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Week 6 Assignment

Influence of Visual Media

Television and movies have been around for almost as long as radio has been, but the impacts of these visual entertainment media were greater and longer-lasting than their predecessor. Movies grew out of the technology that Edison first pioneered, the Kinetoscope. He did not secure a patent for this invention, leaving the door open for European inventors to improve on the new technology. They filmed scenes and showed it to an audience, and the movie industry was born. Television was born out of the same principle as radio, with TV waves being transmitted instead of audio. With a couple of new technologies making use of this fact, television soon became a regular staple in every American home. With the financial backing of television...