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.

It’s a Wonderful Life was nominated for five Oscars without winning any, although
the film has since been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100
best American films ever made, and was placed at the top of their list of the most inspirational American films of all time.

On Friday December 20, Elvis Presley received his Army draft notice (above). He
was initially ordered to report for duty January 20, but was granted a deferment to
finish the filming of King Creole which was already in pre-production. On March 24,
1958 Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army as a private at Fort Chaffee, near
Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 drama based on the Holocaust and the Post-
World War ll Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1947 of certain judges who served
during the Nazi regime in Germany. The movie won the Academy Award for Best
Actor (Maximilian Schell) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from
Another Medium, and was nominated for eleven Academy Awards. Many of the
big name actors who appeared in the film did so for a fraction of their usual
salaries because they believed in the social importance of the project.

Spencer Tracy (left) as judge Dan Haywood and William Shatner as Capt. Harrison Byers