Birthdays: Barbara Tuchman, Walt “Moose” Dropo, Olaf Palme,
, Dick Martin, Louis S. Rukeyser, Dorothy Malone, Boris Spassky, John Ireland,
Phil Collins, Vanessa Redgrave is 77, Gene Hackman is 84, Christian Bale is 40,
Former VP Dick Cheney is 74
1931- Hollywood Premiere of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights.
Later at a dance at the Biltmore Hotel writer Herman Mankewicz (Citizen Kane,
Duck Soup) got into a drunken fistfight with producer David O. Selznick (Gone
With the Wind, Rebecca). You’ll never eat turtle-soup in this town again!
1933- HI-YO SILVER!! The Lone Ranger debuted on radio. The
Masked Man was invented by the WXYZ Detroit station owner George Trendle and writer
Fran Striker with absolutely no experience of cowboys or Indians. They just
wanted a hero like Zorro with a strict moral code. He was later voiced by actor
William Conrad who did the Rocky & Bullwinkle narration and the TV series
Cannon.
1934- Artist Salvador Dali married Gala.
1960- For years after the making of Fantasia, critics had
pondered Igor Stravinsky's cryptic reaction to Disney's portrayal of his "Rite
of Spring". Disney publicity said
he was "speechless with admiration!" Today in a Saturday Review
article, Stravinsky said Stokowski's editing of his music was 'execrable' and
the visuals "an unresisting imbecility". His opinion still didn't stop him from
selling the studio film rights to several other of his pieces including
"The Firebird' in 1942. He needed the cash.
1961-H-B's the Yogi Bear Show.
1963- MIT Grad student Ivan Sutherland published his thesis
Sketchpad, the first animation software.
For the first time, a computer could draw lines instead of just numbers.
When students at the University of Utah like Ed Catmull, Nolan Bushnell and Jim
Blinn were learning about CG. The first thing they were asked to read was
Sutherland’s Sketchpad. Everything from Avatar, Buzz Lightyear and Mortal
Combat results.
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