FILM 2401 Chapter Notes -Warsaw Pact, George Lipsitz, Sitcom

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Technological, political and economic hurdles that had to be overcome. Has a long pre-history that stretches to late19th c. Difficult technological hurdles that had to overcome (tv took longer than film) Intermediate post wwii era in late 1940"s and 1950s was also the period in which consumerism really took off- lasted till 1970s longest period of interrupted growth in the history of capitalism. Rise of television & consumerism were intertwined. Television set manufactures, at first, did not develop a uniform set of technical standards. Each of two major industry groupings, rca-nbc and those around cbs, had developed television systems that operated in a different range of frequencies. At the end of wwii they pushed for the adoption of black and white broadcasting in the very high frequency while the cbs group wanted to establish colour broadcasting in the ultra. Toshiba & sony fight another international battle over their incompatible systems for high definition video discs (sony emerged as the victor)

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