Question: Are George Albert Smith and Ron Howard of the same nationality?

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Let Me Dream Again: Let Me Dream Again is a 1900 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a man dreaming about an attractive young woman and then waking up next to his wife.  The film stars Smith's real wife, Laura Bayley, as the woman of his fantasies.  Bayley would later appear in Smith's 1906 film 'Mary Jane's Mishap.'  The film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "is an excellent example of an early two-shot film, and is particularly interesting for the way it attempts a primitive dissolve by letting the first shot slip out of focus before cutting to the second shot, which starts off out of focus and gradually sharpens."  Of further interest is the camera composition of the husband and wife in bed.  The bed is placed against a wall and in front of a camera that is fixed to the floor, giving the appearance of two people lying in bed, when in reality they are standing.  The film was shot in Smith's own studio, the former pump house at St Ann's Well Gardens in Hove.  The film was remade by Ferdinand Zecca for Pathé as "Dream and Reality" (1901).

As Seen Through a Telescope: As Seen Through a Telescope (AKA: "The Professor and His Field Glass") is a 1900 British short silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring an elderly gentleman getting a glimpse of a woman's ankle through a telescope.  The three-shot comedy, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "uses a similar technique to that which G.A. Smith pioneered in "Grandma's Reading Glass" (1900)," and although, "the editing is unsophisticated, the film does at least show a very early example of how to make use of point-of-view close-ups in the context of a coherent narrative (which is this film's main advance on Grandma's Reading Glass)."  "Smith's experiments with editing," Brooke concludes, "were ahead of most contemporary film-makers, and in retrospect it can clearly be seen that he was laying the foundations of film grammar as we now understand it."

Santa Claus (1898 film): Santa Claus is a 1898 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features Santa Claus visiting a house on Christmas Eve.  The film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "is believed to be the cinema's earliest known example of parallel action and, when coupled with double-exposure techniques that Smith had already demonstrated in the same year's "The Mesmerist" (1898) and "Photographing a Ghost" (1898), the result is one of the most visually and conceptually sophisticated British films made up to then."

George Albert Smith: George Albert Smith Sr. (April 4, 1870 – April 4, 1951) was an American religious leader who served as the eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Albert Smith Medal: The Albert Smith Memorial Medal is the award given to the Man of the Match in the final of the Camanachd Cup, the blue riband trophy of the sport of shinty.  It has been presented every year since 1972 by the Smith family of Fort William in honour of Albert Smith Sr. (Born in 1888, Lochuanagan, Fort Augustus.)  The widow of his only son, Albert Smith Jr. currently presents the medal.  Albert Sr.'s grandson, Victor Smith is a former player for Fort William Shinty Club but never won the medal despite featuring as a key player in several Fort William wins.

Smith Fieldhouse: The George Albert Smith Fieldhouse is a 5,000 seat multi-purpose arena in Provo, Utah.  Built in 1951, it is the home of the Brigham Young University Cougars volleyball teams and most home gymnastics meets.  It was named for George Albert Smith, the eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who died the year the fieldhouse opened.  Prior to the Marriott Center opening in 1971 it was home to the basketball teams.  At that time, the arena held 10,500 people.  Smith Fieldhouse also has a track and several offices used by BYU's athletic department.

Spiders on a Web: Spiders on a Web is a 1900 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a single shot close-up of two spiders trapped in an enclosure (not on a web as indicated in the title).  The film is, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "less formally ambitious," than the director's, "groundbreaking multiple close-up study "Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)," made the same year, but is nonetheless, "one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography, predating Percy Smith's insect studies by a decade."

The X-Rays: The X-Rays (also known as The X-Ray Fiend) is a 1897 British short silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a courting couple exposed to X-rays.  The trick film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "contains one of the first British examples of special effects created by means of jump cuts" Smith employs the jump-cut twice; first to transform his courting couple via "X rays," dramatized by means of the actors donning black bodysuits decorated with skeletons, and then to return them to normal.  The couple in question were played by Smith's wife Laura Bayley and Tom Green (a Brighton comedian).

Ron Howard: Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American actor and filmmaker.  Howard is best known for playing two high-profile roles in television sitcoms in his youth and directing a number of successful feature films later in his career.

George A. Smith: George Albert Smith (June 26, 1817 – September 1, 1875) (known throughout his life as George A. Smith) was an early leader in the Latter-day Saint movement.  He served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and as a member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Answer: yes