In a recent interview with PC Magazine, Valve CEO and co-founder Gabe Newell said that they wanted to make a Half-Life feature film themselves, rather than hand it off to a big-name director like Sam Raimi, and that their recent Team Fortress 2 " Meet The Team " machinima shorts were experiments in doing just that.

The change in the preceding, introductory title cards was possibly to reflect the switch in the animation style of the shorts themselves.

Today, Paramount ( through Republic, which the studio's parent company, Viacom, acquired in 1999 ), in a twist of irony, now owns the original elements to its 1927 – September 1950 output they themselves originally released ( in addition to the April 1962 – 1967 non-Comic King shorts ( except Frog's Legs, starring Little Lulu, which Paramount still owns ) they have retained the rights to and the 1961 Noveltoon, Alvin's Solo Flight, also starring Little Lulu ).

To those who count themselves his friends ( foremost among them being Corcoran, who narrates the shorts, and Jeremy Garnet, narrator of Love Among the Chickens ), Ukridge is a difficult and often exasperating companion, but one who is generally well-regarded.

Partible, with a small team of animators, animated the short themselves in-house at Hanna-Barbera using digital ink and paint ( the latter shorts and seasons 1 and early season 2 of the series would instead use the traditional ink and paint and film camera.

The swimsuits themselves, which resemble board shorts, are paneled swimsuits, with waistbands resembling boxing trunks, always double-stitched, always with two layers of fabric.

In addition to stand-alone viral comedy shorts or " one-offs ", which are usually shot on location and feature hired actors, CH Originals also produces a number of series — notably " Hardly Working ", " Jake and Amir ", and " Nerd Alert "— which are shot in the CH office and star the CH staff members themselves.

In the morning the shorts were where he had left them.

Then he caught just enough to know that the shorts were still there.

Blue shorts were retained, but the socks were for the first time red, with a white flash.

Thus, dark blue jerseys, were introduced with white shorts and the red socks of 1908.

Since the shorts were produced during the rise of film noir in cinema, the change was usually represented as a stylized sequence: Clark Kent's silhouette is clearly seen behind a closed door's pebble glass window ( or a shadow thrown across a wall ) as he strips to his Superman costume.

Often slow-moving and overbearing with " cuteness ", Jones ' early cartoons were an attempt to follow in the footsteps of Walt Disney's shorts ( especially with such cartoons as Tom Thumb in Trouble and the Sniffles cartoons ).

Jones ' shorts from this period starring these characters represent some of his earliest classics that were strictly intended to be funny.

Jones also produced the 1979 film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie which was a compilation of Jones ' best theatrical shorts ; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ), and even newer shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ).

Kaye's rubber face and fast patter were an instant hit, and rival producer Robert M. Savini cashed in almost immediately by compiling three of Kaye's old Educational Pictures shorts into a makeshift feature, The Birth of a Star ( 1945 ).

Although England's first away kits were blue, England's traditional away colours are red shirts, white shorts and red socks.

In 1898 some ghost films were made, the Shirō Asano shorts Bake Jizo ( Jizo the Spook / 化け地蔵 ) and Shinin no sosei ( Resurrection of a Corpse ).

Although the earliest British films were of everyday events, the early 20th century saw the appearance of narrative shorts, mainly comedies and melodramas.

In addition to the new episodes, the classic 1950s and 1960s shorts were re-run as part of the series, but with newly recorded soundtracks, with the voices re-recorded and the original music replaced by Jerry Gerber's score from the 1988 series.

In the original theatrical shorts, they were originally sent to visit Donald for only one day ; in the comics, the three were sent to stay with Donald on a temporary basis, until their father came back from the hospital ( the boys ended up sending him there after a practical joke of putting firecrackers under his chair ).

In both the comics and animated shorts, the boys ' parents were never heard from or referred to again after these instances, with the boys ending up permanently living with Donald.

In early comic books and shorts, the caps of Huey, Dewey, and Louie were colored randomly, depending on the whim of the colorist.

Between December 1916 and August 1918, a total of 37 Katzenjammer Kids silent cartoon shorts were produced by William Randolph Hearst's own cartoon studio International Film Service, which adapted well-known comic strips owned by Hearst for animation.

( Sennett's corporate bosses retained the Keystone trademark and produced a cheap series of comedy shorts that were " Keystones " in name only: they were unsuccessful, and Sennett had no connection with them.

After this, thousands of Vitaphone shorts ( 1926 – 30 ) were made, many featuring bands, vocalists and dancers, in which a musical soundtrack played while the actors portrayed their characters just as they did in silent films: without dialogue.

The early animated films by Walt Disney, such as the Silly Symphonies shorts and especially Fantasia, which featured several interpretations of classical pieces, were built around music.

The remaining shorts were directed by Abe Levitow and Ben Washam, with Tom Ray directing two shorts built around footage from earlier Tom and Jerry cartoons directed by Hanna and Barbera, and Jim Pabian directed a short with Maurice Noble.

One of these shorts was a documentary about the inauguration of the hydro-electrical plant that his father built, Hulha Branca.

Grim Natwick, Al Eugster, and Shamus Culhane were among the series ' lead animators / directors, and a number of the shorts were filmed using Iwerks ' multiplane camera, which he built himself from the remains of a Chevrolet automobile.

The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.

Ajax originally played in an all black uniform with a red sash tied around the players ' waists, but that uniform was soon replaced by a red / white striped shirt and black shorts.

Most schools will only allow boys to wear shorts in younger years, and wear pants around the age of puberty ( 13-14 years ).

Michaels later stated that the concept of DX was brought about after he persuaded McMahon to take a cruder approach to the companies marketing approach following him fining Michaels $ 10, 000 for putting large ornaments in his shorts and exploiting his crotch around the ring during an on-air interview.

He had to run in street clothes that he cut around the legs to make them look like shorts.

Like gym shorts, they often feature a cord to be tied around the waist at the front.

: A term coined in the late 20th century by the fashion cognoscenti of the New York City neighborhood of Nolita ( Northern Little Italy ) as an alternative to the more frequently used term " shorts ", referring to clothing worn around the waist and having two legs extending no further than mid-knee.

Richie appears to be around seven to ten years old and wears a waistcoat, a white shirt with an Eton collar ( which is obscured by a giant red bow tie ), and blue shorts.

Owing to the popularity of the shorts, five half-hour specials were made, followed by a regular half-hour series that ran for three seasons ( 1993 – 1996 ) and continued in reruns until around 1999.

Some men may wear the 1980s-90s style of red tartan cloth or they may wear a dark green / blue plaid cloth around their waists called ' kikoi ', often with shorts underneath.

He enjoys having his friends around to play and is mostly the one who finds the polka dot shorts.

Dudley has appeared in numerous public service announcements on TV, a dozen National Children's Dental Health Month Campaigns, several coloring books and patient education booklets, four animated shorts produced by the ADA and on 2, 500 outdoor billboards around the country.

Meazza made no fuss, but as he stepped up to take the kick, his shorts fell down because the elastic around the waist had earlier been pulled and ripped by a defender.

Its production number is # 165, while the other shorts released during the same year have production numbers around # 155.

) Two more shorts on the program followed ( Jungle Boy in " Mr. Monkeyman ", and Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women ) and the shorts were so popular that Cartoon Network commissioned a first season of series based around Johnny Bravo, consisting of 13 episodes.

Thirteen years later, Davis directed a cartoon for Warners again, using Freleng's unit ( there were several shorts released around this time from not only Friz's unit but Chuck Jones ' as well with the direction credited to varying subordinates ).

Evidently Marks had also sold Sullivan the rights to some of his 8mm sex films as well, as adverts by Kelerfern ( a Sullivan mail order company ) carried Marks-directed sex shorts like Hole in One, Nymphomania, King Muff and Doctor Sex for sale around this period.

The festival features a selection of animated shorts ( 10 minutes and under ) from around the globe.

With the series now in one-reel format, Douglas had to modify the looser approaches of his predecessors, Robert F. McGowan and Gus Meins, and turned the Our Gang series into slicker, more streamlined shorts based around situation comedy.

The body was found to be the torso of a young black child, the orange being a pair of shorts around the stumps of the legs.