RTF 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Netflix, Father Knows Best, Arpanet
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Edison and lumiere shorts; a trip to the moon (1902), the great train robbery (1903) Mppc (motion picture patents company/edison trust), griffith, chaplin, keaton. The lonedale operator (1911), birth of a nation (1915), the immigrant (1917) Laemmle (universal), warners, zukor, arthur freed (unit producer), william hays (code) The jazz singer (1927), scarface (1932), baby face (1933), it happened one night (1934) Vertical integration, unit producers, pca (production code administration) Marconi, rca (radio corporation of america), frc/fcc, nbc, cbs. The lux radio theater, the jack benny program. Stations licensed by fcc, networked to avoid that. Cbs, nbc, abc, sponsors like ge and colgate. General electric theater, colgate comedy hour, i love lucy, father knows best. Developed and produced by ad agencies for sponsors, then given to networks (until quiz show scandals) Live in big cities (nyc), kinescopes (filmed off a tv set) sent to other markets. This is cinerama (1952), million dollar mermaid (1952), the ten commandments (1956), ben-
