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  2. Multimedia - Wikipedia

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    Multimedia. Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditional mass media, such as printed material or audio recordings, which feature little to no interaction between users.

  3. History of television - Wikipedia

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    History of television. Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a ...

  4. History of theatre - Wikipedia

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    The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years. While performative elements are present in every society, it is customary to acknowledge a distinction between theatre as an art form and entertainment, and theatrical or performative elements in other activities. The history of theatre is primarily concerned ...

  5. Media art history - Wikipedia

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    Media art history is an interdisciplinary field of research that explores the current developments as well as the history and genealogy of new media art, digital art, and electronic art. [1] [2] [3] On the one hand, media art histories addresses the contemporary interplay of art, technology, and science. [4] [5] [6] On the other, it aims to ...

  6. History of animation - Wikipedia

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    Animated movies are part of ancient traditions in storytelling, visual arts and theatre. Popular techniques with moving images before film include shadow play, mechanical slides, and mobile projectors in magic lantern shows (especially phantasmagoria ). Techniques with fanciful three-dimensional moving figures include masks and costumes ...

  7. History of computer animation - Wikipedia

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    The history of computer animation began as early as the 1940s and 1950s, when people began to experiment with computer graphics – most notably by John Whitney. It was only by the early 1960s when digital computers had become widely established, that new avenues for innovative computer graphics blossomed.

  8. Television - Wikipedia

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    Television ( TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set, rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports.

  9. Digital camera - Wikipedia

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    History Further information: History of the camera § Digital cameras , Digital imaging , Digital single-lens reflex camera , and Camera phone The first semiconductor image sensor was the charge-coupled device (CCD), invented by Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith at Bell Labs in 1969, [8] based on MOS capacitor technology. [9]