Pertinent Issues Dealing With The Impact Of The Tv Industry During The Last 1940

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This essay will discuss some of the pertinent issues dealing with the impact economically and culturally of the developing television industry during the last 1940’s and beyond. The motion picture industry already impacted by the anti-trust case resolution, chose some very interesting and unusual methods to deal with the encroaching impact of the television industry. Legal issues imposed by the courts with regard to production codes also impacted the film industry.
The Film Industry and Television
Many accounts published (Video on Demand - American Cinema - Film in the Television Age, n.d.) indicate that by the year 1946, 20% of Americans attended a movie every week. This “love affair” with the motion picture industry will forever be changed