COMM 1301: EXAM 2
16 Cards in this Set
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Television's impact on other mass media
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*Tele to movies - People stayed home to watch tv, taking the audience away from the theaters.
*Tele to newspapers - News could be told on the tele. you could see your politicians, advertise and etc. Takes the hassle of reading and thinking when you can just watch.
*Tele to books - no ne…
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Major Components of the movie industry
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*Production
*Distribution
*Exhibition
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I Love Lucy
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*filmed before a live studio audience
*instead of using 3 cameras, they used 4
*enabled producers to cut and edit what they want (pioneers of editing)
*More people watched the birth of Lil Ricky than the president's inauguration.
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US movie attendance over time
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*In the 1920s fancy movie palaces were built
*In 1946 ticket sales topped $90 million a week
*Tv came, everyone stayed home
*Movie attendance feel to 46 million by 1955
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Suspension of disbelief
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*The point where a person either gets into a movie and has no problem with the unrealistic thing going, or cant get into a movie because of the unrealness of the movie.
*EX: The Walking Dead - Zombie Apocalypse, my teacher cant believe that the cop survivor can shot zombies in the head…
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Film Literacy
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*the understanding of the film, its functions and it capabilities
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Walt Disney
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*An animator that started with a short film; character became Mickey Mouse
*Made first full length animated feature Snow White in 1937
* Animation was very labor intensive until the 1990s
*Disney now owns broadcasting, network, amusement and the WORLD!
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Adolph Zukor
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*Founder of Paramount Pictures
*Created the Hollywood Studio System Business Model
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Hollywood Studio System
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*Created by Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures
* Vertically oriented:
- Signed stars, directors and writers to exclusive contracts
- produced, distributed, and exhibited by the same company (Paramount, 20th century, Columbia, etc)
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ABC
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*American Broadcasting Company (3TH STUDIO)
*Established in 1948
*Owned by Disney, but merged with Paramount in 1953
* ABC programs were filmed, not live like NBC and CBS (EX: Mickey Mouse Club in 1955)
***ABC had Wide World Sports; Created Monday Night football in 1969
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CBS
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*Columbia Broadcasting Company (1ST OR 2ND STUDIO)
*At first used radio with pictures on tv, until the east and west what connected by the coaxial cable and shown live picture of the oceans.
* Started news programs (Douglas Edwards and the News) in 1956
* Put out 1st words on tv airwav…
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NBC
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*National Broadcasting Company (1ST OR 2ND STUDIO)
*started on radio, then moved to tv
*news programs with (John Cameron Swayze's Camel News Caravan
*went into live tv.
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Fox
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*4TH STUDIO
*Created by Rupert Murdoch (owns largest global satellite service with Sky, Star TC, Italia, Foxtel and DirecTV)
*builds programming one night at a time
*Attracts younger audience without big name stars (EX: 90210)
* In 1994, Fox takes network rights to the NFL.
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Philo Farnsworth
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*invented the TV at 21
*1st moving image transmitted in 1927
*invent the image dissector tube
*RCA employees stole farnsworth's TV idea at his lab
*Was later re-recognized as the inventor and was suppose to be paid for every tv sold, but WWI happened
*TVs were replaced with weapons, …
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David Sarnoff
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*A boss at RCA, and boss of Zworykin
*both of them stole Philo's idea of TV from his lab
*worked in commercial Tv and radio
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Cable TV's early days
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*1950s, entrepreneurs build towers to capture TV signals
*signals sent cable to rural areas that couldn't get broadcast TV
*Cable was originally just broadcast tv
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COMM 1301: EXAM 3