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Chapter 6
Motion Media
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Journalism
Undergraduate 1
10/05/2011

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Synergy
Definition
An interaction that produces a combined effect greater than the sum of seperate effects.
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Suspension of disbelief
Definition
Occurs when you surrender boubts about the reality of a story and become come caught up in the story
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Narrative films
Definition
Movies that tell a story
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Film literacy
Definition
Abiltiy to appreciate artistic techniques used for telling a story through film
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Warner Brothers
Definition
Introduced sound
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talkies
Definition
Movies with sound
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The Jazz Singer
Definition
The first feature sound movie
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The Singing Fool
Definition
The first full- length sound movie
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The Black Pirate
Definition
The first feature movie in color
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Computer generated imagery
Definition
The application of three-dimensional computer graphics for special effects
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Walt Disney
Definition
Pioneer in animated films
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Animated Films
Definition
Narrative films with drawn scenes and characters
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Steamboat Willie
Definition
Animated cartoon character that became Mickey Mouse
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Snow White and the Seven Dwafs
Definition
First full length animated film
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Robert Flaherty
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First Documentary filmmaker
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Documentary
Definition
A video examination of a historical or current event or a natural or social phenomeon.
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Fairness Doctrine
Definition
A U.S. government requirement from 1949 to 1987 that broadcast presentaions had to include both sides on competing public issues
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Docu-ganda
Definition
Documntaries that seek to influence thier viewers
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Adolph Zukor
Definition
Innovative creator of Paramount as a major movie studio
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Star system
Definition
Making actors into celebrities to increase the size of movie audiences
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Studio System
Definition
When major studious cotrolled all aspects of the movie industry
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Block booking
Definition
A rental agreement through which a movie house accepts a batch of movies
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Vertical intergration
Definition
one company owning multiple stages of production
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Paramount decision
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U.S. Supreme Court breaking of movie industry oligarchy in 1948
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D.W. Griffth
Definition
Early director known for innovations in Birth of a Nation and loose spreading in intolerance
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Blockbuster
Definition
A movie that is a great commercial success
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B movie
Definition
Low budget movie;usully with little artistic aspiration
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Product placement
Definition
Including a product into a script for a fee
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Merchandise tie-in
Definition
Products spun off from a movie
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Exhibition
Definition
What local movie houses do
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Multiplex
Definition
Movie theater with multiple screens
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Mark Cuban
Definition
Early advocate of converting to digital exhibition.
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D-cinema
Definition
Movies that are filmed,editied,distribution and exhibited digitally
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Federal Radio Act
Definition
Original law in 1927 for government regulation of U.S. broadcasting
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Federal Communications Act
Definition
Revision of Federal Radio Act in 1934 to include television
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Big Three
Definition
ABC,CBS,NBC
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Two-tier system
Definition
Original U.S.brodcast infrastructure two tiers, one of locally licensed stations, the other of national networks
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CATV
Definition
Early local cable television system;short for community antenna television
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Gerald Levin
Definition
Used orbiting satellite to relay exclusive programs to local cable systems in 1975
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Multisystem operator MSO
Definition
A company that ons several local cable televison delivery units in different,usually far-flung,communities
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Ownership meld
Definition
When a company is subsumed into the ownership of a competing company
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Upfront
Definition
Advance advertiser commitments to buy network advertising time
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Time shifting
Definition
Ability of viewer to change when they access programming
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Educational television (ETV)
Definition
Stations that supplement classroom lessons,also extend learning beyond school
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Newton Minow
Definition
FCC chair who called television a "vast wasteland"
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Public televison
Definition
Noncommercial televison with an emphasis on quality programs to meet public needs
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Corporation for public Broadcasting
Definition
Quasi-government agency that channels tax-generated funds into the U.S. noncommercial television and radio system.
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Public Broadcasting Service(PBS)
Definition
Television network for noncommercial over-air stations
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