Communications Exam 4

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