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As a little girl growing up right before the introduction of the boob tube in the 50s, my favorite radio shows were Space Patrol sponsored by the breakfast of champions, Wheaties, and The Shadow. When the announcer would come on and in a sinister voice say, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?  The Shadow knows....Ha..Ha..Ha", shivers would literally run up my spine. The show never lasted long enough for me and I could hardly wait for the next weekly broadcast. If you are interested in what tingled my fancy, here is a link to a webpage on The Shadow along with some sound bits. For a best selling movie Click Here

Shows like The Shadow and Space Patrol were very tame compared to the entertain we have today, but there was one radio show that remains untouched for literally scaring a whole lot of people senseless and that was Orson Welles' radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds based on H. C. Wells' novel.  WOW!  Take a look at this link War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast. It has the original October 30, 1938, night before Halloween, broadcast.

The War of the Worlds has also been made into several movies, a TV series, comic books, and a computer game.

TV and Movies have come a long way, baby, since the invention of "silent moving pictures" in the late 1800's. There seems to be a controversy over who invented the first moving picture, two Frenchmen, Louis and Antoine Lumière and their "cinématographe" or American inventor, Thomas Edison and his assistant, W. K. L. Dickson, and their Kinetoscope, a coin-operated peepshow for one. One historian has suggested that the Lumières ripped off an obscure inventor, Léon Bouly who patented a "cinématographe" of his own but let the patent lapse, which enabled the Lumières to grab the name that would soon be shortened to "cinema."

Thomas Edison's the "Bike Tricks" - 1899?

The next evolution of the "moving picture" was the "talkie" but before this, rather than leave the audience in silence, theater owners would hire a pianist or organist or a full orchestra to play music fitting the mood of the film. Some one playing a classic ragtime song in the background of Mr. Edison's "Bike Tricks" would have certainly made it more interesting.

In the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. The "talkie" was born.

An Introduction to Talking Movies -1929

 

Moving forward almost two hundred years, we have indeed come a long way baby. Historically, all mass marketed feature films were made to be shown in movie theaters. The development of television has allowed films to be broadcast to larger audiences, usually after the film is no longer being shown in theaters. Recording technology has also enabled consumers to rent or buy copies of films on VHS or DVD, and Internet downloads are now available. So what's your poison? Crime? Mystery? Thriller? Horror? Sci-Fi?

Amazon.com has just introduced its Video-On-Demand.  You can now instantly watch movies and television shows commercial-free on Macs or PCs. With this new service, you have the ability to enjoy instant playback of hit Hollywood movies and the latest TV shows. To make it even easier for you to decide to rent or purchase a movie or TV show, the first two minutes of videos automatically play at no charge. At any time during this 2-minute viewing period, you can choose to purchase or rent the title to watch it in its entirety. TiVo® customers can still download movies and TV shows to their TiVo DVR and watch on their TVs as before.

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