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Chapter 7: Movies Flashcards

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Big five

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Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, RKO

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Little 3

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Columbia, Universal, United Artists

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Celluloid

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Could hold a coating of chemical sensitive to light

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Kinetograph

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Early movie camera, invented by William Kennedy Dixon by combining existing ideas

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Kinescope

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Single person viewing system

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Vitascope

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Large screen system that enabled film strips of longer length w/o interruption

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Nickelodeons

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A form of movie theaters that combines admission price with the Greek word for theater

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Vertical integration

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Having control of production distribution and exhibition

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Oligopoly

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Situation and which few firm schedule a bulk of the business

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Studio system

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Controlled creative talent in the industry

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Block booking distribution

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Helps gain access the popular films with big stars

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Movie palaces

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Full-time single screen theater is that provide a more hospitable moviegoing environment

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Multiplexes

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Fullscreen so were middle-class crowds to an interstate highway crossroad

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Blockbuster

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Movie that does really well

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Newsreels

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Captured the first film footage with sound of take off and return of Charles Lindbergh

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Documentary

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“Creative term of actuality’

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Ema Verté

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TRUTH film

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Indies

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Independent films

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Hollywood 10 hearings

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Communist ties

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Megaplexes

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Facilities w/ 14 or more screens

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Big 6

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Warner Bros, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Columbia, Disney

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Media Literacy and Critical Process

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Description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation, engagement

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Consensus narratives

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Culture products that become popular

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