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Impacts on the Future
100
With the Korean Conflict underway, and the Cold War taking prominence in the media, Americans in the 1950s were facing a time of this.
What is paranoia and/or anxiety?
100
The key message from 50's television on how to resolve crisis.
What is turning to family for guidance.
100
True or false: Hollywood studios promoted the initial creation and sale of the Television.
What is false: "Hollywood studios refused to allow their contract actors to appear on television, declined to allow their scripts to be bought by TV networks, and even balked at the idea of selling their old film catalogues to be run on television" - Television ABC-CLIO
100
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG4IX5jBc4Q This video is the first example of this process on television.
What is a campaign advertisement?
100
These two genres which were widely used in the 50's are still used today in many movies and TV shows.
What are comedy and science fiction?
200
This genre became the most popular during the 1950's in books (sometimes called articulating the unknown).
What is Science Fiction?
200
This major world event (not the Cold War) largely influenced American films in 1950's.
What is World War II?
200
From 1948 and 1956, movie theater attendance fell from 90 million tickets sold per week to barely 47 million because of this.
What is (the popularity of) television?
200
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWGoVZF0jik This clip was a response to warn against this.
What is a nuclear strike (mutually assured destruction)?
200
The movie Independence Day (1996) was most likely inspired by this subcategory of Sci-Fi Films.
What are invasion movies?
300
Name one of the authors or playwrights mentioned during the presentation.
Who are either J.D. Salinger, John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller?
300
One of the two types of comedy genres during the 1950's. (Choose one.)
What is Surreal Comedy (ex. Dr. Strangelove) or Slapstick humor (ex. Tom and Jerry)
300
In 1927, American Philo Farnsworth applied for a patent for this.
What is the TV?
300
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1900740633/ The director of this movie.
Who is David Lean?
300
Televisions became commonplace in the 1950's for this key reason.
What is they were now affordable (people had money after the war).
400
Name two of the popular books mentioned during the presentation from the 50s.
What is Charlotte's Web, Night, I Robot, Fahrenheit 451, Things Fall Apart, Lord of the Flies, and/or The Lord of the Rings Trilogy?
400
This innovation added to the television was invented and implemented in the 1950's, but was not very popular until the beginning of the 1960's. However, it was widely popular in movies of the time.
What is color television?
400
Though televisions reached most American households in the late 1940's and early 1950's, they have been commercially available to the public since this time frame (the decade).
What is the 30's (1930's)?
400
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2618271513/ This movie was released on February 5th 1953, and was one of many Disney (these) put on hold during the war time to make propaganda films.
What are (animated color) movies?
400
Monty Python’s comedy sketches are loosely based off of the telephone scene from this movie.
What is Dr. Strangelove?
500
Henry Luce started this popular magazine on August 12th, 1954, and reached six hundred thousand readers in just the first year.
What is Sports Illustrated?
500
"The post-World War II technological marvel, television, inadvertently helped create the counterculture, first by presenting stories of [this] in the 1950s and then by presenting reports of domestic protest and wartime brutality in the 1960s" - Television and Counterculture ABC-CLIO
What is innocence?
500
Dr. Frank Conrad, assistant chief engineer for Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, demonstrated this piece of technology on August 10, 1928.
What is the television motion picture projector? (NOT the TV, but what converted film to TV use)
500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iF5sINVns The movie of this clip was the highest grossing Sci-Fi film of its time, beating what other sci-fi movie for the top spot.

What is The Day the Earth Stood Still?

500
The number of hours TV's are on in American households today (the daily average).
What is seven hours per day?
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