First movie with synchronized sound
The Jazz Singer
Movie camera invented by Thomas Edison
Kinetograph
First copyrighted film
Fred Ott's sneeze
First full length feature film
Great train robbery
Great train robbery was directed by
Edwin Porter
Greatest movie of all time
Citizen Kane
Greatest movie director of all time
Alfred Hitchcock
Highest paid actor of all time
Johnny Depp
Considered Father of TV
Philo Farnsworth
At which worlds fair was the first TV set premiered
New York City worlds fair
TV network that lasted for 8 years
Dumont Network
First television station granted a commercial license
WNBT
First baseball game aired on TV was between
Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers
First daytime soap opera
These are my children
How many soap operas are still aired today
4
First comedy tv show aired
The Jack Benny show
First TV game show
spelling bee
Game show that Charles van doren cheated on
Twenty one
Greatest tv show of all time
The sopranos
Most watched season finale
MASH
1st TV show that showed a couple in the same bed
Mary Kay and Johnny
Word used for pregnant in early tv
Condition
How much did Nickelodeon's cost
5 cent
Most trusted man in America
Walter Cronkite
Tv comedian known as Mr. Television
Milton Berle
A machine that allowed the viewer to look through a peephole at the moving film was known as
kinetoscope
Who played in the jazz singer
Al Jolson
First two commercial television networks
CBS and NBC
what is Alfred hitchcocks most famous movie
psycho
Charlie Chaplin was known for also starring in most of the movies he made. In class, we watched a short film directed by and starring Chaplin. what was he doing in the movie?
boxing
A short documentary of one of the earliest blockbuster films depicting members of the KKK as heroes
Birth of a Nation
Who directed The Birth of a Nation?
D.W. Griffith