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Dragnet
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NBC show starring Jack Webb, originally a crime radio show but also became a tv series
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What influenced Film Noir
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(Dark Film)
influenced by crime novels, post war realism, and german expatriates |
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Themes and Style of Film Noir
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Themes:femme fatal, corruption and detective work, unconventional romance.
Style: moody lighting, convoluted plots with flashbacks, voice over narration |
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iconography
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signs and symbols that convey a specific feeling
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Hollywood witch hunt
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where stars and directors were being accused of sympathizing with the communist party.
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What is HVAC
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house committee of un-american activities
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What happened with the Paramount Case?
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Court decided that vertically integrated companies were illegal and were monopolizing the movie industry. The big 5 had to give up their theaters and become a production company. Making it a more level playing field.
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Good inventions in the 50s
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3 strip technicolor- high quality color
3D- short lived but was exciting at the time Cinemascope- widescreen |
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Bad inventions
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Eastman Color- terrible quality color
Cinarama- terrible widescreen |
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Package unit syster
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that is where a producer pulls some strings and gets a good director, writer, screenwriter, and actor then pitches for financing it.
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Otto Preminger
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He didn't get a seal for his movie "The moon is not blue" which covered controversial topics, but it still did very well.
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Elia Kazan
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He didn't have the final cut of his movie "A street car named desire" but on his next movie "Baby Doll" he demanded the final cut, and it did very well.
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Teen Movies
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pretty much all B monster movies designed for the 19 year old male.
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Edwin Armstrong
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created FM radio but RCA didn't want it, he got into a lot of problems with FM when WW2 ended because TV was now in the picture and messed up his frequencies for FM and he killed himself.
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78 RPM
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terrible quality, heavy, brittle, broke easily, only could hold about 4 minutes on each side
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33 1/3 RPM
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good quality, with micro-pressed grooves. Could hold 20-25 minutes of audio on both sides.
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45s
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used for singles, popular with the young kids. cheap.
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High Fidelity (Hi-Fi)
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good quality sound
turntable, radio and speakers in one. |
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Fritz Pfleumer
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invented magnetic tape for Nazi German
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Bing Crosby and Jack Mullin
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Crosby didnt want to do live shows anymore so he hired Mullin and created Ampex. (Created laugh track machine)
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Revival of Local radio is because...?
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car radios, decline of networks, and specialized stations (IE R&B, country etc etc)
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Alan Freed
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moondog show----> WINS in NYC
creates Rock'n'Roll show and top 40s hits |
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why the drive in
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convenient, cheap, comfortable
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The two types of TV
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mechanical and electronic
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What's wrong with Mechanical TV?
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they had really low quality. Only 30 lines of resolution.
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Who helps work on the electrical TV?
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Rosing, Zworykin (creates iconoscope), Farnsworth (image dissector tube)
RCA announces arrival of TV at NY worlds fair WW2 happened and no one bought TVS |
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First TV programming
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sports because they were live and popular with men.
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What is co-axial cable
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it is cable that connects city to city and is used by big networks so people in different cities can watch the same programming.
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Popular LIVE TV
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Variety shows (Texaco Star Theater with Milton Burle Ed Wynn Show etc etc)
Live Anthology Dramas('Twelve Angry Men') Sitcoms (Honeymooners, Mama) |
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Early TV to used Telefilm
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Cisco Kid, I love Lucy, Father knows best, Dragnet
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DISNEY
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ABC and Paramount
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Disney Land
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ABC gives Disney 2 million bucks for 52 week series. With 4 segments Fantasy Land, Adventure Land, Tomorrow Land, Frontier Land
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Warner Bros in TV
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Promotions for movies and "Warner Bros Presents"
*Cheyenne* |
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Disguised Anthologies
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Anthology series they were literally the same story with a slight twist. IE CSI
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Telefilm Triumphs
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majority tv is now recorded
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VIdeo tape
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made high quality recordings on 2 inch tape that could be edited.
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Payola
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when record companies would pay off DJs to play there bands music on their stations.
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Quiz Show Scandal
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"21" was a fixed show that Charles Can Doren won
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Newton Minow
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JFK made him in charge of the FCC
"When TV is bad, nothing's worse." "The Vast Wasteland" |
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Documentaries were made to
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record, reveal, preserve
persuade or promote analyze or interrogate express |
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Direct Cinema
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made to reject the norm. Real people in real situations! Creating reality and "a sense of being there" It is a lot of observation
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Race Shows
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Amos and Andy, Nat "King" Cole Show,
"Julia" starring Diahann Carroll |
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Spy Shows
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inspired by the cold war in the 1960s
James Bond "Mission Impossible", "Man fron UNCLE" |
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Children's Fantasy Shows
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"Land of Giants", "Batman", and "Lost in space"
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Adult Fantasy
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"Star Trek" "The Outer Limits" and "The Prisoner"
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Rural Sitcoms
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"Green Acres", "Andy Griffith Show", "Beverly Hillbillies",
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Paul Hemming
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wrote many tv sitcoms such as "Green Acres" and "The Beverly Hillbillies"
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Norman Lear
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created more relevant sitcoms, with more modern issues such as "All in the Family" "Mary Tyler Moore" and "The Jefferson's"
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Modernism
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the US is more concerned with the medium rather then life itself.
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Ingmar Bengman
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Swedish director. "Wild Strawberries" "Smiles of a summer night"
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Akira Kurosawa
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Japanese Director "The 7 Samurai" "Hidden Fortress"
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Francois Truffaut (Director of 400 Blows) said
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the best movies are made by those who use the camera the same way a writer uses a pen.
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Auteur theory
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The director is the main creative driving force of the movie.
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Andrew Sarris said...
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there are 3 hoops of Auteurness
1. tech competence 2. known style 3. cinema as art |
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French New Wave
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style and practice
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