Comedy was ideal for the early silent films, as it was dependent on visual action and physical humour rather than sound.

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.

It was far better television than it had to be ; during an era of formulaic domestic sitcoms and wacky comedies, it was a stylistically ambitious show, with a distinctive visual style, absurdist sense of humour and unusual story structure.

Please note that as the State of the Onion speeches are often primarily based on visual humour, the transcripts may seem confusing or nonsensical.

As a film director, Jones finally gained fuller control of the projects and devised a visual style that complemented the humour.

At first a straight dance band, over the years the London Savannah Band more and more tended towards music hall / vaudeville entertainment, introducing all sorts of visual and verbal humour in between songs.

His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility.

Hipgnosis covers were noted for their quirky humour, such as the cover for the Pink Floyd double-LP compilation A Nice Pair, which featured an array of visual puns.

However, where Larry's cartoons are usually the graphic equivalent of one-liner jokes, Tidy tends to work in longer forms with verbal as well as visual humour.

Frequently morbidly fascinating, Cattelan ’ s dark humour sets his work above the simple pleasures of well-made visual one-liners.

Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour, and include photography, collage and found objects.

Through her career, Lucas has continued to appropriate everyday materials ( including, for example, freshly made fried eggs ) to make works that use humour, visual puns and sexual metaphors of sex, death, Englishness and gender.

Since dialog is kept to a minimum the humour is entirely visual.

Mental As Anything is comparable with British band Madness, in that their music is typically delivered with a quirky, ironic sense of humour and a strong visual identity.

He is also active in Doctor Who fandom, notably as editor of the fanzines Spectrox and Yak Butter Sandwichand Spaceball Ricochet, which mixes academic observations with irreverent humour and visual bricolage.

It can be viewed as a piece of Zen humour, or as a kōan in visual form designed to provoke the viewer into new ways of ' seeing '.

The humour was surreal and often featured ridiculous visual gags and wordplay.

According to the developers, one of the reasons they chose to do a side scroller, as opposed to a vertical scroller, was so they could put in lots of visual humour.

The bizarre concept of delivering a ventriloquist act, a visual humour, by radio, an audio medium, never seemed to bother anyone at the time, however.

Comedians such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and the Marx Brothers often used visual humour because the technology used to record voices in film did not yet exist.

* In later years the magazine became well known for its idiosyncratic sense of visual humour.

In many of his poems, death comes by train: a strongly evocative visual image.

In many areas, people with average acuity who nonetheless have a visual field of less than 20 degrees ( the norm being 180 degrees ) are also classified as being legally blind.

The simplest way to gain information about brain anatomy is by visual inspection, but many more sophisticated techniques have been developed.

The superior colliculus, which plays a major role in visual control of behavior in most vertebrates, shrinks to a small size in mammals, and many of its functions are taken over by visual areas of the cerebral cortex.

Bubbles engaged in many aspects of the group's visual identity, titling releases and designing posters, adverts, stage decoration and performance plans, some of which were adorned with mystical and mock-Teutonic insignia.

* Cortical magnification, describes how many neurons in an area of the visual cortex are ' responsible ' for processing a stimulus of a given size, as a function of visual field location

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

With the passing years, the accuracy of many of Jones's statements on vowels has come increasingly under question, and most linguists now consider that the vowel quadrilateral must be viewed as a way of representing auditory space in visual form, rather than the tightly defined articulatory scheme envisaged by Jones.

There are also several newly filmed shots and many new visual effects, and Richard Donner is credited as director of the film instead of Richard Lester.

Hofstadter's many interests include music, visual art, the mind, creativity, consciousness, self-reference, translation and mathematics.

Cellulose nitrate, cellulose diacetate and triacetate are known to be unstable mediums: improperly preserved film can deteriorate in a period of time much faster than many photographs or other visual presentations.

One of the most striking 20th century changes of the human intellectual environment has come from the increase of exposure to many types of visual media.

Being a form of visual art, it might also be said that many graffiti artists still fall in the category of the introverted archetypal artist.

Discordance Axis had a more technical style of playing than many of the predecessors, and had a much more ornate visual and production style.

: Initially code-named " Cougar ", HTML 4. 0 adopted many browser-specific element types and attributes, but at the same time sought to phase out Netscape's visual markup features by marking them as deprecated in favor of style sheets.

In fact, in many occurrences the manipulation of horror presents cultural definitions that are not accurate, yet set an example to which a person relates to that specific cultural from then on in their life .< ref name = Carta > The visual interpretations of a films can be lost in the translation of their elements from one culture to another like in the adaptation of the Japanese film Ringu into the American film The Ring .< ref name = Holm > The cultural components from Japan were slowly " siphoned away " to make the film more relatable to an American audience.

In addition to having the scientific and engineering acumen to perfect strobe lighting commercially, Edgerton is equally recognized for his visual aesthetic: many of the striking images he created in illuminating phenomena that occurred too fast for the naked eye adorn art museums worldwide.

The down side is that the resulting video stream will be larger in size because many keyframes were added when they were not necessary for the visual representation of the frame.

It is oriented toward visual users who want to retain many typical elements of graphical user interfaces ( pop up windows, menus etc.

The average color of this light to the human eye is red-orange due to many lines in this range ; it also contains a strong green line which is hidden, unless the visual components are dispersed by a spectroscope.

In Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese poetry, the visual presentation of finely calligraphed poems has played an important part in the overall effect of many poems.

Visual elements have become an important part of the poet's toolbox, and many poets have sought to use visual presentation for a wide range of purposes.