Events in Film & TV on August 10

  • 1935 3rd Venice Film Festival opens
  • 1936 4th Venice Film Festival opens
  • 1937 5th Venice Film Festival opens
  • 1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
  • 1948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
  • 1948 WABC TV channel 7 in New York, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting

Film release premierFilm Premier

1950 "Sunset Boulevard", American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in NYC

Filmmaker Billy Wilder
Filmmaker
Billy Wilder
Actor William Holden
Actor
William Holden
Actress Gloria Swanson
Actress
Gloria Swanson

Film release premierFilm Premier

1960 Los Angeles premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh

Director Alfred Hitchcock
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Actor Anthony Perkins
Actor
Anthony Perkins
Actress Janet Leigh
Actress
Janet Leigh
  • 1964 WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1993 Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA
  • 2015 Google announces its restructure as Alphabet, a holding company with Google, YouTube, Android and Chrome as subsidiaries