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

Radio, Cinema, and Television have been staples in news coverage, entertainment, and education for almost 100 years. But... where did they all come from? Who started what and when and why? In this episode, Hank Green talks to us about their birth and a dead elephant.
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[@crashcourse]

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.

[@MrVanslol]

Кайф братан!

[@AlexanderGoncharenko]

No mention of Popov or Zvorykin?

[@digitalbrentable]

Radio killed the newspaper star

[@mariahsmith0044]

CrashCourse he’s got to be one of the most influential scientists of modern times

[@jackieyo6128]

I love how you named Tesla as the first one to develop radio (and that's absolutely right) but you didn't even mention Meucci, considering that he is now named as the inventor of the telephone and probably it was another italian to even earlier (Manzetti) invent it. if you want to be fair, be fair for everyone.

[@Tone720]

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

[@crashcourse]

Facts! Nick J.

[@sudeepjoseph69]

@@crashcourse ok

[@gboi3500]

@@crashcourse WHAT DOES "Nick J." MEAN???

[@solehsolehsoleh]

@@gboi3500 that is the name of the person who wrote the comment you just read. He is the Editor in the Crash Course team.

[@rafaelraperape]

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. : (

[@TomTrval]

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

[@Jaydoggy531]

They've stated they will give Tesla his just due. So far, Edison has been a topic, and they fully acknowlege Edison's rather shady dealings.

[@anthonyschroeder521]

Yeah it was pretty disconcerting to see Westinghouse get so many mentions, and Edison while devoting so little time to Tesla in that very important battle of technology. Even in the Marconi exchange... The point about Marconi violating 11 patents and all that stuff being omitted is just... off-putting.

[@lou2850]

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

[@RangerRuby]

I could not agree more!

[@HoshouNeko]

I second that . Love the Green bros

[@rahma3705]

I wanna hear the metal song you wrote

[@EvanYoungMusic]

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.

[@ValkyrieofNOLA]

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

[@ms.rstake_1211]

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

[@alimiliazov5532]

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

[@arshaizad8232]

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

[@azizlight]

Really enjoying this series thanks for making it!

[@asimwilliams2116]

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

[@dominickoquin3849]

Thank you for providing all this free information!!

[@hannahweaver6036]

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

[@sundhaug92]

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

[@Yurt_enthusiast7]

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

[@Mechadude32]

Iirc the hysteria is usually overplayed, but they still got complaints.

[@sethnicholas6211]

It wasn’t in some Latin America country. People freaked when they did that there

[@SamAronow]

@@sethnicholas6211 Ecuador.

[@danielrhouck]

@@TerminalFailSafe Given how malleable human memory is (I think more people remember being at Woodstock than were actually present, for example), that isn't conclusive proof.

[@jonniheinisto9825]

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.

[@zeynaviegas]

commenting on every video

[@Dayglodaydreams]

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

[@sapientiaestudiosus9185]

@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.

[@victorjozwicki8179]

Yeah ... guess it's too much in pop culture, you're the only one I found talking about him ...

[@feynstein1004]

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

[@EBBING2003]

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

[@thorjelly]

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.

[@SaberTooth2251]

Really hope this course never ends.

[@culwin]

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

[@1503nemanja]

The only reasonable recourse.

[@sadatahmmed7928]

Sure, Nikola Tesla is supposed to win the most Noble Prizes

[@danielfarnsworth4134]

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 ;)

[@kuronosan]

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

[@minhkhangtran6948]

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.

[@Thatothergamer01]

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

[@flymario8046]

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

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Educational!

[@user-zk2kg1lq3f]

CRASH COURSE rock!

[@annikathewitch3950]

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.

[@jamesfrazier4005]

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.

[@benjaminarnold2881]

James, I agree. However, I think that this trend is because even though each individual video has less attention, on the whole, the same number of people watch and enjoy watching Crash Course. (Me included!)

[@deathdoor]

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

[@TheCaptain14]

8:30 yeah Pittsburgh!

[@asimwilliams2116]

Google X mention at the end there. Dope.

[@Koffee_Kake]

Yes!!!

[@cheglik132]

What about Popov? Nice

[@Tosinik]

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

[@crashcourse]

I'm actually personally working on that. - Nick J.

[@Tosinik]

@@crashcourse Thanks for the reply! And good to know, appreciate your work.

[@alexlandherr]

At 1:12, don’t forget Antonio Meucci.

[@juliettasorensen4574]

hahahahahah the Ru Paul reference!!!

[@danielrhouck]

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

[@aspiahmacaurog4354]

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.

[@norah9433]

my teacher made me watch this

[@geek_on_9159]

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

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Oh yeah!!! Telecommunication devices! Rise of the machines!!

[@unleashingpotential-psycho9433]

John Baird is a pretty smart guy.

[@emjasi]

YOU SHOULD MAKE THIS INTO A PODCAST

[@benjaminarnold2881]

Jane _ it’s more like KZbin should allow the option to only stream the audio track of videos. If that were to happen, viola, you just nearly doubled the number of podcasts in existance!

[@procrastinator99]

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

[@DaDunge]

Without him many of these things may have taken decades more to breakthough.

[@ercaner_buzbey]

Well, if this goes on, we are going to dig his grave and burn his remains like rasputin's

[@dotclyde137]

I love science.

[@zeynaviegas]

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

[@alexlandherr]

At 1:12, Antonio Meucci?

[@elizabethstranger3122]

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

[@alexlandherr]

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

[@victorjozwicki8179]

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

[@harryrm761]

anyone know what the footage is at 01:25?

[@HelgeMoulding]

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

[@kpcbeezy1991]

Do anthropology please!!

[@kpcbeezy1991]

MisterLister68 who are they?

[@TheTwick]

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

[@rsr789]

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

[@mrseanpaul81]

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

[@kysier6015]

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.

[@rafaguelfand6615]

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

[@brunachevalier]

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... ☺️

[@ekpennock]

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

[@arvindkumarverma8066]

ekpennock who wrote this man?

[@matthewmcdonald3343]

Yeet

[@dannymiller504]

A lot of smart Scottish dudes for one episode!

[@benyamin6085]

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

[@mysticashes5384]

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

[@benjaminarnold2881]

MysticAshes maybe try CC Econ?

[@Luke-lo4iy]

Hey guy

[@AdrianParsons]

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.)

[@Moises505130]

Metal song?

[@DanielEstrada]

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

[@tarionmarsden157]

Huh Freud next!?

[@nigelvistica7675]

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

[@culwin]

You're thinking of the smellovision

[@wowcplayer3]

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

[@KerrikkiLurgan]

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

[@FalbertForester]

Initial tests and east-to-west transmission were done in December 1901 at Signal Hill, St John's, Newfoundland. In December of 1902, west-to-east transmission was done from Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Later, commercial transmission was done from Glace Bay until 1946. Both sites have National Historic Site status.

[@RachelReiss]

Ah, the more things change...

[@lachlanlfc]

1

[@milenealme]

John green?

[@Shenellth]

Hey I need help on my economics assignment,please

[@danielmazin6153]

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?"

[@syedshahon1929]

How do you guys not have a series about geology

[@gooseytantei7351]

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

[@maxrodriguez2031]

He has a brother that does other CC videos

[@benjaminarnold2881]

Yeh, which one?

[@mariahsmith0044]

Really let me down by now even mentioning Tesla

[@avicennam7708]

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

[@gdejeu]

Tesla!

[@LangThoughts]

Hiring inventors? Or kidnapping them off trains?

[@joshflores5998]

same tooth

[@a1acart]

7:42 GugliELMO Macaroni-Italian

[@Anonarchist]

They'll say "Aw, Topsy!" At my autopsy And no one will be More shocked than me

[@areurdytoparty]

Anyone else like to watch while stoned?

[@richicecold]

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

[@AdrianParsons]

*WATT is love?

[@mjvybz]

Hi, I'm new

[@aditishastri6087]

Mystic zodiac Welcome to the Crash Course comment section!

[@timtech254]

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

[@flatearthevidence8473]

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

[@sam21462]

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

[@odindodin4384]

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

[@tianvlasic]

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