CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kinetoscope, Block Booking, Thomas Armat
Document Summary
Cs 100 - a: lecture: monday, november 27th: Network affiliates got 50 70% of content from ny: up to 80% transcriptions in some places. Local example: 64% live, 21% trans transcriptions, 12% playing records. First broadcast mass media leads to the media ethics crises. Longer films (10-15 mins: exhibition/ market. Became a place to pay to fill time. Policies: no stars, no credits, limits on european imports, produced by the foot, sold by the foot, equipment rented by the week. Film industry moved to los angeles because of sunshine. La had the benefit of being as far as possible from the edison trust but still being in the. The technology of television was connected to the radio. Television sent audio and visual signals to home. Single communication medium would be the radio. This is why new languages, instead of destroying old ones, serve as a stimulant to them (256) Projected motion picture photography became a reality in the 1890s.
