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October 11, 1958 – The Looney Tunes short, Hook, Line and Stinker, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, was released on this date. Coyote subtly breaks the fourth wall here as he’s pouring the bird seed. Silently, of course.

October 11, 1941 – The Merrie Melodies short, The Bug Parade, directed by Tex Avery, was released on this date. This was the last Warner Bros. cartoon that Tex Avery finished before he left for Paramount to work on the short-lived Speaking of Animals shorts. He later moved to the MGM cartoon studio.

October 11, 1944 – The romantic noir classic, Laura, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb and Vincent Price, premiered in NYC on this date. Clifton Webb had to deal with the shock of seeing himself on-screen after a long absence from Hollywood. Watching the first batch of rushes that included his first scene inContinue reading “Footsteps that you hear down the hall”

October 11, 1962 –We all got to follow the wacky adventures of the crew of PT-73 when McHale’s Navy set sail for the first time on this date on ABC-TV. Ensign Charles Parker (Tim Conway) often mentioned that he was from Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Conway grew up in Chagrin Falls in real-life.

Continuing our salute to International Cephalopod Awareness Days, celebrated October 8th through the 12th – Today is Myths and Legends Day. We here at ACME salute all the fantastical cephalopods of movies, literature and legend.

October 11, 1975 –The long running (some say too long running) comedy variety show started at 11:30 PM, on this date, with George Carlin as its host. It was called NBC’s Saturday Night, because ABC featured a program at the same time titled Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. After ABC canceled the Cosell programContinue reading “I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines”

October 10, 1964 –The Shangri-Las released their operatic hit, Leader of the Pack, on this date. This was written by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and producer Shadow Morton. Morton was looking for a follow-up to the first Shangri-Las‘ hit, Remember (Walking in the Sand). He had a motorcycle and was part of a motorcycle gangContinue reading “Is she really going out with him?”

October 10, 1959 –The Merrie Melodies short, Wild About Hurry, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, was released on this date. The roadrunner breaks the wall in a non-traditional way to end the short. This technique would be used several times in the roadrunner coyote series.

October 10, 1936 – The Merrie Melodies short, Boulevardier from the Bronx , directed by Friz Freleng, was released on this date. The first Merrie Melodies cartoon to use Merrily We Roll Along as its theme. This cartoon also debuts a blue Warner Bros. shield, which would be used until sometime in 1938.

October 10, 1968 – One of the silliest movies Jane Fonda (or anyone else, for that matter) ever made, Barbarella, landed in US theatres on this date. Lobby card stills and set photographs survive, showing footage of a seduction scene between Barbarella and the Black Queen on a bed. However, this footage has never appearedContinue reading “Where do you think Duran Duran came from?”