represented by Algy's craving for cucumber sandwiches.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered a work of classic gothic fiction with a strong Faustian theme.

Dorian faces his portrait in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1945 film ) | The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilde went on to say that the notion behind The Picture of Dorian Gray is " old in the history of literature " but was something to which he had " given a new form.

The Picture of Dorian Gray began as a short novel submitted to Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

Conan Doyle promptly submitted The Sign of the Four to Stoddart, but Wilde was more dilatory ; Conan Doyle's novel was published in the February 1890 edition of Lippincott's, but Stoddart did not receive Wilde's typescript for The Picture of Dorian Gray until 7 April 1890.

The preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray was added, along with other amendments, after the edition published in Lippincott's was criticised.

'" The Irish Times wrote that The Picture of Dorian Gray was " first published to some scandal.

The Picture of Dorian Gray was chosen as the book of 2010 for Dublin City's " One City, One Book " Festival in its fifth year.

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wordsworth Classics 1992, ISBN 1-85326-015-0

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Modern Library 1992, ISBN 978-0-679-60001-5

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Penguin Classics 1986, ISBN 0-14-043187-X

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Tor 1999, ISBN 0-8125-6711-0

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Books, Inc. 1994

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Broadview Press 1998, ISBN 978-1-55111-126-1

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Barnes and Noble Classics 2003, ISBN 978-1-59308-025-9

An Academy Award is an award bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors and writers.

" Pretty Little Picture " is frequently dropped from productions of the show, and one verse of " I'm Calm " is also frequently trimmed.

Picture of Davenport in 1865 ; on the right is the Iowa ( steamboat ) | Steamboat Iowa, which appears in the Seal of Iowa.

While much of the specification codifies work that had already been ongoing in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ( SMPTE ), the specification is important in establishing a content owner framework for the distribution and security of first-release motion picture content.

Austin Film Festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ®, making all Jury Award-winning Narrative Short and Animated Short films eligible for an Academy Award ®.

The structure of the building is of a Quonset hut design, while the facade and interior is of a post-Art Deco and post-Moderne eclectic style, influenced by the " Picture Palace " architecture popularly used for movie theatres.

Only the poet of the poem feels that he can recover the vision, and the Preface, like a Coleridge poem that is quoted in it, The Picture, states that visions are unrecoverable.

When considering all of The Picture and not just the excerpt, Coleridge describes how inspiration is similar to a stream and that if an object is thrown into it the vision is interrupted.

With financial backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman of the New York Motion Picture Company, in 1912 Sennett founded Keystone Studios in Edendale, California, ( which is now a part of Echo Park ).

* 1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.

The Moving Picture Experts Group ( MPEG ) is a working group of experts that was formed by ISO and IEC to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission.

MPEG-3 is the designation for a group of audio and video coding standards agreed upon by the Moving Picture Experts Group ( MPEG ) designed to handle HDTV signals at 1080p in the range of 20 to 40 megabits per second.

* 1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.

Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ).

Picture shows a famous cosmic mirage known as the Einstein Cross, and is a direct visual confirmation of the theory of general relativity.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O ' Brien.

Upper Picture: RS-232 signalling as seen when probed by an actual oscilloscope ( Tektronix MSO4104B ) for an uppercase ASCII " K " character ( 0x4b ) with 1 start bit ( always ), 8 data bits, 1 stop bit and no parity bits ( 8N1 ) Lower Picture: Same signal was inputted into an RS-232 to UART converter, the output is depicted.

* The track " I Need Something Stronger " on Unkle's 2005 release Edit Music for a Film: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Reconstruction is almost entirely composed of THX 1138 samples.

That year, Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, and kept only Picture Stories from the Bible as the foundation of his own new company, EC Comics.

The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America and the Independent Producers ' Association declared war in 1925 on what they termed a common enemy — the " film trust " of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, and First National, which they claimed dominated the industry by not only producing and distributing motion pictures, but by entering into exhibition as well.

The George Eastman company, the only manufacturer of film stock in the United States, was also part of the combine, which was called the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ), and Eastman Kodak agreed to only supply the members with film stock.

In 1991, Demme won the Academy Award for The Silence of the Lambs — one of only three films to win all the major categories ( Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress ).

Because of its controversial themes, the film was released with an X rating and would make history by being the only X-rated feature to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

( Merzpicture 29a, Picture with Turning Wheel, 1920 for instance, combines a series of wheels that only turn clockwise, alluding to the general drift Rightwards across Germany after the Spartacist Uprising in January that year, whilst Mai 191 ( 9 ), alludes to the strikes organized by the Bavarian Workers ' and Soldiers ' Council.

The Directors Company subsequently produced only two more pictures, Coppola's The Conversation ( 1974 ), which was nominated for Best Picture in 1974 alongside The Godfather, Part II, and Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller, which had a lackluster critical reception.

In 1998, the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress named The Last Picture Show to the National Film Registry, an honor awarded only to culturally significant films.

The film won five Oscars in the five most important categories: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, one of only three films in history to do so, along with It Happened One Night and The Silence of the Lambs, and firmly established Forman's reputation.

The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible not only to vote on the final ballot, but also to nominate.

Animated films can be nominated for other categories but have rarely been so: Beauty and the Beast ( 1991 ), Up ( 2009 ) and Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ) are the only animated films ever to be nominated for Best Picture, while Waltz with Bashir ( 2008 ) is the only animated picture ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film ( though it failed to earn a nomination in the Best Animated Feature category ).

Only three films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated ( though only one since the early 1930s ): Wings ( 1927 / 28 ), Grand Hotel ( 1931 / 32 ), and Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 ).

The only two Best Director winners to win for films which did not receive a Best Picture nomination are likewise in the early years: Lewis Milestone ( 1927 / 28 ) and Frank Lloyd ( 1928 / 29 ).

Rebecca was Hitchcock's only film to win Best Picture.

It was the first time the studio, known for low budget B-movies, released a film receiving an Oscar nomination, the only Best Picture nomination the studio would ever garner.

The film was the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the only such sequel until The Return of the King won in 2003.

It's also the only film in Oscar history to receive a nomination in all four acting categories and not be nominated for Best Picture, and the only film to be nominated in these six categories and not receive an award.

It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress ; however, only the Greek actress Katina Paxinou won an Oscar for her portrayal of Pilar.

A music video for their song " The Big Picture " was made, but the only member of the band featured was Amos, since by then, unable to withstand pressure from Atlantic Records, she had jettisoned the entire band with the exception of Steve Caton.