Film Tv Events September 23 | History by KabAstro

1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda

First Keystone Comedy

1912 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released "Cohen Collects a Debt"

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927 "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans", directed by F. W. Murnau, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, is released (Academy Awards Unique and Artistic Picture 1927)

1953 KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting
1961 1st movie to become a TV series, "How to Marry a Millionaire" premieres

The Jetsons

1962 ABC's 1st color TV series "The Jetsons" premieres, created by Hanna-Barbera and Joseph Barbera

1963 WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1969 "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford premieres at the Roger Sherman Theater in New Haven, Connecticut

1969 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV
1974 BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service

Gypsy

1974 Revival of Jules Styne and Stephen Sondheim's musical "Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 120 performances, Angela Lansbury wins Tony Award for her role as Mama Rose