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.

Citizen Kane was voted the greatest American film twice.

In the 2012 Sight and Sound poll, the critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera ( 1929 ) the 8th best film ever made.

The film was voted the 27th greatest comedy film of all time by readers of Total Film in 2000.

A 2008 American Film Institute poll voted Hoosiers the fourth-greatest film of all time in the sports genre.

", spoken by Brian's mother Mandy to the crowd assembled outside her house, has been voted by readers of BOL. com the funniest line in film history.

The film was voted as the eighth best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years, by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors, with two criteria: " The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L. A. experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list ".

Acclaimed director Michael Haneke named the film his fourth favorite film when he voted for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll ; director Catherine Breillat and film critic Joel David also voted for the film.

The Big Lebowski was voted as the 10th best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors with two criteria: " The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L. A. experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list ".

The film was voted number one in an audience poll of greatest films conducted by MovieMail in 2000.

Another likely reason The Greatest Show On Earth was voted Best Picture of 1952 was that it was seen as a " last chance " vote for Cecil B. DeMille, to honor him for a lifetime of film making going well back into the silent movie era.

Niven resumed his acting career after his demobilisation, and was voted the second most popular British actor in the 1945 Popularity Poll of British film stars.

It was voted the best film of the 1990s in the 1999 Village Voice Film Poll.

** In 2001, the film came in at # 84 on " The Best Films of All Time " as voted by channel 4.

Thomson calls it an " outrageous film ," and a survey carried out by the American Film Institute voted it the funniest American film ever made.

Bowie portrayed physicist Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film, The Prestige ( 2006 ), which was about the bitter rivalry between two magicians in the late 19th century.

The French film industry in the late 19th century and early 20th century was among the world's most important.

Experiments with color films were made as early as the late 19th century, but practical color film was not commercially viable until 1908, and for amateur use when Kodak introduced Kodachrome for 16 mm in 1935 and 8 mm in 1936.

The 19th installment in the Godzilla series of films, the film remains the highest grossing film of the entire Godzilla series ( unadjusted for inflation ).

He then embarked on his most ambitious project, a feature film about Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, who travelled around Norway in the 19th century collecting traditional folk tales.

In 1995, Jarmusch released Dead Man, a period film set in the 19th century American West starring Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer.

Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen ( the inspiration for numerous films as well as Bizet's opera, Carmen ) to the James Bond novel ( and later film ) Diamonds are Forever.

** Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success.

* Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves ( 1994 ) is a Québécois film about a man who signs up to star in a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show.

A variety of largely proprietary gauges were devised for the numerous camera and projection systems being developed independently in the late 19th century and early 20th century, ranging from 13 mm to 75 mm ( 0. 51 – 2. 95 in ), as well as a variety of film feeding systems.

DiCaprio's first film of 2002 was the crime-comedy Catch Me If You Can, based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, used his charm, confidence, and several different personas, to make millions in the 1960s writing bad checks.

* Nikki Oldaker with John Bigelow, 2006, Samuel Tilden the Real 19th President ( film )

An uproar in 1950 led the investigation of The Life of Wu Xun, a film about a 19th century beggar who raised money to educate the poor.

Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became a popular art form.

For the " 19th Anniversary ", La-La Land Records released a " limited edition " CD presenting the score in its entirety for the first time, with bonus tracks featuring alternate takes and tracks composed for, but not used in the film.

During the 19th century, this was the most dangerous slum area of immigrant New York ( as portrayed in the book and film Gangs of New York ).

As an art form, comics established popularized itself in the pages of newspapers and magazines in the late 19th and early 20th century, alongside the similar forms created as a consequence of the invention of photography: film and animation.

The 1946 film The Strange Woman starring Hedy Lamarr, and based on the novel by Ben Ames Williams is set in early 19th century Bangor.

The film is set at a mansion at the end of the 19th century and is about two sisters who watch over their third sister on her deathbed, torn between fearing she might die and hoping that she will.

This final gross qualified Conspiracy Theory as the 19th highest grossing film in the U. S. in 1997.

Dark Eyes (; ; ) is a 1987 Italian and Russian language film which tells the story of a 19th century married Italian who falls in love with a married Russian woman.

In the late 19th century, panoramic cameras using curved film holders employed clockwork drives to scan a line image in an arc to create an image over almost 180 degrees.

The Valley of Decision ( 1945 ) is a film set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA in the late 19th century.

Photography as a technical process involving the development of film and prints in a darkroom originated in the early 19th century, with the forerunners of traditional photographic prints coming into prominence around 1838-1840.