Birthdays: Caligula 12AD, Commodus 161AD, Amilcare
Ponchielli, Eldridge Cleaver, Buddy Hackett, James Coburn, Itshak Perleman is 71,
Van Morrison, Arthur Godfrey, Richard Baseheart, Rocky Marciano. Alan J.
Lerner, Hugh Harman,, Maria Montressori (of the Montressori Method of
education), William Saroyan, Richard Gere is 67, Chris Tucker is 44.
1829- Giacomo’s Opera Guglielmo Tell debuted in Paris. The
William Tell overture was heard for the first time- Hi Ho Silver!
1887- Thomas Edison patented the plans for a Kinetoscope,
his original version of Motion Pictures using George Eastmans new celluloid
roll film. Most of the actual work was done by Canadian scientist W.K.L.
Dickson. He drove himself sick designing, building and improving the device as
well as the camera and studio, but Edison took all the credit. Edison wrote
Edweard Muybridge at the time that he doubted the Kinetoscope would have much
commercial value beyond the science lab.
1928- In Berlin the ThreePenny Opera premiered, music by
Kurt Weill and lyrics by Bertholdt Brecht with Lotte Lenya as Pirate Jenny. Mackie
Messer or Mack the Knife was born.
1930 -Detroit radio station is 1st
to broadcast a news program on the air.
1935- Disney cartoon Plutos’ Judgement Day.
1938- Walt Disney puts ten thousand down to buy 51 acres on
Buena Vista Street in Burbank. He would build his modern studio there.
1941 –The Great Gildersleeve, a
spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC radio. The voice of Gildersleeve later narrated the
UPA cartoon Gerald McBoing Boing.
1946- Looney
Toon short 'Walky Talky Hawky' the first Foghorn Leghorn. The character was
based on a Fred Allen radio character Senator Beauregard Claghorn, that mocked
bombastic Southern conservative congressmen.
1948- Disney's 'Melody Time' premiered.
1948- Movie star Robert Mitchum was busted for smoking pot
with a blonde in the Hollywood Hills. This would have normally smoked his
career but the new postwar outlaw, noir attitude was in vogue. So bad-boy
Mitchum emerged from county jail more popular than ever. When asked what he
thought of being in jail, he said it's not much different than being
free....but you meet a better clientele of people IN jail.
1964- Young comedian Richard Pryor
made his first appearance on TV. He did some of his standup on Rudy Vallee’s
Broadway Tonight Show.
No comments:
Post a Comment