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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.

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The second half of the film `` Communism on the Map '' and the movie `` Operation Abolition '' also will be shown.
It was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House. President Woodrow Wilson supposedly said the film was " like writing history with lightning.
* When Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark arrive at the Capitol in the 2012 film The Hunger Games, a pair of pink borzoi are shown on screen — an illustration of the Capitol residents ' gaudy lifestyle.
Singin ' in the Rain is another film adopted by American gay culture which used to regularly be shown during the 1980s and early 1990s for extended runs.
The idea of an " aerial torpedo " was shown in the British 1909 film The Airship Destroyer, where flying torpedoes controlled wirelessly are used to bring down airships bombing London.
The film was transmitted and then shown digitally in theaters both in Paramus, New Jersey and Los Angeles, California.
The first DCI-compliant DCP to be delivered was created by FotoKem for the Universal Pictures film Serenity, and was shown to an audience at a remote theater, although it was not distributed this way to the public.
The song " Baby Doll " was used in the film Tapeheads, with newly recorded Swedish lyrics, and was credited to ( and shown in a music video by ) a fictitious Swedish band called Cube-Squared.
Commissioned by Philips to publicise the museum, it was shown as a trade test colour film on the BBC from 1968 to 1972.
According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".
Bartov commented that in this film, the German officer corps is shown as a group of fundamentally noble and civilized men who happened to be serving an evil regime made up of a small gang of gangsterish misfits totally unrepresentative of German society, which served to exculpate both the officer corps and by extension Germany society.
The The Great Train Robbery was ground-breaking and is still shown in film schools today as an example of early editing form.
The two pieces of film were then trimmed and cemented together so that the action appeared continuous when the film was shown.
In other countries this film was shown straight through as one picture, and it inspired the creation of other multi-reel films in Europe.
France installed an import quota of 1: 7, meaning for every seven foreign films imported to France, one French film was to be produced and shown in French cinemas.
In 1989, the ban was repealed after the overthrow of the Communist government in Poland, and the film was shown in theaters for the first time later that year.
By the mid-twenties the British film industry was losing out to heavy competition from Hollywood, the latter helped by having a much larger home market-in 1914 25 % of films shown in the UK were British, but by 1926 this had fallen to 5 %.
Works such as Marjorie Rosen ’ s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell ’ s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies ( 1974 ) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women.
Capra's final film, Rendezvous in Space ( 1964 ), was an industrial film made for the Martin Marietta Company and shown at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Producer Joel Silver also stated in an interview on The Animatrix DVD that he was shown the Ghost in the Shell film during a pitch from the Wachowski brothers to indicate the style and look they wanted for The Matrix.
" Hawks was dissatisfied with the film after being certain that dramatic films would establish his reputation, but realized what he had done wrong when Sol Wurtzel told Hawks " Look, you've shown you can make a picture, but for God's sake, go out and make entertainment.

film and Leeds
The second experimental film, Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince on October 14, 1888 in Roundhay, Leeds, England, is now known as the earliest surviving motion picture.
However, the first moving picture was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890.
Famous residents have included Mary, Queen of Scots ; King James VI of Scotland ; Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ; documentary film pioneer John Grierson ; film music composer Muir Mathieson ; animation pioneer Norman McLaren ; TV presenter Kirsty Young ; and footballers Billy Bremner ( captain of Leeds United and Scotland ) and Frank Beattie ( captain of Kilmarnock ).
The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Constance Collier, Andrea Leeds, Samuel S. Hinds and Lucille Ball.
At two points in the film the station location is indicated by platform signs referring to local destinations including, Leeds, Bradford, Morecambe & Lancaster.
Leeds Castle was a shooting location for the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets where it stands in for " Chalfont ", the ancestral home of the aristocratic d ' Ascoyne family.
* Passage to Zarahemla, children's film set in Leeds.
Broadcast on Sky Arts and screened at film festivals around the world, including Buenos Airies, Cork, London, Leeds, Philadelphia and Turin.
Andy Ward, the drummer of famous band Camel was born here as well as adult film star Nici Sterling, Jody Morris-Footballer, Played for Chelsea, Leeds United, Millwall and is now the captain for St Johnstone in the Scottish Premier League.
In the same month the British film The Damned United was released, chronicling the 44-day period in which Brian Clough was manager of Leeds United.
* Andrea Leeds ( 1914 – 84 ), American film actor
* Lila Leeds ( 1928 – 99 ), American film actor
* Phil Leeds ( 1916 – 98 ), American film actor
The Tom Hooper-directed film focused on Clough's disastrous 44-day tenure as manager of Leeds United and marked Sheen's fifth collaboration with writer Peter Morgan.
In October 1888, Le Prince filmed moving picture sequences Roundhay Garden Scene and a Leeds Bridge street scene using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper film.
* October 14-Louis Le Prince shoots the first recorded film, Roundhay Garden Scene, in Leeds, England, using a single lens camera and Eastman paper film.
In 2009, Revie was portrayed by Colm Meaney in the film The Damned United, which treats Brian Clough's ill-fated 44-day reign as manager of Leeds United in 1974 following Revie's departure for the England job.
Giles was portrayed by actor Peter McDonald in the 2009 film The Damned United, that centred on Brian Clough's ill fated 44-day spell as Leeds United manager in 1974.
In 2009, he was portrayed by actor Mark Cameron in the film The Damned United which was centred on Brian Clough's ill fated 44-day spell as Leeds United manager in 1974.
The British feminist Julie Bindel, who was involved in pickets outside cinemas in Leeds when the film was released, has said that she was wrong about the film and that it is a feminist film.

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