The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

The juries consisted of over 1, 500 artists, scholars, critics and historians, with movies selected based on the film ’ s popularity over time, historical significance and cultural impact.

The ongoing popularity of the series spawned a 1993 film remake by 20th Century Fox.

Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity.

Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film in the United States.

The film was marketed specifically to broaden disco's popularity beyond its primarily black and Latin audiences.

Dealing with outdated material at a time when the popularity of film musicals was already on the downslide, Coppola's result was only semi-successful, but his work with Clark no doubt contributed to her Golden Globe Best Actress nomination.

In 1903 there was a substantial increase in the number of women film several minutes long unclear, as a result of the great popularity of Georges Méliès ’ le Voyage dans la lune ( A Trip to the Moon ), which came out in early 1902, though such films were still a very minor part of production.

During the immediate post-war years the cinematic industry was also threatened by television, and the increasing popularity of the medium meant that some film theatres would bankrupt and close.

From the outset, this new republic held that film would be the most ideal propaganda tool for the Soviet Union because of its widespread popularity among the established citizenry of the new land ; Vladimir Lenin, in fact, declared it the most important medium for educating the masses in the ways, means and successes of Communism, a position which was later echoed by Joseph Stalin.

Poliziotteschi ( Italian pronunciation: ) films constitute a sub-genre of crime and action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s.

The period after the American Occupation led to a rise in diversity in movie distribution thanks to the increased output and popularity of the film studios of Toho, Daiei, Shochiku, Nikkatsu, and Toei.

Because of the popularity of Edison's and Lumière's cameras, 35mm film began to become the dominant gauge.

He has also won numerous film, advertising and popularity awards across Europe and India.

With the popularity of telecine transfers and video edits, Kodak invented a machine readable edge number that could be recorded via computer, read by the editing computer and automatically produce a " cut list " from the video edit of the film.

Their first film was Hoffmeyer's Legacy ( 1912 ) but their popularity stemmed from the 1913 short The Bangville Police starring Mabel Normand.

Exhibitors in turn capitalized on her popularity by advertising on sandwich boards that a film featuring " The Girl with the Golden Curls ," " Blondilocks " or " The Biograph Girl " was inside.

In response to her popularity, Hollywood rethought its vision of features as " canned theatre ," and focused instead on actors and material that were uniquely suited to film, not stage performances.

The greatest popularity, however, was achieved by a 1957 comedy about a testy, ill-tempered character nicknamed Patate and a 1962 comic mystery L ' Idiote Idiot, best known in America as the basis for the play and film A Shot in the Dark.

The 1930s through the 1960s are considered to be the golden age of the musical film, when the genre's popularity was at its highest in the Western world.

In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

The film has become a cult classic, and has enjoyed great popularity since Jackson's success with the Lord of the Rings films.

The popularity of CCD imaging among amateurs has led to large numbers of web sites being written by individuals about their images and equipment.

The popularity and reputation of the cricket series has led to other sports or games, and / or their followers, using the name " Ashes " for contests between England and Australia.

Other writers acknowledge his extremely high popularity at home, but suppose his occasionally rigid and even irrational political loyalties and convictions contributed greatly to Spartan decline, notably his unremitting hatred of Thebes, which led to Sparta's humiliation at the Battle of Leuctra and thus the end of Spartan hegemony.

Speed improved with the introduction of 1200 bit / s modems in the early 1980s, and this led to a substantial increase in popularity.

As a sidelight to his prominent role in changing the game to the power game, the frequency and popularity of Ruth's home runs eventually led to a rule change pertaining to those hit in sudden-death mode ( bottom of the ninth or later inning ).

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

The popularity of Bubble Bobble led Taito ( or its licensees ) to port to many home computers and video game consoles.

Ditka's success and popularity in Chicago has led him to land analyst roles on various American football pregame shows.

Disco's popularity led many non-disco artists to record disco songs at the height of its popularity.

The popularity of the comic strip within the corporate sector has led to the Dilbert character being used in many business magazines and publications ( he has made several appearances on the cover of Fortune ).

Her popularity as a radio performer and vocalist, which included a second hit record " My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time ", led directly to a career in films.

The game's popularity prompted Bill Gates to briefly consider buying id Software, and led Microsoft to develop a Windows 95 port of Doom to promote the operating system as a gaming platform.

The popularity of Doom led to the development of a sequel, Doom II: Hell on Earth ( 1994 ), as well as expansion packs and alternate versions based on the same game engine, including The Ultimate Doom ( 1995 ), Final Doom ( 1996 ), and Doom 64 ( 1997 ).

The continued popularity of his 1971 Brady Bunch appearance led to his being cast as himself in The Brady Bunch Movie.

The special popularity of his longer films, which were several minutes long from 1899 onwards ( while most other films were still only a minute long ), led other makers to start producing longer films.

In a bid to secure the loyalty of his troops and his own popularity with them and with the Roman people, he led them on a spectacular but brutal raid against the Marsi, a German tribe on the upper Ruhr river, in which he massacred much of the tribe.

The popularity of this variation of the gin and tonic has led to the establishment of Gin Tónica bars, in which customers can choose their preferred gin, tonic, and garnish from a menu.

This event marked the beginning of the browser's popularity decline, which led to its discontinuation in September 2008.

At the same time the rising popularity of Firefox, its status of the default browser in major distribution and the overwhelming number of its extensions led to decline of Galeon's user base.

Even Julian's intellectual friends and fellow pagans were of a divided mind about this habit of talking to his subjects on an equal footing: Ammianus Marcellinus saw in that only the foolish vanity of someone " excessively anxious for empty distinction ", whose " desire for popularity often led him to converse with unworthy persons ".

The brand's popularity has led to it being used as a generic term for gelatin dessert across the U. S. and Canada.

Riding a wave of popularity from the return of the last POWs from Soviet labor camps, as well as an extensive pension reform, Adenauer led the CDU / CSU to the first — and as of 2011, only — outright majority in a free German election.

The popularity led to the founding of local Lindy Hop dance communities in many cities.