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.

The first two forces are directly interrelated and depend upon film thickness, whereas Af is independent of these two and is a constant for a given knife/coating combination.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

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.

In about seven years Griffith either invented or first realized the possibilities of virtually every resource at the disposal of the film maker.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.

( Coincidentally, Hickson had played a housekeeper in the first film in which Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple.

There, he met director Carlos Marcovich and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and they made what would be his first short film, Vengeance is mine.

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

In 1995, Cuarón released his first feature film produced in the United States, A Little Princess, an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel.

Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

It was the first all-talking non-musical film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.

* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

The first series of Sherlock Holmes adventures ends with Holmes and Moriarty grappling together on the edge of a cliff.

This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

The first report in this continuing series appeared in the September 1960 issue of the Journal.

The exercise I shall discuss in this -- the first of a new series of articles on muscle definition-specialization of a particular body part -- is the One Leg Lunge.

Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

In the first courtyard there are some fine bas-reliefs and friezes, and in the second a series of delightful terraced roof gardens above an ivy-covered wall.

Hansen will engage in his first workout at Miami Stadium prior to the opening tomorrow night of a two-game weekend series with the New York Yankees.

-- The first in a series of five productions will be held in War Memorial Auditorium Thursday, Oct. 26.

It was the first in the series of `` Concerts for Young People by Young People '' to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.

Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.

In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.

In 1797, Daniel C. Cooper had laid out the Mad River Road, the first overland connection between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dayton, opening the " Mad River Country " at Dayton and the upper Miami Valley to settlement.

He appeared on television on one episode of Mad About Yous first season in 1992, playing an eccentric billionaire.

Mad first used the boy's face in November, 1954.

Many have written that the key factor is when the reader first encountered Mad.

" The magazine's art director, Sam Viviano, has suggested that historically, Mad was at its best " whenever you first started reading it.

In 1955, Gaines began presenting reprints of material for Mad in black-and-white paperbacks, the first being The Mad Reader.

In 1967, Marvel Comics produced the first of 13 issues of Not Brand Echh, which parodied their own superhero titles as well as DC's ; the series owed its inspiration and format to the original " Mad " comic books of a decade earlier.

Among the few outside Mad items available in its first 40 years were cufflinks, a T-shirt designed like a straitjacket ( complete with lock ), and a small ceramic Alfred E. Neuman bust.

A successful off Broadway production, The Mad Show, was first staged in 1966.

The Mad Magazine Game was an absurdist version of Monopoly in which the first player to lose all his money and go bankrupt was the winner.

* 1940 – New York City's " Mad Bomber " George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

He is the first major suspect in " The Mad Woman in the Attic ".

The Lost Tombs trilogy of modules — The Star Cairns and Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad, by Sean K. Reynolds, and The Doomgrinder, by Steve Miller — were the first to be published in the new setting.

The first paperback edition was an Ace Books double novel along with Roger Dee's An Earth Gone Mad ; The Stars, Like Dust was retitled The Rebellious Stars for this edition without Asimov's consent.

In the decisive seventh game of that series, Slaughter, running with the pitch, made a famous " Mad Dash " for home from first base on Harry Walker's hit in the eighth inning, scoring the winning run after a delayed relay throw by the Red Sox ' Johnny Pesky.

But in contrast to Witch Hazel from Trick or Treat, first released on October 10, 1952, or Mad Madam Mim she would not be in the image of the old hag usually associated with witches.

Ryo first travels there to meet Master Chen, and eventually gets a job at the harbor to gain information on The Mad Angels, who have a large criminal influence in the area.

To rescue Nozomi, Ryo must first fight Guizhang, then team up with Guizhang to defeat all seventy members of the Mad Angels gang.

The familiar opening phrase " tales well-calculated to ..." was satirized by Mad as the cover blurb " Tales Calculated to Drive You ... Mad " on its first issue ( October – November 1952 ) and continuing until issue # 23 ( May 1955 ).

Settled in 1750, the city of Winsted was formed at the junction of the Mad River and Still River, and was one of the first mill towns in Connecticut.

The Guild's production of One Mad Night in 1940 was the first three-act play performed on television, when it was broadcast on WPTZ, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

It began in the late 1930s with the first ski tow established in the Mad River Valley, erected by the Warren Outing Club.