page_title: February 1920
section_title: Sunday, February 8, 1920
hierarchical_section_title: February 1920 / Sunday, February 8, 1920
caption_attribution_description: English: portrait of dancer Elena Smirnova by Alexandr Golovin 1910 Français: Elena Smirnova 1910 Русский: Головин Александр. Портрет балерина Смирнова Елена Александровна. 1910
context_page_description: The following events occurred in February 1920:
context_section_description: The first American film cartoon to be shown in color, The Debut of Thomas Katt, was released to American theaters by Bray Productions.  The animated movie film used the Brewster Color process that had been patented by Percy Douglas Brewster in 1913.
  In Albania, the Congress of Lushnjë proclaimed Tirana as the new nation's temporary capital, after the city of Durrës had served as the capital since 1918.  Tirana would still be the Balkan nation's capital a century later.
  Prima ballerina Elena Smirnova performed in Russia for the final time, as the production of Romance of the Roses closed.  Smirnova and other artists subsequently fled from the Soviet Union.  She would never return to Russia, and would die in 1934.
  Born: 
  George W. George (born George Warren Goldberg), American stage and film producer known for the 1981 movie My Dinner with Andre (d. 2007)
  Viola Herms Drath, German-American playwright, journalist and author; in Düsseldorf (murdered 2011)
caption: Smirnova
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