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.

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 film, finished in January 1934 for Lenin's obit, was only publicly released in November.

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.

The finished -- and drastically cut -- product would begin with a hazy longshot of Joyce entering the suds, then bursting above the pool's surface clad in layers of lavender lather, and I had a hunch this item was going to sell tons and tons of soap ; ;

When the work was finished, we would walk.

Those who saw his finished Pieta would take the place of the biblical witnesses.

The principal potential advantage would be that the finished product could be transported and stored at lower cost under refrigeration instead of being frozen.

When he had finished with that, he would go to another part of the hotel and say much the same things to someone else, most probably a busboy.

But whichever of these two finished ahead of the other would be the undisputed financial leader of the tour.

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the success of the finished engine indicated that Babbage's machine would have worked.

A self-replicating machine would need to have the capacity to gather energy and raw materials, process the raw materials into finished components, and then assemble them into a copy of itself.

Fox was known for defensive discipline and it would be needed to improve a team that had finished in the bottom of the defensive rankings the previous year.

Brown would be 72 by the time he finished the murals.

After discussing the technical problems and emphasising the practical uses of the tower, he finished his talk by saying that the tower would symbolise

The Astros finished 61 – 49 overall, which would have been third in the division behind the Reds and the Dodgers.

Indianapolis finished the season with a 14 – 2 record, the best record in the league that year and the best in a 16 games season for the franchise, but would go onto lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers in divisional round, a disappointing end to the season.

He returned to racing before the end of the year, but promised his wife that he would retire after the season finished and sold his share of the team to Tauranac.

" Also in 1966, Kenneth Burke, declared, " Count me among those who would view this poem both as a marvel, and as ' in principle ' finished "

If there were two large programs ready to run, one would have to wait until the other finished and vacated the large partition.

1991 also marked the first time that any team that finished in last place in their division would advance to the World Series the following season.

As St. Peter's was progressing, there was concern that Michelangelo would pass away before the dome was finished.

Publisher Gaines would typically write a personal check and give it to the artist upon receipt of the finished product.

Orbison later recalled that, by the age of seven, " I was finished, you know, for anything else "; music would be his life.

" The contract also stipulated that the film would be " non-political ," that immediately available funding came from Mrs. Sinclair in an amount of " not less than Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ," that the shooting schedule amounted to " a period of from three to four months ," and most importantly that " Eisenstein furthermore agrees that all pictures made or directed by him in Mexico, all negative film and positive prints, and all story and ideas embodied in said Mexican picture, will be the property of Mrs. Sinclair ..." A codicil to the contract, dated December 1, allowed that the " Soviet Government may have the film free for showing inside the U. S. S. R ." Reportedly, it was verbally clarified that the expectation was for a finished film of about an hour's duration.

Dallas finished the regular season winning the NFC East with a 10-4 record, winning their final five regular season games to overcome the St. Louis Cardinals ( who lost their final three games and fell to third place in the final standings ) and New York Giants ( who lost their finale 31-3 to the Los Angeles Rams ; a Giants victory would have given New York the NFC East title based upon a better division record ).