Little Nemo (1911) is a silent animated short film, the first by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. One of the earliest animated films, it features characters from his comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. The film's expressive character animation distinguished it from the earlier experiments of animators such as James Stuart Blackton and Émile Cohl. McCay, inspired by flip books his son brought home, came to see the potential of the animated film medium. The short's four thousand drawings on rice paper were shot at Vitagraph Studios under Blackton's supervision. Most of the film is a live-action sequence in which McCay bets his colleagues that he can make drawings that move. He wins the bet with four minutes of animation in which the characters perform, interact, and metamorphose to McCay's whim. After the film debuted, he began using it in his vaudeville act. The film's enthusiastic reception motivated him to hand-color each of the animated frames of the originally black-and-white film. Its success led him to create more animated films, including How a Mosquito Operates in 1912, and his best- known film, Gertie the Dinosaur, in 1914.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1587:

Anglo-Spanish War: In the Bay of Cádiz, Francis Drake led the first of several naval raids on the Spanish Armada that destroyed so many ships that Philip II of Spain had to delay his plans to invade England for over a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singeing_the_King_of_Spain%27s_Beard

1862:

American Civil War: Union forces under David Farragut captured New Orleans, securing access into the Mississippi River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_New_Orleans

1944:

Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into the Auvergne, becoming a liaison between the Special Operations Executive and the local maquis group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Wake

1991:

A powerful tropical cyclone struck Chittagong, Bangladesh, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Bangladesh_cyclone

1997:

The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention went into effect, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons in those countries that ratified the arms control agreement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

yen: 1. The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥), equal to 100 sen. 2. A coin or note worth one yen. […] 3. A strong desire, urge, or yearning. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yen

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Of what’s to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing’s troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.   --Constantine P. Cavafy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Constantine_P._Cavafy