Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

In 1975, he directed six short films for the first season of NBC's Saturday Night Live:

He thereafter composed the score for all of his films, and from the late 1950s to his death, he re-scored all of his silent features and some of his short films.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who had made a number of very popular short silent films, used the arrival of sound to deepen their well-formed screen characterizations and enhance their visual humour, and went on to great success in talking films.

Although they may only have a short cinema life, cult films often enjoy ongoing popularity through long runs on video, thus being issued in video " runs " with more copies than other movies.

She intermittently took classes at Portland State University studying English, as well as San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she took a film class taught by George Kuchar and starred in one of his short films.

The films Johnny Mnemonic and New Rose Hotel, both based upon short stories by William Gibson, flopped commercially and critically.

As a brute-force method, ray tracing has been too slow to consider for real-time, and until recently too slow even to consider for short films of any degree of quality, although it has been used for special effects sequences, and in advertising, where a short portion of high quality ( perhaps even photorealistic ) footage is required.

While " animation " designates any style of illustrated images seen in rapid succession to give the impression of movement, the word " cartoon " is most often used in reference to TV programs and short films for children featuring anthropomorphized animals, superheroes, the adventures of child protagonists and related genres.

Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films.

After two short sketch films and two short art-house features ( the black and white Stereo and the colour Crimes of the Future ) Cronenberg went into partnership with Ivan Reitman.

These short films were called " actuality " films ; the term " documentary " was not coined until 1926.

All these short films have been preserved.

Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels, short films, and a feature film called Flatland.

, the Esperanto-language Wikipedia lists 14 films and 3 short films.

Early films by Edison ( whose company invented a motion camera and projector ) and others were short films that were one long, static, locked-down shot.

A number of film festivals specialise in short films, each with its defined maximum length.

The largest festival, in terms of the number of features shown, is the Seattle International Film Festival, screening 270 features, and approximately 150 short films.

* Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories ( short stories collected posthumously, also published as Miss Marple's Final Cases, but only six of the eight stories actually feature Miss Marple ) ( written between 1939 and 1954, published 1979 )

While the Reno Air Races keep this tradition alive, most air shows today primarily feature a series of aerial demos of short duration.

As part of a promotional campaign for the new series, cinemas screening Jackass 3D opened the feature film with a 3-D Beavis and Butt-Head short subject.

Full-automatic fire was also considered a desirable feature, allowing the soldier to fire short bursts of three to five rounds, increasing the probability of a hit on a moving target.

In particular, the five most elementary fractions ( ½, ⅓, ⅔, ¼ and ¾ ) all have a short terminating representation in duodecimal ( 0. 6, 0. 4, 0. 8, 0. 3 and 0. 9, respectively ), and twelve is the smallest radix with this feature ( since it is the least common multiple of 3 and 4 ).

( The VHS version of the 1980s, sharing the removal of the Scarecrow's laugh from Terry Gilkyson's title song, was expanded to include the story material from all three TV episodes, while retaining feature film structure and credits ; it was available for a relatively short amount of time.

One of Wollheim's short stories, " Mimic ," was made into the feature film of the same name, released in 1997.

Gracen made her directorial debut with a documentary short feature called The Damn Deal.

One distinctive feature that has caused a great amount of interest among linguists is what is traditionally seen as three degrees of phoneme length: short, long, and " overlong ", such that, and are distinct.

It was the period when the exhibition of films changed from short programmes of one-reel films to longer shows consisting of a feature film of four reels or longer, though still supported by short films.

Walt Disney, who had previously been in the short cartoon business, stepped into feature films with the first English-speaking animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ; released by RKO Pictures in 1937.

Felids have a relatively small number of teeth compared with other carnivorans, a feature associated with their short muzzles.

In Australia, there exists the Guild of Commercial Filmmakers, a collection of commercial, short film and feature filmmakers.

After 1. 5 years of work, it was decided that it didn't really work as a whole, so production on the TV special was stopped ( with the exception of some very short clips, no material from it has ever been seen by the public ), and Caprino and Aukrust instead wrote a screenplay for a feature film using the characters and environments that had already been built.

The latter feature is due to the presence of elongated loops of Henle ; these are much shorter in birds, and not truly present in other vertebrates ( although the nephron often has a short intermediate segment between the convoluted tubules ).

She will make a cameo appearance in the upcoming short feature Fight for Your Right Revisited.

" His first publicly released film was an experimental short called The Orchid Gardener ( 1977 ) and his first feature film came seven years later with The Element of Crime ( 1984 ).

He was so inspired by the short film The Perfect Human directed by Jørgen Leth that he challenged Leth to redo the short five times in feature film The Five Obstructions.

Not only was this a spoof of travelogues per se, it was a protest against the then-common practice in Britain of showing cheaply made banal short features before a main feature.

After shooting five short films one after another in three years and winning many awards consecutively, he began shooting his feature films.

Altioklar has written all the scripts of his short and feature films.

In early 1941, after a short stay with Paul Bascomb, he had his big break when Count Basie chose him to succeed the post of Lester Young in his big band.

A short film Lester made with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers, The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film ( 1960 ), was a favourite of The Beatles, and in particular John Lennon.

It was at this time that he appeared in the Academy Award-nominated short film Jammin ' the Blues with Lester Young.

Malkovich finds that he has regained control of himself but his joy is cut short as moments later Dr. Lester and his friends enter the portal.

Despite having sold a short story and several articles under his real name, he initially submitted his first novel under a pseudonym ; it was the editor of that novel, Lester Del Rey, who first demanded he use his real name and then added the hyphen to create the name Lawrence Watt-Evans.

For a short time, Ron Leejack continued on with the new version of Wicked Lester.

Founded in 1999 by David Joseph Henry and CN Lester as a grass roots civil rights group, its formation was inspired by YouthSpeak and originally called the ' Queer Youth Alliance ' until December 2006, and also ‘ Queer Youth Overground ’ for a short period between 1999 and 2001.

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film is a short ( eleven minute ) film directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers, in collaboration with Bruce Lacey.

*" My Name is Legion " is a 1942 short story by Lester del Rey.

Peter Straub's short story collection Magic Terror ( 2000 ) contains a story called " Pork Pie Hat ", a fictionalized account of the life of Lester Young.

Lester finished the season strong but fell just short of 20 wins.

Lester underwent off-season chemotherapy treatments at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, named after the former MLB pitcher and manager whose life was cut short by cancer at age 45 in 1964.