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74 years ago, Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
The film is based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, as well as the first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full color, the first to be produced by Walt Disney and Walt Disney Productions, and the first in the Walt Disney Animated Classics canon… (more)
Watch the complete movie here:
Pietro Mascagni would be 148 years old today.
He was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria Rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. Though it has been stated that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a “one-opera man” who could never repeat his first success, this is inaccurate. L’amico Fritz and Iris have been popular in Europe since their respective premieres. In fact, Mascagni himself claimed that at one point Iris was performed in Italy more often than Cavalleria (cf. Stivender).
Mascagni wrote fifteen operas, an operetta, several orchestral and vocal works, as well as songs and piano music. He enjoyed immense success during his lifetime, both as a composer and conductor of his own and other people’s music. If he never repeated the international success of Cavalleria, it was probably because Mascagni refused to copy himself. The variety of styles in his operas — the Sicilian passion and warmth of Cavalleria, the exotic flavor of Iris, the idyllic breeze that ventilates the charming L’amico Fritz and Lodoletta, the Gallic chiaroscuro of Isabeau, the steely, Veristic power of Il piccolo Marat, the overripe postromanticism of the lush Parisina — demonstrate a versatility that surpasses even that of Puccini… (more)
Enjoy his Cavalleria Rusticana in this magnificent screenplay by Franco Zeffirelli:
Download the book “The Animated Man - A Life of Walt Disney” here: http://goo.gl/p5fB4.
“Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource: the minds of our children.”
Walt Disney
Walter Elias “Walt” Disney would be 110 years old today.
He was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$ 36 billion in the 2010 financial year… (more)
Mario Moreno Cantinflas makes a mash of Maurice Ravel as he crashes a nightclub stage in this 1957 Mexican comedy.
“There must be something wrong with work, or the rich would have monopolized it already.”
Cantinflas, who passed away 18 years ago.
Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 – April 20, 1993) was a mexican comedian and stage and film actor, known professionally as Cantinflas. He often portrayed impoverished campesinos or a peasant of pelado origin. The character came to be associated with the national identity of Mexico, and allowed Cantinflas to establish a long, successful film career that included a foray into Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin once commented that he was the best comedian alive and Moreno has been referred to as the “Charlie Chaplin of Mexico”. To audiences in the United States, he is best remembered as costarring with David Niven in Around the World in 80 Days (1956)… (more)
“I am applauded, because everybody understands me; you are applauded, because nobody understands you.”
Charles Chaplin addressing Albert Einstein
Sir Charles Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) would be 122 yrs old today. He was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He became one of the most famous film stars in the world before the end of World War I.
