Mass Comm. Exam 4
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- Early director known for innovations in the Birth of a Nation and loose spending in Intolerance
- D.W. Griffith
- Creator of clebrity movie star system and the broader studio system
- Adolph Zukor
- A mass-production process for movies
- studio system
- What movie houses do
- exhibition
- Fanciful term for reenue that a movie earns in exhibiltions
- box office
- A rental agreement that forces a movie house to accept a batch of movies
- block booking
- Films shot for U.S. audiences at low cost in Italy and Yugoslavia
- spaghetti Western
- Studio deals to profit from merchandise carrying movie names and logos
- merchandise tie-ins
- When a manufacturer pays for its products to be used as props
- product placment
- Upstart artist directed movie studio, started in 1919
- United Artists
- Upstart movie studio, started in 1994 by David Geffen, Jeff Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg
- Dreamworks
- Movie production enterprises outside of the major studios
- Independent producers
- Fastchanging still photos create the illusion of movement
- persistence of vision
- Developed the first movie camera
- William Dickson
- Devised celluloid film
- George Eastman
- Opened the first movie exhibition hall
- Lumiere brothers
- Introduced sound
- Warner Brothers
- First feature sound picture
- The Jazz Singer
- 1922 Hollywood attempt to establish moral code for movies
- Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of American
- Led MPPDA
- Will Hays
- 1930 Hollwood attempt to quiet critical moralists
- Motion Picture Production Code
- Priest who led the morality crusade against Hollywood
- Daniel Lord
- Church listing of acceptable movies
- Legion of Decency
- U.S. Supreme Court ruled that hte First Amendment protected movies from censorship
- Miracle case
- Film industry people who were jailed for refusing to testify at congressional anti-Red hearings
- Hollywood 10
- Blackballed screenwriter
- Dalton Trumbo
- Had the courage to hire Dalton Trumbo despite anti-Red pressure
- Kirk Douglas
- Blacklisted screenwriter who reemerged with M*A*S*H.
- Righ Lardner Jr.
- Rates movies on G, PG, PG-13, R sclae
- Classification and Rating Administration Board
- First netweork, established by Radio Corporation of America
- Nation Broadcasting Company
- Financed the creation of ABC
- Edward Nobel
- Founded CBS
- William Paley
- Provided programming on nonexclusive basis
- Mutual Broadcasting System
- Believes TV is broad shpaer of issues
- Michael Novak
- Scholars who claim TV is reformist
- Linda and Robert Licher, Stanley Rothman
- Invented technology that uses electrons to transmit moving images live
- Philo Farnsworth
- Farnsworth's television vaccum tube
- Image dissector
- RCA engineer who claimed to have invented television
- Vladimir Zworykin
- Zworykin's television vacuum tube
- iconoscope
- Retina's capability to retain an image briefly, allowing brain to fill in gaps betweem successive images
- persistence of vision
- Dowloading video and audio fromt eh web in advance of playing
- streaming
- Simplistic definition of TV
- radio with pictures
- Heavy-duty landline for video signals
- coaxial cable
- Pioneer of didrect broadcast transmission
- Stanley Hubbard
- Transmission from Orbit to receiver, no TV station or cable stem intermediary
- direct-broadcast satellite (DBS)
- Pioneer DBS company
- Digital Satellite Service
- A televison-web hybrid that allows viewers to send and receive web messages on televsion sets
- interactive television
- American Broadcasting Company. Built from _____ radio network. On of the Big Three over-air networks
- ABC
- Columbia Broadcasting System. Built from ____ radio network under William Paley. One of the Big Three over-air networks.
- CBS
- Nation Broadcast Company. Built from ____ radio network under David Sarnoff. One of the BIg Three over-air networks
- NBC
- Big Three
- ABC, CBS, NBC
- Towers reangle over-air signals to match the earth's curvature
- microwave relays
- Created NBC's "Tonight Show" and "Today"
- Pat Weaver
- Current NBC owner
- General Electric
- Reporter who criticized JOseph McCarthy
- Edxward R. Murrow
- Strengthened ABC in 1953 merger
- United paramount Theaters
- Created ABC's "monday Night Football"
- Roone Arledge
- Owner of ABC before it was purchased by Disney
- CapCities Communicaitons
- Operated early fourth network
- Allen Dumont
- Fourth network, operated from 1950-1958
- Dumont network
- Created Fox network
- Rupert Murdoch
- Created early successful Fox programming
- Barry Biller
- short for community antenna televsion. An early name for cable systems
- CATV
- Offered exclusive HBO programming to cable systems
- Gerald Levin
- Short for Home Box Office. First cable programming via satellite
- HBO
- Cable pionner with WTBS superstation, CNN and other programs services to cable systems
- Ted Turner
- Short for Cable News Network. First 24-hour TV news network
- CNN
- syndicators
- independent program producers and distributors
- Network offices to review programs for suitability
- standards and practices
- Pioneer anchor
- douglas edwards, john cameron swayze,
- headed first 30-minute network newscast
- Chet Huntely and David Brinkley
- Best-known televison news anchor, now retired
- Walter Cronkite
- Partner of Edward R. Murrow,. showed power of TV new through "See It Now" and other programs
- Fred W. Friendly
- Recommended upgrading noncommerical broadcast system
- Carnegie Commission on Educational Television
- Post-Carnegie term for noncommerical TV
- public television
- Early term for noncommerical TV
- Educational television
- nation TV network for noncommercial television stations
- Public Broadcasting System
- Created "Sesame Street"
- Children's Television Workshop
- U.S. president who vetoed CPB funding
- Richard Nixon
- Proposed bypassing CPB to localize noncommercial broadcsting during the Nixon administration
- Clay Whitehead
- based on viewer balloting
- People's Awards
- Former Westwood executive responsible for Redio Sawa and Middle East Televsion Network
- Norman Pattiz
- The U.S. movie industry is ruled by ____ companies
- 6
- Technological basis of movies is photography
- chemistry
- Hollywood always opts for self-policing to deter
- censorship threats
- The kinetograph camera
- Thomas EdiSon
- First documentary "nanook"
- Robert Flaherty
- Clever applications of technique
- Orson Welles
- U.S. Supreme Court rules fFirst
- Miracle cast
- 1930 Hollywood attempt to quiet critical moralists
- Motion Picutre Procution Code
- An upfront payment to exhibitors
- nut
- Partner of Fatehr Daniel Lord
- Martin Quigly
- 1st to observe persistent image that slowly faded away after he gazed into sun
- 300 B.C. Aristotle
- Astronomer and geographer discoved and proved persistence of vision
- 130 A.D. Ptolemy
- British photographer _____________________ -Do all 4 legs of a horse leave the ground when they gallop
- Eadweard Mugybridge
- British inventor ______________ enhanced magic lantern- one of earliest motion picutere cameras= project photgraphic plates in rapid sucession.
- William Friese-Greene
- 1st man to witness moving picture on screen
- William Friese-Greene
- filed 1st Patenet Office document Kinetoscope and Kinetograph(a motion picture camera
- Edison
- invented lightweight, Kodak camera, paper photographic film wound on rollers
- George Eastman
- Edision's assistant___________ developed 1st movie camera
- william Dickson
- one of world's first film studios, in Melbourne, Australia. Produced aruably first feature-lenth film.
- Limelight department
- _______ 'his' Kinetoscope at World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago.
- Edison
- First film made in Edison's Kinetograph in 1893 and noted for 1at closeup.
- Fred Ott's Sneeze
- 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
- Woodville Latham
- "The cinema is an invention without a future"
- Lousis Lumiere
- credited for world's first public film screening on dec. 28, 1895
- Auguste and Louis Lumiere
- _______ was the first film ever made of couple kissing in cinematic history
- The Kiss
- _______&________ re-enacted lingering kiss from their 1895 Broadway stage play the Widow Jones
- May Irwin and John Rice
- Edision combined phonography with what for motion pictures
- sound
- 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.
- Spanish American
- The French magician _________ film industry's list film maker to use artifically arraged scenes to construt and tell narrative story (Cinderella)
- George Melies
- 1st film
- "From the Earth to the Mood" French
- First film to tell a story
- The Great Train Robbery
- 3 hours silent film in 1915- ran into problems with Racial Issues
- Birth of a Nation
- Charlie Chaplin's Comedies were
- Metaphors
- First movie start to make one million a year.
- Charlie Chaplin
- Orson Welles directed and produced
- Citizen kane
- Most brilliant movie-makers
- Orson Welles
- 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."
- Peter Cowie
- Citizen Kane was based on
- William Randolph Hearst
- whoes cinematic techniques were to sophisticated for cinematic literacy of the time
- welles
- World War II films
- "A walk in the Sun" "The ands of Iwo Jima" and "High Noon"
- _________ was the first adult western
- High noon
- House of Un-American Activities Committee was chaired by
- J. Parnell Thomas
- Major studios
-
Columbia-Song (Japan) Paramount-Vicom (US) 20th Century Fox-News Corp (Australia)
Universal-GE (US)
Walt-Disney-Disney (Us)
Warner Bros-Time Warner (US) - Most trusted new anchor
- Walter Cronkite
- Becomes first female anchor
- Katie Couric
- Selected by member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence
- Emmy Awards
- usually investigative news program with three or four unrelated segments
- magazine
- U.S. government satellite services launched in 2003 to acquaint Arabspeaking people from American cultures
- Middle east Television network
- quick television rating on network programs the night before
- Nielson overnights
- high-capacity glass filament for video signals
- optical fiber cable
- prototype show for a series
- pilot
- U.S. Government Arabic-language music and news service aimed at the Middle East
- Radio Sawa
- new network paramount launched in 1995 for over-air affiliates
- new network launched by Warner Brothers for overair affilatesl started 1998
- CBS anchors
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Edward R. Murrow
Douglas Edwards
Walter Cronkite
Dan Rather
Bob Schieffer - invented "magic latern"
- Etienne Gaspard Robert
- Project ghostly looking, illusonry images that change shpae and size, onto smoke or onto a translucent screen
- phantascope
- discovered persistence of vision
- peter mark robert
- invented the first picture that appeared to move
- Belgian-Joseph Antoine Ferdinarnd Plateau
- invented first zoetrope
- william George horner
- who developed the chronophotographic camera- 12 pictures per second
- Etienne Jules marey
- Nitrate celluiold film was invented
- Hannbibal W. Goodwin
- developed single lens camera
- lous Augustin Le prince
- developed durable/flexible celluloid film strips
- Henry Reichenbach
- built first motion picture camera. Kinetograph
- William kennedy Laurie Dickson
- 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
- Red Channel
- Invented first TV picture-experimental model.
- Philo Farnsworth
- "communication like a Pro" "TV only mass Comm. medidum"
- Nido R. Qubein