A narrative device used by many television series shows to bring the viewer up to date with the current events and plots. It is usually a short (between 20 to 40 seconds) montage of important scenes that set up the following episode, so that viewers who had not seen the previous episode or who do not remember what happened on the previous episode can understand from where the current episode will pick up. They usually begin with a voiceover proclaiming, "Previously on..." Narrative is a term which has several and changing meanings. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... There are many kinds of events: In common language, an event is something that happens (changes). ... Plot in literature, theater, movies According to Aristotles Poetics, a plot in literature is the arrangement of incidents that (ideally) each follow plausibly from the other. ... In motion picture terminology, a montage (literally putting together) is a form of movie collage consisting of a series of short shots which are edited into a coherent sequence. ...
When the freeze on television broadcast licenses was lifted by the Federal Communications Commission in 1952, television stations proliferated throughout the United States.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the television broadcast networks implicitly constructed the mainstream viewing public as replications of the idealized middle-class nuclear family, defined as monogamous, heterosexual couples with children.
Since most television use by the American public has been and continues to be in a domestic environment, the networks and advertisers easily assumed that the viewing audience mirrored, in its values, the idealized middle-class nuclear family of the 1950s.
Subject matter wherein a television signal component composed of pulses at rates related to line and field frequencies for synchronizing scanning processes is used to specify portions of the television signal to be edited.
Subject matter wherein the television signal to be compressed for recording is provided in a form of a pulse train signal composed of a series or pattern of identical pulse bits characterized solely by their presence or absence.
Subject matter wherein the television signal is recorded or reproduced in a form of a pulse train signal composed of a series or pattern of identical pulse bits characterized solely by their presence or absence.
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