Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 animated short film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. He first used the film before audiences as an interactive part of his vaudeville act: the frisky, childlike dinosaur Gertie did tricks at his command. His employer, magnate William Randolph Hearst, later curtailed McCay's vaudeville activities, so McCay added a live- action introductory sequence to the film for its theatrical release. Gertie was the first film to use animation techniques such as keyframes, registration marks, tracing paper, the Mutoscope action viewer, and animation loops, and the first to feature a dinosaur. Gertie influenced the next generation of animators, including the Fleischer brothers, Otto Messmer, Paul Terry, and Walt Disney. McCay abandoned a sequel, Gertie on Tour, around 1921 after producing about a minute of footage. Gertie is the best preserved of his films—others are lost or in fragments—and has been preserved in the US National Film Registry.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1934:

The Tydings–McDuffie Act came into effect, which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence from the United States after a period of ten years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tydings%E2%80%93McDuffie_Act

1939:

Members of the German National Movement in Liechtenstein attempted to overthrow the government and provoke Liechtenstein's annexation into Nazi Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Liechtenstein_putsch

1964:

Royal assent was given to Prince Edward Island's Provincial Flag Act, which outlined the design of its provincial flag (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Prince_Edward_Island

2006:

Hannah Montana, starring Miley Cyrus as an actress whose alter ego is the titular character, premiered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Montana

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

megadeath: 1. One million deaths, especially as an unit of measure for estimating deaths due to nuclear warfare. 2. (loosely) The deaths of a very large number of people; a massacre, a slaughter. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/megadeath

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

There are many who are hypocrites although they think they are not, and there are many who are afraid of being hypocrites although they certainly are not. Which is the one and which is the other God knows, and none but He.   --Walter Hilton https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Hilton