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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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