Birthdays: King Phillip V of Spain (1683), Edith Piaf, Edwin Stanton, Thomas 'Tip' O'Neil, Cicely Tyson, Sir Ralph Richardson, Robert Urich, Robert Sherman, Jennifer Beals is 50, David Susskind, Fritz Reiner, Disney artist Mel Shaw, Alyssa Milano is 41, Jake Gyllenhaal is 33
1914- Earl Hurd patented animation
'cels' (celluloids) and backgrounds. Before this cartoonists tried drawing the
background settings over and over again hundreds of times or slashed the paper
around the character and tried not to have it walk in front of anything. By the
late 1990’s, most cels & cel paint had been replaced by digital imaging.
1957- The musical ‘The Music Man’
starring Robert Preston first debuted. "Seventy Six Trom-bones in the Big
Parade.."
1958- First airing of the
Disneyland TV holiday special “ From All of Us, to All of You.”
1971- Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A
Clockwork Orange’ premiered. Based on a novel by Anthony Burgess. In America
the film received an X Rating, more for sexual situations than violence. The
sensation over the film caused so many incidents of urban violence, that with
Kubrick’s permission, it was banned in England for three decades.
1974- The first personal computer
went on sale. The Altair 8800, named for the planet in the 1955 sci-fi movie
classic Forbidden Planet. The computer came in a kit that you had to build and
it cost $397. The next year, two kids at Harvard named Bill Gates and Paul
Allen created a programming language for it called BASIC.
2001-
Peter Jackson’s film ‘The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring’ first
opened.
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