COM1514 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 1 2025 - DUE March 2025; 100% TRUSTED
Complete, trusted solutions and explanations
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What was the earliest recording device in the history of photography?
✓ Camera obscura.
What difference existed between the camera invented by Thomas
Edison and the one that the Lumiére brothers patented in France? The
camera by Auguste and Louis Lumiére was ___.
✓ Portable and served as a projector.
Sound film changed the landscape of movie-making forever. The first
"talkie" offered audiences the experience of listening to recorded
music. That film which was released in 1927 and marks the beginning
of sound on film is ___.
✓ The Jazz Singer.
Who was the nineteenth-century photographer who took Civil War
photos and portraits of many famous people?
✓ Mathew Brady.
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, What is the most-viewed series in television history? Broadcast on
Music Television (MTV), this show paved the way for a change in
television programming in which networks started to cater to a more
fragmented and specialized audience.
✓ Jersey Shore.
In 1895, two Frenchmen, Louis and Auguste Lumiére, used Edison's
technology to patent a revolutionary film system for showing motion
pictures that allowed projectionists to develop film within one day,
with footage shot in the morning and displayed in the evening. What
was the name of this system?
✓ Cinématographe.
Where did much of television's early programming in the late 1940s
come from?
✓ Radio.
The movie-industry business model is simple. It aims to ___.
✓ Get as many people as possible to pay to watch a movie.
What are the two major functions of still images in society?
✓ Cultural transmission and surveillance.
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2|P age
Semester 1 2025 - DUE March 2025; 100% TRUSTED
Complete, trusted solutions and explanations
__________________________________________________________
What was the earliest recording device in the history of photography?
✓ Camera obscura.
What difference existed between the camera invented by Thomas
Edison and the one that the Lumiére brothers patented in France? The
camera by Auguste and Louis Lumiére was ___.
✓ Portable and served as a projector.
Sound film changed the landscape of movie-making forever. The first
"talkie" offered audiences the experience of listening to recorded
music. That film which was released in 1927 and marks the beginning
of sound on film is ___.
✓ The Jazz Singer.
Who was the nineteenth-century photographer who took Civil War
photos and portraits of many famous people?
✓ Mathew Brady.
1
Page
1|P age
, What is the most-viewed series in television history? Broadcast on
Music Television (MTV), this show paved the way for a change in
television programming in which networks started to cater to a more
fragmented and specialized audience.
✓ Jersey Shore.
In 1895, two Frenchmen, Louis and Auguste Lumiére, used Edison's
technology to patent a revolutionary film system for showing motion
pictures that allowed projectionists to develop film within one day,
with footage shot in the morning and displayed in the evening. What
was the name of this system?
✓ Cinématographe.
Where did much of television's early programming in the late 1940s
come from?
✓ Radio.
The movie-industry business model is simple. It aims to ___.
✓ Get as many people as possible to pay to watch a movie.
What are the two major functions of still images in society?
✓ Cultural transmission and surveillance.
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Page
2|P age
