FILM 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wireless Telegraphy, Saludos Amigos, Monroe Doctrine
23 Nov 2014
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Studying tv and an introduction to us broadcasting policy. Numerous inventors created the various technologies that made radio possible. Used by military before and during world war i. The idea that gov"t should regulate the broadcast of individuals and institutions such as corporations. Freedom to speak = freedom to listen; not to necessarily to broadcast. Two main networks were originally nbc and cbs. First national broadcast was on july 1st, 1941. Wwii occurs (december, 1941) as tv is about to take off; puts tv at a halt. After the war, tv grows as a communication medium. *sitcom was originally a radio genre before it reached the tv screen. Tells the story of philo t. farnsworth. Regular armed intervention in latin-america to protect us interests. Not the same as european style colonialism. The roosevelt administration"s attempt to reject the interventionism of previous us governments. Almost immediate us withdrawal of troops from haiti.
