Birthdays: Roman Emperor Flavius Titus, Pablo Casals, Madame
de Pompadour, Andrew Johnson, Charles Goodyear, Gelsey Kirkland, Dina Merrill,
Tom Bradley, Mary Tyler Moore is 77, Jon Voight is 75, Ray Nitschke, Viveca
Lindfors, Ed Flanders, Ted Danson is 66, Marianne Faithful, Paula Poundstone,
Jude Law is 41, Patricia Clarkson, Animator Duncan Marjoribanks
1913- Cecil B.DeMille telegraphed his partners back in New
York:” Flagstaff no good for our purpose.
Have proceeded to California. Want authority to rent a barn in a place called
Hollywood for $75 a month.” His partner Sam Goldwyn cabled back: “ Rent barn on month to month basis. Do not
make long commitment.” DeMille began shooting the Squaw Man, the first
Hollywood Film.
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1941- Disney animator Bill Tytla tells Time Magazine in an
interview about creating "Dumbo": "I don't know a damn thing
about elephants!"
1964 – To create the first pilot of the TV series Star Trek,
the original filming model of the U.S.S. Enterprise was delivered by model
maker Rick Datin, Jr, based on the design created by Star Trek production
artist Walter “Matt” Jefferies. The
“miniature” was 11 feet long!
1965- First day shooting on Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: a
Space Odyssey. It was an indoor set at Elstree Studios in England, and the
first setup was the inspection of the excavation of the Monolith in the moon
crater Tycho.
1968- Animator Bill Tytla died at age 64, from complications
of a stroke.
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