COMM 1011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Movie Theater, Studio Monitor, Thomas Edison
31 Mar 2016
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A transparent and pliable film that can hold a coating of chemicals sensitive to light. An early movie camera developed by thomas edison"s assistant in the 1890s. Before the days of videotape, a 1950s technique for preserving television broadcasts by using a film camera to record a live tv show off a studio monitor. A large-screen movie projection system developed by thomas edison. Movies that tell a story, with dramatic action and conflict emerging mainly from individual characters. The first small makeshift movie theaters, which were often converted cigar stores, pawnshops, or restaurants redecorated to mimic vaudeville theaters. In media economics, the phenomenon of controlling a mass media industry at its three essential levels: production, distribution, and exhibition; the term is most frequently used in regerence to the film industry. In media economics, an organizational structure in which a few firms control most of an industry"s production and distribution resources.
