TFM 2025/2026 Updated TEST Exam 2025/2026
RGB Image - Color transmission created by broadcasting 3 monochrome images, one each in the
colors red, green and blue
Kinescope - A primordial technology that included the use of a 35mm film camera to record the
televised image off a monitor as it was being broadcasted. The quality of the kinescope copy was
usually grainy and substandard even by early tv standards, but it was the only way for Hollywood to
view a live image produced in New York or vice versa. Originated with I Love Lucy. Most viewers and
sponsors found kinescope viewing dreadful
The first black actress to star on Amos 'n' Andy as Sapphire - Ernestine Wade
The first black entertainer to host his own variety show; the model of assimilation - Nat "King" Cole
Legendary actor and Hollywood icon who pitched Gunsmoke to CBS - John Wayn
Actor, creator and producer of Dragnet - Jack Webb
According to the reading, "the core to prime time television" has been about selling a particular idea
to the viewer - "that's what advertisers really do". Specifically, what is the idea mentioned in the
reading? - The American dream. The center of that dream stands as the mythic American family and
TV in the 50s showed us what the quintessential family looked like.
What is the description of the black stereotype portrayed in the early TV hit Amos 'n' Andy - the
black characters were portrayed as shiftless, opportunistic or lazy. Very stereotypical portrayal
What is the name of the black actress of importance to "star" in a tv series? What was the name of
the series she starred in and what was the name of her role? - Ernestine Wade; Amos 'n' Andy;
Sapphire
What organization pressured CBS to finally cancel Amos 'n' Andy after 2 seasons? At the same time,
what happened to the Radio show? - National Association for the Advancement of Colored people
(NAACP). The radio show continued on CBS until 1960
What was the social issue that was the inspiration for the Westinghouse Studio One production of
"Thunder on Sycamore Street"? What was the change in the script/story that networks and sponsors
, pressured? What was screenwriter Reginald Rose's "ingenious solution"? And why did this solution
create the controversy that the sponsors had tried to avoid? - Derived from an actual incident that
took place in suburban Cicero, Illinois. A group of white residents living there, disturbed to find a
Negro family moving into their neighborhood, organized to get the family out.
The Negro family had to be "something else". The network and sponsors would never hear the end
of it if the Negro was some kind of attacked protagonist. Rose agreed to make the Negro an ex-
convict.
His solutions was to make it so the audience didn't not know why the neighbor was unwanted. It
would only be aware of the resolve to get rid of him.
Comments taken from the studio audience at every half hour indicated that the viewers had filled in
the missing info with their own predilections- some assumed the person living in the third house was
a communist, atheist, Jew, Catholic, Russian or Oriental. The people made assumptions and the
convict addition only added to their negative ideas about the third neighbor
Through the 1950s, what was considered the slot for "prime time"? - 7-10 pm
Who was the first black entertainer to host his own variety show in the 1950s ? - Nat king cole
What is the RBG image in television? - Color transmission created by broadcasting 3 separate
monochrome images, one each in the colors red, green and blue. An additive color model where red,
green and blue light is added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. When
displayed together or in rapid succession,the 3 separate RGB images blend together to trick the
human eye into seeing the full color spectrum.
What was the name of the event that was broadcast as the first national colorcast on television (Jan
1, 1954) - 1954 tournament of roses on NBC
Demonstrating the popularity of the Western genre on television in the 1950s, which three western
series formed the "triumvirate atop the prime time ratings game for three consecutive years (1958-
1961)? - Gunsmoke; Wagon Train; Have gun, Will Travel
What is the name of the first western to air on TV (Sep. 1949) - The Lone Ranger
Gunsmoke, the 1955 CBS western, was endorsed by what legendary motion picture star based on
what unique characteristics that proved to be the winning combination for this enduring show?
(Who was the star and what were the three characteristics he mentioned in his endorsement?) -
John Wayne; Honest, adult, realistic
RGB Image - Color transmission created by broadcasting 3 monochrome images, one each in the
colors red, green and blue
Kinescope - A primordial technology that included the use of a 35mm film camera to record the
televised image off a monitor as it was being broadcasted. The quality of the kinescope copy was
usually grainy and substandard even by early tv standards, but it was the only way for Hollywood to
view a live image produced in New York or vice versa. Originated with I Love Lucy. Most viewers and
sponsors found kinescope viewing dreadful
The first black actress to star on Amos 'n' Andy as Sapphire - Ernestine Wade
The first black entertainer to host his own variety show; the model of assimilation - Nat "King" Cole
Legendary actor and Hollywood icon who pitched Gunsmoke to CBS - John Wayn
Actor, creator and producer of Dragnet - Jack Webb
According to the reading, "the core to prime time television" has been about selling a particular idea
to the viewer - "that's what advertisers really do". Specifically, what is the idea mentioned in the
reading? - The American dream. The center of that dream stands as the mythic American family and
TV in the 50s showed us what the quintessential family looked like.
What is the description of the black stereotype portrayed in the early TV hit Amos 'n' Andy - the
black characters were portrayed as shiftless, opportunistic or lazy. Very stereotypical portrayal
What is the name of the black actress of importance to "star" in a tv series? What was the name of
the series she starred in and what was the name of her role? - Ernestine Wade; Amos 'n' Andy;
Sapphire
What organization pressured CBS to finally cancel Amos 'n' Andy after 2 seasons? At the same time,
what happened to the Radio show? - National Association for the Advancement of Colored people
(NAACP). The radio show continued on CBS until 1960
What was the social issue that was the inspiration for the Westinghouse Studio One production of
"Thunder on Sycamore Street"? What was the change in the script/story that networks and sponsors
, pressured? What was screenwriter Reginald Rose's "ingenious solution"? And why did this solution
create the controversy that the sponsors had tried to avoid? - Derived from an actual incident that
took place in suburban Cicero, Illinois. A group of white residents living there, disturbed to find a
Negro family moving into their neighborhood, organized to get the family out.
The Negro family had to be "something else". The network and sponsors would never hear the end
of it if the Negro was some kind of attacked protagonist. Rose agreed to make the Negro an ex-
convict.
His solutions was to make it so the audience didn't not know why the neighbor was unwanted. It
would only be aware of the resolve to get rid of him.
Comments taken from the studio audience at every half hour indicated that the viewers had filled in
the missing info with their own predilections- some assumed the person living in the third house was
a communist, atheist, Jew, Catholic, Russian or Oriental. The people made assumptions and the
convict addition only added to their negative ideas about the third neighbor
Through the 1950s, what was considered the slot for "prime time"? - 7-10 pm
Who was the first black entertainer to host his own variety show in the 1950s ? - Nat king cole
What is the RBG image in television? - Color transmission created by broadcasting 3 separate
monochrome images, one each in the colors red, green and blue. An additive color model where red,
green and blue light is added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. When
displayed together or in rapid succession,the 3 separate RGB images blend together to trick the
human eye into seeing the full color spectrum.
What was the name of the event that was broadcast as the first national colorcast on television (Jan
1, 1954) - 1954 tournament of roses on NBC
Demonstrating the popularity of the Western genre on television in the 1950s, which three western
series formed the "triumvirate atop the prime time ratings game for three consecutive years (1958-
1961)? - Gunsmoke; Wagon Train; Have gun, Will Travel
What is the name of the first western to air on TV (Sep. 1949) - The Lone Ranger
Gunsmoke, the 1955 CBS western, was endorsed by what legendary motion picture star based on
what unique characteristics that proved to be the winning combination for this enduring show?
(Who was the star and what were the three characteristics he mentioned in his endorsement?) -
John Wayne; Honest, adult, realistic
