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History for 7/30/2015
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
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 Thalberg. The "boy genius" Thalberg
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.
1986-
Disney released “Flight of the Navigator”, featuring early photo-real VFX done
by Canadian studio Omnibus.
1988- The
last Playboy Club in America closed. It was in Lansing, Mich. In 2006 Hugh
Hefner opened a Playboy Club themed casino in Las Vegas.
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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