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Film and Media Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of media history, from film, television and radio to photography, comics and streaming. Search any medium and follow its threads through the figure, the technology and the milestone that shaped it.

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Media Forms

12
Animation
10 links
Comics
10 links
Film
59 links
Magazines
6 links
Newspapers
12 links
Photography
10 links
Podcasting
9 links
Radio
11 links
Social Media
9 links
Streaming Video
14 links
Television
28 links
Video Games
12 links

Figures

33
Adam Curry
2 links
Agnes Varda
2 links
Akira Kurosawa
3 links
Alfred Hitchcock
4 links
Alice Guy-Blache
2 links
Andrew Weinreich
4 links
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
3 links
Charlie Chaplin
4 links
Dave Winer
3 links
Eadweard Muybridge
3 links
Edward R. Murrow
4 links
Fritz Lang
3 links
George Eastman
4 links
Georges Melies
2 links
Guglielmo Marconi
3 links
Henry Luce
6 links
Jerry Siegel
4 links
Joe Shuster
4 links
John Logie Baird
3 links
Joseph Pulitzer
4 links
Lee de Forest
4 links
Louis Daguerre
2 links
Nellie Bly
2 links
Nicephore Niepce
2 links
Nolan Bushnell
3 links
Orson Welles
3 links
Philo Farnsworth
2 links
Ralph Baer
4 links
Reed Hastings
3 links
Satyajit Ray
2 links
Sergei Eisenstein
3 links
Walt Disney
4 links
Will Eisner
3 links

Landmark Works

32
2001: A Space Odyssey
2 links
A Trip to the Moon
4 links
Action Comics #1
5 links
Battleship Potemkin
3 links
Bicycle Thieves
2 links
Casablanca
3 links
Citizen Kane
3 links
Gone with the Wind
3 links
House of Cards
3 links
I Love Lucy
2 links
Life
4 links
M
4 links
Metropolis
3 links
Modern Times
3 links
Nanook of the North
2 links
Pather Panchali
3 links
Pong
3 links
Psycho
4 links
Rashomon
3 links
Roots
2 links
See It Now
4 links
Serial
2 links
Seven Samurai
3 links
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
3 links
Star Wars
2 links
The Birth of a Nation
3 links
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
2 links
The Great Train Robbery
2 links
The Jazz Singer
4 links
The War of the Worlds Broadcast
3 links
Toy Story
4 links
Vertigo
3 links

Technologies

37
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
3 links
Betamax
2 links
Cable Television
4 links
Camera Obscura
2 links
Cathode-Ray Tube
4 links
Celluloid Roll Film
4 links
Charge-Coupled Device
4 links
Chroma Key
2 links
CinemaScope
4 links
Cinematographe
3 links
Communications Satellite
4 links
Content Delivery Network
2 links
Daguerreotype
3 links
Digital Camera
4 links
Digital Cinema
4 links
Digital Video Recorder
3 links
DVD
3 links
IMAX
3 links
Kinetoscope
2 links
LaserDisc
3 links
Liquid Crystal Display
2 links
Magnavox Odyssey
3 links
Motion Capture
3 links
Multiplane Camera
3 links
Praxinoscope
3 links
RSS Enclosure
3 links
Sound on Film
5 links
Steadicam
2 links
Technicolor
2 links
Teleprompter
2 links
Teletext
3 links
Transistor Radio
3 links
Vacuum Tube
5 links
Videocassette Recorder
3 links
Videotape
3 links
Wirephoto
3 links
Zoetrope
4 links

Organizations

34
20th Century Fox
1 link
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
2 links
Apple Podcasts
2 links
Associated Press
3 links
Atari, Inc.
5 links
BBC
4 links
British Film Institute
2 links
CNN
3 links
Columbia Broadcasting System
3 links
DC Comics
4 links
Eastman Kodak Company
3 links
Federal Communications Commission
2 links
Festival de Cannes
2 links
Getty Images
1 link
HBO
4 links
International Federation of Film Archives
2 links
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
2 links
Motion Picture Association
3 links
National Broadcasting Company
3 links
National Public Radio
2 links
Netflix
8 links
Paramount Pictures
2 links
Pixar Animation Studios
3 links
Radio Corporation of America
3 links
Reuters
2 links
SixDegrees.com
5 links
Sundance Institute
2 links
The New York Times
2 links
The Walt Disney Company
2 links
The Washington Post
4 links
Time Inc.
4 links
United Artists
2 links
Venice Film Festival
2 links
Warner Bros.
4 links

Milestones

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BBC Television Service Launch
2 links
Comics Code Authority Adoption
2 links
Fairness Doctrine Repeal
3 links
First Paid Public Film Screening
2 links
First Public Television Demonstration
2 links
First Televised Olympic Games
2 links
First Televised Presidential Debate
2 links
First Television Broadcast
3 links
First Transatlantic Radio Signal
2 links
Founding of the New York Sun
2 links
Founding of Time Magazine
3 links
Hays Code Adoption
3 links
Introduction of Color Television Broadcasting
2 links
KDKA Election Night Broadcast
2 links
Launch of CNN
2 links
Launch of ESPN
2 links
Launch of HBO
3 links
Launch of MTV
2 links
Launch of SixDegrees.com
4 links
Launch of YouTube
2 links
Moon Landing Broadcast
2 links
Netflix Streaming Launch
2 links
Origins of Podcasting Technology
2 links
Publication of Action Comics #1
5 links
Radio Act of 1927
2 links
Release of the Magnavox Odyssey
3 links
Telstar Transatlantic Broadcast
3 links
The First Color Photograph
2 links
The First Photograph
2 links
Watergate Reporting
3 links
World Wide Web Enters the Public Domain
4 links

Concepts

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Agenda-Setting Theory
4 links
Auteur Theory
2 links
Binge-Watching
3 links
Citizen Journalism
2 links
Continuity Editing
2 links
Cultivation Theory
1 link
Framing Theory
2 links
Gatekeeping
2 links
Genre
1 link
Graphic Novel
3 links
Hypodermic Needle Model
4 links
Jump Cut
2 links
Long Tail
2 links
MacGuffin
2 links
Mass-Circulation Magazine
3 links
Media Consolidation
1 link
Media Convergence
3 links
Media Literacy
1 link
Method Acting
2 links
Mise-en-Scene
2 links
Montage
3 links
Narrowcasting
3 links
Parasocial Interaction
3 links
Persistence of Vision
3 links
Photojournalism
2 links
Public Service Broadcasting
3 links
Social Networking Site
3 links
Special Effects
3 links
Spiral of Silence Theory
2 links
Standards and Practices
2 links
Stop-Motion Animation
2 links
The 24-Hour News Cycle
3 links
The Golden Age of Arcade Video Games
3 links
The Star System
2 links
Two-Step Flow Theory
3 links
Uses and Gratifications Theory
1 link
Video on Demand
3 links
Yellow Journalism
3 links

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