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What year did the Box Office peak (Total Admissions in One Year)
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1946
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What Union strikes ?
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Hollywood
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who was the Un-American Committee?
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Hollywood Ten
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who was forced to sell theaters?
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Paramount
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Cinerama first commercial presentation was where?
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New York City
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In the 50's the what was first introduced?
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Cinemascope
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Over what percent of films are shot in color in the 50's?
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50%
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Many of the what equaled the ornate and beautiful concert halls of the 19th century?
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Picture Palaces
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when bitter sometimes violent strikes hit the movie industry in Hollywood after the war, some of the studio executives blamed who?
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COMMUNIST!
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What were the three forces that collided in the Hollywood strike of 1945/1946
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A newly formed alliance IA
C.S.U conference of studio Unions Producers |
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who is the highest paid executive in the nation in the year 1945. How much did his earnings average a week?
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Louis B mayor
$20,000 |
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by the 40's, the dominant union int he movie industry crafts is the ?
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I.A
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Walt Disney was still paying some of those girls (cartoonist) how much a week?
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$20
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In 1941, Disney Workers received Union recognition. Disney reacted by doing what?
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Firing every worker
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Who became a driving force in persuading the actors to oppose the strike. (Thus breaking the C.S.U strike.)
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Ronald Reagan
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The strike lasted on and off for a total of 19 months. It cost workers a total of how much money in lost wages?
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32 Million
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The strike finally served a spring board to the Reagan presidency and a return to what?
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conservatism
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Hitchock had made the mistake of regarding film as an ___ , it may have been elsewhere but in England it was an insult.
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art
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The bioscope called the lodger possibly the ______ British production ever made.
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Finest
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Hitchcock was enormously influenced by ...
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German Experience
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What was a tremendous critical and popular success in first sound movie of his?
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Blackmail
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Ironically the most gifted director of our time never won a what?
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Oscar
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What was Hitchcock's ideal women?
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Blond, subtle, and Nordic
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Hitchcock could exploit our worst what? He did it better than any other director (now and then)
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Fears
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Threats to the movie Business cause decline in audience.
6 thing list.. GO |
1. Film industry strikes
2. Huac Investigation 3. Goverment sues paramount studios because its monopoly 4. Foregin films come to the U.S 5. Audiences moved away from cities to the suburbs 6. Television becomes popular. People stay at home. |
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By 1959 How many Television sets were in houses?
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50 Million
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HOLLYWOOD FIGHTS BACK
7 thing list...GO |
1. Movie Studios boycott TV. NO MORE TV STARS ON TV!
2. Would not show movies on TV. 3. Cinemascope- Widescreen 4. Cinerama- Movies shot and projected with three cameras 5. 3-D 6. More color films (TV was Black and White) 7. Large BUdget movies and cast thousands |
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Do audiences return after Hollywood Fought Back?
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Yes but not at the rate at which they used to. :(
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Who was the "master of suspense?"
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Alfred Hitchcock
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The term to describe someone who loves and studies movies.
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Cinefile
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A perversion in which sexual gratification is exposed. Hitchcock had this disease.
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Voyeurism
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What film was an example of Voyeurism?
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Rear Window
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Hitchcock went where during the Golden age? And to what studio?
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Germany. UFO (A?) Studios.
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Hitchcock's first American film won what?
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An OSCAR! woooooo great guy woooooo. great talent wooooooooo. Miles WOOOOO!
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who heard of Hitchcock and brought him to America?
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David O Selsnick
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