After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director in 1943, during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata ( a. k. a. Judo Saga ).

One of the most popular of all New Deal programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps ( 1933 – 1943 ), which sent two million poor young men to work in rural and wilderness areas, primarily on conservation projects.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

In the later war years Gainsborough Studios produced a series of critically derided but immensely popular period melodramas including The Man in Grey ( 1943 ) and The Wicked Lady ( 1945 ).

He went on to star in such popular films as Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Duel in the Sun ( which remains one of the top 100 highest grossing films of all time when adjusted for inflation ), Love Letters ( 1945 ), Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ).

Peter Guralnick ( born December 15, 1943, in Boston, Massachusetts ) is an American music critic, writer on music, and historian of US American popular music, who is also active as an author and screenwriter.

Towards the end of the war popular books became the source of films of higher quality and more serious tone, extoling more long-term values, including Guadalcanal Diary ( film ) ( 1943 ), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ) and They Were Expendable ( 1945 ).

In 1943, Willkie published One World, a book for popular audiences which recounted his world travels on the Gulliver and urged that America accept some form of " world government " after the war.

The International Monarchist League, founded in 1943, which has been very influential in Canada and Australia, has always sought to promote monarchy on the grounds that it strengthens popular liberty, both in a democracy and in a dictatorship, because by definition the monarch is not beholden to politicians.

By the mid-1940s, it had become an extremely popular name for newborn American girls, remaining a top 10 name for most of the decade, peaking at # 8 in both 1943 and 1945.

A conscientious objector during World War II ( causing his family to break with him for many years ), he became immensely popular for his brooding anti-heroes in the Gainsborough series of melodramas of the 1940s, including The Man in Grey ( 1943 ) and The Wicked Lady ( 1945 ).

Hindemith's most popular work, both on record and in the concert hall, is probably the Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, written in 1943.

* Chriet Titulaer ( born 1943 ), television presenter and a writer of popular scientific material

Loesser wrote the popular war songs " Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition " ( 1942 ) and " The Ballad of Rodger Young " ( 1943 ), among others.

During World War II, Turner became a popular pin-up girl due to her popularity in such films such as Ziegfeld Girl ( 1941 ), Johnny Eager ( 1942 ), Slightly Dangerous ( 1943 ) and four films with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's " king of the lot ", Clark Gable.

Cilla Black OBE ( born Priscilla Maria Veronica White, 27 May 1943 ) is an English singer, actress, entertainer and media personality, who has been consistently popular in the UK as a light entertainment figure since 1963.

This trend towards greater acceptance of ethnic and racial " minorities " by " WASPs " ( Anglo-Americans and other, mainly Protestant Americans of Northern European descent ) was first evident in popular culture in the combat films of the Second World War, starting with Bataan ( 1943 ).

Eventually they settled in Los Angeles, where Werfel, who had already enjoyed moderate renown in the U. S. as an author, achieved a huge popular success with his novel The Song of Bernadette, which was made into a film in 1943, and the science fiction novel, Star of the Unborn, published after his death.

The most popular issues featured the Donald Duck 10-pagers written and drawn by Carl Barks who began the run with issue # 31 ( April 1943 ) and ended with original stories in issue # 312 ( September 1966 ) but have been continually reprinted up to the present.

The first broadcast of The Zero Hour was made at 5: 15 p. m. on March 31, 1943 and consisted of a 15-to 20-minute program of jazz, popular music and news delivered by Norman Reyes, beamed on the 19-and 25-meter shortwave bands.

: Capp used Li ' l Abner to satirize current events, fads, and ephemeral popular culture ( such as zoot suits in " Zoot Suit Yokum ," 1943 ).

The barn burned in 1922, but the pond, enlarged and remodeled in 1928 and 1943, is now known as Theta Pond, a popular campus scenic landmark.

Since the tree's rediscovery in 1943, the Dawn redwood has become a popular ornamental tree in parks and gardens worldwide.

The term " gremlins " also entered popular culture as children's author Roald Dahl published a book called The Gremlins in 1943, based on the mischievous creatures.

Footage of the waves of the Andaman Islands also appeared in the film " Thicker than Water ", shot by cinematographer Jack Johnson, who later achieved worldwide fame as a popular musician.

The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

* A hugely popular yet heavily fictionalized perpetuation of the story came in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus ( 1979 ) and the Oscar-winning 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman based upon it.

In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film.

Its urban settings and historical legacy have made it a popular location for international film productions.

The comedy genre can be considered the oldest film genre ( and one of the most prolific and popular ).

This form of comedy film was particularly popular during the 1930s and 1940s.

In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

He also mentions, but only in passing, the use of the English language and consumption of news and popular music and film as cultural dominance that he supports.

* The Cheka were popular staples in Soviet film and literature.

Various paranormal interpretations appeared in the popular culture, and one of the more outspoken proponents of rods as alien life forms is Jose Escamilla, who claims to have been the first to film them on March 19, 1994 at Roswell, New Mexico, while attempting to film a UFO.

Having originated among writers, the concept of cyberspace remains most popular in literature and film.

Another American writer in a similar vein was Thorne Smith, whose works ( such as Topper and The Night Life of the Gods ) were popular and influential, and often adapted for film and television.

File: Girl. in. Mary Poppins. costume. 1964. jpg | Girl in Mary Poppins costume, an item in Walt Disney's highly successful merchandising campaign for the popular 1964 film.

Barrymore forged an image as a manipulative teenage seductress, beginning with the film Poison Ivy ( 1992 ), which was a box office failure, but was popular on video and cable.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

This 16 mm film | 16 mm spring-wound Bolex " H16 " Reflex camera is a popular entry level camera used in film school s.

In popular myth, the word ' documentary ' was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana ( 1926 ), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by " The Moviegoer " ( a pen name for Grierson ).

Biographer David Buckley writes, " The essence of Bowie's contribution to popular music can be found in his outstanding ability to analyse and select ideas from outside the mainstream — from art, literature, theatre and film — and to bring them inside, so that the currency of pop is constantly being changed.