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Early director known for innovations in the Birth of a Nation and loose spending in Intolerance
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D.W. Griffith
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Creator of clebrity movie star system and the broader studio system
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Adolph Zukor
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A mass-production process for movies
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studio system
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What movie houses do
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exhibition
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Fanciful term for reenue that a movie earns in exhibiltions
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box office
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A rental agreement that forces a movie house to accept a batch of movies
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block booking
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Films shot for U.S. audiences at low cost in Italy and Yugoslavia
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spaghetti Western
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Studio deals to profit from merchandise carrying movie names and logos
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merchandise tie-ins
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When a manufacturer pays for its products to be used as props
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product placment
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Upstart artist directed movie studio, started in 1919
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United Artists
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Upstart movie studio, started in 1994 by David Geffen, Jeff Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg
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Dreamworks
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Movie production enterprises outside of the major studios
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Independent producers
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Fastchanging still photos create the illusion of movement
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persistence of vision
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Developed the first movie camera
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William Dickson
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Devised celluloid film
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George Eastman
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Opened the first movie exhibition hall
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Lumiere brothers
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Introduced sound
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Warner Brothers
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First feature sound picture
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The Jazz Singer
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1922 Hollywood attempt to establish moral code for movies
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Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of American
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Led MPPDA
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Will Hays
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1930 Hollwood attempt to quiet critical moralists
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Motion Picture Production Code
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Priest who led the morality crusade against Hollywood
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Daniel Lord
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Church listing of acceptable movies
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Legion of Decency
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U.S. Supreme Court ruled that hte First Amendment protected movies from censorship
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Miracle case
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Film industry people who were jailed for refusing to testify at congressional anti-Red hearings
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Hollywood 10
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Blackballed screenwriter
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Dalton Trumbo
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Had the courage to hire Dalton Trumbo despite anti-Red pressure
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Kirk Douglas
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Blacklisted screenwriter who reemerged with M*A*S*H.
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Righ Lardner Jr.
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Rates movies on G, PG, PG-13, R sclae
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Classification and Rating Administration Board
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First netweork, established by Radio Corporation of America
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Nation Broadcasting Company
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Financed the creation of ABC
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Edward Nobel
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Founded CBS
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William Paley
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Provided programming on nonexclusive basis
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Mutual Broadcasting System
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Believes TV is broad shpaer of issues
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Michael Novak
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Scholars who claim TV is reformist
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Linda and Robert Licher, Stanley Rothman
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Invented technology that uses electrons to transmit moving images live
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Philo Farnsworth
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Farnsworth's television vaccum tube
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Image dissector
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RCA engineer who claimed to have invented television
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Vladimir Zworykin
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Zworykin's television vacuum tube
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iconoscope
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Retina's capability to retain an image briefly, allowing brain to fill in gaps betweem successive images
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persistence of vision
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Dowloading video and audio fromt eh web in advance of playing
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streaming
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Simplistic definition of TV
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radio with pictures
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Heavy-duty landline for video signals
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coaxial cable
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Pioneer of didrect broadcast transmission
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Stanley Hubbard
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Transmission from Orbit to receiver, no TV station or cable stem intermediary
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direct-broadcast satellite (DBS)
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Pioneer DBS company
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Digital Satellite Service
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A televison-web hybrid that allows viewers to send and receive web messages on televsion sets
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interactive television
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American Broadcasting Company. Built from _____ radio network. On of the Big Three over-air networks
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ABC
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Columbia Broadcasting System. Built from ____ radio network under William Paley. One of the Big Three over-air networks.
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CBS
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Nation Broadcast Company. Built from ____ radio network under David Sarnoff. One of the BIg Three over-air networks
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NBC
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Big Three
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ABC, CBS, NBC
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Towers reangle over-air signals to match the earth's curvature
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microwave relays
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Created NBC's "Tonight Show" and "Today"
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Pat Weaver
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Current NBC owner
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General Electric
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Reporter who criticized JOseph McCarthy
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Edxward R. Murrow
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Strengthened ABC in 1953 merger
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United paramount Theaters
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Created ABC's "monday Night Football"
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Roone Arledge
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Owner of ABC before it was purchased by Disney
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CapCities Communicaitons
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Operated early fourth network
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Allen Dumont
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Fourth network, operated from 1950-1958
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Dumont network
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Created Fox network
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Rupert Murdoch
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Created early successful Fox programming
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Barry Biller
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short for community antenna televsion. An early name for cable systems
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CATV
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Offered exclusive HBO programming to cable systems
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Gerald Levin
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Short for Home Box Office. First cable programming via satellite
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HBO
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Cable pionner with WTBS superstation, CNN and other programs services to cable systems
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Ted Turner
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Short for Cable News Network. First 24-hour TV news network
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CNN
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syndicators
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independent program producers and distributors
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Network offices to review programs for suitability
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standards and practices
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Pioneer anchor
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douglas edwards, john cameron swayze,
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headed first 30-minute network newscast
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Chet Huntely and David Brinkley
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Best-known televison news anchor, now retired
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Walter Cronkite
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Partner of Edward R. Murrow,. showed power of TV new through "See It Now" and other programs
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Fred W. Friendly
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Recommended upgrading noncommerical broadcast system
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Carnegie Commission on Educational Television
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Post-Carnegie term for noncommerical TV
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public television
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Early term for noncommerical TV
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Educational television
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nation TV network for noncommercial television stations
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Public Broadcasting System
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Created "Sesame Street"
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Children's Television Workshop
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U.S. president who vetoed CPB funding
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Richard Nixon
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Proposed bypassing CPB to localize noncommercial broadcsting during the Nixon administration
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Clay Whitehead
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based on viewer balloting
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People's Awards
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Former Westwood executive responsible for Redio Sawa and Middle East Televsion Network
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Norman Pattiz
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The U.S. movie industry is ruled by ____ companies
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Technological basis of movies is photography
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chemistry
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Hollywood always opts for self-policing to deter
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censorship threats
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The kinetograph camera
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Thomas EdiSon
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First documentary "nanook"
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Robert Flaherty
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Clever applications of technique
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Orson Welles
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Devised celluloid film
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George Eastman
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U.S. Supreme Court rules fFirst
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Miracle cast
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1930 Hollywood attempt to quiet critical moralists
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Motion Picutre Procution Code
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An upfront payment to exhibitors
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nut
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Partner of Fatehr Daniel Lord
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Martin Quigly
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1st to observe persistent image that slowly faded away after he gazed into sun
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300 B.C. Aristotle
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Astronomer and geographer discoved and proved persistence of vision
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130 A.D. Ptolemy
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British photographer _____________________ -Do all 4 legs of a horse leave the ground when they gallop
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Eadweard Mugybridge
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British inventor ______________ enhanced magic lantern- one of earliest motion picutere cameras= project photgraphic plates in rapid sucession.
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William Friese-Greene
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1st man to witness moving picture on screen
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William Friese-Greene
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filed 1st Patenet Office document Kinetoscope and Kinetograph(a motion picture camera
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Edison
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invented lightweight, Kodak camera, paper photographic film wound on rollers
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George Eastman
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Edision's assistant___________ developed 1st movie camera
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william Dickson
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one of world's first film studios, in Melbourne, Australia. Produced aruably first feature-lenth film.
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Limelight department
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_______ 'his' Kinetoscope at World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago.
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Edison
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First film made in Edison's Kinetograph in 1893 and noted for 1at closeup.
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Fred Ott's Sneeze
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One of the first exhibitions of motion pictures in the world. credited with "_______ Loop" feature of movie prjectors involving a loop to feed film smoothly
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Woodville Latham
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"The cinema is an invention without a future"
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Lousis Lumiere
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credited for world's first public film screening on dec. 28, 1895
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Auguste and Louis Lumiere
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_______ was the first film ever made of couple kissing in cinematic history
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The Kiss
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_______&________ re-enacted lingering kiss from their 1895 Broadway stage play the Widow Jones
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May Irwin and John Rice
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Edision combined phonography with what for motion pictures
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sound
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what war drew cameras operatiors to Cuba, shut ut by U.S. Amry. could not caputre them using models and painted backdrops start of scale model effects.
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Spanish American
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The French magician _________ film industry's list film maker to use artifically arraged scenes to construt and tell narrative story (Cinderella)
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George Melies
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1st film
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"From the Earth to the Mood" French
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First film to tell a story
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The Great Train Robbery
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3 hours silent film in 1915- ran into problems with Racial Issues
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Birth of a Nation
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Charlie Chaplin's Comedies were
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Metaphors
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First movie start to make one million a year.
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Charlie Chaplin
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Orson Welles directed and produced
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Citizen kane
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Most brilliant movie-makers
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Orson Welles
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Commentator _________ said "Welles did not invent new cinematic processes: he fused the experience of three decades into one gigantic work that proclaimed with tremendous power just how effective a medium the cinema could be."
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Peter Cowie
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Citizen Kane was based on
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William Randolph Hearst
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whoes cinematic techniques were to sophisticated for cinematic literacy of the time
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welles
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World War II films
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"A walk in the Sun" "The ands of Iwo Jima" and "High Noon"
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_________ was the first adult western
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High noon
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House of Un-American Activities Committee was chaired by
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J. Parnell Thomas
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Major studios
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Columbia-Song (Japan) Paramount-Vicom (US) 20th Century Fox-News Corp (Australia)
Universal-GE (US) Walt-Disney-Disney (Us) Warner Bros-Time Warner (US) |
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Most trusted new anchor
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Walter Cronkite
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Becomes first female anchor
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Katie Couric
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Selected by member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence
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Emmy Awards
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usually investigative news program with three or four unrelated segments
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magazine
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U.S. government satellite services launched in 2003 to acquaint Arabspeaking people from American cultures
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Middle east Television network
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created Fox network
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Rupert Murdock
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quick television rating on network programs the night before
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Nielson overnights
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high-capacity glass filament for video signals
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optical fiber cable
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prototype show for a series
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pilot
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post-carnegie term for noncommerical TV
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public TV
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U.S. Government Arabic-language music and news service aimed at the Middle East
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Radio Sawa
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new network paramount launched in 1995 for over-air affiliates
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new network launched by Warner Brothers for overair affilatesl started 1998
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CBS anchors
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Edward R. Murrow
Douglas Edwards Walter Cronkite Dan Rather Bob Schieffer |
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invented "magic latern"
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Etienne Gaspard Robert
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Project ghostly looking, illusonry images that change shpae and size, onto smoke or onto a translucent screen
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phantascope
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discovered persistence of vision
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peter mark robert
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invented the first picture that appeared to move
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Belgian-Joseph Antoine Ferdinarnd Plateau
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invented first zoetrope
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william George horner
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who developed the chronophotographic camera- 12 pictures per second
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Etienne Jules marey
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Nitrate celluiold film was invented
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Hannbibal W. Goodwin
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developed single lens camera
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lous Augustin Le prince
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developed durable/flexible celluloid film strips
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Henry Reichenbach
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built first motion picture camera. Kinetograph
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William kennedy Laurie Dickson
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3 former FBI agents and wright-wing television producers, Vincent Harnett pamphlet listing the names of 151 writers, driectsr and performers-members of subversive organization before WWII
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Red Channel
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Invented first TV picture-experimental model.
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Philo Farnsworth
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"communication like a Pro" "TV only mass Comm. medidum"
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Nido R. Qubein
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