Birthdays: Sophocles, Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach, Hannah
Hoes Van Beuren- the First Lady for Martin Van Beuren, Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr., Alan Hovhannes, Kenneth Grahame the author of the Wind in the Willows, Cyd
Charisse, Charlie Pride, Mickey Dolenz, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Rice, Aiden Quinn is
58, Freddy Prinze Jr is 41, Jim Bouton- baseball player, author, and inventor
of Big League Chew bubble gum
1941- Writer and playwright Sherwood Anderson dies from
pterioteritus- internal bleeding- after swallowing a toothpick at a cocktail
party.
1941- The National Television System Committee set up by the
FCC to standardize television technology recommended an industry standard of
525 scan lines at 30 frames a second- what we now call after their name- NTSC.
England later adopted the PAL (Phase Alernation Line)
of 625 lines, 25 frames per second and France the SECAM System (Systeme Electronique Couleur Avec
Memoire).which is also a 625 line, 25fps system. This is why British t.v. shows like
the Prisoner always looked so grainy on American sets and American shows look
so garish on British sets. By garish I mean
the color, not the content.
It also speeds up the film during
video from 24 frames to 25fps (i.e. 4%)...which is why in England and the rest
of Europe, all Hollywood movies are 4% shorter and the voices of the actors all
sound a little squeaky. The way to remember NTSC is
"Never-The-Same-Color'. DVD and BluRay went to a
thousand- scan lines. The invention of digital screens is making most of this
irrelevant.
1973- Paul McCartney was fined 100 pounds for growing
marijuana on his farm Mull of Kintyre.
1977- Ralph Bakshi’s film Wizards premiered.
1994- Don Ku invented the ubiquitous little wheeled black suitcase
with collapsible handle that bumps into your legs at airports today.
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