Fired on Howdy Doody to Inspiring Sesame Street: Bob Keeshan’s Captain Kangaroo
Bob Keeshan (1927 – 2004) is an American actor, producer and television host who worked primarily in children’s media. After starting out as Clarabell the…
Category: Film
Designing the Back to the Future Shoes
“Roads? Where we are going, we don’t need roads.” Doc Brown with his Delorean time machine When Back to the Future Part II was released…
Hitchcock’s Classic Vertigo
On this date in 1958, the psychological thriller film noir Vertigo premiered in San Francisco. Based on the French mystery novel D’entre les morts (The…
Indian Cinema Pioneer Satyajit Ray
Born on this day in 1921, Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray was convinced he must become a director after seeing De Sica’s “The Bicycle Thief” on…
Citizen Kane: American Cinema’s Colossus
Since its premiere in New York on this date in 1941, Citizen Kane has been widely regarded for most of its existence as the greatest…
Film Maverick Lars Von Trier
Film director Lars Von Trier was born in Denmark on this day in 1956. Responsible for the movement in cinema he co-authored in 1995 called…
Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird: “All Rise”
On this day in 1926, novelist Harper Lee, the novelist known primarily for the American classic To Kill a Mockingbird, was born in Monroeville, Alabama.…