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Baran: Film

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Zoopraxiscope   show
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Persistence of Vision   show
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show combined an easy to use Kodak camera with a celluloid roll that took 40 photographs a second; created by William Dickson  
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Who developed the process of photography?   show
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Daguerreotype   show
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show used translucent paper (negative) from which several prints could be made; created by William Henry Fox Talbot  
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show Thomas Edison  
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Kinetoscope   show
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show a device that both photographed and projected action; created by Lumiere Brothers  
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Edison Vitascope   show
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show George Melies; brought narrative in the form of the movie medium  
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show By Edwin S. Porter (1903) first to use intercutting scenes, editing, and a mobile camera, first Western  
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show tying together two separate but related shots in such a way that they took on a new, unified meaning  
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Nickelodeons   show
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Factory Studios   show
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show director, created scheduled rehearsals, production based on close adherence to a shooting script, lavished attention on costume and lighting, used close ups, etc., created full-length feature film DIRECTOR OF THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)  
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show most influential silent movie, 3 hours, racists, most profitable movie until Gone With The Wind-- took movies out of Nickelodeons and made them big business  
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show Thomas Edison, 10 companies under Edison's control, held patents to almost all film equipment and exhibition equipment, had too many rules thus causing film makers to migrate to LA  
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show 1) created musical genre 2) actors now had to really act 3) made production a much more complicated and expensive proposition 4) caused smaller filmmakers to close shop b/c they couldn't afford to compete  
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show a response to the "scandals" taking place in Hollywood, legislation to censor movies and their content  
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show 1934; censored and forbade much in the movies  
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Double Feature with a B movie   show
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Vertical Integration   show
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Paramount Decision   show
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Block Booking   show
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How did they recapture viewers from TV?   show
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show 3-D and smellovision  
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show charted social trends, especially ones in the alienation off youth and prejudice (Ex: Rebel Without a Cause)  
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Todays movie audience?   show
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show production, distribution, and exhibition  
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show making of movies; increase in production costs (people expect special effects) why movie industries aren't willing to take risks  
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show supplying movies to TV networks, cable and satellite networks, makers of videodiscs, and Internet streaming companies; advertising and promotion of movie = 50% of the production costs  
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show the decision to make a picture  
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show to open a movie on a few screens and hope that critical response, film festival success, and good word-of-mouth reviews propel it so success  
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show where the movies are shown; 7 large chains own 80% of all US ticket sales; make most money off of concession sales (Ex: popcorn)  
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show finance their films through profit of their own business (Ex: Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Universal)  
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show produce movies that look and feel like an independent one; speciality of major studios, but less costly (Ex: Fox Searchlight, Song Classics, Focus Features, New Line Cinema)  
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show raises money outside of studio system to produce films (ex: Lionsgate and Weinstein Company)  
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Block Buster Mentality   show
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Concept Films   show
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Tentpole   show
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show movies that are produced with the full intention of producing several more sequels  
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Theatrical Films   show
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What has convergence done with movies?   show
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Microcinema   show
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show the sponsor-financing of movies to advance a manufacture's product line  
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