Early Technology and the Evolution of Movies
The Rise of the Hollywood Studio System
The Studio System's Golden Age
Transformation of the Studio System
Economics of the Movie Business
100
Movies that tell a story, with dramatic action and conflict emerging mainly from individual characters.
Narrative Films
100
In media economics, the phenomenon of controlling a mass media industry at its three essential levels: production, distribution and exhibition. Term most frequently used in reference to film industry.
Vertical Integration
100
Movies without sound, beginning in 1927.
Talkies
100
*Extra* What does HUAC stand for?
House Un-American Activities Committee
100
FINAL JEOPARDY + CHARADES
Kinetoscope & Talkies
200
A transparent and pliable film that can hold a coating of chemicals sensitive to light.
Celluloid
200
In media economics, an organizational structure in which a few films control most of an industry's production and distribution resources.
Ogliopoly
200
Weekly 10 minute magazine-style compilations of filmed news events from around the world organized in a sequence of short reports; prominent in movie theaters between 1920's and 1950's.
Newsreels
200
*Extra* What does VCR stand for?
Videocassette Recorder.
200
Cultural products that become popular and command wide attention providing shared cultural experiences.
Consensus Narrative
300
A large screen movie projection system invented by Thomas Edison.
Vitascope
300
An early film production system that constituted a sort of assembly-line process for moviemaking; major film studios controlled not only actors but also directors, editors, writers, and other employees, all of whom worked under exclusive contracts.
Studio System
300
Independent music and film production houses that work outside industry ogliopolies; they often produce less mainstream music and film.
Indies
300
*Extra* What does DVD stand for?
Digital Versatile (formerly Video) Disc
300
Movie theatre facilities with 14 or more screens.
Megaplexes
400
An early movie camera developed by Thomas Edison's assistant in the 1890's
Kinetograph
400
An early tactic of movie studios to control exhibition, involving pressuring theatre operators to accept marginal films with no stars in order to get access to films with the most popular stars.
Block Booking
400
The type of big-budget special effects film that typically has a summer or holiday release date, heavy promotion and lucrative merchandising tie-ins.
Blockbuster
400
The 1948 US Supreme Court decision that ended vertical integration in the film industry by forcing the studios to divest themselves of their theaters.
Paramount Decision
400
The production format that is replacing celluloid film and revolutionizing filmmaking because the cameras are more portable and production costs are much less expensive.
Digital Video.
500
An early film projection system that served as a kind of peep show in which viewers looked through a hole and saw images moving on a tiny plate.
Kinetoscope
500
From late 1920's through late 1940's, major movie studios that were vertically integrated that dominated the industry; the Little Three were those studios that did now own theaters: Columbia, Universal and United Artists.
Little three
500
"Truth Film", a documentary style that records fragments of everyday live unobtrusively; it often features a rough, grainy look and shaky, handheld camera work.
Cinema Verité
500
The nine screenwriters and one film director subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities committee (HUAC) who were sent to prison in late 1940's for refusing to disclose their memberships or to identify communist sympathizers.
Hollywood Ten
500
In media economics, the promotion and sale of a product (and all its versions) throughout the various subsidiaries of a media conglomerate.
Synergy.
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