Cinema, Radio, and Television: Crash Course History of Science #29 

Just a note that we mention "Media" a lot in this video and we're talking specifically about Audio/Video Media. Obviously, print was a standard media at the birth of Radio and TV. :) - Nick J.

So even those first short videos featured cats? Knew it!

There is a brazilian called Roberto Landell de Moura who transmitted his voice through 8km in são Paulo in 1894. Unfortunately, he was a priest and the Church didn't like his experiment and treated him as a wizard. When he took a patent it was 1904, Marconi already did since 1896. : (

good job crash coarse :) I as electrical engineer just ... still waiting for N. Tesla to be celebrated here, because of he made electricity possible with his work on practical use of AC in World scale :-D

Hey crash course I just want y'all to know that I really love these videos and I hope you do more stuff like this in the future. Dftba

I wanna hear the metal song you wrote

Crash course, you guys are all heroes! Having a comprehensive collection of educational resources on just about every topic one could imagine is invaluable! I’m a total sponge when it comes to learning about the origins, history, development and details of all the things I experience in every day of my life! I find that you have much more appreciation for the things you take for granted and disregard daily. Thank you all for your dedication and commitment to educating the world about absolutely everything

Thank you for all, guys. Your videos are very useful and worthy

Thankyou hank for keeping your speed little slow while delivering. You have unique way of delivering things. I m captivated

I love this episode. Anything connected to film and theatre is loved by me.

I grew up right around Edison, NJ and still teach music there. If anyone can take a trip to the lab, it's worth your time.

Really enjoying this series thanks for making it!

@CrashCourse You did not mention Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the telephone, even though the 2002-06-11 resolution of the US House of Representative accredited him (and not Bell) with the invention of such a device.

Thank you for providing all this free information!!

I thought that "war of the worlds panic" thing was a urban legend?

I'm studying communications now for undergrad- loved the video, very informative

This is one of my favorite videos from them. Dope.

Missed point: During WW2, the Beeb actually turned off its TV-transmitters, so even if you had a receiver there was literally nothing on TV

I'm pleased that you mentioned John Logie Baird.... TX

Great! Finally! We are getting there! Psychology and Psychiatry!!!!

Hello CrashCourse, thanks for another great video! However, as far as I am aware, you're in error of when the film industry moved to California. The western film industry was not established in 1902 -- Hollywood wasn't even incorporated until a year later. For shooting in warmer climates, the film industry first tried Jacksonville, Florida in 1908. For the next decade, the film industry centered around the northeast and Florida. I know that my home city, Ithaca New York, was a big silent film center as well. In the early 1910s, studios did begin to move to California and create the Hollywood we know today, becoming the dominant force by 1918. But as far as I am aware, the claim that the film industry was already in the west in 1902 is entirely incorrect. EDIT: I believe the issue is the appeal mentioned probably refers to the 1915 case against the Motion Picture Patent Company, a corporate trust set up to manage the film patents and was found violating the antitrust acts, thus freeing the film industry -- but by this point, it was already a big force in the west, and still growing. This lines up a lot better with my previously mentioned dates, and follows the narrative set forth in this video. But I am still not sure where the date 1902 came from.

Just 100 years ago, the world was so different. Science really is amazing. I can't wait to see what the future holds.

Love the episode! But what are the blu things above you to the right?

Disappointed with the discussion on the development of television. Focus should be on Zworykin and Farnsworth whose battle on the development of the electronic television was much more influential (and interesting) than the mechanical television. I may be biased though ;)

HE MENTIONED EDISON IM SO ANGRY I BURNED MY HOUSE DOWN AND ERECTED A SHRINE TO TESLA

Really hope this course never ends.

Through the air, across the ocean, for the first time ever.

2:54 Oh, so THAT where the Mary doll urban legend come from: A talking doll talk through the telephone , saying her position to her victim until she’s right behind them and stabbed them death.

What did the radio say to the other radio? "Stop it, that Hertz"

The radio adaptation of War of the Worlds that caused panic was on a less popular radio station. The more popular radio station started playing an opera about a minute into the broadcast of War of the Worlds, causing people to change the station a minute into the broadcast, so they missed the intro that made it clear that it was fiction.

What about Popov? Nice

Ive always watched every crash course episode, unless ive mistakenly missed something. PLZ, make crash course MATH. Il go on repeat mode to stuff it in your subconcious CRASH COURSE MATH, CRASH COURSE MATH, CRASH COURSE MATH. Seriously though, everyone wants to see it.

Is there a way to listen to these videos as a podcast?

At 1:12, don’t forget Antonio Meucci.

hahahahahah the Ru Paul reference!!!

CRASH COURSE rock!

Educational!

At 1:12, Antonio Meucci?

Google X mention at the end there. Dope.

why isn't this and #30 in your playlist?

La Prince disapeared from a train? Never to be seen again? Common, it's obvious that Edison vanished with him.

anyone know what the footage is at 01:25?

9:20 I'm pretty sure there's limited if any evidence that people actually mistook the War of the Worlds broadcast as real.

8:30 yeah Pittsburgh!

@Crashcourse: why did you completely skip over Philo Farnsworth?

John Baird is a pretty smart guy.

Is it just me, or do others feel a great bit of sadness that CrashCourse gets a fraction of the views it used too. They put so much into each episode and I really hope it's sustainable.

Quite a commentary on the world in that I'm still not sure if the "Boxing Cats" movie is a joke or not :P

Yes!!!

Cinema, Radio, Television, and other forms of entertainment before was merely created out of innovation of telecommunication. Thomas Edison is very smart and intelligent. He invented a lot of technology which we can use it until now. I loved how it give more viewed on the improvisation of communication through processing and how the technology invented. I'm very thankful as well as I'm proud for all the devices creation that oir scientists invented because it serve as our tool which make our life easier today.

So... when are we hearing that metal song?

Hmm... little scary dolls and an early film studio, where did I hear that before...?

Can you do a math video on like Percent of Change and adding tax to a total amount of money. Cuz my math teacher has explained it multiple times and I'm not getting it

Italian dude, was not inventor of radio, he just patented it. The inventor was Alexander Popov

I may be wrong but I thought Marconi was Hertz's cousin.... Would have been a good thing to mention

Metal song?

Am I the only one who hates Edison the more I learn about him? Love Crashcourse madly though.

Marconi is a good fellow; let him continue. He's using 17 of my patents. - Nikola Tesla

"Created", not talking about the italian who REALLY created it before ? Antonio Meucci ?

I love science.

my teacher made me watch this

I thought Marconi transmitted across the Atlantic from cape Breton nova Scotia?.?

Do anthropology please!!

YOU SHOULD MAKE THIS INTO A PODCAST

The brother’s lumière’s dad invented the camera they used and they just used it for public screenings, which was pioneering at the time but u know... ☺️

At least you weren't bowing to the shrine of Edison this episode. Still.. he should be a footnote, not a highlight. If Edison had any impact at all, it was in stifling and slowing the advance of technology.

that orson wells thing isn't supported by contemporary news reports

One *very* minor nitpick. In the name Newfoundland the accent is placed on "land", not reduced to "lind". I am from Newfoundland and we aren't mentioned abroad very often so when we are we'd like it to be said correctly. (Sadly there generally isn't a second mention for the correction to be broadcast.)

Telegraph porn - OOO STOP DO THAT AGAIN STOP HOLD ME STOP....

Hey I need help on my economics assignment,please

Wow yes , mr Thomas Addison’s invite the hot water too ?!

"Brain just gives up" ~ The brain specifically interpolates between the images. It is doing what it evolved to do, for things like eye blinking.

7:42 GugliELMO Macaroni-Italian

A lot of smart Scottish dudes for one episode!

Huh Freud next!?

John green?

Hey guy

I'm going to be a Scottish engineering and I'm glad so many Scottish engineers were show but as I was born in Wales could you show some people from there but none there is not a lot off people from there

Didn't Philo T. Farnsworth contribute considerably to the invention of the television?

How do you guys not have a series about geology

Ah, the more things change...

Yeet

Yo Green, you talk a lot differently than you used to in the older videos I watched of you.

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I wish more people here in the states enjoyed the simple pleasure of laughing at eurovision.

1:48 or maybe he just stole it from Tesla😂.

Heads up: this video isn't in included in the history of science playlist.

Hiring inventors? Or kidnapping them off trains?

Jumping on the "outrage that you left out my personal favorite gypped historical figure" bandwagon -- you highlighted Baird but not Philo T. Farnsworth?! That's like saying "Babbage deserves all credit for inventing the computer, all those electronics are just added polish. Who cares about Alan Turing or Tommy Flowers?"

Around 1910 Telefunken haad radio broadcasts from New York to Nauenberg, 3,850 miles. This is sure evidence the earth is in fact flat.

Again westocentrism.Popov show radio a year before marconi. But he was a poor teacher, and marconi was a son of a magnate

same tooth

I wonder if Steve Jobs is modern day's Edison.

Wow, Italians used to be really really green. Who knew ......

Really let me down by now even mentioning Tesla

Tesla!

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All likely developed militarily

Jagadish chandra bose was the first person who showed wireless transmission of sound......and g.marconi copied bose concept and used the theory to invent radio....

What is love? Baby don't Hertz me, don't Hertz me, no more