The ratio between shot footage and footage forming the final edited film would often be high, for example 53 takes per a finished take in The Kid.

The finished film would feature the voices of Judy Garland, Robert Goulet and Red Buttons as cats in Paris, France.

There are no sit-down interviews, and the shooting ratio ( the amount of film shot to the finished product ) is very high, often reaching 80 to one.

By the late 1970s, melodrama was nearly finished as an overt genre, as the hunger for realism dominated film in groundbreaking movies like Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.

The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original screenplay drafts as Bruce Lee revised much of the script himself, including having written and directed the film's opening Shaolin Monastery fight sequence.

Shortly after completion of production Lucas and Coppola brought the finished film to Warner Bros., along with several other scripts for potential projects at American Zoetrope.

The film editor works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture.

When shooting is finished, the director can then turn his full attention to collaborating with the editor and further refining the cut of the film.

Stung by the criticism of his film, Griffith made a new film he had just finished, The Mother and the Law, into one of the strands of an even bigger film with an even bigger theme, Intolerance ( 1916 ).

This was shortly after the release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, about which he joked stating that, since he views the entire Star Wars series as one film, he could actually receive the award now that he had finally " gone back and finished the movie.

The creature did reappear at the beginning of the films sequel War of the Gargantuas this time being retained in the finished film.

Clokey and his wife, Ruth ( née Parkander ), invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art finished film school at USC.

Although finished in August 1927, the film was not released until June 1928.

Demme ended up renouncing the finished product, and when the film was released in May 1984, it was generally panned by critics and neglected by moviegoers.

The finished film, released in 1962, was a huge success and was nominated for four Oscars, including one for Lancaster's performance.

While the serialization of Akira was taking place, Otomo decided to animate it into a feature film, although the comic was yet to be finished.

Lavish sets made these shots some of the most costly in the film but they were finished within days.

He finished out the decade of the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Walter Kurtz in another Coppola film, Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), a box office hit for which he was highly paid and that helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s.

Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren finished his career with a short film named Narcissus, re-telling the Greek legend through ballet.

Instant color film, used in a special camera which yielded a unique finished color print only a minute or two after the exposure, was introduced by Polaroid in 1963.

Flaherty then agreed to collaborate with F. W. Murnau on another South Seas picture, Tabu, but this combination proved even more volatile, and while Flaherty did contribute significantly to the story, the finished film is essentially Murnau's.

By comparison to Grierson and his unit, Flaherty's habitual working methods involved shooting relatively large amounts of film in relation to the planned length of the eventual finished movie, and the ensuing cost overruns obliged Grierson to take Flaherty off the project, which was edited by other hands into three shorter films.

In January 2010, he stated in an interview that his new film project is called Bruce vs. Frankenstein.

Wilfred Bailey Everett “ Bill ” Bixby III ( January 22, 1934 − November 21, 1993 ) was an American film and television actor, director, and frequent game show panelist.

The film premiered in January 1967, to largely negative reviews in Britain and the United States.

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

Though DeMille completed the film, it proved to be his last, for he never fully recovered, and died on January 21, 1959 of heart failure.

In January 1961, Marker traveled to Cuba and shot the film ¡ Cuba Sí !.

David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

Although not released until 1984, the filming sessions in January 1969 led to unexpected success when Bowie told the producers, " That film of yours — I've got a new song for it.

In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.

David Abelevich Kaufman () ( 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954 ) — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof (, " spinning top ") — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist.

Vertov lost his job at Sovkino in January 1927, possibly as a result of criticizing a film which effectively preaches the line of the Communist Party.

* Wartime film of the construction of the Mosquito in Australia Retrieved: 3 January 2012.

In January 2012, Prime Minister David Cameron announced at Pinewood film studios to businesses that the government has bold ambitions for the film industry.

According to a UK Film Council press release of 20 January 2011, £ 1. 115 billion was spent on UK film production during 2010.

In January 2003, a 95-year old Wray appeared at the 2003 Palm Beach International Film Festival to celebrate the Rick McKay documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There, where she was also honored with a " Legend in Film " award.

In January, 1952, Capra was requested by the U. S. Ambassador to India to represent the U. S. film industry at the International Film Festival to be held in India.

Federico Fellini (; January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993 ) was an Italian film director and scriptwriter.

George Dewey Cukor (; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983 ) was an American film director.

On January 2, 1930, Hawks's brother Kenneth Hawks died while shooting the film Such Men Are Dangerous.

The film opened in January 1931 and was a hit.

Critic Roger Ebert, in a review dated January 1, 1972, did not care for the film.

The film New in Town starring Connick and Renée Zellweger, began filming in January 2008, and was released in January 2009.