Professor Steve Miller Exam 1 Study Quide

5 steps for creating a motion picture:

1. persistence of vision

2. photography

3. motion picture camera

4. Muybridge(photography to establish motion) and Stanford (hired muybridge)

5. Projector

Thomas Edison

said to be the inventor of projector because he got the copyright- had to market idea to get the idea for that.

- Was able to market things first

Edison's first film

sneezing

Great Train Robbery 1903

first movie to have story line, edits, shootout scenes

Nickelodeon 1905

cost a nickel to go to this movie theater

Everybody wants a piece of action

define trust

group of people trying to control the industry

why was the trust formed and who created it

formed motion picture patents company in 1908, cartel of major US and French producers pulled in patents to control films major technology, major films distribution and sign exclusive deals with George Eastman, who agreed to supply movie films only to trusts approved companies. Thomas Edison was in charge originally

Independents

did not agree with trust because saw too much demand for films and money to be made and many ways to avoid trusts scrutiny

where did independents relocate to and why did they move there

moved to Hollywood: there was no competition, produced longer films with better story lines, and created star system

def star system

use big celebrities for market purposes therefore people will want to come watch the movie

who came up with vertical integration and what did it focus on

Zukor and Hungarian; focused on dominating the movie business by production, distribution and exhibition- playing movie at films

who created birth of a nation and what did it focus on and what made it iconic

D.W Griffith, about the KKK being a hero which caused riots and protests; first feature length film (more than a hour) and first blockbuster movie

Triangle film corporation

first film company created by directors not rich mobile or actors

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

second highest paid actor in Hollywood; charged with murder and rape due to Virginia Rappe's death at his party in san fran- was acquitted by career over because movie industry tried to send a message of what they would tolerate and wouldn't

Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America

formed due to arbuckles case and scandles within the industry; will hayes was president and formed Hayes Office

Hayes Office

looked over movie scripts and unwanted material as well as budgets which helped movies steer away from questionable sexual, moral and social themes which led to motion picture production code

Motion Picture production code

oversaw the moral approval of film and led to the Rating system

Irving Thalberg

greatest executive producer- came up with the Formulaic Film (film you can use over and over again)

Paramount Decisions

(1948)- gov stopped vertical integration by forcing studios to divest themselves of their theaters; no block booking, no blind seling, no theater ownership

Blacklist- McCarthyism-

kicked out of movie theaters because of their alleged ties to communism

1960-1990

Vertical integration

One company has many company flows- Example: The fox channel owns different movies

KDKA

1st radio to report regularly; stationed in pittsburg

David Sarnoff

became president of RCA

3 men that helped create radio

David Sarnoff, Deforus and Howard Armstrong

what does AM stand for

Amplitude Modulation

Armstrong improved which radio station

AM to eliminate static

1971 who died

sarnoff-suicide

1961 who died

deforus from heart attack

what was invented in 1953

color tv

NBC announced what as Jay Lenos prime time show in Dec 2008

Late night show which failed

Spin t- off- Ex

andy griffith show (danny thomas) - character from one show and give them their own show

Desi Arnaz

father of camera shoot; 3 cameras into the studio

Dezi Arnaz did what:

First to own rights to his own show

First to form production company : called deziLu

First to film tv show

Becomes the first rerun because able to film, produce and own show

First show shot in california

smothers brothers comedy

Most controversial show in tv history- came out in hight of vietnam war, blatantly stating opposition to war

First mainstream show to bring rock and roll on but in controversial way

Third network

ABC

ABC

Chain broadcasting decision and dealt with disney and sports promotion

Online piracy

unauthorized sharing of files

Morse code

helped send electrical impulses from a transmitter through cable to a reception point which helped form dots and alphabets for operators transmitting news and messages

Marconi and deforest invented what

wireless telegraphs for oversees and radios

narrowcasting

person to person communication like telegraph and telephone which is what wireless was considered

radio act of 1912

addressed amateur radio operators cramming airwaves therefore needed a license to transmitting radio waves since they were a kind of interstate commerce that could not be owned ; collective property of all Americans.required a license from commerce dep and formally adopted the SOS morse code and said that it should provide a benefit to society in the form of education and public service which also led to the establishment of public radio stations and the fairness doctrine.

what does RCA stand for

Radio Coporation if America

first radio to sell commercial time to advertisers and who started it and where was the first ad place

WEAF(WNBC) started by AT&T and first AD in NY real estate agents

toll broadcasting

sell commercial ads

radio act 1927

licensing did not own their own channels but could only license them as long as they operated to serve public interest, convience and neccessity and oversaw by Federal Radio Commission

what are transitors, what set it aside from TV, who created it

small electrical devices that could recieve and amplify radio signals; they were tiny and allowed radio to become portable; created by bell laboratories and set it aside from TV because it could go anywhere you went

FM stands for

Frequency modulation

prime time

between 8 and 11 when there was most audiences attention

lucy

first tv show infront of large audience in hollywood

kinescope

way to persevere live broadcast like a movie which helped preserve shows like I love Lucy

serial programs

each episode goes from episode to episode with story line

chapter shows

self contained stories with a set of reoccurring characters who confront an issue, face a series of conflicts and find a resolution

re transmission fees

cable providers pay to broadcast networks for the right to carry their channels which how programs are paid for besides customer subsciptions

O & O

government restrictions on operations and network owned stations

syndication

leasing TV shows or cable networks the exclusive right to air TV shows

evergreens

popular reruns

fringe time

programming immediately before the evening prime time schedule and following local news and late night talk show

first-run syndication

programming specifically for sale into synication markets such as wheel of fortune or DR. phil

off network synidication

old episodes that no longer run during network prime time are made for reruns

Alan Blumlein created what and in what year

the stereo permitted to the recording of two seperate channels or sound

Thomas Stockman created what and for what purpose

digital recording and which sends those noises to a loundspeaker

what did sony and philip create

compact discs

what were compact discs used for

to utelize new technology and be used for a low cost

who created the first experiment with sound recording

edouard leon scott

what are A&R Agents

labels are driven by them to scour talent and manage people

who created the morse code and what for

samuel morse; to transmit news

difference between marconi and de forst

interest in wireless voices and music transmission

reginald fessenden

1st radio broadcasterand worked for navy and GE and helped improve wireless signals

communication act of 1934

established the FCC to replace the FRC which regulated radio; led to congress agreeing to a system of advertising supported commercial broadcasting despite concerns of the public

wireless ship act 1910

required seagoing ships carrying more than 50 passengers and traveling more than 2 hundred miles off the coast to be equipped with wireless equipment within a hundred mile rang

telecommunications act of 1996

eliminated most radio and tv stations ownership rules, some dating back more than 50 years which led to enormous station groups forming and changing sound of radio in the U.S

Which two acts made NPR and PBS provide alternate broadcasting commercial

public broadcasting act of 1967 and corporation for public broadcasting

First 24/7 news channel

CNN (Cable News Network)

Prime Time access Rule

Fcc was concerned about monopoly between the big 3 netwrks and passed regulations to undercut their power and cut their programming for 3-4 hours giving local news a chance to program

Fin syn

asking for profit after each show even after prime time reaping from shows synication

telecommunications act 1996

allows consumers to have cable and phone in the same districts

cable focus on what

subscription fees