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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 four modes of production | multiple camera live, single camera film style, multiple camera film style, multiple camera video tape |
| single camera film style | like feature films, can edit, more costly, Drag Net, able to replay, used for drama or westerns, greater control, realistic actual locational sets, less natural, expensive |
| multiple camera film style | Desilu productions one of the first to use it |
| multiple camera video tape | some parts are edited later on |
| multiple camera live | dominant style, in TV studio, set, like a theatre, kinescope, switcher, Marty |
| kinescope | film, from recording the TV, Honeymooners |
| April 1947 | Jackie Robinson plays for the Dodgers on NBC |
| Since it is all live | directors use tricks and there is energy of an audience |
| Marty | aired May 24, 1953, Goodyear TV playhouse, Broadway play hit, made into a film |
| Production process | pre-production, production, post-production |
| networks like live because | affiliates are using these for local things |
| networks didn't like live because | most artistic people want it perfect, there's no copy, production is most costly unlike reruns, it must be meticulous in pre-production, weeks in a studio, make the set, rehearse |
| film chain | film --> box with mirror --> TV camera--> to TV set--> |
| Vaudeville | from the 1800s, early TV, Burns and Allen came together in vaudeville |
| 1948 TV | looked to comedians and vaudeville acts |
| Milton Berle | Mr. Television, Texaco Star Theatre, people bought TVs as a result |
| Sid Caesar | satire, had Brooks, Simon, Allen write for his show |
| I Love Lucy | 1951, first sitcom to be filmed live and shown later as syndication, Ball realizes they have all the control and just sell to the networks, |
| Honeymooners | Jackie Gleason "The Great One" |
| Red Skelton | 1951, stunts, had to make a change for radio |
| Jack Benny | 56 years old on TV |
| word vaudeville | from silly songs in 15th century |
| Actors | Donald O'Connor, Sammy Davis Jr. |
| January 1930 | no more vaudeville because of radio and film |
| Ed Sullivan Show | acts together in one hour |
| Jack Benny Show | was ever changing |
| McCarthy | claimed there was communism everywhere, was made to quit because of insubordination |
| Red Scare | damaging in Hollywood and blacklisted people |
| Eisenhower | used advertising for TV |
| Nixon | on TV |
| TV borrows | from radio and vaudeville |
| game shows | become popular |
| Charles Van Doren | English instructor |
| $64000 Question | Revlon, at first no manipulation, came from Take It or Leave It, spread it out over weeks, "mix" IBM machine of questions, isolation box not actually sound proof, close-ups of audience |
| Mark Goodson | producer, only way show could work is if it was rigged, pressure from sponsors, manipulated questions which contestants knew |
| Joyce Brothers | surpassed the manipulation, studied boxing and came on as a boxing expert psychologist no one wanted her |
| quiz show winners | were given special treatment |
| host | Revlon wanted to change name from Sonny Fox to Bill Fox, he fumbled a lot and was replaced |
| Shirlie Bernstein | fed him the answer, he was furious and tried to tell people |
| Twenty-One | contestants given a character, he signed to accept less money and was taken off, replaced by Charles Van Doren |
| Twenty-One Herb | lost purposefully for Marty Academy Award question, he went to the news to tell the story |
| Dotto | highest rated daytime show, standby contestant saw a woman with a notebook with answers, went to the press, CBS took the show off air |
| 1958 | Herb Stempel told |
| Joseph Stone | attorney for Stempel |
| Van Doren | said he and the show were honest, went into hiding, he and contestants arrested but not jailed |
| Snodgrass | said Twenty-One wasn't honest, sent a letter to himself |
| four major TV netowrks | CBS, NBC, ABC, DuMont |
| DuMont | goes away at the end of the 50s |
| networks have | control over programming |
| technique to produce programs | sponsors who produce idea goes away, network produces programs and uses commercials for sponsors |
| after scandal | the void from quiz shows must be filled |
| two strategies of programs | networks program strategy LCD an LOP |
| LCD | lowest common denominator, make TV for lowest intelligence |
| LOP | least objectionable program, bland things no one can complain about |
| syndication | from live shot in one location and recording and shot in many locations |
| Disneyland | The Wonderful World of Disney, ABC, 1954-1983), promotes ABC and Disney, promotes show and Disneyland, ABC 3rd of the networks, created Disney ethos |
| 1963 | 70% of all primetime shows come from Hollywood studios from New York |
| waning of variety show | Ed Sullivan survives in the 60s |
| rise of sitcoms | late 50s, early sitcoms are an ethnic base from immigrants, late sitcoms are a white bland suburban base |
| sitcoms | Ozzy and Harriet, Father Knows Best, Donna Reid Show, Leave It To Beaver |
| westerns | Death Valley Days, Gunsmoke, Bonanza |
| Out of the 50s | America sees itself as where you can get rich with the economic boom and as powerful and white |
| 20th century | early agricultural, mid urban, late suburban |
| early 60s | change in American culture |
| 60s TV | doesn't reflect what's going on in the world |
| 60s was driven by | young people |
| Kennedy | was a young president, first TV debates, might not have won without TV, first president people could identify with |
| April 12 1961 | next Soviet satellite |
| uprising against | Castro and US humiliated |
| all allies out of | Berlin, but the US said no, building of the Berlin Wall |
| Flight over | Cuba, SU missiles and US removes them, makes a blockade around Cuba, SU turned back with US pledge to not invade |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinate | for Civil Rights movement |
| Albany Georgia | 9 months desegregation try |
| Birmingham | was the worst, MLK was its organizer, students sent, violence from police |
| August 28 1963 | March to DC and MLK speech |
| Peace Corps | way to counter appeal communism |
| Special Forces | green berets, first in Vietnam mission to defend against communism and domino effect |
| first TV images of Vietnam | were of monk rebellions |
| Vietnam War | longest war in American history with young people |
| Fall 1963 people | didn't pay much attention to what was going on and the country thought to be prosperous |
| treaty with SU | nuclear test ban |
| Kennedy and TV | highest ratings using video of home life, JFK assassination caught on tape |
| two things happening in America in 1960s | people feel good and prosperous, war and problems |
| in 1960s TV | had 1950s sensibilities and was fooling people |
| 1960s events | Vietnam, atomic bombs, civil rights, women's rights, Cuban missile crisis, Cold War |
| Primetime TV | escapist TV that doesn't deal with reality, it hasn't found the footing of who it attracts |
| escapist TV shows | Ed Sullivan Show, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, I Love Lucy |
| TV age range | 40s to 50s |
| TV find it is the all powerful medium | control buying habits and politics |
| JFK/Nixon debate | on radio Nixon won, on TV JFK won, has a direct impact, the camera loves JFK |
| escapist TV audience | people don't want to deal with problems, TV is dealing with frivolous things, but uses some events like space travel |
| young people running the country | the best and the brightest JFK administration |
| TV always | works with or against society |
| November 22 1963 | JFK assassination, America changes and the world spirals out of control and TV changes |
| New Frontier Speech | JFK, not allowing businesses to run free and control more, gives more power to FCC to regulate airwaves |
| FCC to regulate the airwaves | protect public airwaves, make sure there isn't junk on TV, meet public demand, provide news public service and local programs, push network practices departments, use standards and practices to make sure its not inappropriate |
| Newton Minow | Chicago lawyer, puts pressure to get things done, "vast wasteland" speech, companies don't care but comply |
| May 1961 | vast wasteland speech, TV needs to be an educator for public good, people were surprised at the convention |
| Minow Quotes | "when TV is good, nothing... is better" "When TV is bad nothing is worse" "what you'll observe is a vast wasteland" |
| more on TV | social issues, JFK, racial equality, documentary, primetime more like PBS |
| Gerry Anderson | marionette shows, Super Car, Fireball XL 5, Thunderbirds |
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