Here are a collection of links to some great early, early silent film examples, mostly from my Tumblr:
Animations of Muybridge people-in-motion images:
Note: Most of these contain some nudity.
Edison Kinetoscopes:
Lots of questions to answer about this year’s Oscar telecast!
I’ve been so busy putting up links to go with the upcoming 4th edition to Mass Communication: Living in a Media World that I haven’t had time to question anything lately. So here we go:
and finding media attention. (HINT: If you are in the Top 200 bestselling books at Amazon, you really aren’t being censored. Just sayin’.)Adele’s been getting a lot of attention lately. Not only for her music, but also for her looks. Here’s a discussion from CNN about her new cover of Vogue in which she looks a good deal thinner than she does in real life. Some of it may be a corset, but there also seems to be a lot of photoshopping going on as well. Not that different, it would seem, from the fuss over Kate Winslet’s cover of Vanity Fair a few years back.
The student journalists at Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times had the best coverage in the country during December 8, 2011’s shooting deaths of two people on the VTech campus. Here are two blog posts I wrote as their reporting was unfolding:
Here are links to several of the alternative papers discussed in the newspaper chapter of Mass Communication: Living in a Media World. Please note that these papers at times may contain R-rated type language and imagery.
Here are links to the top ten newspapers in the United States:
And as a bonus link:
Former NPR anchor Bob Edwards talks about the importance of the legendary radio and television broadcaster Edward R. Murrow.
Jesús Marrone wrote his doctoral dissertation on front covers of publications, and has a lot of great background on the New York Daily News DEAD! cover featuring murderer Ruth Snyder being executed. Lots of great background information and photos of the camera photographer Tom Howard used to take the famous photo.
The Yellow Kid, an early newspaper comic character who got his start in a comic called Hogan’s Alley, was the star of the comics page during the yellow journalism era in New York City. You can read and see more about Hogan’s Alley at this site hosted by the Ohio State University Libraries Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
