| Term | Definition |
|---|
| the first movie to win academy award for best picture | wings |
| movie by fritz lang in 1927 defined german expression | metropolis |
| 1900-1927 | silent film era |
| first western and first chase scene by edwin porter | the great train robbery |
| thte first feature film | the birth of a nation |
| what year did united artist start in | 1919 |
| what were the first contex movie goers heard sound with | newsreels |
| the first movie with sound in 1927 | don juan |
| the studio era | 1930-1970 |
| the 7 genres | comedy-drama-musicals-mystery-horror-sci fi-action/adventure |
| what movie and by who was the most important western in what year | stagecoach in 1938 |
| what is filmnoir | a genre where the western goes to the city |
| movie by john huston that was a B movie and number 31 on the AFI list | the maltese falcon |
| what are B movie and A movies | B movies are lower budget while A are feature film |
| what are the 7 major studios and what percentage revenue do they bring in | paramount-sony-warner brothers-disney-20th century fox-universal-dreamworks and 90% of total revenue |
| what are the 3 KILLER B'S | babies-baseball-bowling |
| what is the cost to make a movie in 2005 | 60 million |
| how much does it cost to promote | 36.2 million |
| what did edward murrow say when getting off the radio | goodnight and goodluck |
| when did the adding of a visual componet to radio begin | early 1900's |
| who are the 2 inventors that made TV a reality | vladimir zworykin and philo farnsworth |
| who built the first commercial tv station and when | david sarnoff in 1932 |
| when was the formal initiation of commercial TV | 1939 |
| what were the 4 TV networks | NBC-CBS-ABC-DuMont |
| when was the golden age for TV | 1948-1958 |
| what was the first show with an all black cast | amos and andy |
| who is the father of network tv news | john cameron swayze |
| when did all broadcast start being shown in color | 1966 |
| when was public tv established | 1967 |
| when was the tv economic golden age | 1960-1980 |
| when did cable start | 1950's |
| what was it originally called | CATV--community antenna television |
| when was cables big growth | 1970-1990 |
| who and what year bought 20th century fox | rupert murdoch in 1985 |
| when was the first videotape recorder invented | 1956 |
| who invented the first videotape recorder | ampex corporation |
| when did sony invent betamax | 1975 |
| what is betamax | a VCR |
| who introduced the VHS | JVC |
| what year did DVD's reach the market | 1996 |
| what percentage of people have cable as their source of TV | 60 |
| who invented the first superstation and what year | ted turner 1976 |
| when did satellite begin to succeed | 1994 |
| how many local tv stations are there | 1600 |
| what are the 3 factors that determine size and profitablitlty | channel-the market-network affiliation |
| what number market is DFW | 7th |
| in average home how long is TV on per day | 8 hours |
| how many hours a day does the averafe person watch | 4 1/2 |
| what are the 4 sweeps months | feburary-may-july-november |
| what year was TV invented | 1927 |
| what year was HBO launched | 1975 |
| when did RCA introduce commercial tv and where | 1939 at the world |
| when was the first newsreel shown in a theatre | 1909 |
| who showed the first newsreel | charles pathe |
| what was the first radio broadcast with a significant audiance | frank conrad's broadcast in 1920 |
| what was the fist radio station to become an all news station | KFAX in san fran in 1960 |
| when was the first regulary scheduled tv news show began | 1940 |
| what year was CNN started | 1980 |
| who started CNN | ted turner |
| who started FOX news | roger ailes |
| what year was FOX news started | 1997 |
| what are the 2 types of tracks | mechanical systems and electronical systems |
| what 2 men started mechanical television | charles francis jenkins and john baird |
| what did vladimir zworykin create in 1923 | the iconoscope |
| what did world war 2 do to TV development | slowed it down |
| what is the number of lines and frames per second for tv | 525 lines and 30 frames per second |
| what was one of the first things seen on TV by large number of people | the 1947 world series |
| how many people watched the 1947 world series | 3.9 million |
| by who and in what year was the co-axial network completed | at&t in 1951 |
| what years was there a freeze on license applications | 1948-1952 |
| what number channels are the VHF channels | channels 2-13 |
| what number channels are the UHF channels | channels 14 and up |
| which has better frequency and were the prized channels | VHF channels |
| by 1955, what percentage of US homes had a TV | 65% |
| what is texaco star theatre | an early variety show |
| what is a variety show | shows based on comedy with lots of different kinds of entertainment |
| what year was the videotape recorder started | 1956 |
| when was the first successful photography in motion | 1872 |
| who was the person who was responsible for the first successful photo in motion | edward muybridge |
| what is a kinetograph | early motion picture camera invented by thomas edison |
| what is a kinetoscope | early motion picture viewer invented by thomas edison |
| what was the first movie to use editing and have a chase scene | the great train robbery in 1903 |
| what are nickelodeons | small movie theatres |
| who founded the motion picture patents company | thomas edison |
| what was the first feature film and in what year | the birth of a nation in 1915 |
| who is responsible for the birth of a nation | DW griffith |
| when was the golden age for motion picture | 1930-1950 |
| what year was the breakthrough year for sound | 1927 |
| when did the golden age for movies end | 1948 |
| when did movie attendance peak | 1946 |
| what are the 3 areas of filmmaking | production distribution exhibition |
| what year was celluloid film invented | 1887 |
| who invented celluloid film | goodman |
| what year was continuous roll film invented | 1888 |
| who invented continuous roll film | george eastman |
| what are the characteristics of german expressionism | bold and dark-very direct |
| who made the untouchables in 1987 | brian de palma |
| what is one of the most important italian epics | trip to the moon in 1902 |
| who was the great silent comedian | charlie chapman |
| what genre is the maltese falcon | filmnoir |
| what year was chinatown produced and who starred in it | 1974-john huston |
| who started CBS in radio and then moved to TV | edward r murrow |
| what is a ratiing | the percentage of all homes equipped with a tv that are tuned to a particular station |
| who invented the telegraph in what year | samuel morse in 1844 |
| when was the first photograph | 1839 |
| who invented the telephone in what year | alexander grahm bell in 1876 |
| who invented the phonograph in what year | thomas edison in 1877 |
| what made tv go national | the invention of coaxial network in 1951 |
| which out of the major 4 tv networks was most generous | dumont |
| what are markets defined by | the reach of media outlets |
| what is a share | the total number of people watching a channel |
| where are magazines sold the most | supermarkets |
| what slowed down TV development | world war 2 |
| who were the lumiere brothers | french producers |
| where was the first place people saw movies | vaudville shows |
| what netowrk was william haley involved with | CBS |
| when was the first newspaper and by who | 1960 by benjamin harris |
| what network was david sarnoff associated with | NBC and RCA |
| what is the motion picture patents company alson known as | the trust |
| what paper did benjamin day start | daily sun |
| who directed the great train robbery | edwin porter |
| who directed metropolis and what year | fritz lang in 1927 |
| what is the significance of john ford | he made john wayne famous and was a famous western director |
| what year did edisons kinetoscope parlor open in new york | 1894 |
| what year was the edison vitascope invented | 1869 |
| what year did hollywood begin producing programming for television | 1949 |
| what year and who started UPN | warner brothers and viacom in 1995 |
| what year did HD broadcasting begin | 1998 |
| what did the FCC do in 1996 | passed a law requiring stations to show a minimum of 3 hours of educational programming |
| who directed the battleship potemkin and what year | sergei eisenstein in 1925 |
| what years was the french surrealism | 1930's |
| what is an example of an italian movie | bicycle theif |
| the artful juxtaposition if images to convey meaning or evoke an emotion is what | the kuleshov effect |
| who was the "it" girl with star appeal during the late silent era | clara bow |
| what was the first film to have sychronized music and sound effects and what year | don juan in 1926 |
| who directed the maltese falcon | john huston |
| what is the average revenue for todays film | 37.3 million |
| film is a | collaborative art |
| out of 3.9 million that watched the 1947 world series how many watched in bars | 3.5 million |
| what company was first to come from movies into television | disney |
| who was the main entertainer in the jazz singer | al jolson |
| which of the big 7 movie studios was the big daddy during the studio era | warner brothers |
| who was the actor who was big in his time that was in the maltese falcon | humphrey bogart |
| how long did dumont last | 1946-1955 |
| what is importation | when cable began to offer additional signals from distant stations |
| what are the most well known ratings for tv | the nielsen media research |
| what was one of the most acclaimed newsreels | the march of time |
| when did radio news begin to decline | 1980's |
| what was the sid caesar tv show that we watched in class | your show of shows |
| whos the biggest badass in town | carter babb |
| what theory studied the impact of movies on kids and was done in 1929 | payne fund studies |
| what theroy states that media travels through culture like a bullet and that media is very direct. it alson called the hypodermic theory | magic bullet theory |
| what theory states that the people follow the opinion of the leader | 2 step flow |
| who was at the top of the hollywood totem poll | fatty arbuckle |
| what was the ending for the western | vietnam |
| what director did stagecoach in 1938 | john ford |
| what show did edward murrow start on tv | see it now |
| who did murrow battle with | mccarthy |
| what was the first network news show | camel cavalcade of news with john cameron swayze |
Combine with other sets
Share on Facebook
Share on MySpace