George Stonbely
George N. Stonbely( born December 7, 1945) is an American advertising entrepreneur and civic leader known for his work and advocacy in New York's Times Square.
Born in 1945 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, George N. Stonbely graduated from New York University in 1967.
While still in college, he first volunteered then worked as a legislative researcher for Robert F. Kennedy, who was the United States Senator from New York at the time.
Stonbely worked briefly in sales promotion and advertising for the" New York Times", then in 1975, he founded Spectacolor, Inc., an advertising company that pioneered the first full- color, computer- programmed, changeable message billboard.
This groundbreaking innovation introduced the concept of selling" time" on billboards, rather than the customary practice of selling" space", a change that would pave the way for outdoor advertising to become a multibillion- dollar industry.
The first Spectacolor sign was installed at One Times Square, the building from which the world- famous Times Square Ball is dropped every New Year's Eve.
Eventually more than 60 Spectacolor signs( including static signs, video displays, and 3 D spectacular signs) were installed in Times Square, along with more than 50 Spectacolor systems in 30 cities in Europe, South America, the Middle East, and across the United States.
In 1984, Spectacolor was chosen by the Marriott Corporation to develop the premiere signage on its new Marriott Marquis Hotel, the first of the developments that led to the rebirth of Times Square that began in the 1980s.
The flagship sign, the Eastman Kodak Company's" Kodarama" display, signaled the return of corporate America to Times Square for the first time since the end of World War II.
Soon Kodak was joined by Hertz, AT&T, JVC, Chock Full o' Nuts, Maxwell House Coffee Company, Planters Peanuts, and Wrigley, to name a few of the iconic brands that helped reestablish a mainstream marketing presence in Times Square.
By 2000, Spectacolor was the world leader in spectacular advertising, operating in over 30 cities around the globe.
That year, Stonbely partnered with Arizona entrepreneur Karl Eller and Clear Channel Communications to form Clear Channel Spectacolor, which he sold to Clear Channel in 2006.
A long- time Times Square advocate,
Stonbely is a founding director of the Times Square Alliance and serves on the Mayor's Midtown Citizens Committee.
He is also active in numerous international and local charitable organizations, including UNICEF, Partnership for a Drug Free America, and the Greater New York Boy Scouts.
He serves on the Board of Directors of Inside Broadway and The Town Hall.
Upon his death in 1999, legendary outdoor advertising designer Douglas Leigh willed Stonbely his famous lighted snowflake, which has been suspended above the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in Manhattan every holiday season since 1984.
In 2001, Stonbely dedicated the snowflake to UNICEF, for which more than$ 50 million has been raised since the UNICEF Snowflake Ball gala was launched in 2004.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.
Red Light (film)
Red Light is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed and produced by Roy Del Ruth, starring George Raft and Virginia Mayo, and based on the story" This Guy Gideon" by Don" Red" Barry, featuring strong religious overtones.
Times Square Station (disambiguation)
Times Square Station may refer to:
Times Square Lady
Times Square Lady is a 1935 American crime drama film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Robert Taylor and Virginia Bruce.
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue.
It stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.
Brightly lit by numerous billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as" The Crossroads of the World The Center of the Universethe heart of The Great White Way", and" the heart of the world".
One of the world's busiest pedestrian areas, it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District and a major center of the world's entertainment industry.
Times Square is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually.
Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of them tourists, while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.
Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after" The New York Times" moved its headquarters to the then newly erected Times Building, now One Times Square.
It is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop, began on December 31, 1907, which continues to attract over a million visitors to Times Square every year.
Times Square functions as a town square, but is not geometrically a square; it is closer in shape to a bowtie, with two triangles emanating roughly north and south from 45th Street, where Seventh Avenue intersects Broadway.
Broadway runs diagonally, crossing through the horizontal and vertical street grid of Manhattan laid down by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, and that intersection creates the" bowtie" shape of Times Square.
The southern triangle of Times Square has no specific name, but the northern triangle is called Father Duffy Square.
It was dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment and is the site of a memorial to him, along with a statue of George M. Cohan, and the TKTS ticket booth.
Times Square (disambiguation)
Times Square is an entertainment and business district in New York City, United States.
Times Square may also refer to:
George B. Seitz
George Brackett Seitz( January 3, 1888 – July 8, 1944) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director.
He was known for his screenplays for action serials, such as" The Perils of Pauline"( 1914) and" The Exploits of Elaine"( 1914).
Seitz was born in Boston, Massachusetts, started his career as a playwright, and also wrote some fiction for" up- market" pulp magazines such as" Adventure" and" People's Magazine".
Seitz did much of his early work in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there.
He was the director of more than one hundred films, the writer of more than thirty screenplays, and an actor in seven films.
He worked at Columbia Pictures and at Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer where he directed eleven films in the" Andy Hardy" series of the 1930s& 1940s.
He died in Hollywood, California in 1944.
Although an acquaintance of the cinematographer John F. Seitz, they were not related.
He was the father of George B. Seitz Jr., who was a writer/ director active in the 1940s and 1950s in films and television.
Red light
Red light may refer to:
Roy Del Ruth
Roy Del Ruth( October 18, 1893, Delaware – April 27, 1961) was an American film director.

Question: Do both directors of films Times Square Lady and Red Light (Film) share the same nationality?
Answer: yes