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| what was the first synchronized sound animated cartoon that made Mickey a star? |
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| in the earliest days of sound, you would use it for ____ and ____ ____ not dialogue |
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| the 2 challenges with synchronized sound were: |
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| amplification & Synchronization |
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have to have sound loud enough so the whole theatre can hear, not just front row |
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the precise match up of sound to the image |
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| in 1907 ___ ___ ___ patented the audion tube aka amplifier tube. Radical new invention, first vacuum tube. Anytime you hear sound from 20th century it was probably this, movies, tv, car and home radio it probably came from this |
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In 1920s, he conquered synchronization with an optical sound on film where he turned sound wave into a light wave
-Made electrical signal with a microphone that flashes a light pattern on the side of the film. Then reverse the process onto a photo-electric cell that brings back electrical pattern to drive loudspeakers which make a sound wave. Who did this and what is the device called? |
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| Lee De Forest - Phono film |
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| Why didn't De Forest want to sell his idea of the De Forest Phonofilm in the 1920s? |
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| Hollywood majors had turned him down because if its not broke don't fix it! |
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Company that took over sound, created in 1876 by Graham Bell
- Had sound problems where you could only talk in town/across the street
-They contacted De Forest and leased the audio tube for 1 million dollars and now were able to call cross country
-In 1916, developed first loud speakers
-1917 introduced first microphones |
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| American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T) |
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| When did Warner Bros go into distribution? Start producing films? |
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| 1914, 1917 start producing films |
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| Warner Bros biggest hit was a German Shepheard dog named ______ – about a dog that a soldier broght back from WWI and taught him tricks. Warner Bros picked them up n made a film |
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| who signed John Barrymore and brought him to Hollywood from Broadway for a classy Film? |
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Goldman Sachs and Waddill Catchings were Investment banks looking where to place their money in the 1920s, so they wanted to invest in the “ next Paramount” and get in in the beginning which was ________
oGoldman Sachs would bring millions of dollars of credit lines to ___ and Goldman Sachs wanted in return part of the money and a chair on the board |
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| who of the Warner Bros loved the idea of sound films and wanted to try it? |
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| Sam, also in charge of KFWB LA Radio station |
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| In the fall of 1926, Warner Brothers decided to apply the ____ with their season of Hollywood movies |
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| vitaphone, opened season with Don Juan |
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| Why is Will Hayes so popular? |
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Star of Don Juan - 1st WB film with syncronized music and effects
- head of MPAA
-makes speech on how the vitaphone will bring quality to the public |
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| Why was Hollywood extra nervous about sound? What did they think was going to take their audience? |
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| February 1927- Hollywood studios got together and came up with _________ to do research on sound and created committees to figure out what is the best system, cheapest etc. |
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| After Big 5 Agreement, Warner Bros had to stay ahead of the curve, what did they set out to do in 1927? |
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| Incorporate synchronized singing into their films |
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| By 1928 Warner BRos was working on |
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| a 30 minute all talking short |
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| Manic character from Russia, star of the Jazz Singer 1927 |
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| Al Jolson is the first one to accidentally do ______ in a film |
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| dialogue with mom in between piano sequences |
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| 1928 was the year that all hollywood studios got |
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| synchronized sound from AT&T/Western Electric |
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| what is the not very good full true all talking film? |
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| what was the 1st most profitable film in hollywood 1928 before snow white? why was it so profitable? |
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| WB changed the admission price from $2-$3 for The Singing Fool |
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| Apart from vitaphone, what was the other type of synchronized sound? |
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| In April of 1927, ______ News premieres, but it's not until Lindbergh Flight that it really makes it. |
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| who is the high school student that did experiments in physics and electricity to send messages wirelelessly aka wireless telegraph? Caused US govt to realize radio is a secret weapon of war, so absorbed all patents from this foreigner |
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| What is the first broadcast station that Dr. Frank Conrad is head of ? |
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| David Sarnoff is head of RCA in 1919, Radio Corporation of America, this organization must always ____ |
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| how did radio discover how to make money? |
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| When Long Island Realty read a speech on how great Long Island is on the radio after paying a toll to use the air time. |
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| in 1926 RCA creates _____ ___ ___ which turns radio into a show business |
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| RKO owned one of the biggest record labels by the name of ___ ____ |
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| Adolph zukor buys half interest of _____ in 1928/29 but Dept of Justice says it's too much for owner of paramount to own, he has to break the deal. |
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| FOX crashed with the stock market because |
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| it's limo crashes and empire collapses. |
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| Paramount, WB, RKO, Fox, MGM |
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| all US Theatres were wired for sound by the year |
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| who was MGM's big star with an accent that they did training with when sound came out? |
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| what genre of film seemed best to show off sound>? |
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| who was AT&T's arch rival in the market place? |
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| what got hit first when the stock market crashed in 1929? What did they do to help? |
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| the box office had numbers dropping ever week. They began selling food at raised prices since they had a captive audience. Food sales brought in more $ than ticket |
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| When you went to see a movie, you saw your movie first, followed by a |
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| B movie, only 15% of budget of first film, no big stars |
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| The National Industrial Recovery Act incorporated things like ____ to keep businesses running during Depression. |
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| Created code of fair practices for Hollywood, came up with half price night, block booking, |
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| The elite of every category would belong to this institution founded in 927: |
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| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
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| ___ ____ becomes one of biggest female box office stars after Paramount brought her out to Hollywood and put her in I'm No Angel in 1933 |
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| The Legion Of Decency is what? |
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| group created that reviewed hollywood movies, had rating of C for condemned. Wanted to get Mae West out of films |
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| - “white slave racket” refers to what? |
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| girls who were brought from the countryside to be prostitutes |
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| who was the director that was dating 2 young stars, gunned down in his front room in 1922, never identified the killer? |
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Who was the victim of a train crash that ended up addicted to morphine and heroin?
MOR-PHINE for ____ ____ |
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| What awful scandal happened with Fatty Arbuckle? |
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| Virginia Rappe died of internal issues |
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| When Hollywood had all the scandals in the late 1920s, people needed to find a better mass entertainment. They turned to |
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| Movie business created a trade organization to rep their interests and oversee Hollywood, created the ____ |
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| Will Hayes set up ___ ____ to ensure people weren't selling their bodies to get jobs. |
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| What did the Production Code do that was put into place by Will Hayes for sound film? |
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| handled limiting of sex and crime in movies. |
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| What was Breen's memo on Sister Carrie? |
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| Didn't allow Jack Warner to make a movie about his book Sister Carrie |
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| what US town was a paramount town? |
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| the slogan in hollywood so all good films got shown around was |
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| "If it was a hit for one it's a hit for all" |
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| The Little 3 were able to survive because |
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| The Big 5 showed their B movies if the independents showed the big hits |
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| Where were Hollywood's major companies head quartered? |
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| all of hollywood's distribution and exhibition and head quarters were in |
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| who is the mayor of the lot? |
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| whose job was it to get 50 films made every year? |
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| who was MGM's head of production? |
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Had building on the lot with screen writers writing synopses on type writers.
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Had building on the lot with screen writers writing synopses on type writers.
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Had building on the lot with screen writers writing synopses on type writers.
Which department is being described above? |
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Had building on the lot with screen writers writing synopses on type writers.
Which department is being described above? |
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Had building on the lot with screen writers writing synopses on type writers.
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| Studios would maintain a big property where they could build bigger sets, bring in bigger props called it a ____ |
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bounded you for 5-7 years, gave your salary increases, after each year, the studio could not renew the contract or they could keep you and give you a raise each year
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| A Long Term Option Contract |
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Were the items below in a contract or not in a contract?
o Creative control
o Percentage of gross profits from the film |
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| Each company specialized in different things, MGM did 3 ____ per year while _____ did gangster films |
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MGM - musicals
Warner Bros- Gangsters |
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| once an actor found a role they were good at.... |
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they were stuck in it
ex/ Mae West |
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| why were the big 5 the big 5? |
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| They were vertically integrated: producer distributor and exhibitor |
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| - They were biggest company, most theatres and highest costs so they suffered most losses during great depression |
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| ______ is home to classical sophistication, polished classy films, treated directors well and had popular directors like Lubitsch (early sex comedies) |
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| What were Paramount theatres called in Canada? |
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| Who is a Paramount director that made the best screwball comedies ever made |
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| Wilder, Sturges, De Mille and Lubitsch are all directors for where? |
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Which company were these actors at?
- Mary Pickford
- Clara Bow – the IT girl
- Marlene Dietrich
- Gary Cooper
- Mae West
- Marx bros
- Fred MacMurray
- Alan Ladd
- Claudette Colbert
- Bob Hope & Bing Crosby |
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| Fleischer cartoons and Betty Boop, Bobo The Clown and PopEye were part of what company? |
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| -1st best picture Oscar winner for _______ was 1927 Wings |
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| What Big 5 Company was well managed, had a small theatre chain, and did the best in the bad times like the 30s? |
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| What theatre chain dominated New York and Ohio |
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| Lowe's was the last theatre chain to ____ |
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| start selling food, not till 1940s! |
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| Which Big 5 was the most top down producer dominated? |
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| Strong directors didn't work at ____ because the producers were too powerful |
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| MGM films were mostly genres of ____ and ____ |
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| family features and musicals |
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| Who had the longest list of contract actors in Hollywood? |
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| The King of the box Office was contracted where? |
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the below list of Musical stars belonged to which Big 5 company?
o Judy garland
o Fred Astair in 40s
o Gene Kelly
o Mickey Rooney
o (Singin in the Rain, Bandwagon) |
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- Joan Crawford
- Wallace Beery
- Spencer Tracy
- Ree Dresser- #1 female at Box Office
- Biggest star of all Hollywood : Clark Gable
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The following films came out of which BIG 5 company?
- Big Parade
- Ben Hur
- Grand Hotel
- Dinner at 8
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- Wizard of Oz
- Mrs Miniver
- Meet Me in St Louis
- Singin in the Rain |
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| What famous cartoon originated at MGM? |
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| Tom and Jerry by Hanna & barbera |
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| Live action comedies with Hal Roach were part of what Big 5 member? |
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| Nick Schenck's brother becomes the president of which other Big 5 Player? |
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| Which company did Shirley Temple belong to? |
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These stars belong to which BIG 5 player?
- Theda Bara
- Tom Mix
- Will Rogers-biggest ___ male star killed in plane crash
- Janet Gaynor
- Tyrone Power
- Betty Grable
- Henry Fonda
- Marilyn Monroe-great sex star of 50s films |
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- 30s: Steam boat around the bend, 7th heaven
- 40s: grapes of wrath, How green was my valley
- Post WWII- 1st Hollywood film about sentimisn Gentleman’s agreement
- All about eve- sweeps oscars
- The sound of music – biggest hit of 1960s
- Star wars- biggest hit of 1970s
- Laura
- My Darling Clementine
- No Way Out – black militant character, race riots,
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| who had the WORST cartoons in Hollywood? |
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| John FFFFFFFord was part of what Big 5? |
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| 20th century Fox was jokingly called _______ because they made nostalgic films |
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| what big 5 player was known for making films about today, "Ripped from the headlines"? |
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Which Big 5 Player is being described below:
- Films about working class people, immigrants in the big cities
- Lots of gangster films, hat check girls, taxi drivers
- Oriented towards ordinary folk
- Had over 500 theatres
- Pennsylvania and New Jersey dominant
- Washington DC also |
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| Casablanca was put out by who? |
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- The Singing Fool – biggest hit of 20s
- 42nd Street
- Little Ceaser
- Public Enemy
- Errol Flynn’s films: Captain Blood 1935
- The Roaring 20s
- Casablanca- best picture Oscar
- Midlred Pierce
- The Searchers
These all belong to ____ |
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| Which Big 5 player's talent had to be speedy and economically knowning, fast moving? |
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| Which company owns Looney Tunes but didn't have newsreels? |
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| Which Big 5 player is the only one to go out of business? |
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| Who ends up taking over RKO in 1948 but destroys it for good? (think 405) |
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| When did RKO first go bankrupt? |
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| in the 30s, Floyd Odlum saved it! |
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