Saturday, March 23, 2024

Tom Sito's Animation Fun Facts for March 23, 2024


Birthdays: US Vice President Schuyler Colfax, Akira Kurosawa, Joan Crawford, Dr. Werner Von Braun, Juan Gris, Chaka Khan, Paul Grimault, Sidney Hillman, Jack Ruby, Joan Collins, Eric Fromm, Fanny Farmer, Catherine Keener is 64, Hope Davis is 59


1951- Disney short Corn Chips, with Donald Duck and Chip & Dale. Directed by Jack Hannah.


1957- Art Clokey's Gumby Show. Clokey created the green clay fellow for his USC college thesis film Gumbasia.


1977- The first Richard Nixon-David Frost interview.


1987- After meeting creator Matt Groening, animators David Silverman, Wes Archer and Bill Kopp began animating the very first Simpson’s short for the Tracy Ullmann Show.


1990- President George H.W. Bush banned broccoli from the White House. He joked; "Read My Lips ! I hate Broccoli !"


2003- Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, Beating out Lilo & Stitch and Treasure Planet. Twenty One years later he won again for The Boy and the Heron.


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