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Tijuana bible. Tijuana bibles (also known as eight-pagers, Tillie-and-Mac books, Jiggs-and-Maggie books, Jo-Jo books, bluesies, blue-bibles, gray-backs, and two-by-fours) [1] were palm-sized erotic comics produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Their popularity peaked during the Great Depression era.
Page Eight. Page Eight is a 2011 British political thriller, written and directed for the BBC by the British dramatist David Hare, his first film as director since the 1989 film Strapless. [1] The cast includes Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Tom Hughes, Ralph Fiennes, and Judy Davis. The film was followed by Turks & Caicos (2014) and ...
February 8 - Alejandro Rey, Argentinian-born actor (The Flying Nun) (died 1987) February 10 - Robert Wagner, U.S. actor (It Takes a Thief, Switch, Hart to Hart) February 27 - Joanne Woodward, U.S. actress; March 22 Pat Robertson, televangelist (died 2023) Stephen Sondheim, U.S. composer (died 2021) March 30 - John Astin, U.S. actor (The Addams ...
Blondie is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Chic Young. The comic strip is distributed by King Features Syndicate, and has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930. [1] The success of the strip, which features the eponymous blonde and her sandwich-loving husband, led to the long-running Blondie film series (1938–1950 ...
28 January – Roy Clarke, comedy writer. 29 January – John Junkin, comedy actor and screenwriter (died 2006) 9 May – Joan Sims, actress (died 2001) 1 June – Edward Woodward, actor (died 2009) 4 June – Bill Treacher, actor (died 2022) 17 July – Ray Galton, comedy writer (died 2018) 25 August – Sean Connery, Scottish-born screen ...
John Logie Baird FRSE (/ ˈ l oʊ ɡ i b ɛər d /; 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926.
History of television. Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a ...
This is a list of pre-World War II television stations of the 1920s and 1930s. Most of these experimental stations were located in Europe (notably in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, and Russia ), Australia, Canada, and the United States. Some present-day broadcasters trace their origins to these early stations.