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Whale and shot
These shots, starting with a medium shot and culminating in two close-ups of the Monster's face, were repeated by Whale to introduce Griffin in The Invisible Man and the abusive husband in One More River.

Whale and film
James Whale ( 22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957 ) was an English film director, theatre director and actor.
Whale directed over a dozen films in other genres, including what is considered the definitive film version of the musical Show Boat ( 1936 ).
A string of commercial failures followed and, while Whale would make one final short film in 1950, by 1941 his film directing career was over.
The success of the various productions of Journey's End brought Whale to the attention of film producers.
Whale completed work on the film in 15 days and his contract was allowed to expire.
Whale next went to work for independent film producer and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, who planned to turn the previously silent Hughes production Hell's Angels ( 1930 ) into a talkie.
On both sides of the Atlantic the film was a tremendous critical and commercial success and placed Whale at the top of the British film industry.
Whale directed the iconic horror film Frankenstein ( 1931 film ) | Frankenstein ( 1931 )
Whale was furious, and the altered film was banned in Germany anyway.
Whale only made one additional successful feature film, The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1939 ), before retiring from the film industry in 1941.
With his film career behind him, Whale found himself at loose ends.
With the outbreak of World War II, Whale volunteered his services to make a training film for the United States Army.
Whale directed his final film in 1950, a short subject based on the William Saroyan one-act play Hello Out There.
Influential film critic Andrew Sarris, in his 1968 ranking of directors, lists Whale as " lightly likable ".
Father of Frankenstein served as the basis of the 1998 film Gods and Monsters with Ian McKellen as Whale and Brendan Fraser as Boone.
* May 29 – James Whale, English film director ( b. 1889 )
His novel Benighted ( 1927 ) was adapted into the James Whale film The Old Dark House ( 1932 ); the novel has been published under the film's name in the United States.
* The Whale Rider — a book ( by Witi Ihimaera ) and film inspired in part by the story of Paikea and Ruatapu.
Massey and Karloff had appeared together in the 1932 James Whale suspense film The Old Dark House.
Owen also appeared in the 2005 film, The Squid and the Whale.

Whale and called
It is often now called the Whale, though it is most strongly associated with Cetus the sea-monster, who was slain by Perseus as he saved the princess Andromeda from Poseidon's wrath.
Whale, wary of doing two horror films in a row and concerned that directing Dracula's Daughter could interfere with his plans for the remake of Show Boat, instead convinced Laemmle to buy the rights to a novel called The Hangover Murders.
In Islam, Jonah is also called Dhul-Nun ( Arabic: ذو النون ; meaning The One of the Whale ).
Iran called this weapon the Hoot ( Whale ).
* A film made in 1937, a comedy called The Great Garrick directed by James Whale is a fictional story revolving around Garrick's acting skills and his ego which inspires the Académie française to teach him a lesson.
The Vancouver based indie band " Said The Whale " released a song called " Goodnight Moon " that contains direct references to the plot of the story book.
On big days the wave can link up with the next break called Whale Bay.
The " Mulberry " harbours consisted of a floating outer breakwater called " Bombardons ", a static breakwater consisting of " Gooseberries " and reinforced concrete caissons called " Phoenix ", floating piers code named " Whale " and pier heads code named " Spuds ".
The Little Mermaid premiered in the fall of 1992 with the animated prime time special called " A Whale of a Tale ," then moved to Saturday mornings.
In 2005, Hawkins set up a solo project, called British Whale.
For example, the American magazine National Geographic's January 1979 issue included a flexi disk of whale sounds called " Songs of the Humpback Whale.
At first, they only hunted the whale they called sarda, or the North Atlantic Right Whale, using watchtowers ( known as vigias ) to look for their distinctive twin vapour spouts.
Hobbes replied to Bramhall with Animadversions, and Bramhall replied to this with Castigation of Hobbes ' Animadversions ( with an afterpiece called " The Catching of Leviathan, the Great Whale ") in 1658.
Borrowing an analogy from publishing and bookbinding, he divides whales into three " books ", called the Folio Whale ( largest ), Octavo Whale, and the Duodecimo Whale ( smaller ), represented respectively by the sperm whale, the orca ( which he calls the grampus ), and the porpoise.
March 22, 1679, Sir Edmund Andros, another governor, granted to Saunders the woodland, together with the small island in the Hudson called Whale island, since submerged by the construction of the State dam south of it.
An episode of The Colbert Report displayed what Colbert called a " Prophet Muhammad Carvel ice cream cake ", which depicted Fudgie the Whale with a turban.
On maps of 1851 and 1854, the post is called Whale River House and Whale House.
He operates a security firm called Alarms Pvt Ltd. and also Whale Submarine, which is a tourist submarine for enthusiasts who wants to look into the underwater world of Maldives.

Whale and Army
With the outbreak of World War I, Whale enlisted in the British Army and became an officer.
Although Whale had little interest in the politics behind the war, he realized that conscription was inevitable so he enlisted in the Army.

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