Birthdays: Gaetano Donizetti, Busby Berkeley, C.S. Lewis,
Louisa May Alcott, Chuck Mangione, Vin Scully, Gary Shandling is 65, Cathy
Moriarity, Don Cheadle, Joel Coen is 60, Jacques Chirac, Howie Mandell, Susee
“Chapstick” Chafee, Anna Faris is 38
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, 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.
1942- U.S. declared coffee would be rationed along with
sugar, gasoline and rubber. And lots more. People put their cars up on blocks "for
the duration". Gas Ration cards were listed as C, B & A. The C card
meant essential defense worker, police & fire, so they had unlimited access
to gasoline. A cards were the least important. Lots of jokes in Looney Tunes about rationing cards.
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.
2001- former Beatle guitarist and composer George Harrison
died of cancer.
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