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Film & TVShirley Temple presents Walt Disney's special Snow White Oscar
On 23 February 1939, Shirley Temple presented Walt Disney with a specially designed Academy Award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: one full-size statuette accompanied by seven miniature ones.
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Film & TVThe War of the Worlds broadcast: October 30, 1938
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre presented a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’s alien-invasion novel. Its simulated news bulletins alarmed some listeners, but the familiar account of nationwide mass panic exaggerates what the evidence establishes.
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Film & TVThe Gold Rush’s Hollywood Premiere and Chaplin’s Edible Shoelaces
Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush premiered in Los Angeles on 26 June 1925. Its famous boot dinner depended on confectionery props, including liquorice laces that the comedian handled like strands of spaghetti.
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Film & TVKid Auto Races at Venice and the Tramp’s screen debut
Released on 7 February 1914, Kid Auto Races at Venice introduced Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp to audiences. Its small comic premise involved a spectator who persistently placed himself between a camera and a children’s race.
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