The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

) The film was called The Diet of Worms, which I felt was just what Letch deserved.

It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??

This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling, magician's tricks produced on film.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

When arrested, he had the submarine secrets on a roll of candid camera film as well as anti-submarine secrets in Christmas gift wrapping, it was testified.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

And it was interesting to observe that B.B.C.'s television film on Christmas Eve was The Bells Of St. Mary's.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

Due to the film being shortened from the original four hours to 2½, several planned special-effects scenes were scrapped, although storyboards were made in anticipation of a possible " expanded " version.

Alfred Hitchcock had planned to direct Deneuve in a screen adaptation of the spy novel The Short Night, but by the time the project was ready to go into production, Hitchcock was unable to direct due to his poor health, and plans for the film were scrapped.

After the film became a huge success in the U. S., MGM began plans to make a film actually titled Red Shoes Run Faster with red-haired dancer Lucille Bremer, but quickly scrapped the idea.

" Initially, Lucas had planned for Qui-Gon to have long white hair, but that idea was scrapped and in the film Qui-Gon is depicted as having long brown hair.

The Caine was not represented by a 4-stack World War I – era ship, nicknamed a " four-piper ," like the vessel in the novel, because at the time the film was made all such vessels had been scrapped.

He also scrapped plans to shoot the film in colour and changed to black and white.

Her next project, I Loved a Soldier ( 1936 ) ended in a shambles when the film was scrapped several weeks into production due to script problems and disagreements between the star and her director.

On the eve of production, after one year of preparation by Bogarde and Asquith, the film was scrapped without full explanation to the dismay of Bogarde and Asquith.

Uhura was supposed to give a dramatic speech in Klingon during the film, but midway through production the element was scrapped and a scene where Uhura is speaking garbled Klingon, surrounded by books, was added for extra humor.

* In 1940, plans for a film about the historical Hiawatha by Monogram Pictures were scrapped.

:** SAD, a planned film about the Standard American Diet, that was scrapped after Corey Haim, who had been cast in the leading role, died of a prescription drug overdose

* Dragon's Lair, According to Don Bluth and Gary Oldman, there would have been a movie adaption of the 1983 video game and it would have been in the same animation as the game and it's scrapped. Bluth and Oldman are looking for funding for the film to put filming for this movie in production.

* Superman Lives, a scrapped reboot of the Superman film series, very loosely based on the comic book storyline " The Death of Superman ".

However, due to the almost universally negative reception of Batman & Robin, the previous film in the series, Batman Triumphant was scrapped, and the franchise was put on hiatus for eight years.

The feature film plan was scrapped, but the characters were then used in the 2001 animated series, The Ripping Friends.

* The band's ultimately scrapped recording sessions for " Big Boots " ( AKA " Man O War "), then planned as an addition to The Avengers film soundtrack.

After Thalberg's untimely death in September, the production was shut down and the half-finished film was scrapped.

The feature film plan was scrapped, but the characters were used in The Ripping Friends.

* Brainiac was considered as a villain in the scrapped Superman Reborn and Superman Lives film projects.

Although this particular film idea was scrapped, elements from it would be used in later Toho films, as Gigan and the Godzilla Tower would appear in this finished product as well as it's sequel, and Megalon would go on to star in that sequel entitled Godzilla vs. Megalon ( 1973 ).

Nomura originally planned to have him appear from the start, but as it took the staff spent two years to develop his design, the idea of his presence throughout the film was scrapped, and it was decided instead to have him only appear on screen for a short time.

The next day, a memo was sent out that the color and 3-D aspects of the film were to be scrapped, and that black and white and wide-screen would be the preferred format, trying to emulate the " effective shock treatment " of Warners ' The Beast From 20, 000 Fathoms.

The visual appearance of the ships also changed radically ; the Rapier fighters featured in the film were built from scrapped English Electric Lightning jet fighter fuselages.