chapter 16 section 3. warm up: how has tv influenced your life?
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Chapter 16
Section 3
Warm Up:
How has TV influenced your life?
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
TV & American Life
I Love Lucy Army-McCarthy Hearings
American BandstandMilton Berle Show
Watch: The Twilight Zone
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Given what you know about the 1950’s…. Who do you think the monsters
on Maple St. represent? Why are they depicted as aliens?
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
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
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
Read- The Development of the Suburbs
Warm Up:
How has the development of the suburbs changed America?
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
The Suburbs
The Sunbelt U.S. population began to shift Western and Southern portions of
the nation Air conditioningCalifornia population 1950- 10.5 million 2010- 37 million
The art of rebellion
Art of the 1950’s stressed rebellion against social norms
Marlon BrandoJames Dean
The art of rebellion
Elvis Presley
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
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”