Morticia Takes Children Card

Frame from the restored version of The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894/95)

The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park for Grand International Exhibition of 1851

Sir Joseph Paxton, gardener, engineer, architect, and designer of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851 (aka the first World’s Fair) was born on August 3, 1803. Did you know he also cultivated the Cavendish banana?

Inventor William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson was born on August 3, 1860. While working for Thomas Edison, he invented the Kinetophone, an early movie camera. The first film recorded on the Kinetophone is also the first known film with live-recorded sound. Called The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894/95), it features Dickson playing the violin.

Also born today:
Famously prosecuted by the State of Tennessee for teaching evolution in a public school classroom, John Thomas Scopes was born on August 3, 1900, in Kentucky.

Actress Dolores del Río was born on August 3, 1904.

Actress Carolyn Jones, probably best known these days for playing Morticia Addams, died on August 3, 1983. Flannery O’Connor died on August 3, 1964.

Dolores del Rio

That’s all I have for August 3rd. I will start and finish my research earlier tomorrow. Today was too much. To quote Morticia Addams: