Question: Do both films, The Pit And The Pendulum (1961 Film) and Julius Caesar (1970 Film), have the directors who are from the same country?

<P0-S0> Part of the mechanism includes a 60-tooth ratchet wheel advanced on every pendulum swing by a pawl driven by the electromagnet. <P0-S1> This allows the period of the pendulum to be adjusted by changing the torque, under the control of a system that compares the pendulum phase to a time standard (originally a daily pulse sent out over the telegraph network at 10.00 GMT). <P0-S2> To the left of the pendulum is the regulator. <P0-S3> Clock-wise, the Shortt Synchronome Free Pendulum clock entered service at the Royal Observatory in 1923 and kept Greenwich, and therefore the nation’s, time until supplanted by quartz clocks in the 1940s. <P0-S4> Additional circuits in the clock once generated other half-minute pulses that controlled 3 strings of similar slave clocks throughout the building. <P0-S5> The fact that the University chose to commission a unique and original design is a tribute perhaps to its pride in the new building and to its distinguished Professor, who was able to put into practice the principles that he had developed. <P0-S6> A century ago none of this existed, and the world depended on the pendulum clock to keep its time, referenced to astronomical observations. <P0-S7> There was a scientific literature on the behaviour of pendulums and clocks; and a widespread craft-based industry making timepieces; but it could not be said that horology was a branch of engineering. <P0-S8> To the left of the pendulum is the Civil Time Unit (CTU). <P0-S9> Originally this operated a pair of contacts by two pins on its periphery to generate the half-minute pulses, but at some stage these contacts were removed. <P0-S10> On the right is the Greenwich Time Unit (GTU), which essentially kept GMT by counting seconds impulses but also controlled the sequencing of the synchronising system around 10.00 am GMT every day. <P0-S11> The force comes from a torque generated by a spiral hair-spring, one end being attached to the pivot of a lever that forms part of the escapement linkage, the other to a disk that can be rotated in small steps by a solenoid-operated “stepper motor”. <P0-S12> This is essentially a clock that receives a pulse every second from the pendulum and keeps track of local time, GMT or BST depending on the season, to control the pulses sent to Great George to make it chime on the hours, 0700 through 2100 except Sundays. <P0-S13> It is suspended from a bracket attached to a massive iron casting bolted through to the wall, which also carries the “escapement” mechanism to the right under the face. <P0-S14> Right down the centre of the case is the pendulum, of the order of a metre long and with a period of 2 seconds. <SEP> <P1-S0> The screenplay by Richard Matheson was loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name. <P1-S1> Set in sixteenth-century Spain, the story is about a young Englishman who visits a forbidding castle to investigate his sister's mysterious death. <P1-S2> After a series of horrific revelations, apparently ghostly appearances and violent deaths, the young man becomes strapped to the titular torture device by his lunatic brother-in-law during the film's climactic sequence. <P1-S3> The film was the second title in the popular series of Poe-based movies released by American International Pictures, the first having been Corman's " House of Usher" released the previous year. <P1-S4> Like "House", the film features widescreen cinematography by Floyd Crosby, sets designed by art director Daniel Haller, and a film score composed by Les Baxter. <P1-S5> A critical and box-office hit, "Pit"'s commercial success convinced AIP and Corman to continue adapting Poe stories for another six films, five of them starring Price. <P1-S6> The series ended in 1965 with the release of "The Tomb of Ligeia". <P1-S7> Film critic Tim Lucas and writer Ernesto Gastaldi have both noted the film's strong influence on numerous subsequent Italian thrillers, from Mario Bava's "The Whip and the Body" (1963) to Dario Argento's " Deep Red " (1975). <P1-S8> The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 horror film in Panavision and Pathe Color directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders. <P1-S9> Stephen King has described one of "Pit"'s major shock sequences as being among the most important moments in the post-1960 horror film. <SEP> <P2-S0> He has been called" The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. <P2-S1> Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low- budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. <P2-S2> Admired by members of the French New Wave and" Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. <P2-S3> He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. <P2-S4> In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award" for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers." <P2-S5> Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. <P2-S6> He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner. <P2-S7> Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including" The Silence of the Lambs The Godfather Part IIApollo 13 The Manchurian Candidate" and" Philadelphia". <P2-S8> Roger William Corman( born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor. <P2-S9> A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011. <P2-S10> The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well- received screening at Sundance. <SEP> <P3-S0> The film stars Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg, and Jill Bennett. <P3-S1> Julius Caesar is a 1970 British independent film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, directed by Stuart Burge from a screenplay by Robert Furnival. <P3-S2> It is the first film version of the play made in color. <SEP> <P4-S0> The Blood Demon( Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel in West Germany), also known as The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism, The Snake Pit and the Pendulum, and Castle of the Walking Dead, is a 1967 West German horror film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Christopher Lee, Karin Dor, and Lex Barker. <P4-S1> The film, written by Manfred R. Köhler, is based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story" The Pit and the Pendulum" and concerns the saga of Count Regula( Lee) who, after being drawn and quartered for murdering 12 maidens, returns to life seeking revenge. <P4-S2> The film was advertised in Rhode Island newspapers as Crimson Demon, due to a practice at the time of deleting the word" Blood" from film titles. <P4-S3> It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. <P4-S4> The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gabriel Pellon and Rolf Zehetbauer. <SEP> <P5-S0> Stuart Burge( 15 January 1918 – 24 January 2002) was an English film director, actor and producer. <P5-S1> The son of H. O. Burge, by his marriage to K. M. Haig, Burge was educated at Eagle House School, Sandhurst, and Felsted School, Essex, then trained for an acting career at the Old Vic, 1936 – 37, and at Oxford Rep, 1937 – 38. <P5-S2> After the war he returned to his acting career at the Bristol Old Vic, the Young Vic, and the Commercial Theatre, between 1946 and 1949. <P5-S3> He was a director by 1948. <P5-S4> He was responsible for many distinguished productions for both stage and television, including four film adaptations of plays. <P5-S5> He was back at the Old Vic and appearing in the West End theatre in 1938 – 39, then during the Second World War of 1939 – 45 he served in the British Army's Intelligence Corps. <P5-S6> He married Josephine Parker an American Actress and had five children: Lucy Burge; Stephen Burge; Nicholas Burge; Matthew Burge and Emma Burge.