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.

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.

Groening had been called to pitch a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show, and had intended to present an adaptation of his Life in Hell comic strip.

Groening had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show, and had intended to present an adaptation of his Life in Hell comic strip.

Groening had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show and had intended to present an adaptation of his Life in Hell comic strip.

In the 1990s, Horace was intended to star in a new TV series to be created for The Disney Afternoon, titled Maximum Horsepower, intended to explain his disappearance from the shorts after the 1930s ended.

He had asked Groening to pitch an idea for a series of animated shorts, which Groening initially intended to present as his Life in Hell series.

Bart's use of the phrase " Eat my shorts " was intended to reflect his adoption of catchphrases he had heard on TV ; the creative team had told Vitti that he should not come up with original taglines for the character.

They are often used as ordinary shorts, but were originally intended as beachwear ; the " board " refers to surfers ' surfboards.

Family Guy was originally intended to be a series of shorts on MADtv, much in the same way The Simpsons had begun on The Tracey Ullman Show a decade earlier.

The shorts were intended to satirize suggestions that early Batman comics implied a homosexual relationship between the eponymous title character and his sidekick Robin, a charge most infamously leveled by Fredric Wertham in his 1954 book, Seduction of the Innocent.

The festival was intended for a German audience and presents recent German and international shorts and documentaries.

When Johnny Savage is forced by his suspicious father ( Brian Doyle-Murray ) to quit the show, Corky takes over his roles, which were clearly intended for a young, masculine actor: a lusty young frontiersman, a heartbroken soldier, and a little boy wearing a beanie and shorts.

Having seen one of cartoonist Matt Groening's Life in Hell comic strips, Brooks asked Groening to pitch an idea for a series of animated shorts, which Groening initially intended to present as his Life in Hell series.

It was originally intended for use in sports, mainly as what athletes wore over competition clothing ( such as running shirt and shorts or a swimsuit ) and would take off before competition.

Brooks had asked Groening to pitch an idea for a series of animated shorts, which Groening initially intended to present as his Life in Hell series.

Independent animators such as Bill Plympton, Don Hertzfeldt, and Nina Paley have also found audiences and commercial success with animated shorts and feature films that are primarily intended for adults.

The shorts would not be on the floor when he came home that evening.

Cycling can be more efficient and comfortable with special shoes, gloves, and shorts.

The shorts would be spun off into their own series: The Simpsons, which has since aired

Also popular in the Soviet Union, the government produced such animated shorts as What Hitler Wants, which depicts a devilish Hitler giving Russian factories to capitalists, enslaving and riding once-free Soviet citizens, but shows that the U. S. S. R. will be prepared to fight, paying the Germans back in triplicate, ready to beat the ' fascist pirates.

They can also be swim trunks, lifeguard trunks or board shorts.

Sikhs who have undergone the khanḍe-kī-pahul, the Sikh initiation ceremony, can also be recognized by the Five Ks: uncut hair ( Kesh ); an iron / steel bracelet ( kara ); a Kirpan, a sword tucked in a gatra strap ; Kachehra, a type of special shorts ; and a Kanga, a small comb to keep the hair clean.

For her last call-back he requested that she wear short shorts, which proved to be the most comfortable of all the cast members ' costumes.

The touch can also be a push, often on the shorts, or one rider hurling the other into the race by a hand-sling.

A Wallace and Gromit interactive CD-ROM game from circa 1995, named W & G: Cracking Contraptions, has been released for the PC, containing mini games based on the three original animated shorts as well as brief video clips, wallpapers, screen savers, and sounds that could be assigned as system sounds.

The short was one of a few shorts to be made with an early two-strip Technicolor process, including one featuring Curly without Healy or the other Stooges, Roast Beef and Movies ( 1934 ).

As their contracts with the studio included an open option that had to be renewed every year, Cohn would tell the boys that the short subjects were in decline, which was not a complete fabrication ( Cohn's yearly mantra was " the market for comedy shorts is dying out, fellas.

The cabling used in the outside plant must also be protected from electrical disturbances caused by lightning or voltage surges due to electrical shorts or induction.

These include suggesting that female football players should wear tighter shorts to appear more attractive to men, that Latin American countries would ' applaud ' John Terry for having an extramarital affair, that homosexuals should ' refrain from any sexual activity ' while attending the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and that on-field racism could be corrected with a ' handshake '.

The shorts from this era can be identified by the fact that they open with a different title sequence featuring stylized limited animation and graphics on a black background and a re-arranged version of " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down ," arranged by William Lava.

Also, it has been announced that Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner will be making a return to the big screen in a series of 3-D shorts that will precede select Warner Bros. films.

Animation announced that there will be more Looney Tunes 3-D theatrical shorts ; the first titled Daffy Rhapsody with Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd, the next being I Tawt I Taw a Putty Tat with Sylvester, Tweety and Granny.

This short, along with a few of McCracken's No Neck Joe shorts, was selected to be shown at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation in 1994.

Ub's birth name can be seen on early “ Alice ” shorts that he signed.

The shorts would eventually be spun off into The Simpsons.

Wells gained additional attention at Gateshead for being the first to be seen sporting the now common Lycra running shorts.

Occasionally the home kit will be altered by the shorts and socks, sometimes replacing the black socks with white ones ; or replacing the white shorts and black socks combination with royal blue shorts and socks.

" De Forest's process continued to be used through 1927 in the United States for dozens of short Phonofilms ; in the UK it was employed a few years longer for both shorts and features by British Sound Film Productions, a subsidiary of British Talking Pictures, which purchased the primary Phonofilm assets.