When asked about this by American Cinematographer, Spielberg said, " I think that World War II is the most significant event of the last 100 years ; the fate of the Baby Boomers and even Generation X was linked to the outcome.

When Spielberg decided he wanted it to move, the prop was sent to John Carl Buechler in Los Angeles, who resculpted it over three days to blink, snarl, snort and wiggle its ears.

When George Lucas first approached Steven Spielberg for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg recalled, " George said if I directed the first one then I would have to direct a trilogy.

When Disney's feature animation surged in the 1990s, Warner Bros. tried to capitalize on their rival's success with animated feature films of their own, without the assistance of Spielberg.

When Jeffrey Katzenberg left Disney to become a co-partner of Steven Spielberg and David Geffen in the new studio Dreamworks, the studio naturally became interested in animation.

When Kahn and Spielberg completed the first cut of the film, Spielberg was dissatisfied, feeling " there wasn't enough wow-ness ".

Spielberg called Williams ' work " When You Wish upon a Star meets science fiction ".

Spielberg wanted to have " When You Wish upon a Star " in the closing credits, but was denied permission ( though the song's signature melody can be heard briefly just before Roy Neary turns to board the mothership ).

When asked in 1990 to select a single " master image " that summed up his film career, Spielberg chose the shot of Barry opening his living room door to see the blazing orange light from the UFO.

When Eisner did not appoint Walt Disney Studios chief Jeffrey Katzenberg to Wells ' now-available post, Katzenberg resigned and formed DreamWorks SKG with partners Steven Spielberg and David Geffen.

He was also attached to a remake of When Worlds Collide ( to be executive produced by Steven Spielberg ), a new big-screen adaptation of Flash Gordon, a swashbuckling adventure film called Airborn based on the novel, a romantic / adventure story called Big Love, and a remake of the French film Les Victimes.

When Spielberg set up Road to Perdition at DreamWorks, he contacted screenwriter David Self to adapt the graphic novel Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins into a feature film.

Another film adaptation of When Worlds Collide is scheduled for release in 2012 by DreamWorks, directed by Stephen Sommers and produced by Steven Spielberg.

When being interviewed by Spielberg before the making for the film, Burkhut told of a young girl wearing a pink coat, no older than four, who was shot by a Nazi officer right before his eyes.

When Spielberg came back from Tunisia and Hawaii ( where the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark was filmed ), he eagerly closed the door on Night Skies and began planning the film Mathison had dubbed ET and Me, but would in only a year and half be known to audiences all over the world as E. T.

When, in my enthusiasm, I proposed the party, my city editor ( who disliked the club and many of its members ) tried to block my participation in the gala event.

When bibliographer Michael Barrier asked Barks about why he drew it, Barks ' vague recollection was no one was available and he was asked to do it as a favor by editor Chase Craig.

Freda Kirchwey, then editor of The Nation, wrote at the time of her death: " When she spoke to people — whether it was to a small committee or a swarming crowd — hearts beat faster.

When he was 12 years old he also discovered and enjoyed the Superman titles by DC Comics of the editor Mort Weisinger period, drawn mostly by his favorite Superman artists Curt Swan and Kurt Schaffenberger.

When Fermi submitted his paper on beta decay to the prestigious journal Nature, the journal's editor turned it down because " it contained speculations which were too remote from reality ".

When shooting is finished, the director can then turn his full attention to collaborating with the editor and further refining the cut of the film.

The Dragon debuted in June 1976, and Gygax commented on its success years later: " When I decided that The Strategic Review was not the right vehicle, hired Tim Kask as a magazine editor for Tactical Studies Rules, and named the new publication he was to produce The Dragon, I thought we would eventually have a great periodical to serve gaming enthusiasts worldwide ... At no time did I ever contemplate so great a success or so long a lifespan.

When no more reproducible material was available in 2001, Per Sanderhage, the editor of the Danish comic strip agency PIB, negotiated a deal where Ferd ’ nand cartoonist Henrik Rehr would redraw 32 pages loosely based on old magazine clippings for the annual.

When an image is rendered in a raster-based image editor, the image is composed of millions of pixels.

" Among the responses to Lethem was one from the editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction who asked: " When is it SF genre ever going to realize it can't win the game of trying to impress the mainstream?

When the text of a treaty is later reprinted, such as in a collection of treaties currently in effect, an editor will often append the dates on which the respective parties ratified the treaty and on which it came into effect for each party.

When the tags are made visible in the editor, however, they occupy space in the unformatted text and so disrupt the desired layout and flow.

: When Bartlett's approached me in — I forget what year, five or six years ago — I got a call from the editor.

When the producer or content creator demands high-fidelity sound effects, the sound editor usually must augment his available library with new sound effects recorded in the field.

When multiple users edit one document at the same time, changes may conflict and multiple versions will be shown until an editor decides which changes will become final.

It was only after I'd created Little Plum ( April 1953 ) and Minnie the Minx ( September 1953 ) that the Beano editor George Moonie travelled to Preston on 20 October 1953 and asked me to go ahead with Bash Street ( he gave it the provisional title of ' When The Bell Goes '; when it appeared in The Beano in February 1954, it was titled ' When The Bell Rings ').

When serving as assistant editor for the Northern Californian, Harte editorialized about the slayings while his boss, Stephen G. Whipple, was temporarily absent, leaving Harte in charge of the paper.

When Pasko had to give up work on the title due to increasing television commitments, editor Len Wein assigned the title to British writer Alan Moore.

When Karen Berger took over as editor, she gave Moore free rein to revamp the title and the character as he saw fit.

When Newsnights editor decided to broadcast brief weather forecasts instead of financial reports he openly ridiculed the decision: " And for tonight's weather – it's April, what do you expect ?".

When the editor left the edit suite, they could take their confidential video tapes with them.

When informed that the Motion Picture Editors Guild required an editor credit, he suggested Donn Cambern who had been editing another film, Drive, He Said ( 1971 ) in the next office and had helped Bogdanovich with some purchasing paperwork concerning the film's opticals.

When his editor, Mr. Hennessy ( Hartley Power ), asks why he is late, Joe lies to him ; he claims to have attended the press conference for the princess.

When Michael Morton adapted Roger Ackroyd for the stage, he removed the character of Caroline replacing her with a young girl.

When Michael assumed power in 856, he became known for excessive drunkenness, appeared in the hippodrome as a charioteer and burlesqued the religious processions of the clergy.

When Michael VIII captured the city, its population was 35, 000 people, but, by the end of his reign, he had succeeded in increasing the population to about 70, 000 people.

When Michael Heseltine became Secretary of State for Defence, Massiter prepared a report on CND for him.

When Michael S. Swavely retired as president of Compaq's North American division on July 12, 1991, Eckhard Pfeiffer was named to succeed him.

When Michael Heseltine challenged Margaret Thatcher's leadership of the Conservative Party in November 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd were her proposer and seconder on her nomination papers.

When he was not away at school, Michael lived with his mother, before 1935 in coastal hotels, after 1935 ( when they were built ) in the avant garde Berthold Lubetkin's Highpoint modernist apartments in Highgate.

When Richard's second son Harry was born, Michael bought him a train set.

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

When the two saints are portrayed together mounted upon horses, they may be likened to earthly manifestations of the archangels Michael and Gabriel.

Commented Michael Steele to a Nine-O-One Network Magazine writer: " When I go out now it is usually girls who recognize me.

When Constantinople fell to the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Michael Angelos Komnenos Ducas seized Aetolia and Epirus and established an independent state known as the Despotate of Epirus with Arta as its capital.

When Thatcher was challenged by Michael Heseltine for the leadership of the Conservative Party during November 1990, Powell said he would rejoin the party, which he had left in February 1974 over the issue of Europe, if Thatcher won, and would urge the public to support both her and, in Powell's view, national independence.

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

When his career took him to London in 1954 after his provincial apprenticeship, his agent informed him that there was already a Michael Scott performing as an actor in London and that he had to come up with a new name immediately.

When this play moved to the Criterion in Piccadilly with Michael Codron directing, he was visited backstage by Stanley Baker, one of the four stars in Caine's first film, A Hill In Korea, who told him about the part of a Cockney corporal in his upcoming film Zulu, a film Baker was producing and starring in.

* When Briton Maurice Micklewhite first became an actor, he adopted the stage name " Michael Scott ".

When Michael VIII entered the city, its population was people, but he succeeded in increasing it to people by the end of his reign.

When Bates dropped out through illness in 1976 after two series, the role of the third man of the trio was filled in various years up to the 30th series by the quirky war veteran, Foggy Dewhirst ( Brian Wilde ), the eccentric inventor, Seymour Uttherthwaite ( Michael Aldridge ), and former police officer Truly Truelove ( Frank Thornton ).

When Michael III started to favor another courtier, Basiliskian, Basil decided that his position was being undermined.

When Leo jailed Michael for suspicion of conspiracy, the latter organized the assassination of the Emperor in the palace chapel of St. Stephen on Christmas, 820.

When Michael's wife Prokopia failed to persuade her brother to name Michael as his successor, Michael's supporters forced Staurakios to abdicate in his favor on 2 October 811.

When Constantine X died in 1067, Michael VII was 17 years old and should have been able to rule by himself.