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20 Cards in this Set
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Who patents the Kinethoscope?
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Edison
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First Kinethosgraphic theater
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black maria
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Movies were generally about:
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work or entertainment
Homosocial Voyeristic or peep shows- sex & violence sells |
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why were movie theaters so popular?
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Through it immigrants learned customs and weren't required to learn english
Cheap, frequent showings convenient way to escape hard work |
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First Hollywood blockbuster
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birth of a nation
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Why was the NBOC formed?
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George McLean shut down all nickelodeons
he was tired of hearing people objecting to the content and atmosphere |
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Who shut down all nickelodeons?
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George McLean
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Charles Prague Smith
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persuaded the court to reopen the Nickelodeons with the argument that movie producers would clean up their act and voluntarily submit their films to a censorship board. Movies were the only entertainment that could be censored BEFORE exhibition.
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Riots came from what fight?
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Johnson defeats Jeffries
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what act came from Johnson defeats Jeffries?
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Sims Act (law banning the interstate travel of fight films)
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who wrote birth of a nation?
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DW Griffith
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What did roosevelt do?
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hired photographers to promote his policies
used radios to talk directly to the american people |
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photographers hired by roosevelt
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Dorothy Lange
Walker Evans |
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what did they photograph?
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dust bowl (workers who fled the city)
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War of the Worlds
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Tricked people to show them they can’t believe everything they hear
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Interpretive Journalism
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provides any details that would help understand a fact more…
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Hayes code?
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After national censorship board, Hollywood still did not know how to behave itself so the government stepped in
The code was created for what could be distributed, you had to have coding before you could get distributed. |
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responsible for the death of Virginian actress at a party.
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Roscoe “fatty” Arbuckle
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Suspicious death and questions about bisexuality
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William Desmond Taylor
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Once thought of as the screen’s perfect lover, Died from addiction to booze and morphine
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Wallace Reed
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