20th Century
Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)
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Adam's Work
"The First Animated Film"
(1906)
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
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Philo T. Farnsworth
(1906-1971)
Steve Allen
(1921-2000)
Johnny Carson
(1925-2005)
Color TV
(1928)
Video Tapes
(1951)
Children's Television Act
(1990)
An act passed by congress in 1990 that focused on the educational needs of children. It limited ads to 12 minutes per hour on weekdays and 10.5 minutes per hour on weekends, along with limiting program length advertising (which were shows that depicted a character also being sold as a toy)
DVD
(1995)
Visual anthropology
since mid-1990, till now
Sebastiao Salgado
(1944)
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Salgado's Work
EDDieAdams
1933-2004
Adams' Work
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See it Now
A television program by CBS news broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, the show focused on different topics and it was important that it showed a classic confrontation between a journalist and a politician and there he exposed Senator Joseph McCarthy for his false accusations of certain individuals being communists.
Duke Ellington
1899-1974
Ellington's Music
Dylan's Music
John Williams
1932-
William's Music
Flying theme
Binary Sunset
Tan Dun
1957-
Dun's Music
Beijing 2008 Olympics
Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906-1975)
The acid style of his early Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934) irritated Stalin, and Shostakovich was attacked in the Soviet press. The 1941 German invasion of Russia inspired the composer's Seventh Symphony, subtitled "Leningrad." Impressed by the symphony's epic-heroic character, Toscanini, Koussevitsky, and Stokowski vied for the Western Hemisphere premiere. Under the watchful eye of the Soviet government, the score was microfilmed, flown to Teheran, driven to Cairo, and flown out. The work became an enormous success the world over, and the composer had for a time become a worldwide celebrity.
Elmer Bernstein
(1922-2004)
Born in New York of Ukrainian immigrant parents on April 4, 1922, he was originally destined for a career in classical music. As a young pianist, he gave his first concert at the age of 15 in New York’s Steinway Hall. Encouraged by Aaron Copland, he undertook composition studies with several important teachers including Roger Sessions and Stefan Wolpe.