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Go down Society: Censorship, Children and young people, Crime, Education, Literacy, Money, Nationality, Politics/politicians, Progress, Propaganda, Public service, Social order and change
Go down Advertising
Go down Cinema and film: Cinema, Animation, British cinema, Documentary, Dubbing, Film industry support, Film makers, Film music, Film noir, Film production, Film technique, French cinema, Hollywood, Scriptwriting, Widescreen
Go down Broadcasting
Go down Radio
Go down Television: Television [acceptance, anticipation, birth, commercial, development, habit/mindlessness, large-screen/cinema, power, programming, standards]; Cable TV, Colour television, Pay TV, Soap operas, Television technology
Go down Video: Video, Video-on-demand
Go down Other media: Newspapers, Photography, Popular music, Sound recording, Telegraphy, Telephony, Video games
Go down Technology: Computers, Digital technology, E-commerce, Internet etc, Technological progress
Go down Philosophy and forecasts: Forecasts/prophetic statements, Future, Grand statements, Philosophical observations, Paradoxes, Reality and appearance
Go down Media effect: Inter-media effects
Go down Media regulation: Piracy/copyright theft
Go down Media representation: Lines from film and TV scripts/songs, Media representations in popular culture
Go down Miscellaneous: Actors, Advertising, Audiences, Awards (Academy, etc), Humour

 

Communication

Bible, Arthur C Clarke 4,6, Fortune magazine, Herbert Hoover 1, Immanuel Kant, J B Priestley, Claude Shannon, Gertrude Stein, Henry David Thoreau

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Culture

Matthew Arnold, W H Auden, Alan Bennett, Clint Eastwood, F Scott Fitzgerald 1, A A Gill, I J Good, Hanns Johst, John Maynard Keynes, Julien Luchaire, Dwight Macdonald, Rupert Murdoch, David Sarnoff 9, Chris Smith, US Supreme Court, Jack Valenti 6, Spokesman for UK Film Council,

Art
Samuel Butler, Kenneth Clark, Jean Renoir, Romain Rolland, Leo Tolstoy 1, Frank Zappa

Craftsmanship
Pauline Kael

Creative process
Louis MacNeice

Criticism and critics
Joseph Addison, James Agee, Aristotle, Joseph Goebbels, Theodore Roosevelt, Jean Sibelius

Popular culture
Clive Barnes, William Mann, Melanie Safka

Quality and taste
George W Bush, John Drinkwater, Michael Grade, Hugh Carleton Greene, Alan Hamilton, Will Hays, Ernest Hemingway, W R Inge 2, Clive James, Randy Newman, Michael Ovitz, Edwin S Porter, John Reith, Nicolas Roeg, Gilbert Seldes, W Sutherland

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Society

Censorship
Australian Film Censorship Office 1, 2, British Board of Film Censors annual reports 1, 2, Brendan Bracken, Mervyn Griffith-Jones, D G C Lawrence, David Lean, Creswell O'Reilly, Singaporean Minister for Information and Arts

Children and young people
League of Nations Child Welfare Committee, O'Conor Report, ITV Principles for Television Advertising, The Biograph, Philip K Dick, Nicholas Negroponte, Herbert Samuel, William Seabury, Ray Simpson, Monica Sims, Ellis Smith

Class
Documentary News Letter

Community
Georges Perec

Crime
Herbert Samuel, Ray Simpson

Education
W R Inge 1, J W C Johnstone, Marshall McLuhan 2, B F Skinner, Ellis Smith

Freedom of speech
Chris Dunkley

Law
Mr Justice Clark, Dalton Trumbo 1

Literacy
George W Bush

Money
Ava Gardner, Ernest Hemingway, Alan Parker 3, David Puttnam 1, George Bernard Shaw 3, Orson Welles 5

Nationality
Jeremy Isaacs, Sir Alexander Korda, Siegfried Kracauer, Akira Kurosawa, Nicolas Seydoux

Politics/politicians
Spiro T Agnew, Tony Benn, Peter Cook, Milos Forman, Hugh Carleton Greene, Sir Harry Greer, Charles Hill, John Humphrys, Eric Johnston 4, Robert Kee, John Mcdonagh, Harold Macmillan, Philip Magnus, Yuri Pelyoshonok, Milton Shulman, Frank Stanton

Progress
Dr E Haas, Robert Hewison, Randall Tobias, W W Vaughan

Propaganda
Barney Balaban, Documentary Newsletter, Joseph Goebbels, Philip Magnus, The Times

Public service
John Maynard Keynes, John Reith

Social order and change
John Briley, Eric Johnston 2, Mr Justice McCombe, Rupert Murdoch 4, Sir William Preece

The State and the media
François Truffaut 3
see also Media regulation

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Advertising

Charles Beaudelaire, Jack Cohen, Norman Douglas, Herbert Hoover 3, Stephen Leacock, William Hesketh Lever, Marshall McLuhan 2, Charles Saatchi, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
    see also Television: advertising

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Cinema and film

Cinema
Alexandre Astruc, Bela Balacz, André Bazin, John Boorman, Robert Bresson, Teddy Carr, Jean Cocteau 2, W K L Dickson, John Drinkwater, Federico Fellini, John Fithian, Jean-Luc Godard, Earl W Hammons, Forsyth Hardy, Bob Hoskins, Carl Jung, Julien Luchaire, John Mcdonagh, Norman Mailer, League of Nations Child Welfare Committee, Camille Paglia, Leni Riefenstahl, Nicolas Roeg, Peter Rogers, Will Rogers, Simon Rowson, William Seabury, George Bernard Shaw 1,2, Lord Strabolgi, Tom Terriss, Leo Tolstoy 2, US Supreme Court, Dziga Vertov, Tom Wolfe 2
     Going to the pictures Ronald Firbank, A P Herbert, Manchester Guardian, Frank O'Hara, Philippe Soupault, G W Stonier

Aesthetics
René Clair

American domination
Ernest Betts 1, Documentary News Letter

Animation
David S Cohen 1,2, Gerhardt Fieber, Chuck Jones, Randy Newman, Monica Sims, John Swartzwelder

Archives
Jean Cocteau 4

British cinema and film production
Lindsay Anderson 2, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Baker, Michael Balcon, Ed Chilton, Leon Clore, Peter Cook, T C Elder, W Glenvil Hall, David Kingsley, Alexander Korda, Frank Launder and Val Valentine, Marcus Loew, Gus Macdonald, Laurence Olivier, Joseph Schenck, Lord Strabolgi, Norman Tebbitt, Time magazine, Jack Valenti 5

Cinema and crime
The Cinema News and Property Gazette

Cinema and television
Fred Emery

Cinemagoing
T S Eliot 2

Documentary
Lindsay Anderson 1, (London) Evening News, Robert Flaherty, John Grierson, Henry Newbolt, Hans Richter, Paul Rotha, Basil Wright

Dubbing
Jorge Luis Borges

Film and television
Norman Collins 4

Film finance
Willie Osuwo

Film industry support
Spokesman for UK Film Council, Andy Humphries, Nicolas Seydoux, Lord Strabolgi

Film makers
Warren Adler, James Agee, Juanma Bajo Ulloa Federico Fellini, Pauline Kael, Henri Langlois, Randy Newman

Film music
Sir Thomas Beecham, Aaron Copland, Randy Newman, Christopher Stone, Igor Stravinsky

Film noir
John Briley

Film production
Ed Chilton, Harry Cohn, Bryan Forbes, Jean-Luc Godard, Menahem Golan, Lew Grade, Peter Greenaway, John Grierson, Cecil Hepworth, Alfred Hitchcock 1, David Kingsley, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Jean Negulesco, Edwin S Porter, Michael Radford, Nicholas Ray, Satyajit Ray, Carol Reed, G B Samuelson, Leon Shamroy, Ann Skinner, François Truffaut
    see also British cinema

Film technique
Gilbert Adair, Robert Altman, David Mamet, Vsevelod I Pudovkin, Jean Renoir

Film theory/polemics
Alexandre Astruc, Lindsay Anderson 1, Jean Cocteau 1

Films
Gary Cooper, Ian McKellen

French cinema
Lindsay Anderson 4, Alexandre Astruc, Luc Besson, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Luc Godard, Lima Daily News (Ohio), Sophie Marceau, Georges Perec, Philippe Soupault, François Truffaut, John Updike

Hollywood
Warren Adler, Fred Allen 4, Barney Balaban, Noel Coward, T C Elder, F Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gabler, Eric Johnston 2, John Maynard Keynes, Rick Lyman, Paulo Antonio Paranaguá, Terry Pratchett, Tony Richardson, Douglas Trumbull 1, Michael Tuchner, Jack Valenti 1, Orson Welles 1
    and history Sherl Bearlstrom, Robert Harris, David Puttnam

International trade
Documentary News Letter, Eric Johnston 4,5, Erich Pommer, Stephen Tallents, Time magazine, Jack Valenti 1

Power and influence
Albert Einstein 1, Eric Johnston 1, Erich Ludendorff, Dalton Trumbo 2

Quality
Woody Allen 2, Thomas Edison 2, Frank Launder, Gilbert Seldes 2, G W Stonier

Running time
Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association

Scriptwriting
Julius Epstein, David Mamet, Jean Negulesco

Stereoscopy (3D)
David Hockney

Talkies
Ernest Betts 2, Thomas Edison 3,4, Robert Herring, Al Jolson, C A Lejeune, Arthur Loew Sr, James Quirk, Sybil Thorndike, Jack Warner

Widescreen
Daniel J Boorstin, Samuel Goldwyn 19, Jean Negulesco, Adolph Zukor

Women and cinema
Alice Guy-Blaché

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Broadcasting

Charles Hill, Søren Kierkegaard, A J P Taylor, H G Wells
    legislation Richard Dunn
    management Dennis Potter
    public service Sir Ian Jacob, Pilkington Committee
    standards David Attenborough 3, Sir William Haley
see also Radio, Television

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Radio

P P Eckersley, Albert Einstein 2, John Housman, Louis MacNeice, Mitch Miller, Frank Muir, Basil Rathbone, John Reith, Cormac Rigby, Joe Sanders, David Sarnoff 1,2, W W Vaughan, World's Press News

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Television

Fred Allen 1,2, Jean Baudrillard 1, George Boar, Paddy Chayefsky 1, Kenneth Clark, Arthur C Clarke 3, Alan Coren, A S C Ehrenberg, Dwight D Eisenhower, Anna Ford, John Kenneth Galbraith, Jack Gould, Michael Green, Hugh Carleton Greene, Sir Harry Greer, Alfred Hitchcock 3,4, 7, Sir William Haley 6, John Housman, H V Kaltenborn, Harold Macmillan, Malcolm Muggeridge, New York Times, Raymond Postgate, J W Ridgeway, Arnold Ridley, Leni Riefenstahl, Bertrand Russell, David Sarnoff 10, C P Scott, Gilbert Seldes 1, Isaac Shoenberg, Lord Simmons, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Stanton, Ted Turner, The Times (re Thomas Beecham), Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, E B White 1
    acceptance  Anon (re J B Priestley)
    advertising  Andy Burnham, ITV Principles for Television Advertising, David Lee, Bernard Levin, Marshall McLuhan 2, Manchester Guardian, Pilkington Committee, Alfred Robens, The Tatler
    and politics  John Humphrys, Shimon Peres
    anticipation  A A Campbell Swinton, David Sarnoff 6
    birth  John Logie Baird
    commercial  Sidney Bernstein 2, Norman Collins 3, Richard H S Crossman, Michael Grade, H V Kershaw
    development George Burns, Gerald Cock 3, Charles Curran, Cecil McGivern, David Sarnoff 3,4,5,7
    drama David Sarnoff 9
    film and  Norman Collins 4, John Fithian, Eric Johnston 2, Gus Macdonald, Practical and Amateur Wireless
    funding Tessa Jowell
    habit/mindlessness  David Attenborough 1, Paddy Chayefsky 2, Umberto Eco, Michael Eisner 2, T S Eliot 1, Alan Hamilton, Ian Hunter, Steve Jobs, New York Times, Richard Nixon, Denis Potter 1, Alfred Robens, Arthur M Schlesinger Jr, Murray Schumach
    impossibility  Lee De Forest
    industrial relations  David Plowright
    interactive  Helmut Thoma
    journalism  John Birt
    large-screen/cinema  J Arthur Rank
    monopoly  Winston Churchill, R H Coase, Norman Collins 3
    power  Sidney Bernstein 1, Arthur C Clarke 5, Philip K Dick, Denis Potter 2, New Statesman, The Times, Grace Wyndham Goldie
    programming  David Attenborough 2, George Black, Prince Charles 2, Norman Collins 1, Jeremy Isaacs, J W C Johnstone, Philip Larkin, Pilkington Committee,
    recording  Norman Collins 1,2
   standards/quality  Clive Barnes, Sir Denis Forman, Peter Funt, Alan Hamilton, Lady Elspeth Howe, Clive James, Mr Justice McCombe, Newton Minow, O'Conor Report, Pilkington Committee, David Sarnoff 9
   viewing  Woody Allen, Paddy Chayefsky 2, Arthur C Clarke 3, Gerald Cock 2, T S Eliot 3, John Macy Jr, E B White 2

Cable and satellite TV
Prince Charles 1, Charles Curran, Michael Grade, Rupert Murdoch 4, Bruce Springsteen, Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson

Colour television
Kenneth Adam, Frank Stanton

Pay TV
CBS advertisement in TV Guide, A S C Ehrenberg and T P Barwise, Michael Eisner 1, Leonard Goldenson, Peter Jay, Robert Sarnoff, Frank Stanton

Soap operas
John Betjeman, Prince Charles 2, Tony Converse, Phil Redmond

Television technology
Y Angel, Cecil McGivern, Eugene Polley, James Redmond, Ian Taylor

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Video

Prince Charles 4, Michael Eisner 1, John Fithian, D G C Lawrence, Kenneth Maidment, Nicholas Negroponte, Newsweek, Steven Ross, Kazumi Tagaki, Time magazine, François Truffaut 5, Jack Valenti 3,4

Video-on-demand
Sumner Redstone

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Other media

Newspapers
Sir William Haley 7, C P Scott

Photography
Jean Baudrillard 2, Harold Evans, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Henry Fox Talbot

Popular music
Max Chop, Peter Gammond & Peter Clayton, Peter Goldmark, William Mann, Mitch Miller, Randy Newman, Yuri Pelyoshonok, Lillian Roxon, Joe Sanders, Langdon Winner
see also Lines from songs, Media representations in popular culture

Sound recording
Max Chop, Thomas Edison 1, Peter Goldmark, Compton Mackenzie, Lillian Roxon, John Philip Sousa, Christopher Stone, Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Telegraphy
Milton Percival & R F Jelliffee, Henry David Thoreau

Telephony
Jacqueline Godard, F J Kinsbury, Sir William Preece

Video games
Prince Charles 3, Nicholas Negroponte

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Technology

Jean Baudrillard 2, Paul Del Rossi, Marshall McLuhan 1,3

Computers
Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Steve Jobs, Nicholas Negroponte, Ken Olsen, Lillian Roxon

Digital technology
Bill Gates, Bernt Kundrun, Nicholas Negroponte

E-commerce
George Fyfe

Impact
Rupert Murdoch 4

Internet, etc
Bill Gates, Al Gore

Invention
Julian Hawkins

Technological progress
Marc Andreessen, Abel Gance, Bill Gates, John Hawkins, J Robert Oppenheimer, Michael Ovitz, Cole Porter, Sir Howard Stringer, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Jack Valenti 2
    positive Lou Gerstner, David Sarnoff 6, John Philip Sousa, Frank Stanton
    negative Compton Mackenzie, Volker Schlöndorff, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John Philip Sousa, Henry David Thoreau
see also Television: Television technology

Telephone
Arnold Morley

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Philosophy and forecasts

Forecasts/prophetic statements
Arthur C Clarke 1, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Peter Green, D W Griffith, Nicholas Negroponte, Milton Percival & R F Jelliffee, David Sarnoff 6, Raymond Scott, Charles H Sewall, Leon Shamroy, Margaret Thatcher, Tom Wolfe 1, Grace Wyndham Goldie
    misplaced Gary Cooper, Peter Gammond & Peter Clayton, Bill Gates, Walter Gifford, D W Griffith, F J Kinsbury, Arnold Morley, Arch Oboler, Ken Olsen, Sir William Preece, Lillian Roxon, R C Winton, S John Wood

Future
Warren Bennis, Tim Berners-Lee, Alan Kay

Grand statements
D W Griffith

Philosophical observations
Henri Bergson, William Blake, Arthur C Clarke 2, Immanuel Kant Lucretius

Paradoxes
Henri Bergson, Henry David Thoreau

Reality and appearance
Philip K Dick, Carl Theodor Dreyer, J B Priestley 1, Xenophanes of Colophon

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Media effect

The Biograph, Woody Allen, Arthur C Clarke 3, William Gavin, John Grierson, Herbert Samuel, David Sarnoff 9, George Bernard Shaw, Ray Simpson, Ellis Smith, The Times (Thomas Beecham)
see also Inter-media effects

Inter-media effects
Robert Camplin, Ken Maidment, Michael Winner, S John Wood

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Media regulation

Spiro T Agnew, Mark Fowler, Michael Green, O'Conor Report, US Supreme Court, Herbert Hoover 1, Frank Stanton
see also The state and the media

Piracy/copyright theft
Robert Camplin, Stanley M Gortikov, Jack Valenti 3,4

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Media representation

Lines from
    film & TV scripts
David S Cohen, Fred Smith, John Swartzwelder
    songs
Boudleux and Felice Bryant, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, John D Loudermilk, Randy Newman, Jimmy Pop, Bruce Springsteen

Media representations in popular culture
Boudleux and Felice Bryant, Ronald Firbank, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, John D Loudermilk, Randy Newman, Jimmy Pop, Melanie Safka, Bruce Springsteen

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Miscellaneous

Actors
Marlon Brando, Catherine Breillat, John Updike, King Vidor

Audiences
Phillip Adams, James Agee 3, Will Hays, Alfred Hitchcock 2, Clive James, Theodore Komisarjevsky, John Macy Jr, Mitch Miller, Harry Reasoner, Helmut Thoma

Awards (Academy, etc)
Albert Finney, Glenda Jackson

Humour
Fred Allen 3, Gracie Allen, Jean Cocteau 3, David S Cohen 1,2

Talent
Fred Allen 3

Theme parks
Douglas Trumbull
see also Technological forecasts

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