The ‘Golden Age of Television’ is what many refer to as the period between the 1950s and 60s when the television began to establish itself as a prevalent medium in the United States. In 1947, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and the Du Mont Network were the four main television networks that ran stations with regular programming taking place. (Television, 2003) While regular television programming was a new innovation
The ‘Golden Age of Television’ is what many refer to as the period between the 1950s and 60s when the television began to establish itself as a prevalent medium in the United States. In 1947, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and the Du Mont Network were the four main television networks that ran stations with regular programming taking place. (Television, 2003) While regular television programming was a new innovation
I Love Lucy I Love Lucy aired from October 1951 till April 1957. However, October 15 was not technically the first episode. Directed by Ralph Levy and recorded as a kinescope, the pilot did not air until 1990. A kinescope is a 16mm film taken from an extremely bright cathode ray tube, often times they are fuzzy and distorted, for this reason they did not want to air it. The sitcom stared Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as an all American couple. Co-starring Vivian Vance and William Frawley as their next
Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people working together and alone, contributed to the evolution of TV. 1831: Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetism makes possible the era of electronic communication to begin. 1862: Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his "pantelegraph" and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires. 1873: Scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this opens the door for inventors to transform
to sell it to CBS, where she also introduced reruns to the company. “Again CBS protested, claiming that live production in Los Angeles was impractical. Because of the time difference between the coasts, the network would be forced to air blurry kinescopes in the East, where most television-viewing homes were located. Arnaz and Ball offered a simple
Where would the world be without the inventions and ideas of the 1920's? The answer is, no one really knows; however, the inventions and ideas that were brought about in the 1920's are things that are used more than ever today. With the technological advancements made in the 1920's, the invention of the radio, television, automobile, and other minor advancements made the 1920's one of the most important decades of the 1900's. The 1920's brought many advancements in technology which allowed Americans
as simple optical toys, progressed to mechanical inventions using motion. These developments in the early nineteenth century lead to the birth of the motion picture industry. In 1891, Thomas Edison invented the Kinetograph and soon to follow the Kinescope, in 1893, America’s first movie studio “The Black Maria” was built on Edison’s land in New Jersey. Inspired by Edison’s work, the Lumiere brothers of France created the camera projector-system called the Cinematographe. It was hand crank and served
The Andy Griffith Show and I love Lucy The Andy Griffith Show and I love Lucy have been two of the most watched shows in the history of television aired on CBS. I Love Lucy was a scripted sitcom recorded in front of a live studio audience with multiple cameras to give it better comic energy. It took place in an apartment in New York and her husband was an upcoming Cuban American who sung in a band. Although this was a black and white film, Lucy and Ricardo had colorful personalities. Lucy was always
Desi Arnaz Cuban bandleader and singer-turned savvy TV mogul who, after his marriage to comedienne Lucille Ball in 1940, parlayed their successful "I Love Lucy" series into the Desilu TV production empire, which in its heyday also produced the successful and highly lucrative "The Untouchables" and "Star Trek" series. *p*Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III was born in 1917 to wealthy Cuban landowners. His father was also the mayor of the town they lived in, but that soon changed. At the age of
In 1956 television was introduced in Australia. In just as little as 3 years it has skyrocketed and was already able to sustain itself. The introduction of television in Australia changed Australian’s in so many ways, one quite significant one being the way Australian’s chose to stay home over going out to the movies. The introduction of tv in Australia made many australians a lot more aware of American culture and exposed them to it more than they had been ever before. There was no denying that
not only because of these reasons, but also because the picture was black and white, and Felix was a black and white cat. A scanning disk was also needed since it was the part of the equipment that actually made the broadcast, so was an electric kinescope receiver and a rotoscope. A rotoscope was needed to trace images of the characters on paper frame by frame and was invented by Max Fleischer in 1915. (Felixthecat.com) In the history of animation there were many directors and famous characters. The
perceived as a threat by the head of the Radio Corporation of America, and the resulting lawsuits eventually pushed its creator into committing suicide. Another main version of the television was patented in 1929. This was Vladimir K. Zworykin’s kinescope, which was a cathode-ray tube. The storage principle it used is one of the main components of modern-day televisions. One major development in the film indus... ... middle of paper ... ...iple treatments to regain their own ability to breathe
out together they made a power trio. Back in the days when Vegas was dangerous and everybody smoked and drank, the Rat Pack ruled. Contemporary pop culture is still under their influence—in movies, clothes, and music. But as a recently discovered kinescope (and the only known existing video of the boys performing live) demonstrates, no one can touch the sharkskinned cool of Frank, Dean, and Sammy. There’s Dean Martin with his sleepy power, like a leopard in a smoking jacket, finishing his few songs
Television in the 1950’s Television had a major impact on the way people spent their leisure time in the 1950s. People would spend their disposal money on television sets. People were in the mood to spend, businessmen found a way they can get their products to the customers. Lead people to spending more time indoors then outdoors. People no longer saw it necessary to go to major events, when they could watch them on television without the hassle of transportation and the cost of tickets. Unlike
would not be able to do live viewing for the people at home. Ball and Arnaz cut their joint weekly salary from $5,000 to $4,000 allowing them to create a simple solution for the time difference problem, producing the show on film and dispense with kinescopes altogether. Desilu Production, later on, expanding by producing many hits. The growing business needed for space so they sold the first 180 episodes of “I Love Lucy” to CBS gaining them 5 million dollars. They then later bought RKO studio and their
Transcendentalist views of bonding with nature and living without the luxuries of cell phones and microwaves are old fashion and difficult to connect with for modern day readers. The uncommon techniques may seem to be a mindset of the past; however, the theories of transcendentalists, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, still reign in modern day. Although the message of the importance of nature is depicted through the 2008 Pixar film about robots rather than living in the solitude
film industry at crucial moment that would shape and define his career. During this time Edison Company was waging a war to monopolize the American film industry through lawsuits against other American companies using versions of Edison’s patented Kinescope without paying royalties. These lawsuits ravaged and prevented the industries growth as film’s popularity was increasing in the United States. In 1907, to meet the growing popularity of nickelodeons (early movie theaters that would charge a nickel
COMPUTER GRAPHICS INTRODUCTION Computer graphics is mainly concerned with producing images or sequences of images (animation) using a computer. The hardware and software systems are used to make these images. Producing these Photo-realistic images is an extremely complicated task, but this field has great demand because of the limitless variety of applications. Computer graphics has grown enormously over the past two decades, and many software systems have been developed for generating computer
Public Opinion and Television The paper explores how dangerous such an important mass media as TV can be, if too many power is concentrated in just a few hands, and how our perception of reality can be manipulated by the selection and manipulation of information presented on TV. Introduction The following term paper deals with the development of television from its early beginnings in the 1920s up to now. My attention focuses on the powers which influence what is shown on TV and the analysis