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This Day in Film History:
December 19


1914:

Newspaper cartoonist Earl Hurd patents the celluloid overlay method of motion-picture animation production.

1997:

Future all-time box office champ Titanic debuts. The film goes on to gross a bit more than $600 million and win 11 Oscars.

1999:

Desmond Llewelyn dies in a traffic accident in East Sussex, England. Llewelyn appears as Q in 18 James Bond movies, reportedly the greatest number of times an actor has played the same character in cinema history.





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