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August 16, 1930
On August 16, 1930, the first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks.
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Featured · August 16, 1930
The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks.
A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved, but the modern usage usually refers to either: an image or series of images intended for satire, caricature, or humor; or a motion picture that relies on a sequence of illustrations for its animation. Someone who creates cartoons in the first sense is called a cartoonist, and in the second sense they are usually called an animator.
Around 1930
The year in brief
1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1930th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 930th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1930s decade.
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On August 16, 1930
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1930 The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks. Type of two-dimensional visual art
A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved, but the modern usage usually refers to either: an image or series of images intended for satire, caricature, or humor; or a motion picture that relies on a sequence of illustrations for its animation. Someone who creates cartoons in the first sense is called a cartoonist, and in the second sense they are usually called an animator.
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1930 The first British Empire Games are opened in Hamilton, Ontario, by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon. Multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event that brings together athletes from across the Commonwealth of Nations, a political association comprising the majority of former territories of the British Empire. First held as the British Empire Games in 1930, the event has evolved through several name changes, reflecting the changing geopolitical landscape and gradual decolonisation of the Empire. It was known as the British Empire Games until 1950, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games until 1966, and the British Commonwealth Games until 1974.
Elsewhere that year
Other moments from 1930
- April 18 A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services.
- April 2 After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
- April 22 The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
- April 28 The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
- April 6 At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."
- August 29 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
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