Compass Learning: Media Studies- Unit 3

When messages move from one point to many

A camera, printer, and projector all in one, invented by the Lumiere brothers and powered by a hand crank instead of a motor

In the movie industry, the word used to describe when the dissemination of movies usually through sales

In the movie industry, the word used to describe when movie screenings (usually in theaters)

Radio broadcast from Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the American public covering topics like the Great Depression, World War II, and the economy

A phrase often described early days of television in the 50s

Shows that provided entertainment as well as information and tended to revolve around violence

A device that used sprockets along a film's perforated edges to run 50 feet of film in thirty seconds

Stations that banded together to transmit the same program in order to reach the largest possible audience

Rather than attempting to appeal to a mass audience, niche marketing focused on smaller groups of people with similar interests

Brought against Paramount Studious; required the separation of production and distribution from exhibition

When messages move from one point to another

In the movie industry, the word used to describe all the activities and actions taken in order to create a movie

Required that radio stations be licensed before they could transmit

An act of Congress that created the Federal Radio Commission, which was responsible for overseeing station licensing and reducing the number of station

Radio (and television) shows where an expert presents an audience with an issue and audience call into add their voices to the conversation

A system of phonographic disc recordings paired with a projector