While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

No drummers here, no pipers, and the red coats were covered with a fine film of dust.

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.

In the cleaning process, sorbed greasy soils become coated in this manner with an oriented film of surfactant.

Extruded expandable styrene film or sheet -- claimed to be competitive price-wise with paper -- also showed much potential, particularly for packaging.

In a series of fairy tales and fantasies, Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story, with beginning, middle and end, complications, resolutions, climaxes, and conclusions.

Immediately, the film improved and it improved because in narrative it found a content based on time to complement its own unbreakable connection with time.

The plane of the action in the scene is not parallel with the plane of the film in the camera or on the screen.

The physical film is cut with a knife at the end of one complete sequence, and the cut edge is joined physically, by cement, to the cut edge of the beginning of the next sequence.

As the robbers leave the looted train, the film suddenly cuts back to the station, where the telegrapher's little daughter arrives with her father's dinner pail only to find him bound on the floor.

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.

During the making recently of an important Biblical film, some 40 volumes of research material and sketches not only of costumes and interiors, but of architectural developments, sports arenas, vehicles, and other paraphernalia were compiled, consulted, and complied with.

But except for a vague adherence to the basic storyline -- i.e., that Ruth remained with Naomi and finally wound up with Boaz -- the film version has little to do with the Bible.

Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.

This French film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all shot in lovely sunny scenery -- so breath-taking that at times you almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with.

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.

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

* Animal ( 1977 film ), French film ( L ' Animal ) by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch

* Animal ( 2001 film ), Argentine film by Sergio Bizzio with Carlos Roffé

The film boasted a larger budget than Carrie, though the consensus view at the time was that De Palma was repeating himself, with diminishing returns.

It is also true that the content of certain films ( such as dark subjects, alienation, transgressive content, or other controversial subject matter ) can also decide whether or not a film is a " cult film ", regardless of the film's budget or studio affiliations.

The site's consensus states " This classic low budget horror film combines just the right amount of gore and black humor, giving The Evil Dead an equal amount of thrills and laughs.

His musical fantasy One from the Heart, although it pioneered the use of video-editing techniques which are standard practice in the film industry today, ended with a disastrous box-office gross of $ 636, 796 against a US $ 26 million budget, far from enough to recoup the costs incurred in the production of the movie, and he was forced to sell his 23-acre Zoetrope Studio in 1983.

The film was a moderate box-office success, drawing a revenue of $ 25 million against a budget of $ 10 million.

The film bombed at the box office, earning a meagre $ 2. 5 million against a budget of $ 10 million, and once again aggravated Coppola's financial troubles.

Produced at small Producers Releasing Corporation | PRC, however, the film was 30 % over budget.

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

Produced in celebration as Toho's 20th Kaiju film, the film was intended to be the final Godzilla movie in the series, and as such, was given a bigger budget than the past few Godzilla productions.

New World's budget breakdown for Godzilla 1985 is as follows: $ 500, 000 to lease the film from Toho, $ 200, 000 for filming the new scenes and other revisions, and $ 2, 500, 000 for prints and advertising, adding up to a grand total of approximately $ 3, 200, 000.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

Hawks went both over schedule and over budget on the film, which began the rift between him and Sol Wurtzel that would eventually lead to Hawks leaving Fox.

" However Hawks once again went over budget with this film and his relationship with Sol Wurtzel became worse.

It was made on a shoestring budget of around $ 12, 000 in misdirected scholarship funds and shot by cinematographer Tom DiCillo on 16 mm film.

Jarmusch's first major film, Stranger Than Paradise, was produced on a budget of approximately $ 125, 000 and released in 1984 to much critical acclaim.

Using the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami as his setting — and on a small budget, with a very tight shooting schedule, and no script — Lewis shot the film by day and performed at the hotel in the evenings.

The film was low budget, and shot quickly.

The film was a failure at the box office, grossing $ 339, 379 with a budget of $ 6 million, but critics praised Spacey's direction.

Taplin liked the script and was willing to raise the $ 300, 000 budget that Scorsese wanted if Corman promised, in writing, to distribute the film.

The film combines the storyline and tone of a B-movie spoof with the budget of a blockbuster movie.

Independent film distributors, which typically spend less than $ 10 million in media buys per film, don ’ t have the budget or breadth of advertising materials to analyze, so they spend little or nothing on pre-release audience research.