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On May 13, 1946, Jon Gnagy was the first "act" on the first television program broadcast from the new WNBT channel 4 antenna atop the Empire State Building. Gnagy pioneered drawing on television in the United States from the early 1950s throughout the 1960s on his program, Learn to Draw, and his popular art kits are still available.
By the late 1950s and 1960s, the perception of cartoons as children's entertainment was entrenched in the public consciousness, enough so that Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow, in his landmark 1961 speech "Television and the Public Interest," denounced the medium of animation as a whole and compared it to feeding children ...
The program was named The Art Baker Show, after the series creator and host. In April 1951, the show’s title was changed to You Asked for It . Originally airing on the DuMont Television Network from December 29, 1950, to December 7, 1951, it moved to ABC , where it remained until the end of its original run on September 27, 1959.
The "Golden Age" of the Soviet media culture is usually associated with Khrushchev Thaw, which spanned from the mid-1950s until the end of 1960s. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] The live nature of television and relatively young age of the people involved in its development afforded certain level of exuberance, edginess, debate and criticism.
2 1960s. 3 1970s. 4 1980s. 5 ... View history; General ... The following article consist of shows/programs that aired during the network era of American television ...
June 1 – Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, Italian-born Australian painter and art teacher (b. 1870) June 29 – Max Pechstein, German Expressionist artist (b. 1881) August 17 – Fernand Léger, French artist (b. 1881) September 19 – Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor (b. 1875) September 27 – Leslie Garland Bolling, African American sculptor (b. 1898)
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Konrad Bernheimer, Venezuelan-born German art dealer and collector; Antony Gormley, English sculptor; September 4 – Kobe (Jacques Saelens), Belgian visual artist and sculptor; November 10 – Jonathan Janson, American painter and art historian; December 11 – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist and film director (d. 2007)