; ct2gcal.pl output ; ; Absolutely NO warrenty! ; ; ;# CalenTool V2.2 - nflag=1 range=1,12 - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE ;# $Header: movies,v 1.2 91/03/07 16:21:17 billr Exp $ ;# Special dates in the history of movies. ;# Today in History dates provided by Robert Heckendorn at ;# Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado. ;# Any corrections or additions may be sent to robert@fc.hp.com ;# ;# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file ;# ;# Converted to calentool format by Larry Virden (lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu) ;# and further edited and merged by Bill Randle (billr@saab.cna.tek.com). ;# 00000116 The musical "Hello Dolly" starring Carol Channing, opened on Broadway (1964)%s19640116 00000117 E. C. Segar's Popeye first appears in Thimble Theatre (1929)%s19290117 00000120 The first "talkie" movie that was filmed outdoors (90% outdoors) was released by Fox. The name was "In Old Arizona". (1929)%s19290120 00000129 The movie Dr. Strangelove is released (1964)%s19640129 00000214 The movie "Tarzan of the Apes" was first released (1918)%s19180214 00000215 The first Dracula movie is released (1931)%s19310215 00000218 The movie "Bwana Devil" introduces the 3-D movie fad of the 50's by opening in New York (1953)%s19530218 00000302 Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd first meet in "Elmer's Candid Camera" (1940)%s19400302 00000302 The movie King Kong premiers at New York City's Radio Music Hall and the RKO Roxy (1933)%s19330302 00000313 Dr. Lee de Forest demonstrates a sound motion picture system in New York (1923)%s19230313 00000316 principal photography complete on "The Wizard of Oz" (1939)%s19390316 00000402 first movie house opened in Los Angeles. Called "The Electric Theater". (1902)%s19020402 00000406 first animated cartoon is copyrighted. (1906)%s19060406 00000410 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York. (1953)%s19530410 00000417 Daffy Duck debuts in the Looney Tune "Porky's Duck Hunt" (1937)%s19370417 00000420 Shirley Temple's debut movie "Stand up and Cheer", was previewed in New York (1934)%s19340420 00000426 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii. (1906)%s19060426 00000426 Godzilla makes his American debut (1956)%s19560426 00000515 Mickey Mouse first appears in "Plane Crazy", the 1st MM cartoon (1928)%s19280515 00000516 1st Oscars announced (best film was 'Wings'). (1929)%s19290516 00000525 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) is released. (1983)%s19830525 00000525 "Star Wars" is released. (1978)%s19780525 00000612 The first documentary film, "Nanook of the North", is first shown (1932)%s19320612 00000612 the movie Cleopatra, with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, premieres. It is 4h 3m long! (1963)%s19630612 00000615 1st attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking one picture (done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the groundduring a gallop. Leland Stanford bet they didn't. He lost) (1878)%s18780615 00000616 "The Blues Brothers" premieres (Chicago, 1980)%s19800616 00000701 Porky Pig premieres in the Merrie Melodie "I Haven't Got a Hat" (1935)%s19350701 00000704 Prof. Harold Hill, The Music Man, arrives in River City, Iowa (1912)%s19120704 00000706 Premiere of first talking motion picture (New York City, 1928)%s19280706 00000717 "Yellow Submarine" premieres (London Pavilion, 1968)%s19680717 00000729 Mickey Mouse appears in "Steamboat Willie", the 3rd MM cartoon actually shown before the 2nd cartoon (1928)%s19280729 00000730 George Eastman gives first demonstration of color movies (1928)%s19280730 00000803 The first Batman movie, "Batman: The Movie", is released (1966)%s19660803 00000807 Mickey Mouse appears in "Gallopin' Gaucho", the 2nd MM cartoon (1928)%s19280807 00000815 The MGM musical movie, "The Wizard of Oz" debuts at Grauman's Chinese Theater (1939)%s19390815 00000824 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres (New York City, Los Angeles, 1969)%s19690824 00000908 Howard The Duck is blasted into a universe he never made (according to the Lucas movie) 00000920 Roxy Theater opens (Hollywood, 1973)%s19730920 00000923 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released. (1912)%s19120923 00000923 The flower Audrey II is first placed on display by Seymour in Muschnik's Flower Shop (from the film, "Little Shop of Horrors") 00001006 "The Jazz Singer", 1st movie with a sound track, premieres. (1927)%s19271006 00001006 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. (1889)%s18891006 00001013 opening in New York of the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1962)%s19621013 00001017 "Hair" opens at New York City's Public Theater (1967)%s19671017 00001017 The movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" debuts in Washington D.C. (1939)%s19391017 00001028 Marty goes back in time in the Movie "Back to the Future" (1985)%s19851028 00001101 Shakespeare's comedy "The Tempest" was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London (1611)%s16111101 00001101 Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London (1604)%s16041101 00001106 The day when professor Emmet L Brown strikes his head and he suddenly understands how to do time travel. Marty arrives back in time. All from the movie "Back to the Future" (1955)%s19551106 00001113 The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released. (1921)%s19211113 00001115 Ethel Barrymore first says the line that will become her trademark "That's all there is; there isn't any more." (1904)%s19041115 00001116 "The Sound of Music" opens (1959)%s19591116 00001122 The Humphrey Bogart movie, "Casablanca", premiers (1942)%s19421122 00001122 The musical "Man of la Mancha" opens (1965)%s19651122 00001221 1st feature-length cartoon with color and sound premieres: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)%s19371221