Events in Film & TV
- May 14 Oldest continuously operating movie theater in the world, the State Theatre first opens in Washington, Iowa (Guinness World Records)
- May 18 Paul Dukas' symphonic scherzo "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice" (used in Disney's Fantasia film) premieres, based on poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Aug 31 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope [kinetographic camera], a device which produces moving pictures
- Dec 12 Rudolph Dirks' 1st "The Katzenjammer Kids" cartoon strip appears in NY Journal
Frank Capra
Moe Howard
Fredric March
Bud Abbott
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