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A FILM OF FIRSTS DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1937

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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. Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs
premiered at the famous Carthay Circle Theater in Hollywood on Tuesday December 21, 1937. It was released to theaters nationwide
by RKO Pictures on February 4, 1938.

 

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TV SPECIAL DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1964

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER 

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Canadian actress Billie Mae Richards is the voice of Rudolph in the stop-
motion TV favorite.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a Christmas TV special that was produced in
stop motion animation by Rank/Bass. It first aired Sunday, December 6, 1964, on the NBC television network and was sponsored by General Electric and later moved to
CBS in 1972. It has been telecast every since, making it the longest running Christmas TV special, and one of only four 1960s Christmas specials still airing, the others being
A Charlie Brown Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Frosty the Snowman.

 

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CHILDRENS RADIO SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1943

LAND OF THE LOST

Land of the Lost
was a 1940s radio fantasy adventure, written and narrated by
pioneer radio commentator Isabel Manning Hewson (below). The show followed
the adventures of two children, Isabel and Billy, who traveled underwater with a
fish named Red Lantern. Hewson launched the series on Saturday October 9,
1943 on the ABC Blue network and aired till July 3, 1948. Art Carney was the
original voice of Red Lantern.

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Isabel Manning Hewson

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