By the time The Circus was released, Hollywood had witnessed the introduction of sound films.

DeMille also appeared as himself in Paramount's 1947 all-star musical comedy Variety Girl and he narrated many of his later films, as well as appearing on screen in the introduction to The Ten Commandments.

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It has been used as an instrumental underscore or introduction to many films or skits having to do with baseball.

The DH perf never had broad uptake, and Kodak's introduction of monopack Eastmancolor film in the 1950s reduced the demand for dye transfer, although the DH perf persists in special application intermediate films to this day.

The introduction of roll film drove the standardization process still further so that by the 1950s only a few standard roll films were in use.

The introduction of films enabled the existing designs for plate cameras to be made much smaller and for the base-plate to be hinged so that it could be folded up compressing the bellows.

In the introduction for The Criterion Collection DVD of Jean Renoir's The River, Martin Scorsese, who has long championed Powell and Pressburger's works, considers The Red Shoes, along with the Renoir film to be the two most beautiful colour films.

The studio clips were straightforward performance films shot at Abbey Road Studios on 19 May, especially for broadcast on The Ed Sullivan Show and prefaced by a spoken introduction from Ringo.

Many of his films inspired filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson ( There Will Be Blood ), who gave an introduction on the newly restored DVD of The Earrings of Madame de ( 1953 ).

At the time of the introduction of domestic video recorders in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, there was no legislation specifically designed to regulate video content, apart from the Obscene Publications Act 1959 which had been amended in 1977 to cover erotic films.

The color cast of Kodachrome films was unique in color photography for several decades after its introduction in the 1930s.

Even after the introduction of other successful professional color films, such as Fuji Velvia, some professionals continued to prefer Kodachrome, and maintain that it still has certain advantages over digital.

On January 6, 2009, Apple announced that DRM had been removed from 80 % of the entire music catalog in the U. S. Full iTunes Plus availability was achieved on April 7, 2009 in the U. S., coinciding with the introduction of a three-tiered pricing model ; however, television episodes, many books, and films are still FairPlay-protected.

It was used as the introduction to all Rank films, many of which were created at their Pinewood Studios ).

After the introduction of private companies in the Nepali film industry, the time came when more films were being made and they were much more accepted by Nepali audiences.

A few films worth mentioning include, but are not limited to, Prom Night, in which Jamie Lee Curtis would again embrace a scream queen role, Friday the 13th, the first entry having both a female antagonist ( Betsy Palmer ) and protagonist ( Adrienne King ), A Nightmare on Elm Street, now considered a slasher-classic, with the introduction of supernatural serial killer Freddy Krueger, had its leading actress, Heather Langenkamp, dubbed a scream queen.

They joined a homegrown supply of actors — lured west from the New York City stage after the introduction of sound films — to form one of the 20th century's most remarkable growth industries.

In Gilmore's introduction, he lists a number of novels and films supposedly influenced by The Satanic Bible and LaVeyan Satanism.

His most famous and widely heard performances were the sound of the African drum playing " V-for-Victory " in Morse code-the introduction to the BBC broadcasts made to the European Resistance during World War II, and providing the sound of the gong seen at the start of films produced by the Rank Organisation.

He also visited Belgium and after an introduction from his brother Henri, he became an assistant to the director Jacques de Baroncelli on several films.

Clair was initially sceptical about the introduction of sound to films, and called it " an unnatural creation ".

Until the introduction of digital sound, it was fairly common for 35 mm films to be blown up to 70 mm often just to take advantage of the greater number of sound tracks and the fidelity of the audio.

According to Roger Ebert's introduction to the DVD set, Kieślowski said that the films did not correspond exactly to the commandments, and never used their names himself.

While low-quality at first, consumer digital video increased rapidly in quality, first with the introduction of playback standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 ( adopted for use in television transmission and DVD media ), and then the introduction of the DV tape format allowing recording direct to digital data and simplifying the editing process, allowing non-linear editing systems ( NLE ) to be deployed cheaply and widely on desktop computers with no external playback / recording equipment needed.

Generation X experienced the introduction of the personal computer, the start of the video game era, cable television and the Internet.

However, after the Revenge of the Nerds movie franchise ( with multicultural nerds ), and the introduction of the Steve Urkel character on the television series Family Matters, nerds have been seen in all races and colors as well as more recently being a frequent young Asian or Indian male stereotype in North America.

The National Television System Committee was established in 1940 by the United States Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to resolve the conflicts that were made between companies over the introduction of a nationwide analog television system in the United States.

Most importantly, this new freedom of the press and the introduction of television into the lives of everyday Czechoslovak citizens moved the political dialogue from the intellectual to the popular sphere.

The political position of Prime Minister was enhanced by the development of modern political parties, the introduction of mass communication ( inexpensive newspapers, radio, television and the internet ), and photography.

After the introduction of radio, motion pictures, television, and the internet, many used these technologies to project their public image and address the nation.

With the introduction of the NTSC standard, the Federal Communications Commission authorized the start of commercial television transmission on 1 July 1941.

Research began ( Prof. T. Charlton ) in 1993, two years before its introduction on the island and five years after, to measure the influence that television has on the behaviour of children in classrooms and school playgrounds.

Just as with the other color standards adopted for broadcast usage over the world, SECAM is a standard which permits existing monochrome television receivers predating its introduction to continue to be operated as monochrome televisions.

Following a pan-European agreement to introduce color TV only in 625 lines, France had to start the conversion by switching over to a 625-line television standard, which happened at the beginning of the 1960s with the introduction of a second network.

The introduction of the miniature tube base ( see below ) which could have 9 pins, more than previously available, allowed other multi-section tubes to be introduced, such as the 6GH8 / ECF82 triode-pentode, quite popular in television receivers.

* The introduction of affordable, smaller satellite dishes and the DVB-S standard in the mid-1990s expanded satellite television services that carried up to 500 television channels.

Since the introduction of digital television, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 each introduced a number of digital-only channels.

Its role in the introduction of monetary economy was explored by science historian James Burke in the second episode of his 1978 BBC television series Connections.

It was intended as an introduction to Shakespeare's play for schoolchildren, but it proved good enough to be shown on adult television, and a stage version was later produced.

The introduction of Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC in mid-1985 marked the first time that professional wrestling had been broadcast on network television since the 1950s.

It was later shown on commercial television ( unedited and with limited interruption ), and finally released onto home video on the Pacific Arts label, where the celebrity narrations ( save for Harry Belafonte's introduction ) were removed, and ran for 1 hour and 43 minutes.

For many viewers, this was equivalent to seeing live theater in their living rooms, an effect enhanced when television plays expanded from 60-minute time slots to a 90-minute series with the introduction of Playhouse 90 in the late 1950s.

The performance was considered scandalous enough to be shown on German television four times, with the introduction " The lunatics have escaped!

The introduction of colour television in the United Kingdom from 1967 meant that broadcasters felt there was even less value in retaining monochrome recordings.

They state that creating Cartman as a " little eight-year-old fat kid " made it easier for the two to portray a Bunker-like character after the introduction of political correctness to late-20th century television.

In the early days, the recipes were available by post from the BBC and later with the introduction of the CEEFAX text on screen system, they became available on the television.