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54 Cards in this Set
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purpose of early film |
to study people and animals |
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first movie producer |
Eadweard Muybridge |
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invented film machine |
Thomas Edinson |
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first to develop films potential |
Edwin Porter |
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father of american film |
D.W. Griffith |
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father of american comedy |
Mack Sennett |
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court action lawsuit that changed economics of film in Hollywood |
MPPC v. MPDSC |
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introduced studio management to Hollywood |
Thomas Ince |
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first studio who gambled on sound in film |
Warner Bros. |
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supreme court case that ended vertical integration |
U.S. v Paramount |
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deplored actions of Hollywood 10 |
Waldorf statement |
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reason for blacklisting |
bust the union |
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founder of academy of motion picture arts and science was Hollywood's most powerful mogul |
Louis B. Mayer |
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Most controversial movie ever |
Birth of a Nation |
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first billion dollar blockbuster |
Titanic |
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Actor that ended blacklisting |
Kirk Douglas |
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This controlled film for the first 30 years |
Catholic Church |
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former chap of chairman of motion pictures of America |
Will Hays |
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inportance of mutual film corp v industrial commission of Ohio |
denied motion pictures freedom of speech in film |
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first ALL TALKING film |
lights in New York |
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house committe that investaged film |
HUAC |
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first full length motion picture |
Birth of a Nation |
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developed star system |
Mack Sennett |
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radio developed by |
hobbyists |
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demonstrated existance of radio waves |
Heinrich Hertz |
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produced wireless telegraphy |
Marconi |
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called by some as the father of radio |
Lee De Forest |
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invented FM radio |
Howard Armstrong |
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Westinghouse first experimental station |
Dr. Frank Conrad |
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radio music box |
David Sarnoff |
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world development that catipulted radio |
WW1 |
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pool agents to pool radio agents |
RCA |
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provided programming for RCA |
NBC |
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Media mogal tech driven |
David Sarnoff |
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AT&T developed this to pay for radio |
Toll broadcasting |
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This Act established the FCC |
comms act of 1934 |
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FCC's most important programming policy document |
blue book of public responsability of broadcast licensing |
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formation of ABC |
NBC told to sell one network |
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founded ABC |
Edward Noble |
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first commercial radio broadcast program |
election results of the Cox-Harding presidential race |
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program to devise radio was not a voice from heaven |
War of the Worlds |
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became chairment of CBS |
William Payley |
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president that showed radio could be powerful medium |
FDR |
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greatest broadcast journalism |
Edward r Murrow |
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gave readers a foxhole view of WW2 |
Ernie Pyle |
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Reginald Essenden |
electronic detector, presidesor to space detector, first round broadcast |
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Lee De Forest |
created radio tube, spade protector, audion tube, reception of human voice, sent out music and human voice over waves |
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Howard Armstrong |
regeneration, enhanced audion tube, super hederodine, fm radio |
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David Sarnoff |
made broadcasting a business, radio box |
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samuel morse |
invents telegraph 1837 |
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david halberstam |
NY Times supported war |
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Malcolme Browne |
AP monk suicide photographer |
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Peter Arnett |
AP |
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Harrison Salisbury |
NY Times, went into North Vietnam |