July 19, 1950 –
The Walt Disney adventure film, Treasure Island, directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, and Finlay Currie, was released on this date.
The featured performance of Robert Newton as Long John Silver is so iconic that it is thought by many to be the origin of today’s stereotypical “Arrrrr“-laced pirate patois.
The Haus of Dcaligari 