Quotations indexed by subject
Index under construction
Communication
Culture: Art,
Craftsmanship, Criticism and critics, Quality and taste
Society:
Censorship, Children and young people, Crime, Education, Literacy, Money,
Nationality, Politics/politicians, Progress, Propaganda, Public service, Social
order and change
Advertising
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
Broadcasting
Radio
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
Video:
Video, Video-on-demand
Other media: Newspapers, Photography, Popular music, Sound recording, Telegraphy,
Telephony, Video games
Technology: Computers, Digital technology, E-commerce, Internet etc, Technological
progress
Philosophy and forecasts: Forecasts/prophetic statements, Future, Grand statements,
Philosophical observations, Paradoxes, Reality and appearance
Media effect: Inter-media effects
Media regulation: Piracy/copyright theft
Media representation: Lines from film and TV scripts/songs, Media representations
in popular culture
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,
Henry David Thoreau
Culture
Matthew Arnold,
W H Auden,
Alan Bennett,
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,
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
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
Society
Censorship
Australian Film Censorship Office 1,
2,
British Board of Film Censors annual reports 1,
2,
Creswell O'Reilly,
D G C Lawrence,
David Lean,
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
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
Literacy
George W Bush
Money
Ava Gardner,
Ernest Hemingway,
Alan Parker 3,
David Puttnam 1,
George Bernard Shaw,
Orson Welles5
Nationality
Jeremy Isaacs,
Sir Alexander Korda,
Siegfried Kracauer,
Akira Kurosawa,
Nicolas Seydoux
Politics/politicians
Spiro T Agnew,
Tony Benn,
Milos Forman,
Hugh Carleton Greene,
Sir Harry Greer,
Eric Johnston 3,
Charles Hill,
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,
Joseph Goebbels,
Philip Magnus
Public service
John Maynard Keynes,
John Reith
Social order and change
John Briley,
Eric Johnston 1,
Mr Justice McCombe,
Sir William Preece
Advertising
Charles Beaudelaire,
Jack Cohen,
Norman Douglas,
Herbert Hoover 3,
Stephen Leacock,
William Hesketh Lever,
Marshall McLuhan 2,
Charles Saatchi
see also Television: advertising
Cinema and film
Cinema
Alexandre Astruc,
Bela Balacz,
André Bazin,
John Boorman,
Robert Bresson,
Teddy Carr,
Jean Cocteau 2,
John Drinkwater,
Federico Fellini,
John Fithian,
Jean-Luc Godard,
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,
Lord Strabolgi,
US Supreme Court,
Dziga Vertov
Going to the pictures
Ronald Firbank,
Sir A P Herbert,
Manchester Guardian
Aesthetics
René Clair
Animation
David S Cohen 1,2,
Gerhardt Fieber,
Chuck Jones,
Randy Newman,
Monica Sims,
John Swartzwelder
Archives
Jean Cocteau 4
British cinema
Lindsay Anderson 2,
Richard Attenborough,
Kenneth Baker,
Michael Balcon,
Ed Chilton,
Leon Clore,
W Glenvil Hall,
David Kingsley,
Alexander Korda,
Gus Macdonald,
Laurence Olivier,
Lord Strabolgi,
Norman Tebbitt,
Jack Valenti 5
Documentary
Lindsay Anderson 1,
Robert Flaherty,
John Grierson,
Hans Richter,
Paul Rotha,
Basil Wright
Dubbing
Jorge Luis Borges
Film and television
Norman Collins4
Film industry support
Spokesman for UK Film Council,
Andy Humphries,
Nicolas Seydoux,
Lord Strabolgi
Film makers
Warren Adler,
James Agee,
Federico Fellini,
Pauline Kael,
Randy Newman
Film music
Sir Thomas Beecham,
Aaron Copland,
Randy Newman,
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,
Sophie Marceau,
Georges Perec,
François Truffaut,
John Updike
Hollywood
Warren Adler,
Fred Allen 4,
Barney Balaban,
Noel Coward,
F Scott Fitzgerald,
Eric Johnston 1,
John Maynard Keynes,
Paulo Antonio Paranaguá,
Tony Richardson,
Douglas Trumbull 1,
Michael Tuchner,
Jack Valenti 1,
Orson Welles 1
and history Sherl Bearlstrom,
Robert Harris,
David Puttnam
International trade
Eric Johnston 3,4,
Erich Pommer,
Stephen Tallents,
Jack Valenti 1
Scriptwriting
David Mamet,
Jean Negulesco
Talkies
Thomas Edison,
Al Jolson,
James Quirk,
Dame Sybil Thorndike
Widescreen
Daniel J Boorstin,
Samuel Goldwyn 19,
Jean Negulesco
Broadcasting
Charles Hill,
Søren Kierkegaard
standards Sir William Haley
see also Radio, Television
Radio
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
Television
Fred Allen 1,2,
Jean Baudrillard 1,
George Boar,
Paddy Chayefsky 1,
Kenneth Clark,
Arthur C Clarke 3,
Alan Coren,
Anna Ford,
John Kenneth Galbraith,
Jack Gould,
Michael Green,
Hugh Carleton Greene,
Sir Harry Greer,
Alfred Hitchcock 3,4,
Sir William Haley 6,
John Housman,
H V Kaltenborn,
Harold Macmillan,
Raymond Postgate,
J W Ridgeway,
Arnold Ridley,
Leni Riefenstahl,
Bertrand Russell,
C P Scott,
Gilbert Seldes,
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
Bernard Levin,
ITV Principles for Television Advertising,
David Lee,
Marshall McLuhan 2,
Manchester Guardian,
Alfred Robens,
The Tatler
anticipation
A A Campbell Swinton,
David Sarnoff 6
birth
John Logie Baird
commercial
Sidney Bernstein,
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 1,
Gus Macdonald,
Practical and Amateur Wireless
funding
Tessa Jowell
habit/mindlessness
David Attenborough,
Paddy Chayefsky 2,
Alan Hamilton,
Ian Hunter,
Steve Jobs,
Denis Potter 1,
Alfred Robens,
Murray Schumach
interactive
Helmut Thoma
large-screen/cinema
J Arthur Rank
monopoly
Winston Churchill,
R H Coase,
Norman Collins 3
power
Philip K Dick,
Arthur C Clarke 5,
Denis Potter 2,
New Statesman,
The Times,
Grace Wyndham Goldie
programming
Prince Charles 2,
Norman Collins 1,
Jeremy Isaacs,
J W C Johnstone,
Philip Larkin
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,
David Sarnoff 9
viewing
Paddy Chayefsky 2,
Arthur C Clarke 3,
Gerald Cock 2,
John Macy Jr,
E B White 2
Cable and satellite TV
Prince Charles 1,
Charles Curran,
Michael Grade,
Rupert Murdoch,
Bruce Springsteen,
Margaret Thatcher,
Harold Wilson
Colour television
Kenneth Adam,
Frank Stanton
Pay TV
CBS advertisement in TV Guide,
Leonard Goldenson,
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
Video
Prince Charles 4,
John Fithian,
D G C Lawrence,
Kenneth Maidment,
Nicholas Negroponte,
Steven Ross,
Kazumi Tagaki,
François Truffaut 3,
Jack Valenti 3,4
Video-on-demand
Sumner Redstone
Other media
Newspapers
Sir William Haley 7,
C P Scott
Photography
Jean Baudrillard 2,
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,
Peter Goldmark,
Compton Mackenzie,
Lillian Roxon,
John Philip Sousa,
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
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
Internet, etc
Bill Gates,
Al Gore
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
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,
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
Paradoxes
Henri Bergson,
Henry David Thoreau
Reality and appearance
Philip K Dick,
Carl Theodor Dreyer,
J B Priestley 1,
Xenophanes of Colophon
Media effect
The Biograph,
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
Media regulation
Spiro T Agnew,
Mark Fowler,
Michael Green,
O'Conor Report,
US Supreme Court,
Herbert Hoover 1,
Frank Stanton
Piracy/copyright theft
Robert Camplin,
Stanley M Gortikov,
Jack Valenti 3,4
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,
Bruce Springsteen
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 2,
Gracie Allen,
Jean Cocteau 3,
David S Cohen 1,2
Talent
Fred Allen 3
Theme parks
Douglas Trumbull
see also Technological forecasts
