Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Tom Sito Animation Almanac for Oct. 29, 2024


Birthdays: James Boswell, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Keats, Sir Edmund Halley, Louis Blanc, Fanny Brice, Joseph Goebbels, Zoot Sims, Winona Ryder, Jesse Barfield, Kate Jackson, Bill Mauldin, Akim Tamiroff, Rufus Sewell, Neal Hefti-composer of the theme song for TV shows like Batman and the Odd Couple. Richard Dreyfus is 77, Ralph Bakshi is 86, Dan Castellenata, the voice of Homer Simpson, is 68.

 

1923- The musical Running Wild opened on Broadway, introducing the dance craze the Charleston. The tune was written by composer James P. Johnson. Some people say the dance moves were based on a native African dance called the Juba.

 

1929- BLACK TUESDAY-THE STOCK MARKET CRASH AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION BEGINS. The falling stock crisis which had been gaining momentum since early September finally culminated in the greatest ever one day collapse of the U.S. Economy. Millions of people who weren't ruined by last Thursday’s crash were ruined today.  One third of all U. S. banks failed- 2,500. 

 

 

1956- NBC TV upgraded its evening news show The Camel News Caravan with the Huntley-Brinkley Report. President Eisenhower disliked the change.

 

1957- Louis B. Mayer died. His last words were: "Nothing Matters..." The head of MGM Studios lorded over Hollywood like a monarch, made and broke moviestars, ordered Judy Garland fed a steady stream of narcotics and had his office redesigned all white to resemble Mussolini’s, whom he admired. Humphrey Bogart was at the funeral. When asked if he was close to Mayer, Bogie replied: Nah, I'm just here to make sure he's dead!

 


1959- Goscinny and Uderzo’s comic character Asterix first appeared in Pilote magazine.

 

1968- The Lion In Winter, with Katherine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole and Anthony Hopkins opened. When filming wrapped on this movie, Hepburn said to O’Toole: When I started off in this business my agent said to me, never act with children or animals. But you Peter, are both.” 

 

 

1969- THE INTERNET- After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Defense Department asked the Rand Corporation to create a communication system that could survive Russian atomic bombs. They developed an idea by British scientist Paul Baran of a “net” of computers all in communication with another around the world. Because there was no center, a bomb could not knock out the entire system. 

At 10:30PM In the basement of UCLA’s Boelter Hall, J.C. “Lick” Licklider, Leonard Kleinrock, Vin Cerf, Robert Kahn, Larry Roberts and Bob Taylor set up the first call to Stanford. 

They called it ARPANET- Advanced Research Projects Agency-NET, a few years later the Internet. 

 

1993- Tim Burton’s fantasy A Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry Selick, opened across the US.

 

2012- Superstorm Sandy –a late season hurricane the size of Europe collided with a storm front coming from the west, and a cold front from Canada, and it all slammed into the mid Atlantic coastline. 233 killed, 6 million without power and the Wall St area flooded, The Atlantic City boardwalk, Asbury Park and the Jersey Shore were destroyed. 

 

2012- Disney’s Wreck-it Ralph premiered. 


 

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