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Questions for Midterm Review - Terms www.YoYoBrain.com - Accelerators for Memory and Learning Questions for Midterm Review - Terms Category: Default - (38 questions) Agnes Nixon Protege of Irna Phillipso Headwriter for Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light, Another World, and creator ofOne Life to Live, All My Children, and Loving/The Cityo Linkedall of her productions to proctor & gamble, hence "soap" operas William Bell Protege of Irna Phillips.Head write of another worldand days of our lives Danny Thomas (w/ Sheldon Leonard) Actorin 50s sitcom "Make Room for Daddy" produced by veteran character actor SheldonLeonard1960sAndyGriffithDickVan Dyke5seasons15Emmy Awardstookitself off the air before it got crappyself-referential- giving audience credit for understanding the medium of televisionGomperPyleTheReal McCoysThatGirlTheMod SquadPhilanthropist- gave lots of $ to St. Jude's Children's Hospital Desilu Productions Production StudioSituationalComedy: Normalcy> action/ situation> out of hand> normalcyI Love Lucyreflects what going on in the 1950s - nuclear family, mother trying to getcareer, returning home, moving to suburbs, having a babyArnazes kept rights to I love Lucy in exchange for rights to their show (wise decision)Star Trek, The Andy Griffith Show, Mission: Impossible, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Make Room for Daddy, The Untouchables, I Spy, Harrigan and Son, Mannix, Wyatt Earp, Our Miss Brooks, The Real McCoys, Gomer Pyle, USMC, That Girl, and, after 1960, The Jack Benny Program . Some short-lived programs also came from Desilu, such as Jay Ward Productions BroughtCrusader Rabbit to first run syndication in 1949(Rocky& Bullwinklem, Captain Crunch, George of the Jungle, Hoppity Hopper, SuperChicken etc.)Fractured Films - respliced and revoiced to have new meanings from oldmaterial1STEVER 1ST RUN CARTOON TO SYNDICATED TV IN 1949Someof the fastest moving cartoonsSetthe table for HANNA-BARBERA Norman Lear AUTEURAdaptedBritish sitcom "Til Death Do Us Apart" that began in 1965 about working classreactionary man who holds racist and anti-socialist viewpoints (All in theFamily)Shotpilot in 68 rejected by ABC reshot in 69 rejected again by ABCShotin 70 and taken by CBS, low ratings but Emmy awardPplwatched rerunsContinuesw/ Sanford & SonTheJeffersonsMaudeGoodTimesSpin-off BluesHe Changes TVSubjectmatter in TV changed forever thanks to his comedies of 1970sAlsowas able to exert control over his series bc Jim Henson FIRST PUBLICTELEVISION AUTEURChildren'sTV Workshopwas one of the most widely known puppeteers in American history[1] and was the creator of The Muppets. He was the leading source behind their long run in the television series Sesame Street and The Muppet Show and films such as The Muppet Movie (1979) and creator of advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth. He was also an Oscar-nominated film director, Emmy Award-winning television producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson Company, the Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop.Henson's sudden death on May 16, 1990, of streptococcus pneumoniaresulted in an outpouring of public and professional affection. Therehave since been numerous tributes and dedications in his memory.Henson's companies, which are now run by his children, continue toproduce films and television shows.On September 26, 1992, Henson was posthumously awarded the Courageof Conscience Award for being a "Humanitarian, muppeteer, producer anddirector of films for children Sylvester "Pat" Weaver at NBC Creatorof The Today Show for NBC, The Tonight Show for NBC, Home Show for NBC, as wellas Producer of The Gary Moore Show that ran 10 yearsAlsobrought Ernie Kovacs to daily morning televisionNon-threateninghosts that could hold audiencesat NBC 1949-1956Mergedthe dictates of commerce with the public service mantra of Enlightenmentthrough EntertainmentThemode of television was a single sponsorship on a national level and otherwisewas a local medium but he changed that to selling spot advertisements to manyadvertisers and more than anyone else moved the networks to nationalprominence.Live programming across all genres and age groups to distinguishthe medium of TV from that of film; used the Chicago style of production to beimpromptu, happening, and cheap during the off prime time hours and going forpolished New York style in the evening hours.LIVE TV Leonard Goldenson at ABC filmed Disney contentrescued ABC with a $25 million cash infusion, becoming the foundingchairman of the merged company which was named AmericanBroadcasting-Paramount Theatres. The modern ABC dates its history fromthe effective date of his transaction, and not the BlueNetwork spinoff.Although he focused chiefly on ABC Television, he oversaw all areas of ABC-Paramount's entertainment/mediaoperations for over thirty years, from 1951 to 1986, including thecreation of the AmPar Record Corporation in 1955 and the 'rebadging' of the ABC-Paramount group as the American Broadcasting Company in 1968[3]. He also was instrumental in the sale of ABC to Capital Cities Communications in 1986. James Aubrey at CBS prolificprogramming chief of 1960s, took CBS to high profits, shows lasted into early70sTV programmingmatures just a little bitSituationalcomedy split into types of sitcoms thanks to CBS programming chief James Aubrey& produced long-lasting "evergreen" comedies still seen to this day insyndicationDomesticHomeWorkplaceRural EscapistThere was anaudience for all sitcoms in the 1960sMonsterhit -The Beverly HillbilliesEscapistcomedies tended to reach younger audience such as magical comedies (I Dream ofJeannie, Bewitched, Mr. Ed, My Mom the Car) Fred Silverman at CBS (and later ABC and CBS's Big Hitswere RuralBevHillbillies, hee NBC) haw, etc.CountryBroadcasting SystemW/network in #1, they promoted himAvgcbs audience at the time - 35 yrsCBS' ___________ executes the "Rural Purge"ChoseRelevance over RatingsMayberryRFD slipped to #14 in 1971 - cancelledHeeHawBevHillsGreenAcresALLC ANCELLED in rural purge as _____________ targeted 18-49 urban womenCBS & All inthe FamilyIntroducedtaboo subjects + words into domestic comedy - toilet flushingShoton videotape becoming 1st multi-camera sitcom shot before a liveaudience on tapeMorelive, more contemporaryUsedextreme close-ups for reactions both comedic and dramatic Nipkow ElectricTelescope Spinning Disk of 1883FlowbeeWhile still a student he studied the _____ disk.Accounts of its invention state that he conceived the idea of using aspiral-perforated disk to divide a picture into a mosaic of points andlines while sitting alone at home with an oil lamp on Christmas Eve, 1883.the "spiritual father" of the core element of first generationtelevision technology. He became honorary president of the "televisioncouncil" of the "Imperial Broadcasting Chamber".GERMAN Philo T. Farnsworth Primary inventor of the TelevisionHe is best known for inventing the first fully electronic television system, including the first working electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), and for being the first to demonstrate fully electronic television to the public.AMERICAN Vladimir Zworykin the inventor ofthe Camera Pickup TubeCeated"Iconoscope" for Westinghouse before moving to RCAinvented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes.RUSSIAN Albert Robida Internet, TV through PhoneLineshe proposed inventions integrated into everyday life, not creations ofmad scientists, and he imagined the social developments that arose fromthem, often with accuracy: social advancement of women, mass tourism,pollution, etc. His La Guerre au vingtième siècle describes modern warfare, with robotic missiles and poison gas. His Téléphonoscope was a flat screen that delivered the latest news 24-hours a day, the latest plays, courses, and teleconferences.FRENCH E.B. White Vocalminority of ppl took Newton Minnow's comments about the vast wasteland to heartby mid 1960s bc didn't like what they sawCarnegiecommission established in 1965 to look at educational programming on television Bing Crosby Videotape playsa role in maturity1947 _____________ despised performing radio shows twice for timezonesHeput his personal money into Ampex Corporation to develop magnetic audio tape sohis studio music recording and his radio shows could be mastered on tape___________ Enterprises follows up its success story w/ the first ever demonstrationof videotape technology in 1951Wouldn'tgo into production, but led to 1956 Ampex innovation - Quadruplex videotape, or"Quad" Prime Time Access Ruling networkscant program anything from 6 to 7 or (7 to 8 in western time zones)cuts 1 hour out of prime time from the major networks for local entertainmentwiki Rural Purge/ Sweep instigated by CBS executive Fred Silvermanin 1971, following research highlighting the greater attraction toadvertisers of the younger urban viewer demographic and the institutionof the FCC's Prime Time Access Rule, which led to the loss of a half-hour of network programming each night. While it is most commonly associated with CBS, ABC also followed a similar pattern.The numerous cancellations prompted Pat Buttram ("Mr. Haney" on one of the canceled shows, Green Acres) to make the oft-quoted observation: "It was the year CBS canceled everything with a tree-including Lassie." Irna Phillips · SoapOpera Producer/ writer/ creatorof TV network shows such asTheseAre My ChildrenGuidingLightRoadof LifeYoungDr. MaloneTheBrighter DayAsthe World TurnsAnotherWorldOurPrivate WorldDaysof Our LivesLoveis a Many Splendored ThingCreativeconsultant on Peyton Place Orson Welles MercuryTheater
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