Friday, January 14, 2022

Tom Sito's Animation Almanac for Jan 14, 2022


Birthdays: Marc Anthony 82BC, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Benedict Arnold, Hal Roach, Richard F. Outcault, Cecil Beaton, John Dos Passos, Lawrence Kasdan, Guy Williams, Andy Rooney, Julian Bond, Steven Soderbergh is 59, LL Cool J, Faye Dunaway is 81, Emily Watson is 55


1831- Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame first published.

1900- Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" premiered in Rome.


1952-The NBC "Today" show debuts with Dave Garroway, Jim Fleming and J. Fred Muggs the chimp.


1954- actress Marilyn Monroe married baseball star Joe DiMaggio.


1957- Humphrey Bogart died of esophageal cancer at age 57. When he was buried at Forrest Lawn, wife Lauren Bacall put in with his ashes a solid gold whistle inscribed with the famous line from "To Have and To Have Not"- 'If you ever need me, just whistle.'



1964- Hanna- Barbera's ' The Magilla Gorilla' cartoon show.


1967- HIPPIES! The first “ Human Be-In” in Golden Gate Park. The Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead performed. Allan Ginsburg, Ram Dass and Timothy Leary spoke. LSD was laced into turkey sandwiches, and soon the crowd of 30,000 was high.  The national media played up the event, and the rest of America first saw the power of the Hippy youth culture, and heard the word like “psychedelic” and Timothy Leary saying “ Tune in, Turn on, Drop out.” It was the prelude to the Summer of Love.


1969- At the Academy Awards, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day won best animated short. It is the last award credited to Walt Disney. Although he had died at the end of 1966, he had greenlit it and worked on it. Woolie Reitherman accepted the award.


1972- Norman Lear’s hit TV comedy series Sanford & Son premiered. Starring Red Fox, it was based on the English show Steptoe & Son.  


 1974-  Sylvia Holland, British born story/concept artist at Disney on Fantasia/ Make Mine Music, died at age 74.


2016- Actor Alan Rickman passed away at age 69 of pancreatic cancer.

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