Good morning, Whitewater.
Midweek in Whitewater will see afternoon showers and a high of sixty-eight. Sunrise is 6:02 AM and sunset 7:44 PM, for 13h 41m 12s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 97.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission-R2A Subcommittee meets this evening at 6:00 PM.
On this day in 1926, the film industry moves closer to sound in motion pictures:
…Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), and the Warner Brothers film studio officially introduce Vitaphone, a new process that will enable the addition of sound to film….
Vitaphone debuted in August 1926 with the costume drama Don Juan, starring John Barrymore and featuring an orchestral score by the New York Philharmonic. The following year, Warner Brothers released its second Vitaphone feature, The Jazz Singer, which included classical and popular music, as well as about 350 words of dialogue. The success of these two films led directly to the motion-picture industry’s conversion to sound, as the major studios quickly lobbied to gain the rights to use Vitaphone as well. Warner Brothers agreed to give up its exclusive rights to the system in exchange for a share of the royalties, and by the spring of 1928 virtually every Hollywood studio had jumped on the sound bandwagon.
On this day in 1836, Wisconsin’s oldest library is first founded:
1836 – Oldest Library in the State Founded
On this date an Act of Congress created the Territory of Wisconsin and in the sixteenth and final section of that Act appropriated funds for the Wisconsin State Library to support the needs of the fledgling government. The library is still functioning but has been renamed as the Wisconsin State Law Library [Source: Wisconsin State Law Library]
Here’s JigZone‘s puzzle for Wednesday: