August 13th Events & Coupons

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The Art of Exposure: Pin-up and Nude Photography Showcase at Heritage Auctions
Specialty Auctions and Conventions | Aug 13, 2025
Netflix Bites MGM Grand Las Vegas
Pop Ups and Vendor Markets | Feb 11, 2025 - Feb 20, 2026
United States > Nevada > Las Vegas > > 89109

Conventions, Live Shows and Fairs See All

Hall of Excellence Rare Sports Memorabilia Exhibition at Fontainebleau
Memorabilia Exhibition | Jun 20 - Dec 31, 2025
United States > Nevada > Las Vegas > > 89109
Michael Jackson MJJ5 Exhibition at The Showboat Resort
Memorabilia Exhibition | Jun 15 - Aug 31, 2025
United States > New Jersey > Atlantic City > > 08401

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Red Sonja
Television/Streaming Premiere | Aug 13 - Aug 29, 2025

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Grateful Dead Movie Returns to Theaters and IMAX for 60th Anniversary
Film Screenings and Series | Aug 13 - Aug 14, 2025
Red Sonja
Television/Streaming Premiere | Aug 13 - Aug 29, 2025

Signings and Appearances See All

Luc Moullet: Anarchy in the Alps Screening Series with Filmmaker in Person
Film Screenings and Series | Aug 8 - Aug 14, 2025
United States > New York > New York City > > 10023

Social and Cultural Events See All

World Photography Week
Social and Cultural Events | Aug 12 - Aug 26
Elvis Week
Social and Cultural Events | Aug 9 - Aug 17
United States > Tennessee > Memphis > > 38116

August 13th In History

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Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own Exhibit and Auction
Memorabilia Exhibition | Aug 1 - Sep 11, 2023

Contests and Giveaways See All

Ladies of STK DJ Tour
Contests | Jul 20 - Aug 26, 2023
United States > New York > New York City > > 10014

Firsts, Starts and Openings See All

First-ever Hong Kong Pop Culture Festival
Art Exhibitions | May 20 - Dec 31, 2023
Hong Kong > > Sai Wan Ho
First Issue of Horror Publication Fangoria Magazine is Published
First Periodical Issues | Aug 1 - Aug 31, 1979

Milestones See All

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Buck Kartalian
Birthdays | Aug 13, 1922

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Floyd Norman | Birthdays | Jun 22, 1935

Floyd Norman

Birthdays | Jun 22, 1935

The Walt Disney Company

Floyd Ernest Norman is an American animator and writer. Throughout his career, Norman worked for a variety of animation companies, including Walt Disney Animation, Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, Film Roman and Pixar.

Norman’s love for animation began during childhood after he watched the Walt Disney animated movies Dumbo and Bambi. That passion lead to his attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he majored in illustration. He started his career as an assistant to Katy Keene comic book artist Bill Woggon, who lived in the Santa Barbara, California, area where Norman was raised. In 1957, Norman was employed as an inbetweener on Sleeping Beauty at The Walt Disney Company, becoming the first African-American artist to remain at the studio on a long-term basis. Following his work on Sleeping Beauty, Norman was drafted into the military, then returned to the studio after his service in 1960 to work on One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) and The Sword in the Stone (1963).

After Walt Disney personally saw some of the inter-office sketches Norman created to entertain his co-workers, he was reassigned to the story department, where he worked with Larry Clemmons on the story for The Jungle Book.

After Walt Disney passed away in 1966, Floyd Norman left the Disney studio to co-found Vignette Films, with business partner and fellow animator & director Leo Sullivan. Vignette Films produced six animated movies and was one of the first companies to produce films on the subject of black history. Norman and Sullivan worked together on various projects, including segments for Sesame Street and the original Hey, Hey, Hey, It’s Fat Albert television special, which was conceived by Bill Cosby and aired in 1969 on NBC. In 1972, a different Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Saturday morning cartoon series was produced for CBS by Filmation Associates.

Norman returned to Disney at one point in the early 1970s to work on the Disney animated feature Robin Hood, and later worked on several animated television programs at Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears. In the 1980s he worked as a writer in the comic strip department at Disney and was the final writer for the Mickey Mouse comic strip before it was discontinued. Norman also published a number of books on the animation industry during this time.

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