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f.p.s.
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frames per second
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hollywood's cultural influence
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smoking, drinking, censorship of certain values
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persistence of vision
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the human eye retains an image for a fraction of a second (like a flip book) entine jules marie
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lumiere brothers
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invented and brought projection to motion pictures
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vitascope projector
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released by edison into the market in 1896; first commercially used projector in the U.S.
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adolph zukor
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founded paramount pictures and developed the hollywood studio system.  realized there were no stars and audiences responded to personalities. pioneered studio systems
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hollywood studio system
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under the hollywood system studios controlled where and when and what you did as actors
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the jazz singer
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first movie to have sound and changed the movie industry.
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the paramount decision of 1948
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previously studios had owned the entire type of exibition; split the three main component forcing studios to make quality movies.
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financial relationship between exhibitor and distributor
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opening weekend makes 90% of the profits which sucks for the exhibition
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the nut
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the initial payment usually just a flat rate made to exhibitors to help cover the costs of releasing the movie
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studio financing
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movies can cost in the 100 millions but major studios can finance movies with profits from earlier movies or finance through intricate financial details
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block booking
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studios controlled the exhibition. in order for theaters to buy a good movie studio requires them to buy the bad ones as well so they would make money regardless of the quality of the movies.
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after markets
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all the profits that are made after the release of a movie or tv show such as dvd sales, merchandise, foreign distribution etc.
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ticket sales best year
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1946. 90 million tickets sold in one week. shortly after there was a major drop in ticket sales due to television.
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hollywoods counters to tv
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movies tried to do big budget spectaculars, smell o vision, 3-d, cinerama, color cinemascoope; basically things you couldnt get at home but none of them truly countered tv.
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ticket sales continued to fall to 19 million a week
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hollywood turned to generes that network tv couldnt touch
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censorship
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chicago passed a law restricting objectionalble motion pictures 1907
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motion picture produers and distributors of america
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created in 1922 to clean up movies; the industry chose to self regulate to avoid government intervention
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will hays
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ran the production office known as the hays office that censored or cleaned up movies; no sexual connotation, no gods name in vain, no men and women
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actor william reid
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died from drugs, very scandalous at the time
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fatty arbuckle
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arrested and later acquitted of murder of raping virginia rapay; buster keaton stood by him
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desmond taylor
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murdered by one of the people he was having an affair with
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motion picture production code in 1930
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intended to clean up movies which was later replaced by the rating system
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jack valenti
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created the rating system which was actually just a guideline
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guglielmo marcnoi
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created a remote controlled bell; transmitted wireless morse code for more than a mile
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marconi wireless telegraph company
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created by marconi, just dots and dashes; helped ships communicate
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lee de forest
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created the audion tube making voice transmission possible
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reginald fessenden
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originally had the idea for voice transmission; broadcasted the first radio program only on AM in 1906; first one to put music on the radio
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AM AND FM
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amplitudemodjulation prone to static; frequency modulation good for short distances.
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frank conrad
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hobby has a wireless transmitter in his garage; developed his own radio station; came up with the idea to sell receivers to promote his radio station.
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KDKA
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first licenced radio station in the 1920s in pittsburg
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WEAF
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1922 in new york accepted $50 from real estate developer for the first advertisement in the states
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FRC
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federal radio commission established in 1927 with authority to specify frequency power and hours of operation through licenses
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radio as public asset
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the airwaves deemed a public asset therefore subject to government regulation for the public
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gordon mclendon
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top 40 music count down was popularized and perfected at KLIF in dallas
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KLIF
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dallas radio station that perfected top 40 music
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david sarnoff
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sat in a department store and exhibited his radio receiver in 1912 to talk and release information regarding the sinking of the titanic; this allowed for news reporters to just tune in and not wait for new to come to them. they can go and seek it out
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edward r murrow
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brought WW2 to america before we became involved
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national public radio
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length news stories called news packages
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arbitron
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finds listeners ratings but it doesnt release them to the public
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impact of tv on other mass media
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television screws everthing over
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michael novak
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heavily advocates the positives of television
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philo farnsworth
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created the idea of the original television
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vladimir zworykin
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invented the iconoscope and deserved credit for tv
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NTSC
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national television system committee
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national association of broadcasters NAB
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professional organization that helps set standards for the broadcasting signals and control of the industry
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see it now
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technological achievement; television show that was able to broadcast the same thing from coast to coast live; edward r. murrows
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FCC
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federal communication commission created in 1934 governs and licences television broadcasts; placed a freeze on licensing because people were being over licenced
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ABC AND DISNEY LAND
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90% of abcs programs were on film; there was growth due to disneyland
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fox
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1986 launched by rupert murdoch attracts a younger audience without big name stars, lured affiliates to help popularity, builds programming one night at a time.
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CATV
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cable television
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I LOVE LUCY
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 first show shot in film in from of a live studio audience allowed for editing and better controlling of the show; this tied hollywood and television together.
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