2. 1930’s
• BBC broadcasts television
four days a week
• transmits a play by
television, 240 lines/sec of
resolution
• A recording, the Hindenburg
crash, is the first coast to
coast broadcast.
• "golden age" of radio begins
3. 1940’s
• fantasia
• first digital computer to be
put in service
• electronic colour TV
demonstrated
• comic book publishers are
selling 25,000,000 copies a
month
• Churchill's radio speeches
encourage battered
Britons, others
4. 1950’s
• 3D movies offer thrills to the
audience
• A surgical operation is
televised
• "top 40" radio music format
created
• TV guide; initial press run
• A computer is part of a movie
plot: Desk set, with Tracy and
Hepburn
• comic book code censors
horror, hurts sales, hits
industry hard
5. 1960’s
• A wireless microphone is used in
a movie, mutiny on the bounty.
• Andy Warhol paints many images
of Campbell's soup cans, Marilyn
Monroe.
• Dr. No begins the James bond
series
• Hollywood adopts an age-based
rating system
• footage of JFK assassination
broadcast around the Oswald
• also at the movies: the graduate,
cool hand Luke, bonnie and clyde
6. 1970’s
• the word "internet" enters the
lexicon
• the BBC offers ceefax
• 1971- the first e-mail was sent
• punk rock music emerges with
themes of nihilism, anarchy
• the critical paradigm was formed in
the early 1970's, raising questions
about media and power.
• Advent of influential journals 'screen'
and screen education
7. 1980’s
• Charles and Dianna's wedding attracts
worldwide audiences of 750 million- the
most watched television event.
• photos can be digitally manipulated on a
home computer.
• Researchers try to index the exploding
internet; can't keep up
• 50 newspapers now offer online access
to news texts
• desktop publishing became familiar
• USA today is a newspaper influenced by
television news style
• Michael Jackson's album Thriller sells 25
million copies
8. 1990’s
• DVD's go on sale
• Nokia sends text messages between
mobile phones
• Forrest Gump uses digital photo tricks
to insert person into historical
footage.
• Image of dancing baby emailed
worldwide, becomes TV's Ally McBeal
regular
• $35,000 Blair Witch Project shows
potential of low cost video
production
• Digital satellite TV service, direct TV,
offered
9. 2000’s
• iPod holds 10,000 tunes, but fits into
a shirt pocket
• The Sims 2 advances story games for
computer
• iTunes music store offers tune for 99
cents
• south Africa's sesame street
introduces an HIV-positive puppet
• Apple to distribute movies through I
tunes
• feature film, Attack of the clones,
produced entirely in digital format.
• UK workers spend more time with
email than with their children
10. The Hays Code
• The first attempt at introducing film
censorship in the US through laying
down a series of guidelines to film
producers
• The code was founded according to the
concept: "if motion pictures present
stories that will affect lives for the
better, They can become the most
powerful force for the improvement of
mankind"
• The Code was based on three general
principles
• Directly influenced the content of
almost every American film made
between 1930 and 1966
