William Theodore Kotcheff ( April 7, 1931 – April 10, 2025)
A movie and TV legend whose six-decade career included leading
the first installments of two hit movie franchises in the 1980s has
died.
Ted Kotcheff, an accomplished movie and television producer and director died of heart failure on Wednesday, April 10, in Mexico
just three days after his birthday.
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SANDY KOZEL
Loretta Lynn was a country music singer and
songwriter. In a career spanning six decades,
Lynn released multiple gold albums.
She had numerous hits.
Lynn received many awards and other accolades
for her groundbreaking role in country music,
including awards from both the Country Music
Association and Academy of Country Music.
Loretta Lynn (April 14, 1932 – October 4, 2022)
On January 26, 1926, John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor,
gave the first public demonstration of a true television system
in London, launching a revolution in communication and
entertainment.
Baird’s invention, a pictorial-transmission machine he called
a “televisor,” used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving
images into electronic impulses.
This information was then transmitted by cable to a screen
where it showed up as a low-resolution pattern of light and
dark. Baird’s first television program showed the heads of
two ventriloquist dummies, which he operated in front of the
camera apparatus out of view of the audience.
Baird based his television on the work of Paul Nipkow, a
German scientist who patented his ideas for a complete
television system in 1884.
The first TV image from John Logie Baird’s early “Televisor” demonstrations.
The first Emmy Awards ceremony was held on January 25, 1949
at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
The awards recognize excellence in television (which in the
1940s was a novel medium).
Hollywood’s first television academy had been founded three
years earlier by Sydney Cassyd, a former film editor for Frank
Capra who later worked as a grip at Paramount Studios and
an entertainment journalist.
At a time when only about 50,000 American households had
TV sets, Cassyd saw the need for an organization that would
foster productive discussion of the fledgling entertainment
medium.
Sydney Cassyd (1908 – 2000)
Betty (Marion Ludden) White
(January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021)
White was an actress and comedian, a pioneer of early
television with a career spanning almost seven decades.
