Film and Media Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
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Adam Curry, Defining ContributionPopularized podcasting as a mainstream medium through the Daily Source Code podcast (2004) and PodShow (2005).
Adam Curry, Figures
Standing
Concerns Defining Contribution
Currently States Popularized podcasting as a mainstream medium through the Daily Source Code podcast (2004) and PodShow (2005).
Widely called the Podfather for popularizing podcasting through Daily Source Code (2004) and PodShow (2005); the RSS enclosure mechanism itself was implemented by software developer Dave Winer, a distinction recorded as a dissent below rather than flattened into a single inventor credit.
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Continuity Editing, Formulated Year1915
Continuity Editing, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1915
The continuity system crystallized gradually through D.W. Griffith's Biograph years from 1908 and gained wide recognition with The Birth of a Nation in 1915; historians do not point to a single formulating date.
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Genre, Formulated Year1968
Genre, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1968
Genre criticism developed gradually. Andre Bazin discussed genre using Westerns as examples as early as the 1950s, but genre only became a significant, formalized part of film theory in the late 1960s. No single formulating date or figure is agreed.
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Graphic Novel, Formulated Year1964
Graphic Novel, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1964
Richard Kyle first used the term in a 1964 fanzine essay; it did not enter wide circulation until Will Eisner's A Contract with God (1978) put it on a trade-paperback cover. This entity records 1964 as the earliest documented use, not the year of popularization.
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Hypodermic Needle Model, Formulated Year1927
Hypodermic Needle Model, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1927
Often retrospectively credited to Harold Lasswell's 1927 book Propaganda Technique in the World War, but neither hypodermic needle nor magic bullet appears in his own writing; historians of communication research describe the model as a possible strawman or myth rather than a theory formulated at a fixed date by one named scholar.
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Media Literacy, Formulated Year1978
Media Literacy, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1978
North American media literacy education is often dated to the 1978 founding of the Ontario-based Association for Media Literacy; UNESCO's Grunwald Declaration of 1982 later established media literacy as an international priority, so sources differ on which date marks its formulation.
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Mise-en-Scene, Formulated Year1951
Mise-en-Scene, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1951
The term derives from theatrical usage but became a codified concept of film criticism through the French magazine Cahiers du Cinema, founded in 1951; no single essay or year fixed its film-critical definition.
Source New World Encyclopedia
Persistence of Vision, Formulated Year1824
Persistence of Vision, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1824
Peter Mark Roget described the retinal-persistence illusion in a paper communicated to the Royal Society in 1824 (published 1825), often cited as the term's origin, but modern psychologists and physiologists have rejected retinal persistence as an explanation of apparent motion in film, a rejection film theorists have been slower to adopt.
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The First Photograph, WhenThe exact date is uncertain: Niepce's own correspondence places his first successful permanent camera image sometime between 1822 and 1827, and the exposure length is likewise disputed, an eight or nine hour mid-20th-century estimate against a later finding of several days.
The First Photograph, Milestones
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Concerns When
Currently States The exact date is uncertain: Niepce's own correspondence places his first successful permanent camera image sometime between 1822 and 1827, and the exposure length is likewise disputed, an eight or nine hour mid-20th-century estimate against a later finding of several days.
Sources commonly round the date to 1826 or 1827 for convenience, but Niepce's own letters only bound it within a five year window.
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The Golden Age of Arcade Video Games, Formulated Year1978
The Golden Age of Arcade Video Games, Concepts
Standing
Concerns Formulated Year
Currently States 1978
Sources agree on the broad 1978 to 1983 span but differ by a year or two on the exact start and end; 1978 (Space Invaders) is the most commonly cited beginning.
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