Famous people
This man was an American Patent baron and often credited with the creation of the Vitascope, Phonograph, and lightbulb
Thomas Edison
Leeland Stanford was governor of this state hired E. Muybridge to prove a horse has all four legs of the ground when galloping
California
This person was famous for their travelling circus and catered to people's sense of hookum and ballyhoo
PT Barnum
This battle took place 7 weeks after the Treaty of Ghent had been signed
The Battle of New Orleans
This person had outlandish methods of advertising their goods from parades of men dressed in Chinese garb and releasing hordes of pigs
Thomas Lipton
An ad designer is known for such famous figures as Jolly Green Giant, Pillsbury Doughboy, Charlie the Tuna, Tony the Tiger, and the Marlboro Man
Leo Burnett
This man was called the "Jewish Film Clown" by Hitler after portraying him in a comedic manner
Charlie Chaplin
This person twisted a story about a coal miner strike in Colorado pitting it on the workers and not the poor working conditions of the mines
Ivy Lee
This person created a code used in the telegraph
Samuel Morse
He often spoke out against the telegraph calling it an "improved means to an unimproved end"
Henry David Thoreau
These French Brothers created the Cinematographe and give both first and last names
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
This matchup in 1910 led rioting and 8 deaths leading to racists in the US Congress who banned all interstate sales of boxing films in 1912. Name the two fighters
James Jefferies v. Jack Johnson
This form of advertising was often seen as "a piece of human flesh between two slices of paste board"
Sandwich men
This person invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
This case had an indepedent producers winning against Edison's patents
US v. MPCC
This screenwriter was briefly in the communist party but was tried by the House Un-American Activities Committee and served jail time
Dalton Trumbo
This film was not about America despite its name with racist depictions about KKK vigilantism
Birth of a Nation
This person was the pioneer of broadcast advertising by using repititio of slogans like M&M's
Rosser Reeves
This was the telephone monopoly that was finally broken up in 1982
AT&T
This city had early forms of advertising for wine, taverns, and food before being wiped out by a volcano in 79 CE
Pompeii
Marketed products to women with the line "the skin you love to touch"
Helen Landowne Resor
This film movement was from 1944 to the 1950s with it being a national film movement using non professional actors like in such films as "The Bicycle Thieves"
Italian Neorealismo
Global advertising firm and was the largest ad superagency in 1988
Saatchi and Saatchi
These two Apple founders prank called the Vatican posing as then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
This Greek general used flags as a means of communication during the Peloponnesian War similar to what can be done today
Thuycydides