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Television wasn’t a product that was owned by the public until the 1950s, the essential technology was created earlier in the century. John Logie Baird started constructing a functional television shortly after the World War I in the South Coast of England. In 1924, he finally made progress when he transmitted a flickering image across the space of several feet, then in 1925, he created the first real television picture in grayscale, with the use of a ventriloquist 's dummy and then a human face. The TV was brought into the eyes of many people in 1926, when John Logie Baird presented the device in presence of 50 scientists. John’s main goal was to provide a new source of entertainment which can help bring families together. His studies in engineering acted as a catalyst to what seemed to be an impossible invention.

In his Making America More Musical Through the Phonograph, Mark Katz discussed the significance of the phonograph in transforming America into a more musical nation. Towards the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, classical musical was viewed as a powerful cultural and moral force. However, many Americans still lacked access to this "good music", which was mainly accessible through some wealth and living in the cities. The invention of the phonograph, however, was able to bridge the gap between the poorer, rural territories, and allow music to travel to places that beforehand were out of the question. Through the characteristics of portability, affordability, and repeatability, the phonograph took the center stage

In the 1920s the movie picture show was relevant. These movies were silent, yet these silent movies gave people in the 1920s a new form of entertainment. This new form of entertainment brought to the people of the 1920s news, comedy, romance, action, sports and creativity to people in the form of a moving picture show. The phonograph was an item that brought music to the home of many people in the 1920s. This device would play many tunes and made it a joy to be in your home. This new ability to now listen to music in your own home made many families and individuals very happy. People could now get together and dance and sing together. It was a time of joy in the form of entertainment. Jazz music was very popular in the 1920s, this developed

This week’s movie is called The Others (2001) by Alejandro Amenábar. In this film, the audience oversees a desperate mother, Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) struggling with the living situation of being a mother whose has to deal a whole showcase of things. Some of these things include having a husband whose is not there, caring for her own children who are sensitive to sunlight, and living in a Victorian mansion where some people throughout the film have claimed that it is haunted. Grace at first doubts these haunted claims, but subsequent events began to occur which cause her to become very protective of her kids and at the same time crazy. All in all, this enigmatic and suspenseful movie ends with her and her children becoming ghost and that things that were haunting the house were of future being. Throughout this suspenseful movie, the use of sound has been used very liberally ranging to create an additional layer of suspense or of background. The Others (2001) by Alejandro Amenábar use the element of sound to bring out the character’s history and

Our world has been shaped by the people who have come before us and made a change. All of these people have had their own force of impact, but only one hundred were voted into the top one hundred list in the Atlantic addition of “They made America”. On this list I found people I had never even heard of, but also people who truly have impacted the world we live in today. Some examples of figures who are on the list include: number one, Abraham Lincoln, number eight, Martin Luther King Jr., number fifteen, Theodore Roosevelt, number thirty-eight Susan B. Anthony, and all the way down to number one hundred, Herman Melville (Douthat 60-78). After reading this list thoroughly and understanding why each person was placed were, I believe that Alexander Graham Bell should be moved from spot number twenty-four, up to

At the beginning of the decade, films were silent and colorless. In 1922, the first all-color film, The Toll of the Sea, was released. In 1926, Warner Bros. released Don Juan, the first film with sound effects and music. In 1927, The Jazz Singer, the first sound film to include limited talking sequences was released. The public were crazy about movies and went to movie theatres a lot. In 1928, Lights of New York, the first all-talking feature film was released. In 1929 the first all-color, all-talking feature film, On with the Show came out. In 1928, the first

The use of jazz and other experiments continued on into the 1960s. It was in this decade that acceptance of new music led to the scoring of INSERT TITLE HERE, the first movie to use a rock soundtrack.

He was the youngest of seven children and his mother was a teacher. Thomas Edison helped invent over 1000 inventions, some of which include the camera and the microphone, but Edison’s largest success in life was the recreation of the light bulb, in 1879 when he discovered that a carbon filament inside an oxygen-free bulb could glow (Science for Kids).

Film dates back all the way to the 1880’s where the first cameras were being produced. It was an exciting time for the whole world with this new technology. Over the years, while the cameras continued to improve, film did as well. The first film came out around 1905 and it turned out to be a huge hit. Through out many years, film improved rapidly and the problems of the world begin to appear in them. After the ending of World War II, the real truth started to come out about

Many a literary critic claims that the strongest aspect of the book 1984 by George Orwell is its plot. Indeed, there is some merit in this conclusion, as the entire purpose of Orwell’s writing of this book was not to create a literary classic, but to warn the public about the dangers of communism if it got out of hand, and what better way to do this than to write an engaging plot? Others may claim that 1984’s greatest strength is in its character development. This aspect, too, is quite strong in the book, as not only are the minor characters effected in serving the dystopian theme, but the major characters are believable and very human in their failings. Winston’s transformation from an oppressed office worker to revolutionary and finally to

Soon after during the early 1930’s, the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation released the first three-color Technicolor technology. This color process needed a unique type of camera that was able to split the image into three different sections of the film. Filters that were red, blue, and green were used to position the light to the matching filter, once the recording was done the different strips were then combined and developed into a solo color strip that was played through a projector. This latest invention of color introduced a whole new aspect in the world of filmmaking. The filmmaker/filmmakers could than provide more information to the audience about the whereabouts and the setting of a scene with the use of color. A moive, that is a great example of the use of Technicolor, was The Wizard of Oz which was released in 1939 (The Technicolor World of Oz.). The film began with

The power of music can connect and represent the words that cannot be spoken. Music unites people, nature, or even beliefs. Don’t you desire to reach people using the universal language - music? Film music is without a doubt about touching audience’s minds and evoke people in a certain way. It certainly isn’t around the music or the orchestra or the audience, however, it is the interconnection of all these elements that makes music alive. Being a film composer means that you will be the catalyst to trigger the crowd’s sensations.

Ask anyone to name the greatest decade of bands and they'll say the 1960s. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beachboys, and many more. The 1960s was the decade of rock n roll, music that set a scale for the rest of all music.The Beatles being so important to the 1960s music industry that many films were made in honor of their songs. And although music was important the effects racial wars has in the 1960s on film has changed the way people view film from then on.

In 1961 the first Head mounted display also known as HMD was designed by Philco corporation. It was called "Headsight". It was not connected to a computer but to a camera. As the person moved his head the remote camera also moved.

Digital Media is any media that is enclosed in a machine and is a readable format. Anybody can create digital media, it can be viewed, shared changed and preserved by anyone on computers. Examples of digital media include; mobile phones, compact discs, digital video, digital television, e-book, internet, minidisc, video games, the World Wide Web, e-Commerce and many interactive media.