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| hollywood's cultural influence |
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| smoking, drinking, censorship of certain values |
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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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| invented and brought projection to motion pictures |
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| released by edison into the market in 1896; first commercially used projector in the U.S. |
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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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| under the hollywood system studios controlled where and when and what you did as actors |
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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 initial payment usually just a flat rate made to exhibitors to help cover the costs of releasing the movie |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| died from drugs, very scandalous at the time |
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| arrested and later acquitted of murder of raping virginia rapay; buster keaton stood by him |
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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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| created the rating system which was actually just a guideline |
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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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| created the audion tube making voice transmission possible |
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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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| amplitudemodjulation prone to static; frequency modulation good for short distances. |
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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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| first licenced radio station in the 1920s in pittsburg |
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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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| federal radio commission established in 1927 with authority to specify frequency power and hours of operation through licenses |
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| the airwaves deemed a public asset therefore subject to government regulation for the public |
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| top 40 music count down was popularized and perfected at KLIF in dallas |
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| dallas radio station that perfected top 40 music |
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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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| brought WW2 to america before we became involved |
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| length news stories called news packages |
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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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| heavily advocates the positives of television |
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| created the idea of the original television |
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| invented the iconoscope and deserved credit for tv |
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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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| technological achievement; television show that was able to broadcast the same thing from coast to coast live; edward r. murrows |
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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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| 90% of abcs programs were on film; there was growth due to disneyland |
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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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| 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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