It is notable for Hillier's technical accomplishments, including mixing studio shots with exteriors, concealing the fact that Roger Livesey, the film's male lead, was working in London whilst the film was being shot in Scotland.

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

The required funds were supplied by a rancher named Donald McCoy, who became the film's producer.

As part of the film's promotional campaign, some ads were placed in music magazines from fake music collectors claiming to be looking for albums from the band.

" He was not included in the film's six Oscar nominations, all of which were lost.

Their feature film for Paramount Pictures, Easy Come, Easy Go, was canceled when Berry, as well as the film's director and other crew members, were seriously injured in a railroad accident while shooting the movie in Chatsworth, California in August 1965.

Leaflets arguing against the film's representation of the New Testament ( for example, suggesting that the Wise Men would not have approached the wrong stable as they do in the opening of the film ) were documented in Robert Hewison's book Monty Python: The Case Against.

Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity and, as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry.

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

Throughout the film's production, Gorō and his father were not speaking to each other, due to a dispute over whether or not Gorō was ready to direct.

In 1991 Scott's notes were used by Warner Brothers to create a rushed director's cut which removed the voiceovers originally added at the request of worried executives before the film's release, and made a number of other small changes, including to the ending.

LA-based British screenwriting team Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais were brought in at Connery's request to rewrite his lines, but ended up altering much of the film's dialogue.

Hughes won the investors over with his argument that due to the film's low budget of one million dollars and its single-location shoot, the risks involved were minimal.

Members of the band, including O ' Riordian, acted in Alex Cox's Straight to Hell, and five songs by the band were included on the film's soundtrack album.

Audiences were even more uncomfortable at the film's overt sexuality, personified by the sleek, fetish-inspired styling of Catwoman's costume.

Doug Scott and Ellen Anthony, who played the younger Dahlberg children, were found in Lawrence ( Anthony was the daughter of the film's Kansas casting director Jack Wright ).

By January 1933, the film's protagonist Robert Elliot Burns – who was still imprisoned in New Jersey – and a number of different chain gang prisoners nationwide in the United States were able to appeal and were released.

Among the cooks serving the film's cast and crew between shots were some of the Chinese laborers who actually worked on the Central Pacific section of the railroad.

At age 21 Diaz auditioned for The Mask, based on the recommendation of an agent for Elite, who met the film's producers while they were searching for the female main actress.

Schulman gave the people more dignity and recognized that they were losing land that was rightfully theirs through the 1893 land rush that was the film's centerpiece.

Take an ounce of narcissism, a pound of exhibitionism, a pint of sadism, a gallon of blood-lust and a sprinkle of other aberrations and stir well .” Lowell Thomas was also critical of the portrayal of Lawrence and most of the film's characters, believing that the train attack scenes were the only reasonably accurate aspect of the film.

All of the film's interiors were shot in Spain, including Lawrence's first meeting with Faisal and the scene in Auda's tent.

The film's large cast and intertwining of many different storylines were similar to his large-cast films of the 1970s ; he won the Golden Lion at the 1993 Venice International Film Festival and another Oscar nomination for Best Director.

Only 53 % of the film's rentals were from large outlets in the first week, compared with the usual 65 %.

Nevertheless, Hentzi believed that the film's themes of materialism and conformity in American suburbia were " hackneyed ".

: The Director is responsible for overseeing the creative aspects of a film, including controlling the content and flow of the film's plot, directing the performances of Actors, organizing and selecting the locations in which the film will be shot, and managing technical details such as the positioning of cameras, the use of lighting, and the timing and content of the film's soundtrack.

Whale's original cut of the film was given generally positive reviews but sometime between preview screenings and the film's general release Rogers capitulated to the Germans, ordering that cuts be made and additional scenes be shot and inserted.

Letterboxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio.

By most accounts, the low-budget film shot on location in Arizona was a learning process for Peckinpah, who feuded with Fitzsimons ( brother of the film's star Maureen O ' Hara ) over the screenplay and staging of the scenes.

The film's final shot is of two young soldiers, who had witnessed and collaborated in all of the prior atrocities, dancing a simple waltz together.

The film's final battle, originally scheduled to be shot at the end of summer, was shot in February in near-freezing temperatures.

Another sequence, a parody of the Albertina Rasch ballet's " pearl dance " by Marie Dressler, was planned but not shot ( as the film's production records reveal ).

Henry rides off to marry Jane Seymour and the film's final shot is of their young daughter, Elizabeth ( Amanda Jane Smythe ), toddling alone in the garden as she hears the cannon firing to announce her mother's death.

" In the film's final line and shot James, unseen in the darkness, replies, " I steal.

The 2002 TV documentary on the making of the film, The Tramp and the Dictator, presented newly discovered footage of the film production ( shot by Chaplin's elder half-brother Sydney ) which showed Chaplin's initial attempts at the film's ending, filmed before the fall of France.

The draft that Allen presented to the film's editor, Ralph Rosenblum, concluded with the words, " ending to be shot.

William Cameron Menzies, the film's production designer, was hired by producer David O. Selznick to design every shot of the film.

He then shot the film's opening scene of the Little Tramp waking up in a newly unveiled public statue.

The film's final shot – that of the train speeding into a tunnel during a romantic assignation onboard – is a famous bit of self-conscious Freudian symbolism reflecting Hitchcock's mischievous sense of humor.

While popular belief long held that Detour was shot for about $ 20, 000, Noah Isenberg, in doing research for his book on the film, discovered that the film's actual cost was upwards of $ 100, 000.

Although the film's image was shot using the standard 1. 37: 1 Academy ratio, Paramount picked Shane to debut their new wide-screen system because it was composed largely of long and medium shots that would not be compromised by cropping the image.

The film was shot on location in Canada, with Toronto and Montreal filling in for the film's Newark, New Jersey and Beijing settings.

Meanwhile, Lehman and the film's director, Mike Nichols, battled with studio executives and exhibitors who insisted that the film be shot in color rather than black and white.

The film's opening scenes aboard the starship Saratoga were the first to be shot ; principal photography commenced on February 24, 1986.

The Cinemascope format was highlighted in the film's final aerial shot when it pulls back to frame a sprawling horizon showing both a freight train and a Continental Trailways bus separately bearing the two leading characters.

The film's last shot juxtaposes a billboard advertising Nomi's starring role in Goddess with a road sign indicating the distance to Los Angeles.