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1st feature length film and by who?
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Birth of a Nation in 1915(3 and half hrs) by DW Griffith - established film as an art form - controversial about slavery
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1st color film and by who?
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Flowers and Trees by Walt Disney (3 color technicolor) in 1932
Feature length 1st w/ color Becky Sharp |
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1st film with sound (talky) and by who?
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The Jazz Singer in 1927 with Al Jolson "You ain't seen nothin yet!" by WArner Bros using vitaphone
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1st film to tell a story and by who?
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The Great Train Robery by Edwin Porter in 1903 (turn of century)
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1st film to use special effects/trick photography and by who?
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A Trip to the Moon- 14 min. (sci/fi after Great Train Robbery) by Melies
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Vitaphone
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used by WB sound recorded on disks and syncronized
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Early Talkies
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film still silent, but a record made at the same time so actors could talk into microphones on a disk to be in sync with film
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Photophone
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sound on actual film so did away with disk
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Talkies affect on Silent Film actors
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some actors in silent films had terrible voices/ accents (ex Valentino) so ruined careers
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What deeply affected (killed) magazines?
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development of TV (1956 after war) because TV pics moved even though same pics as in magazines
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# of magazines published between 1800 and 1885
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3300
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Golden Age of Magazines
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last part of 19th century - from civil war until 1900 - (industrial rev. had impact of mag. tech. and postal rates reduced for magazines by postal act)
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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"golden spike" driven connected east/west coast by rail so mag. could travel back and forth and products could to (boosted subscriptions so could increase adv. cost)
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Golden Age of Radio
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30's and 40's (early on after all clutter and before TV) - provided electronic bridge to masses
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Golden Age of TV
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50's where some of greatest programs started (lots live), some radio programs moved to TV (amos and andy) - became dominant entertainment medium because mesmorized audience
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Colonial Press Period
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- institutionalized gossip
- published by undereducated printers - British still in charge (smalltown gossip popular) |
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Revolutionary Press Period
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- established a rold of advocacy
- had heavy doses of persuasion and PR - revolutionary thinkers for freedom (later created Declaration of Independence - advocation freedom - radicals wrote federalist papers 1st in newspap. form |
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Political Press Period
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- after independence (post Rev. war)
- supported by politicians - no real growth in newspaper industry (b/c everyone looking to content not technology) - politicians even wrote and published (financed newsp.) |
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The Penny Press
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- defer the production cost to advertisors
- brought by tech. of printing - Ben Day and NY Sun - advertisors eager to pay price to get message out all at once |
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Personal Editors Press Period
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- James Gordon Bennett established NY Herald in 1835 selling papers for penny
- reporters have newsrooms - events reporting - public watchdog establishment |
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Yellow Journalism
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- "Yellow Kid"
- Joseph Pullitzer and NY world - Hearst San Fran. examiner - created circulation war by using sensationalism - sometimes made up news to sell papers - Hearst and Pullitzer both owned yellow kid at one time |
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Yellow Kid
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- popular character
- kid derby and yellow nightshirt who he put on and set out on adventures - paved the way for sunday comics - 3 years of existence (1895-1898) |
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Jazz Journalism
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- revived sensationalism journalism
- 20's jazz era - NY Daily News in 1919 - used tabloid format - quickly grew to largest circulation - during WW1 sens. journ. not necessary b/c wanted war news - made comeback with photos of dead ppl. and writing about romance/mystery instead of news |
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Radio Station Jobs
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General Manager
Programming Manager (production manager/ traffic and continuity) Sales Manager (sells radio time) Chief Engineer (knows all about radio station) |
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TV Station Jobs
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Business Office - Station Manager
Engineering Dept. News and Public affairs dept. Programming/ Prog. Director Sales Dept. (sells adv.) Promotions Dept. (tv promotions promote station itself) |
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Principle (Psychological) that allows pics to seem like straight movement
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"Persistence of Vision" so looks as though moving (ex. flipbooks) - brain sees one pic and stays in mind as next is presented
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Early Cable TV (CATV)
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Community Antenna TV
- started for mts. areas - became basis for Cable tv - signals directed where couldn't beam antenna on high ridge to get to ppl in valley below (need based at first) |
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Early Broadcasting
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one TV in whole town so broadcast tv set selling in 1938 in dept. stores
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Tops 3 Monthly Magazines
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Reader's Digest (12.6)
Nat'l Geographic (8.5 Better Homes and Gardens (7.6) |
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Top 3 Weekly Magazines
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TV Guide (11.1)
Time (4.1) People (3.5) |
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1st person to publish magazines
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Andrew Bradford lasted 3 issues
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2nd person to publish mag.
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Ben Franklin for 6 issues (died because of lack of adv. and limited circulation
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1st regularly published newspaper in America
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Boston News Letter by John Campbell in 1704
- he was post master so could send to anyone - when he lost his job Brooker started Boston Gazette |
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James Franklin
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- New England Courant 1721
- jailed because didn't have permission - confronted puritan establishment - Bro Ben Franklin took over |
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When did newsp. start and how long have they lasted?
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Gazette in London 1665 - 300 years
- 1702 Boston News Letter by Campbell |
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1820's magazines
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Port Folio (outlet for writers)
North Amer. Review Sat. Evening Post (long life) - recovering from rev. war and new century so situation changes |
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by 1830 __ mag. published
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100
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Credited with inventing TV
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Filo Farnsworth in 1927 (waited to patent until perfected)
(Baird yr. earlier in England) |
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Vladmir Zworykin
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- worked for RCA (all 3 men working on it) but he had company behind him
- owned patents |
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1st TV broadcast
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1939 NY World's Fair (washington DC to NY)
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Character who started Sunday Funnies
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- sensation yellow nightshirt called yellow kid embarking on adventures
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The Big 3 TV Networks
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NBC, CBS, and ABC
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Share (radio rating)
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percentage of ppl with radio on who listen to a particular station during a 15 min. increment
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Rating Points
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%tage of people in a market that listen to a particular station in 15 min. increments
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Early film studios based where
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NY and NJ had a monopoly
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vertical integration
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assured a particular movie studio would have specific actors, theatres, producers, etc.
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star system
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insure block booking (theatre had to play what was given them)
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Studio Domination
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WB
MGM (Loews) Paramont RKO (Howard Hughes) Twentieth Cent. Fox |
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Paramount Decision
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broke up vertical integration and block booking
- more choices - audience size decreased - increased movie quality |
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Who narrated War of the Worlds?
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Professor Pierson played by Orson Wells
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How many people tuned into WOTW
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32 million during tea time
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Where did the explosion happen?
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groversmille NJ on Willmont Farm
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What undid the marshens?
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germs (small things)
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