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1994
Arthur Krim, U.S. director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies
1993
Evelyn Venable, model (Columbia Pictures logo), dies of cancer at 80
1992
Vinson Pike fined 1000 pounds for distributing obscene computer pictures
1991
Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
1989
Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
1987
Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75
1985
Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna
1980
U.S. spacecraft Voyager I sent back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn
1978
Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"
1972
Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
1969
Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space
1967
ATS-3 launched by U.S. to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
1965
"Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars
1965
U.S. Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
1965
U.S. Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
1964
U.S. Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
1964
Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
1958
Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack
1957
Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV
1943
Yoran Ben Ami, born in Israel, producer/president, Triumph Pictures
1941
David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO, Columbia Pictures
1936
Pope Pius XI encyclical to U.S. bishops "On motion pictures"
1928
George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (U.S.)
1924
1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
1924
Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer merged to form MGM
1923
Oliver Millar, Surveyor, Queen's Pictures
1923
Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York City)
1922
Campbell Adamson, CEO, Abbey National Pictures
1913
Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
1911
Dana Suesse, songwriter, You Ought to be in Pictures
1909
Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York City
1906
1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
1896
Premier of motion pictures (Koster and Bial's Music Hall, New York City)
1894
1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1878
1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
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