Television's Role

Television plays an important role in our life. Sometimes it's just entertainment for the sake of entertainment. Other times it has a moral or a lesson or lessons that is taken from it to be learned that has a certain outcome that benefits us. We learn from our television. Although some say it may rot our brain a great deal of growing up is sitting in from of a t.v. set and watching a movie or t.v. show that interests us. We quote sayings from movies we even grow up watching and learning very young childhood lessons from the favorite childhood cartoons. So indeed, television is at its best beneficial. Enticing us from the very beginning the earliest movies were made from about 30 second picture film strips that rolled in a slow motion. Just think of the old film making and the videos in the theatres much unlike that of now. Now we have our options of the most modern technology and even the security is right there up to date. Before though, filmstrips could be homemade movies. Now today we call the likely slideshows on our computers or our Windows Power Point or Movie Maker. Photography inented in 1839 had to await development of the first successful photography in motion in 1872. This started Peep shows to projections. The old device to show pictures was called kinetoscope. Later Edison began to invent his way into making "nickelodeans." Admission to a theatre then,... a nickel and odeon was the Greek word for theater.

Rodman, George Mass Media In A Changing World. Brookly College of CUNY, 2009. Print.