birthdays: Woodrow
Wilson, Robert Sessions, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Hildegarde Neff, Edgar
Winter, Stan “The Man” Lee is 91, Martin
Branner the creator of Winnie Winkle, Johnny Otis, Martin Milner (1-Adam-12),
Lew Ayres, Lou Jacobi, Terri Garber, Denzel Washington is 59, Maggie Smith is
79, Sienna Miller is 32, Disney animator Rick Farmiloe is 57
1895- THE BIRTHDAY OF CINEMA- In Paris at the Grande Cafe
des Capuchines the Lumiere brothers combined Edison's kinetoscope using George
Eastman’s roll film with a magic lantern projector and showed a motion picture
to an audience in a theater. Back in the U.S. Thomas Edison thought the idea of
projecting film in a theater was foolish and would never catch on. They called
their device a Cinematograph, hence the word Cinema is born. The screening
included dancers and people leaving a factory but the biggest reaction out of
the audience was from shots of waves crashing on a rocky beach. The audience in
the front row jumped for fear of getting wet.
1897- Edmond Rostands famous play CYRANO DE BERGERAC premiered
in Paris. There really lived a poet-duelist in the 1640’s named Cyrano de
Bergerac-Servigan but little was known about him. Rostand created the
hopelessly big nosed hero who helps another man romance his true love.
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1914- THE FIRST TRUE CHARACTER ANIMATION- Windsor McCay's
"Gertie the Dinosaur" premieres as part of a vaudeville act. Up to
then most U.S. animations were attempts to bring popular newspaper comic
characters to life, but Gertie was a new character never before seen. Some critics
had wondered if animated characters weren’t some kind of man in a special suit,
so McCay drew a dinosaur, a character that couldn’t possibly be impersonated by
a living thing. The brilliant
draftsmanship and timing of this film would inspire the generation of Animation
artists of the Golden Age of the 1930's-40s.
1928- Last recording of Ma Rainey, The Mother of the Blues.
1928- Louis Armstrong recorded West End Blues.
1944- ON THE TOWN, a musical written by Betty Comden &
Adolf Green and young composer Leonard Bernstein premiered in NY.
1968- The Beatles White Album goes to number one on the pop
charts.
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