Where do I put my restless mind when I am not at work? The Lumière brothers’ short films were first screened in Paris in 1895,[23] and twenty-five years later Hollywood was pumping out eight hundred films a year.[24] The first American news radio report would be broadcast out of Pittsburgh in 1920,[25] and just over a dozen years later, Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be speaking to an estimated sixty million people—out of eighty-two million adults—about his agenda during his fireside chats.[26] The earliest experimental TV broadcasts began in the 1930s, and by 1947 the National Broadcasting
...more
