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The man hired to run the Production Code Administration and enforce censorship standards on the motion picture industry was?
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Joseph Breen
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The studio that produced the first sound feature film and offered it in theaters was?
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Warner Brothers
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The PhoneFilm system of sound recording was invented by?
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Lee DeForest and Ted Case
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The star of the Jazz Singer also known as " The World's Greatest Entertainer" was
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Al Jolson
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In The Jazz Singer the main character's father disowned him when he didn't become what he wanted him to be which was a?
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Cantor in the synagogue
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The movie Top Hat that we saw starred?
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
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The movie Top Hat that we saw featured songs written by?
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Irving Berlin
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The movie Top Hat that we saw was an
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Backstage musical
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In the movie Top Hat, the shot of Jerry Travers driving the hansom cab through London with Dale Tremont as his passenger used the production technique of
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In a studio using rear projection
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In the second act of the London Show in Top Hat, Jerry Travers performs on stage with a tuxedoed male chorus. While performing the title song of the movie, Travers uses his cane to
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Shoot down the dancers and down the last one with an invisible bow and arrow
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At the end of Top Hat we are led to believe that Jerry can't marry Dale because she has married Alberto Beddini until we learn that
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The "priest" that married Dale and Beddini was really Horace's valet, Bates
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During the 1930 to 1940, the percentage of homes with radios in the U.S.
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Increased from 40% to 81%
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Which of the following is NOT a reason why radio is blamed for the end of vaudeville?
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A. radio was viewed as a cost efficient way for people to be entertained during the depression.b. Many of the top vaudeville performers left the stage to be on the radio.c. people found it more convenient to be entertained in the comfort of their homes instead of going to a theatre.D. people started buying radios in greater numbers.e. radio did its shows from the vaudeville stage and audiences didn't like it.
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Efforts to solve the " Press Radio War" involved coming to a compromise between the wire services, the newspapers, and radio broadcasters called the?
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Biltmore Agreement
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A loophole in the compromise that helped to en the "Press Radio War" was that while there were restrictions on when radio newcasts could operate, the radio stations and networks could schedule people to talk about news events at any time. These radio personalities were called?
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Commentators
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