{"id":15419,"date":"2011-08-29T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=15419"},"modified":"2011-08-22T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T17:56:01","slug":"this-week-in-film-history-08-28-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=15419","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Film History, 08.28.11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5010\" title=\"This Week In Film History, 08.28.11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/button-film-history.png\" alt=\"history of movies\" width=\"170\" height=\"160\" \/>September 1, 1902<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: A milestone in the evolution of the cinema is marked with the release of George M\u00e9li\u00e8s&#8217; fantastic <em>Voyage to the Moon<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">August 28, 1912<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: &#8220;King of Comedy&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Mack+Sennett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mack Sennett<\/a> leaves Biograph and forms Keystone Film Company with two former bookies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">September 1, 1919<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: The first United Artists film, <em>His Majesty, the American<\/em> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Douglas+Fairbanks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Douglas Fairbanks<\/a>, opens in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">September 1, 1920<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: After co-starring with &#8220;Fatty&#8221; Arbuckle for three years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Buster+Keaton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Buster Keaton<\/a> makes his solo starring debut with the short <em>One Week<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">September 2, 1923<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Under his most remarkable make-up to date, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Lon+Chaney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lon Chaney<\/a> brings Victor Hugo&#8217;s Quasimodo to life in the first filming of <em>The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">August 28, 1927<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Though they had worked together as far back as 1917, <em>With Love and Hisses<\/em> marks the debut of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Stan+Laurel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stan Laurel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Oliver+Hardy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oliver Hardy<\/a> as a comedy team. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">September 1, 1928<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Animator Paul Terry&#8217;s <em>Dinner Time<\/em>, the first all-talking cartoon short, premieres in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">August 31, 1939<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: An all-distaff cast drives the witty goings-on in director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=George+Cukor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">George Cukor<\/a>&#8216;s filming of the hit Broadway play <em>The Women<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">September 3, 1939<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Alfred+Hitchcock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alfred Hitchcock<\/a> reshoots the ending of <em>Foreign Correspondent<\/em> to incorporate the anticipated bombing of London by the Luftwaffe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">August 28, 1948<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Alfred+Hitchcock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alfred Hitchcock<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Rope<\/em>, with all the action taking place over continuous ten-minute takes and seamless cuts to the next scene, opens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">September 2, 1949<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=James+Cagney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">James Cagney<\/a> makes a memorable return to the gangster genre, playing psychopathic Cody Jarrett in <em>White Heat<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">August 31, 1973<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=John+Ford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Ford<\/a>, the maverick director of <em>Stagecoach<\/em> and <em>The Quiet Man<\/em>, dies in Palm Desert, California, at the age of 78. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">August 28, 1987<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Famed director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=John+Huston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Huston<\/a> passes away from emphysema at 81, days before the premiere of his final film, <em>The Dead<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">September 3, 1991<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Screenwriter, director and celebrant of the common man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Frank+Capra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frank Capra<\/a> passes away at the age of 94.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 1, 1902: A milestone in the evolution of the cinema is marked with the release of George M\u00e9li\u00e8s&#8217; fantastic Voyage to the Moon. 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