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Warm Up:

Warm Up:. How has TV influenced your life?. Chapter 16. Section 3. TV & American Life. 1950- 9% of U.S. homes have Televisions 1951- coast to coast live broadcasts begins 1954- NBC & CBS begin color broadcasting. 1% of households own color TV. TV Guide first published

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Warm Up:

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  1. Warm Up: How has TV influenced your life?

  2. Chapter 16 Section 3

  3. TV & American Life • 1950- 9% of U.S. homes have Televisions • 1951- coast to coast live broadcasts begins • 1954- NBC & CBS begin color broadcasting. 1% of households own color TV. TV Guide first published • 1960- 87% of U.S. households have TV. First televised presidential debate

  4. Watch: First live coast to coast TV Broadcast • See It Now • Nov 18, 1951

  5. TV & American Life I Love Lucy Army-McCarthy Hearings American Bandstand Milton Berle Show

  6. Watch: The Twilight Zone The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

  7. Given what you know about the 1950’s…. • Who do you think the monsters on Maple St. represent? • Why are they depicted as aliens?

  8. Technological Developments Transistors and Computers • First computers used thousands of vacuum tubes • Took up hundreds of feet of floor space • Required large amounts of electricity Vacuum Tubes

  9. Technological Developments • Transistor developed by Bell Laboratories in 1947 • Performed same function as a tube, much smaller • In 1958, Scientist developed the Integrated Circuit (computer chip) contains a number of transistors and other components • Allowed electronics to be smaller and cheaper

  10. Technological Developments Salk Vaccine • Vaccine - Uses killed or weakened form of a germ to help body build defenses against that germ • Jonas Salk developed a polio vaccine in 1952

  11. Read- The Development of the Suburbs

  12. Warm Up: How has the development of the suburbs changed America?

  13. The Suburbs Levittown, NY • Based on affordability • Mass construction of homes - Assembly line techniques • Purchased with assistance of GI Bill • Refused to sell homes to African Americans

  14. The Suburbs The Sunbelt • U.S. population began to shift • Western and Southern portions of the nation - Air conditioning California population • 1950- 10.5 million • 2010- 37 million

  15. The art of rebellion • Art of the 1950’s stressed rebellion against social norms James Dean Marlon Brando

  16. The art of rebellion Elvis Presley

  17. The art of rebellion • “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” Jack Kerouac

  18. Jack Kerouac • “My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” • “I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion”

  19. Complete Chapter 16 Section 3 Question #1-3 Chapter 16 Quiz on Friday

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