Dawn of the Eye
From the invention of the first movie camera by the Lumières to the high-tech coverage of the Gulf War, this series traces the evolution of film and television broadcast journalism and its impact on our perception of world events. Each program provides an in-depth look at a different era in the growth and development of this controversial and fascinating industry. Co-produced by CBC and BBC, the 6-hour series was broadcast over 5 nights by CBC in its initial run, and 6 nights thereafter.
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Traces the beginnings of the filmed-news industry from the development of the movie camera by the Lumière brothers in 1895. Within ten years, cutthroa...
Hollywood studios initially presented sanitized news as if the Depression or a growing Nazi threat did not exist. However, the March of Time theater n...
No one knew quite what to do with television news until radio news veterans introduced controversial subjects such as racial segregation. Then the pub...
By the early 1960s, television was the dominant source of news in North America. It provided publicity for the forces of protest and political opposit...
In the golden years of network news and the birth of the satellite age, "going live" became the order of the day, and anchormen and anchorwomen became...
The Gulf War demonstrated the global nature of television news, and how its presence can shape the events it witnesses. As new global news titans vie...
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