This is the name for the original unlicensed frequencies set aside by the FCC in 1985.
What is garbage bands.
100
This is the reason the federal government regulates broadcast and not print.
What is the public ownership of the airwaves.
100
This is why early theaters were called Nickelodeons.
What is they cost a nickle.
100
This is how the movie industry relates to other media, in terms of revenue.
What is less revenue than television, newspapers or books.
100
This is the name of Kane's mansion.
What is Xanadu.
200
This is the magazine with the largest circulation in the country.
What is AARP The Magazine.
200
The success of KDKA heralded this.
What is the start of broadcast radio.
200
This man is considered the first titan of movie making. Directed the epic film "The Birth of a Nation."
Who is D.W. Griffith.
200
This is the Golden Age of Movies.
What is the late 1930s and early 1940s.
200
According to the characters in the film, this is Kane's driving motivation.
What is to be loved or to prove something.
300
This was the first magazine to reach a large audience.
What is the Saturday Evening Post.
300
This is the first major overhaul of government regulation since the creation of the FCC.
What is the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
300
This is the Supreme Court Case that broke up the studio system and stopped block booking.
What is the U.S. vs. Paramount, et al
300
This is the reason movie are a unique medium.
What is primarily a community medium.
300
This is why "Citizen Kane" was not a commercial success.
What is William Randolph Hearst's blacklisting of the film and barring mention of it from his papers.
400
This is the inventor of the first motion picture camera, which he used to study animal movement.
Who is Etienne Jules Marey
400
This is the self-proclaimed "father of radio" (1) who developed the Audion -- the foundation of technology for radio -- and the first man to broadcast his voice over the air (2).
Who are Lee de Forest and Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
400
Filmmakers Edwin Porter and Georges Melies are notable for these reasons.
What is turning movies into art by adding location shooting and narratives and adding special effects and fantasy.
400
This is the name of the first film projector developed by Thomas Edison. Was a 2-by-4 foot box with a peep hole.
What is the Kinetoscope.
400
"Citizen Kane" is the first film to depict this.
What is the American Dream as anything but positive.
500
This is the voluntary set of rules the movie industry adopted in response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.
What is the Production Code or PCA.
500
This is the year that radio officially became a mass medium after 5.5 million radios are sold.
What is 1925.
500
These were the Big Five vertically integrated studios of the early movie industry.
What are Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and RKO
500
These are the five important events in the 1920s that transformed movies into big business
What is 1) the shift to Hollywood 2) the development of block booking 3) the formation of United Artists establishes "indies" 4) the development of self-regulation and 5) the addition of sound with "The Jazz Singer."
500
This is one of the groups mentioned in class that ranked "Citizen Kane" as the best film of all time.