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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 exact boundaries of the Golden Age are somewhat debated; producer David Susskind, in a 1960s roundtable discussion with leading 1950s television dramatists, defined television's Golden Age as 1938 to 1954, while The Television Industry: A Historical Dictionary says "the Golden Age opened with Kraft Television Theatre on May 7, 1947, and ...
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 ...
Chiller Theater began airing on WPIX in 1961. Beginning in 1963, its host was John Zacherle ("The Cool Ghoul"). Zacherle quit the show in 1965. [1] Each episode of the show began with the "Classic Montage Opening" that used a montage of brief segments of film from various 1950s fantasy and science fiction movies. [2]
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)
May 16 – Igor Grabar, Russian painter, publisher, and art historian (b. 1871) May 27 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator, poster artist (b. 1877) June 6 – Ernest L. Blumenschein, American painter, member of the Taos art colony (b. 1874) August 8 – Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-British graphic artist (b. 1897)
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