W. David Lichty
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November 14, 1986 - Hoosiers was released limited, certainly in Indianapolis. It was to be released nationally in December, but the distributor was afraid it would get buried in the 13 other films released... that month. Good grief, that's how many come out on Christmas Day now!
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
November 14, 1986 - Hoosiers was released limited, certainly in Indianapolis. It was to be released nationally in December, but the distributor was afraid it would get buried in the 13 other films released... that month. Good grief, that's how many come out on Christmas Day now!
November 14, 1969 - Apollo 12 launches
Sorry about the music, but otherwise this is a nice, visually sharp, summary of the mission: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6X...
Sorry about the music, but otherwise this is a nice, visually sharp, summary of the mission: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6X...
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
November 14, 1969 - Apollo 12 launches
Sorry about the music, but otherwise this is a nice, visually sharp, summary of the mission: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6X...
Sorry about the music, but otherwise this is a nice, visually sharp, summary of the mission: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6X...
November 12, 1976 - All This and World War II
The pitch: Get the TOP recording artists today, like Peter Gabriel & Helen Reddy - to sing songs by …The Beatles!
And we put all this together as a way to teach - are you ready? - to teach the kids all about World War II !
Boom. Green light.
The pitch: Get the TOP recording artists today, like Peter Gabriel & Helen Reddy - to sing songs by …The Beatles!
And we put all this together as a way to teach - are you ready? - to teach the kids all about World War II !
Boom. Green light.
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
November 12, 1976 - All This and World War II
The pitch: Get the TOP recording artists today, like Peter Gabriel & Helen Reddy - to sing songs by …The Beatles!
And we put all this together as a way to teach - are you ready? - to teach the kids all about World War II !
Boom. Green light.
The pitch: Get the TOP recording artists today, like Peter Gabriel & Helen Reddy - to sing songs by …The Beatles!
And we put all this together as a way to teach - are you ready? - to teach the kids all about World War II !
Boom. Green light.
Nov. 12, 1946 - Song of the South hits theaters. 45 years later, it hits Disney's conscience and is shelved by them. It is available on bootlegs everywhere films are sold illegally. It's not that bad, but also not that good.
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Nov. 12, 1946 - Song of the South hits theaters. 45 years later, it hits Disney's conscience and is shelved by them. It is available on bootlegs everywhere films are sold illegally. It's not that bad, but also not that good.
November 11, 1992 - Aladdin. Ahh, color!
When people refer to the second Disney Golden Age and refer to Little Mermaid and Lion King I always mentally cross those out in favor of Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, two better films.
When people refer to the second Disney Golden Age and refer to Little Mermaid and Lion King I always mentally cross those out in favor of Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, two better films.
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
November 11, 1992 - Aladdin. Ahh, color!
When people refer to the second Disney Golden Age and refer to Little Mermaid and Lion King I always mentally cross those out in favor of Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, two better films.
When people refer to the second Disney Golden Age and refer to Little Mermaid and Lion King I always mentally cross those out in favor of Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, two better films.
November 11th, 1968 - the last photograph was taken of fictional character Walter Kurtz before he disappeared, setting off the events in Apocalypse Now, none of which happened.
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
November 11th, 1968 - the last photograph was taken of fictional character Walter Kurtz before he disappeared, setting off the events in Apocalypse Now, none of which happened.
November 11, 1953 - Adventures In Music: Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom. Co-directed by Ward Kimball and Charles Nichols. First cartoon in Cinemascope? I think so! Co-directed by Ward Kimball and Charles Nichols. It won the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Cartoons
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
November 11, 1953 - Adventures In Music: Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom. Co-directed by Ward Kimball and Charles Nichols. First cartoon in Cinemascope? I think so! Co-directed by Ward Kimball and Charles Nichols. It won the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Cartoons
On Monday, November 11th, 1918: Fictional character Benjamin Button was not born. In the ways that it is like Forrest Gump, I prefer it. I also prefer the film to the story, originally published in Colliers Magazine on May 27, 1922, and I forgive it for breaking its own internal rules at the end.
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
On Monday, November 11th, 1918: Fictional character Benjamin Button was not born. In the ways that it is like Forrest Gump, I prefer it. I also prefer the film to the story, originally published in Colliers Magazine on May 27, 1922, and I forgive it for breaking its own internal rules at the end.
Duel - November 10, 1971
Spielberg. It's like The Lodger for Hitch; It's not his first film, but it's his first HIS film, the first real Spielberg film. This was a Made For TV production, but it was so good that Universal decided to release it theatrically.
Spielberg. It's like The Lodger for Hitch; It's not his first film, but it's his first HIS film, the first real Spielberg film. This was a Made For TV production, but it was so good that Universal decided to release it theatrically.
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Duel - November 10, 1971
Spielberg. It's like The Lodger for Hitch; It's not his first film, but it's his first HIS film, the first real Spielberg film. This was a Made For TV production, but it was so good that Universal decided to release it theatrically.
Spielberg. It's like The Lodger for Hitch; It's not his first film, but it's his first HIS film, the first real Spielberg film. This was a Made For TV production, but it was so good that Universal decided to release it theatrically.
November 11, 1929 - Hells Bells, a Silly Symphony. This was just a year after his first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, only 3 years before Flowers and Trees, the first Technicolor cartoon and 8 before he used multi-plane photography to get the 3D look he would use in Snow White.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
November 11, 1929 - Hells Bells, a Silly Symphony. This was just a year after his first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, only 3 years before Flowers and Trees, the first Technicolor cartoon and 8 before he used multi-plane photography to get the 3D look he would use in Snow White.
20 years ago yesterday the best Potter picture came out. November 6, 2005 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. For book fans it's the worst because so much is cut. It is the most cinematic of the 8 pictures, so an easy pair with most others' favorite, number 3.
November 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
20 years ago yesterday the best Potter picture came out. November 6, 2005 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. For book fans it's the worst because so much is cut. It is the most cinematic of the 8 pictures, so an easy pair with most others' favorite, number 3.
November 6, 1956, the very easy to fall asleep to "A Cowboy Needs a Horse," noted because animation matters, and these are valid films. A child dreams of horses and art.
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
November 6, 1956, the very easy to fall asleep to "A Cowboy Needs a Horse," noted because animation matters, and these are valid films. A child dreams of horses and art.
Released this week, 1937, called Young & Innocent over here. The cover photo is the final image in a shot that I always think is in The Man Who Knew Too Much, and a stunning shot it is.
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Released this week, 1937, called Young & Innocent over here. The cover photo is the final image in a shot that I always think is in The Man Who Knew Too Much, and a stunning shot it is.
November 5, 2004 - The Incredibles, from director Brad Bird, who won his way into my humor pretty early with the "Family Dog" episode of Amazing Stories, which I watched on videotape about 100 times.
vimeo.com/50995359
vimeo.com/50995359
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
November 5, 2004 - The Incredibles, from director Brad Bird, who won his way into my humor pretty early with the "Family Dog" episode of Amazing Stories, which I watched on videotape about 100 times.
vimeo.com/50995359
vimeo.com/50995359
November 5, 1999 - The Insider
It's probably Michael Mann's last 'great' movie, one about a whistle blower, complete with the bullet in the mailbox message. (That's literal, by the way - he finds a bullet, placed standing like a Saturn 3 rocket, in his mailbox.) This is its President's Men shot.
It's probably Michael Mann's last 'great' movie, one about a whistle blower, complete with the bullet in the mailbox message. (That's literal, by the way - he finds a bullet, placed standing like a Saturn 3 rocket, in his mailbox.) This is its President's Men shot.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
November 5, 1999 - The Insider
It's probably Michael Mann's last 'great' movie, one about a whistle blower, complete with the bullet in the mailbox message. (That's literal, by the way - he finds a bullet, placed standing like a Saturn 3 rocket, in his mailbox.) This is its President's Men shot.
It's probably Michael Mann's last 'great' movie, one about a whistle blower, complete with the bullet in the mailbox message. (That's literal, by the way - he finds a bullet, placed standing like a Saturn 3 rocket, in his mailbox.) This is its President's Men shot.
November 5th, 1982 - It opened much earlier in its home town of Australia, of course, where it was their most popular film of all time until Crocodile Dundee. America got to see this in the Fall.
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
November 5th, 1982 - It opened much earlier in its home town of Australia, of course, where it was their most popular film of all time until Crocodile Dundee. America got to see this in the Fall.
November 5, 1954, the first, surprisingly serious Godzilla movie is released in Japan. The version in the US is a known, huge rework, but the actual film is 100% about nuclear fear, and pretty well done at that. The umbrella picture above is not a cute, staged photo for gags.
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
November 5, 1954, the first, surprisingly serious Godzilla movie is released in Japan. The version in the US is a known, huge rework, but the actual film is 100% about nuclear fear, and pretty well done at that. The umbrella picture above is not a cute, staged photo for gags.
"You're an Education" - November 5, 1938 (in COLOUR!)
What a strange confection is Frank Tashlin's final Merrie Melody cartoon before temporarily moving to Disney. It's one of those cartoons that inspired the Toy Story concept - everything comes to life once the people are gone.
What a strange confection is Frank Tashlin's final Merrie Melody cartoon before temporarily moving to Disney. It's one of those cartoons that inspired the Toy Story concept - everything comes to life once the people are gone.
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"You're an Education" - November 5, 1938 (in COLOUR!)
What a strange confection is Frank Tashlin's final Merrie Melody cartoon before temporarily moving to Disney. It's one of those cartoons that inspired the Toy Story concept - everything comes to life once the people are gone.
What a strange confection is Frank Tashlin's final Merrie Melody cartoon before temporarily moving to Disney. It's one of those cartoons that inspired the Toy Story concept - everything comes to life once the people are gone.
"Porky in Egypt" - November 5, 1938
A camel gets the energetic daffiness treatment only Bob Clampett would to do. I love that, and wish we had more of it. Greed made Daffy much less interesting. In the later years of the Looney Tunes, a genuinely crazy Daffy would have made a fairer match for Bugs.
A camel gets the energetic daffiness treatment only Bob Clampett would to do. I love that, and wish we had more of it. Greed made Daffy much less interesting. In the later years of the Looney Tunes, a genuinely crazy Daffy would have made a fairer match for Bugs.
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"Porky in Egypt" - November 5, 1938
A camel gets the energetic daffiness treatment only Bob Clampett would to do. I love that, and wish we had more of it. Greed made Daffy much less interesting. In the later years of the Looney Tunes, a genuinely crazy Daffy would have made a fairer match for Bugs.
A camel gets the energetic daffiness treatment only Bob Clampett would to do. I love that, and wish we had more of it. Greed made Daffy much less interesting. In the later years of the Looney Tunes, a genuinely crazy Daffy would have made a fairer match for Bugs.
November 5, 1937 - The Old Mill.
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, and basically Walt Disney.
This was the first real test of the multi-plane system to be used in making Snow White. This won an Oscar. I'm pretty sure Disney got most of the Animated Shorts Oscars in the 30's.
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, and basically Walt Disney.
This was the first real test of the multi-plane system to be used in making Snow White. This won an Oscar. I'm pretty sure Disney got most of the Animated Shorts Oscars in the 30's.
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
November 5, 1937 - The Old Mill.
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, and basically Walt Disney.
This was the first real test of the multi-plane system to be used in making Snow White. This won an Oscar. I'm pretty sure Disney got most of the Animated Shorts Oscars in the 30's.
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, and basically Walt Disney.
This was the first real test of the multi-plane system to be used in making Snow White. This won an Oscar. I'm pretty sure Disney got most of the Animated Shorts Oscars in the 30's.
Alfred Hitchcock's directing career is 100 years old today.
November 3, 1925 - The Pleasure Garden, the first feature Hitch finished, but if I recall correctly it was not released until after The Lodger became a hit. ...I feel like I *may* have something switched there, let me know if you know.
November 3, 1925 - The Pleasure Garden, the first feature Hitch finished, but if I recall correctly it was not released until after The Lodger became a hit. ...I feel like I *may* have something switched there, let me know if you know.
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Alfred Hitchcock's directing career is 100 years old today.
November 3, 1925 - The Pleasure Garden, the first feature Hitch finished, but if I recall correctly it was not released until after The Lodger became a hit. ...I feel like I *may* have something switched there, let me know if you know.
November 3, 1925 - The Pleasure Garden, the first feature Hitch finished, but if I recall correctly it was not released until after The Lodger became a hit. ...I feel like I *may* have something switched there, let me know if you know.
Newsweek, October 23, 1995 - The Beatles' Anthology project was about to start, a lookback on a band 25 years dormant.
Now 55 years dormant, the Anthology elements are getting a refresh. I'm a Beatles music fan, and the level of interest in the now annual, fall revisits still surprises me.
Now 55 years dormant, the Anthology elements are getting a refresh. I'm a Beatles music fan, and the level of interest in the now annual, fall revisits still surprises me.
October 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Newsweek, October 23, 1995 - The Beatles' Anthology project was about to start, a lookback on a band 25 years dormant.
Now 55 years dormant, the Anthology elements are getting a refresh. I'm a Beatles music fan, and the level of interest in the now annual, fall revisits still surprises me.
Now 55 years dormant, the Anthology elements are getting a refresh. I'm a Beatles music fan, and the level of interest in the now annual, fall revisits still surprises me.
If he'd only been in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, I'd still celebrate this guy. I really liked Goldblum as a performer before the twinkle in his eye became permanent. He's still generally good, but this supporting role was a full fledged character, all due to him.
He's 73 today.
He's 73 today.
October 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If he'd only been in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, I'd still celebrate this guy. I really liked Goldblum as a performer before the twinkle in his eye became permanent. He's still generally good, but this supporting role was a full fledged character, all due to him.
He's 73 today.
He's 73 today.
Mystic Pizza - October 21, 1988
Lili Taylor got her first properly big role in a movie that introduced a few other people to the world as well. She's always great, even in things that aren't. Also introduced to us by this little independent picture: one Mr. Damon in his first screen role.
Lili Taylor got her first properly big role in a movie that introduced a few other people to the world as well. She's always great, even in things that aren't. Also introduced to us by this little independent picture: one Mr. Damon in his first screen role.
October 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Mystic Pizza - October 21, 1988
Lili Taylor got her first properly big role in a movie that introduced a few other people to the world as well. She's always great, even in things that aren't. Also introduced to us by this little independent picture: one Mr. Damon in his first screen role.
Lili Taylor got her first properly big role in a movie that introduced a few other people to the world as well. She's always great, even in things that aren't. Also introduced to us by this little independent picture: one Mr. Damon in his first screen role.