Birthdays: Richard Nixon, Woody
Guthrie, Ray Bolger, William Powell, George Balanchine, Judith Krantz, Bob
Denver, Crystal Gayle, Joan Baez, Simone de Beauvoir, Sir Rudolph Bing, Herbert
Lom, Gypsy Rose Lee, Joely Richardson, J.K. Simmons is 60.
1857- The Fort Tejon earthquake
shook Los Angeles This was the last major quake in Southern Cal of the great
San Andreas Fault, an estimated 8.0 !
1914 -John Randolph Bray takes out
patents on the principles of film animation: cycles, arcs, keys and inbetweens.
He even tried to sue Winsor McCay, who had already been using them for years.
1924- The breakfast cereal
Wheaties invented.
1939- Top Looney Tunes director
Frank Tashlin was hired by Walt Disney. He quit after two fruitless years, and
left so angry he wrote a children’s book called the "Bear that
Wasn’t" about his experiences. An
early vice president of the Cartoonists Guild, he also joined the Mouse House
to help unionize the studio. After a stint at Screen Gems, in 1945 Frank
Tashlin went to Paramount’s live action division and became the director of the
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis comedies.
1959- The TV series Rawhide
debuted, starring a young actor named Clint Eastwood. President Lyndon Johnson
and Ladybird were big Rawhide fans.
1976- First day of shooting in
Philadelphia of the movie Rocky. It was the first movie to utilize the
Steadicam, a system that balanced hand-held camera shots.
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