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6 unusual facts about screen


Flip-screen

These limitations were not exclusive to the Spectrum; many early MSX, NEC PC-8801 and PC VGA games also used the flip-screen technique.

The flip-screen technique was particularly common in PC games originally made for the ZX Spectrum, such as Atic Atac, Jet Set Willy, and Starquake, due in part to the Spectrum's display limitations which meant that full colour scrolling was difficult to implement convincingly - Light Force being a notable exception.

Screen-door effect

The screen door effect was noticed on the first digital projector: an LCD projector made in 1984 by Gene Dolgoff.

Screen-Free Week

More than seventy other organizations, such as the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and the YMCA, support the movement in the US.

Screen-labeled function keys

Modern Texas Instruments calculators such as the TI-89 series use function keys to open drop-down menus on their menu bar, the menu title acting like the key label.

Casio calculators use the function keys for a menu at the bottom of the screen.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision

Pelin then noticed an aircraft on the screen coming from the direction of Metlika and asked Tasić about it, who said 'wait until they cross'.

A Postcard from the Day

The Psychedelly, Bethesda, Maryland ("Goin' All the Way/Glendora", "Stepping Stone", "Mean Screen", "Reverse Psychiatry", "When We Were Kids")

AFL Premiership 2007

On the single match summary screen you can set your favourite team and then randomise the other settings.

Alvin Colt

Among his screen credits are costume designs for the films Top Banana, Stiletto and Li'l Abner and for the TV productions of The Enchanted Nutcracker, Kiss Me Kate, The Adams Chronicles, CBS: On the Air, Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood and many years of the Tony Awards.

Animation Forum West Midlands

The network was founded in 2006 by Birmingham City University's Screen Media Lab, following initial funding by Digital Central.

Big Money!

The music in the title screen of the game is a combination of "The Big Money" by Rush and "Big Time" by Peter Gabriel.

Bob Graham Center for Public Service

The Bob Graham Center’s Civil Debate Wall—popularly known as ‘The Wall’—is a series of interconnected touch-screen devices that allow students, teachers and citizens to share ideas and solutions to some of the most pressing political questions facing the nation.

Brooke Haven

Haven made her silver screen debut in the mainstream feature horror, Detention, directed by Joseph Kahn.

Cathryn Damon

In both of her regular television roles, she worked with Eugene Roche, who had the recurring role of Attorney E. Ronald Mallu during the latter three seasons of Soap before playing her on-screen husband, Bill Parker, on Webster.

Church of All Saints, Norton Fitzwarren

The lower section of the screen depicts the story of the Dragon of Norton Camp.

Erica Tazel

On screen, Erica Tazel has made limited appearances, including in the 18 min. short As It Is (2010), directed by Ka'ramuu Kush, and in a minor role in the David Duchovny drama House of D (2004, table below), starring Anton Yelchin, Robin Williams, Téa Leoni, and Erykah Badu.

Felicia Farr

Her earlist screen appearances date from the mid-fifties and included the Westerns Jubal (1956) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957), both starring Glenn Ford and The Last Wagon (1956) starring Richard Widmark.

Force of Evil

The film marked the first on screen acting role of Beau Bridges.

George Spelvin

"Georgina Spelvin" has fallen out of general use since it was adopted as a screen name by pornographic actress Michelle Graham, who was credited by that name in The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) and her subsequent films.

Granville Van Dusen

Granville Van Dusen (born March 16, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota) is an American stage, screen, and voice actor who portrayed Race Bannon in the 1986 television series The New Adventures of Jonny Quest, Jonny's Golden Quest, Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects, and eight episodes of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

Haeundae District

During the 2006 FIFA World Cup match between South Korea and Togo more than 50,000 spectators filled the beach to cheer for the Korean team on a giant projector screen.

High Rise

However, financing fell through and Roeg and Thomas did Bad Timing instead, and Thomas later went on to adapt Ballard's Crash for the screen with director David Cronenberg.

History of erotic depictions

As the first generally available gay pornographic film, the film was the first to include on-screen credits for its cast and crew (albeit largely under pseudonyms), to parody the title of a mainstream film (in this case, The Boys in the Band), and to be reviewed by The New York Times.

Ian Player

The famous movie director and producer Howard Hawks, wanted a movie about people who catch animals in Africa for zoos, a dangerous profession with exciting scenes the likes of which had never been seen on-screen before.

In Old Santa Fe

Although both Autry and Burnette were unbilled, the scene served as a screen test for the duo for subsequent singing cowboy films, beginning with The Phantom Empire (1935), which was Autry's first leading role.

Isaac Baron

Playing under the screen names of "westmenloAA" on PokerStars and "Isaac Baron" on Full Tilt Poker, Baron's online winnings exceeded $1,000,000 in 2007, including a win in the PokerStars weekly Sunday Million tournament in January for $254,000.

J. M. Kerrigan

His first screen appearance was in the silent film Food of Love in 1916.

Jack Tramiel

As prices dropped and the market matured, the monochrome (green text on black screen) PET was at a disadvantage in the market when compared to machines like the Apple II and Atari 800, which offered color graphics and could be hooked to a television as an inexpensive display.

Jefferson Han

Jefferson Y. Han (born 1975) is a research scientist for New York University's (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and one of the main developers of "multi-touch sensing," which unlike older touch-screen interfaces was able to recognize multiple points of contact.

Johnny Castaway

Johnny Castaway is a screensaver released in 1993 by Sierra On-Line/Dynamix, and marketed under the Screen Antics brand.

Kalinkavichy

Katherine Locke, a stage and supporting screen actress of the 1930s and 40s was also born in Kalinkavicy, prior to emigrating to the United States.

Little Red Riding Rabbit

Little Red Riding Hood is depicted as a typical 1940s teen-aged girl, a "bobby soxer" with an extremely loud and grating voice (inspired by screen and radio comedienne Cass Daley, provided by Bea Benaderet).

Magic satchel

In the futuristic French-Canadian sitcom Dans une galaxie près de chez vous, the character of Brad Spitfire has been shown to be able to pull virtually any weapon out of nowhere (usually right out of the screen).

Major Bowes Amateur Hour

"It is composed of 12 prize winning acts which have never before appeared in Buffalo, with Ted Mack, former conductor of Shea's Buffalo Orchestra, returning in the role of master of ceremonies. On the screen will be Mickey Rooney, the delightful star of the Judge Hardy family series, in his newest role, "Hold That Kiss" with Maureen O'Sullivan and Dennis O'Keefe. Shea's Buffalo News will conclude the bill."

Matthew Logelin

A screen adaptation of the memoir was optioned by Lifetime in 2012, with Marta Kauffman set to executive-produce the telepic.

Maya Herrera

Her first on-screen appearance was in the episode "Four Months Later...", though the character was featured earlier in the graphic novel "Maya y Alejandro".

Miracast

It allows users to, for example, echo display from a phone or tablet onto a TV, share a laptop screen with the conference room projector in real-time, and watch live programs from a home cable box on a tablet.

Muriel Resnik

It had such a success that took Resnik by surprise, and in 1966 an homonymous film was led to the big screen, with Jane Fonda and Jason Robards as the main characters.

Nokia C5

Nokia C5-03 a touchscreen smartphone with WLAN and a screen size of 3.2 inch (8.1 cm), announced in October 2010.

Pat Aherne

His most notable on-screen appearances after 1930, were in Green Dolphin Street, Rocketship X-M and The Court Jester.

Paul Flato

In addition to 5 non-appearing film credits, Flato had an on-screen role as a jeweler in the 1940 film Hired Wife starring Rosalind Russell and Virginia Bruce.

Rad Racer

At the car selection screen, the player can pick one of two cars: a Ferrari 328 or an F1 racing machine, similar in appearance to the 1987 Camel-sponsored Honda/Lotus 99T Formula One car.

Rohan Nichol

He also shared screen with Genevieve O'Reilly (Mon Mothma in Episode III) in several episodes of the TV series All Saints.

Rudy Robles

Producer Samuel Goldwyn reportedly discovered and gave him the screen name Rudy Robles, whilst he was working as a bellhop at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Hollywood.

Skyglobe

A mouse can be used to change the viewing direction or to point at objects; the object under the mouse will be named in the lower-left corner of the screen, along with its horizontal and equatorial coordinates.

The Five O'Clock Girl

In 1928, Marion Davies and Joel McCrea starred in a screen adaptation directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but it never was released, possibly because William Randolph Hearst objected to his mistress Davies portraying a common shopgirl in her first sound film.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis

The Kevin Kline Awards, named after Kevin Kline, an established stage and screen actor and native of St. Louis, began in 2006, to recognize outstanding achievement in professional theatre in the Greater St. Louis area.

Tracey MacLeod

Other screen credits include channel 4’s A Stab in the Dark with David Baddiel and Michael Gove, All I Want – A Portrait of Rufus Wainwright, Kitchen Criminals, Masterchef, and voicing over many music documentaries and the long-running BBC2 show Rapido, presented by Antoine de Caunes.

Velapene Screen

Velapene Screen attended college with musicians and close friends Regina Spektor and Only Son aka Jack Dishel, former member of The Moldy Peaches.

Vinaya Prasad

The senior actress in her career has shared screen space with Vishnuvardhan, Rajinikanth, Mohanlal, Ambareesh, Ananth Nag and Akkineni Nagarjuna, V. Ravichandran, Shivrajkumar, Mahesh Babu and others.

Virginia Carroll

She appeared on screen in these westerns opposite Tex Ritter, Don "Red" Barry, Roy Rogers, Johnny Mack Brown, Bill Elliott, Gene Autry and Whip Wilson.

Warning Shot

Baseball stars Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale signed to appear in this movie during their 1966 holdout, but never made it onto the screen when both agreed to contracts with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

WCPN

She interviewed people involved in stage, screen and television careers, such as actor Greg Morris of CBS-TV's Mission: Impossible series.

Web browser engine

A web browser engine (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine) is a software component that takes marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen.

YPEL3

The Drosophilia Yippee protein was originally discovered in a yeast interaction trap screen when it was found to physically interact with Hyalophora cecropia Hemolin.


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