Birthdays: Gaetano Donizetti, Busby Berkeley, C.S. Lewis,
Louisa May Alcott, Chuck Mangione, Vin Scully, Yakima Canutt, Gary Shandling is
66, Cathy Moriarity, Don Cheadle, Joel Coen is 61, Jacques Chirac, Howie Mandell,
Susee “Chapstick” Chafee, Anna Faris is 39
1915- In the first years of animated films, one artist like
Winsor McCay drew everything. This day John Randolph Bray's "Colonel Heeza
Liar in Africa" cartoon debuted. Bray adapted Henry Ford's assembly line
system to making animation, creating the job positions of layout, animator,
inbetweener, background painter, inkers, cel painters, checkers and camera.
After 1919 Bray shifted his studio’s focus from entertainment to technical and
training films. Paul Terry, Walter Lantz, Max & Dave Fleischer and Shamus
Culhane all got their start at Bray's.
1959-The Second Grammy Awards, broadcast for the first time
on television. Bobby Darins’ rendition of Mack the Knife won top honors.
1972- Atari announced Pong, the first mass-marketed
interactive game.
1981- Actress Natalie Wood drunkenly toppled off her yacht
near Catalina Island and
drowned. Her husband Robert Wagner, and friend Christopher
Walken were onboard having an argument and unaware of her predicament. Wood had
once confessed to a friend that she had a horror of drowning.
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