History for 7/30/2013
Birthdays:
Georgio Vasari, Henry Ford, Emily Bronte', Casey Stengel, Roy Williams,
Vladimir Zworykin who invented the television picture tube, Arnold Schwarzenegger
aka the Governator is 68, Ed "Kookie" Byrnes, Peter Bogdanovich is 76,
Delta Burke, Henry Moore, Anita Hill, Lawrence Fishburne is 53, Jean Reno is
66, Hilary Swank is 40, Christopher Nolan, Lisa Kudrow is 51
1889- Start of the Sherlock Holmes
mystery, the Naval Treaty.
1929 -The Hollywood Bowl musicians go
on strike.
1932-Walt Disney’s “Flowers and Trees”
the first Technicolor Cartoon. Disney had worked out a deal with Technicolor
creator Herbert Kalmus to use his technique exclusively for two years to show
larger Hollywood studios its quality.
1932- The first Los Angeles hosting of
the Olympic Games in their spanking new Coliseum. Gold medalist in swimming
Larry Buster Crabbe later became a movie star. Another medalist, the Hawaiian
Duke Kahanamoku, began to teach the Californians about a new sport- surfing!
1935- THE FIRST PAPERBACK BOOK- Andre
Maurois 'Ariel, a Life of Shelley', published in this new form by Penguin Books
of London.
1936- Producer David O. Selznick buys
the movie rights to the best selling book “Gone With The Wind” from an ailing
Irving Thallberg. The "boy genius" Thallberg was hoping that Selznick
would ruin himself in the process of making this film. Thalberg was convinced
that GWTW would prove to be a massive flop because "Costume dramas are box
office poison." D’oh!
1948 - Professional wrestling premieres
on prime-time network TV ( DuMont )
1954 - Elvis Presley joins Local 71,
the Memphis Federation of Musicians.
1959- Robert Noyce of Fairchild
Semiconductor patented the integrated circuit.
1986- Disney released “Flight of the
Navigator”, featuring early photo-real VFX done by Canadian studio Omnibus.
1999- The Blair Witch Project opened in
theaters. The low-budget indy became a monster hit due to an early on-line
campaign claiming the footage was real.
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