Sunday, December 9, 2018

Animation Fun Facts for Dec. 9, 2018


Birthdays: Sappho, John Milton, Jean De Brunhoff, Emile Waldteufel the composer of the Skaters Waltz, Admiral Grace Hopper 1906 who wrote the earliest computer language, Hermoinie Gingold, Dalton Trumbo, John Cassavettes, Broderick Crawford, Dick Butkus, Red Foxx, Cesar Franck, John Malkovich is 65, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Buck Henry is 88, Felicity Huffman, Mario Cantone, Judy Dench is 84, Kirk Douglas-born Issur Danielevitch is 102!

1854- Albert Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" published.

1905- Richard Strauss’s opera Salomepremiered in Dresden. The lead role demands
a soprano with big Wagnerian lungs but also a flat stomach to do the strip tease
the Dance of the Seven Veils. When the opera debuted in New York, old millionaires
like J.P. Morgan were shocked at its’ blatant sexuality. They threatened to cut 
off funding until Sal and her skimpy veils was banished from the schedule. 

1931- Disney short Mickey’s Orphans debuted.

1936- The first cookery show appeared on British television.

1946- Damon Runyon died, the writer whose characters the musical "Guys and 
Dolls' are based. His philosophy:  "All life is six to five against."

1948- Actor Ossie Davis married actress Ruby Dee.

1960-  Coronation Street premiered on British ITV.

1964-John Coltrane recorded his landmark jazz album “A Love Supreme”. Late on 
foggy nights Trane liked to take his saxophone out onto the middle of San Francisco’s 
Golden Gate Bridge in the night fog, and practice by himself.  


1965- Bill Melendez's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" the first half hour animated TV special featuring the music of Vince Guaraldi.  Producer Lee Mendelson had heard Guaraldi's jazz combo perform in San Francisco. He never scored a 
film before:" How many yards of music do you want?" A Charlie Brown Christmas has run every year for 53 years. 

1967- At a Doors concert lead singer Jim Morrison was sprayed with mace and arrested
by Miami police for “lewd behavior” on stage, but probably more for referring to
the cops as pigs.


1994- Disney Animators in California move into their new Animation building designed
by Robert Stern.

2340- Mr Worf, the Klingon officer of Star Trek Next Generation was born.


No comments:

Post a Comment