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Understanding Mass Media
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12/08/2008

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Ted Turner
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Created firts satelite syndication, CNN, TBS
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Thomas Edison
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created kinectiscope
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Louis and Auguste Lumiere
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created a short film on a 9 by 6 foot screen that one person at a time could see in a Paris Cafe
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George Melies
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opened first public movie theatre in france in 1986 also produced movies
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George Melies
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opened first public movie theatre in france in 1986
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Edwin S. Porter
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created the great train robbery and developed new camera tecniques
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DW Grifith
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helped launch United Artists a film disributing company
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Adolph Zukor
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ran Paramount Pictures and played a role in the collapse of teh edison trust
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Willima Fox
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created the Fox company
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Mary Pickford
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one of the most wellknown actresses helped found the united Artists of America first woman ever to make more than amillionin a year
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charlie Chaplin
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Famous silent movie comeidan helped found the United Artists of America
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Buster Keaton
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Silent movie actor and direction
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Al Jolson
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Had the leading role in te first talking picture the Jazz Singer
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PT Barnum
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used staged events gross exaggeration and frauduelent stories to get newspaper coverage for his clients
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Ivy Ledbetter Lee
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feformed the rockerfeller family
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Edward Bernes
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applied psychology to PR placed womem smokers in new york to make smoking look attractive
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common carrier
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a communication or transportation business, such as a phone company or a taxi service, required to give service on first ocme firest service rate
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multiple system operators
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large corporations that own nmerous cable tv systems
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kinetoscope
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an early film projection system that seved as a kind of peep show in which viewers looked through a hole and saw images moving on a tiny plate
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nickelodeons
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the first small makeshift movie theatres, which were often converted cigar stores, pawn shopes, or restauraunts redoecorated to mimic vaudeville theatres
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The Trust
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edisons company taht pooled patents for differnet technologies
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studio system
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an early firm producino system that consituted a sort of assembly line process for moviemaking major film studios controlled not only actors but also directors, editors, writers, and other employees, all of whom worked under exclusive contracts
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cinema verite
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french term for truth filem a documentary style that records fragments of everyday life unobtrusivly
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block booking
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an early tactic of movie studios to control exhibition involving pressuring theatre operators to accept marginal films with no stars inorder to get access to films with the most popular stars
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patent medicines
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medicines that were mislead to have patents
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astroturf lobbying
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phony grass roots public affairs campaings engineered by public relations firms ; coined by US senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas
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Fourth Estate
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media
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cable act of 1984
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passed into law that allowed Cable Television in each community in exchange for 3% of all revenue
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Cable act of 1992
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