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Crusader Rabbit is the first ___MASK86___ produced specifically for television . The concept was test marketed in 1948 , while the initial episode " Crusader vs . the State of Texas " aired on KNBH ( now KNBC ) in Los Angeles on August 1 , 1950 . ___MASK97___ is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience , or gives pleasure and delight . It can be an idea or a task , but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience ' s attention . Although people ' s attention is held by different things , because individuals have different preferences in ___MASK97___ , most forms are recognisable and familiar . Storytelling , music , ___MASK38___ , dance , and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures , were supported in royal courts , developed into sophisticated forms and over time became available to all citizens . The process has been accelerated in modern times by an ___MASK97___ industry that records and sells ___MASK97___ products . ___MASK97___ evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale , ranging from an individual who chooses a private ___MASK97___ from a now enormous array of pre - recorded products ; to a banquet adapted for two ; to any size or type of party , with appropriate music and dance ; to performances intended for thousands ; and even for a global audience . Fractured Flickers is a live - ___MASK73___ syndicated half - hour ___MASK57___ ___MASK25___ show that was produced by Jay Ward , who is otherwise known for animated cartoons . The pilot film was produced in 1961 ( hence the 1961 copyright notice on the animated main title ), but the series wasn ' t completed until 1963 . Twenty - six episodes were produced ; they were syndicated by Desilu Productions and played for several years on local stations . Silent Movie is a 1976 American satirical ___MASK25___ film co - written , directed by , and starring Mel Brooks , and released by 20th Century Fox on June 17 , 1976 . The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise , Marty Feldman , Bernadette Peters , and Sid Caesar , with appearances by Anne Bancroft , Liza Minnelli , Burt Reynolds , James Caan , Marcel Marceau , and Paul Newman playing themselves . ___MASK71___ is the technology of using ___MASK71___ waves to carry information , such as sound , by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space , such as their amplitude , frequency , phase , or pulse width . When ___MASK71___ waves strike an electrical conductor , the oscillating fields induce an alternating current in the conductor . The information in the waves can be extracted and transformed back into its original form . Jay Troplong Ward ( September 20 , 1920  October 12 , 1989 ) was an American creator and producer of animated TV ___MASK1___ shows . He produced ___MASK86___ based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit , Rocky & Bullwinkle , Dudley Do - Right , Peabody and Sherman , Hoppity Hooper , George of the Jungle , Tom Slick , and Super Chicken . His company , Jay Ward Productions , designed the trademark characters for the Cap ' n Crunch , Quisp , and Quake breakfast cereals and it made TV commercials for those products . Ward produced the non - ___MASK86___ " Fractured Flickers " that featured ___MASK25___ redubbing of silent films . Northern Ireland (; Ulster Scots : "") is a top - level constituent unit of the United Kingdom in the northeast of Ireland . It is variously described as a ___MASK74___ , province , region , or " part " of the United Kingdom , amongst other terms . Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland . In 2011 , its population was 1 , 810 , 863 , constituting about 30 % of the island ' s total population and about 3 % of the UK ' s population . Established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement , the Northern Ireland Assembly holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters , while other areas are reserved for the British ___MASK54___ . Northern Ireland co - operates with the Republic of Ireland in some areas , and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to " put forward views and proposals " with " determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments ". ___MASK57___ or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome ( black - and - white ), or in color , and in two or three dimensions and sound . It can refer to a ___MASK57___ set , a ___MASK57___ program (" TV show "), or the medium of ___MASK57___ transmission . ___MASK57___ is a mass medium , for entertainment , education , news , and ___MASK10___ . ImageJ is a public domain , Java - based ___MASK26___ program developed at the National Institutes of Health . ImageJ was designed with an open architecture that provides extensibility via Java plugins and recordable macros . Custom acquisition , analysis and processing plugins can be developed using ImageJ ' s built - in editor and a Java compiler . User - written plugins make it possible to solve many ___MASK26___ and analysis problems , from three - dimensional live - cell imaging to radiological ___MASK26___ , multiple imaging system data comparisons to automated hematology systems . ImageJ ' s plugin architecture and built - in development environment has made it a popular platform for teaching ___MASK26___ . A ___MASK57___ program is a segment of content intended for broadcast on over - the - air , cable ___MASK57___ , or Internet ___MASK57___ , other than a commercial , trailer , or any other segment of content not serving as attraction for viewership . It may be a single production , or more commonly , a series of related productions ( also called a ___MASK57___ series or a ___MASK57___ show ). ___MASK72___ ( Network extensible Window System ) is a discontinued windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid - 1980s . Originally known as " SunDew ", its primary authors were ___MASK90___ Gosling and David S . H . Rosenthal . The ___MASK72___ interpreter was based on PostScript ( as was the later Display PostScript , although the two projects were otherwise unrelated ) extending it to allow interaction and multiple " contexts " to support windows . Like PostScript , ___MASK72___ could be used as a complete programming language , but unlike PostScript , ___MASK72___ could be used to make complete interactive programs with mouse support and a GUI . Hoppity Hooper is an American animated ___MASK57___ series produced by Jay Ward , and sponsored by General Mills , originally broadcast on ABC on September 26 , 1964 . The series was produced in Hollywood by Jay Ward and Bill Scott , with animation done in Mexico City by Gamma Productions . Copyright is a legal right created by the ___MASK67___ of a country that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights for its use and distribution . This is usually only for a limited time . The exclusive rights are not absolute but limited by limitations and exceptions to copyright ___MASK67___ , including fair use . A major limitation on copyright is that copyright protects only the original expression of ideas , and not the underlying ideas themselves . A character actor or character actress is a supporting actor who plays unusual , interesting , or eccentric characters . The term , often contrasted with that of leading actor , is somewhat ___MASK43___ and open to interpretation . In a literal sense , all actors can be considered character actors since they all ___MASK15___ " characters ", but in the usual sense it is an actor who plays a distinctive and important supporting role . Computer software , or simply software , is that part of a computer system that consists of encoded ___MASK31___ or computer instructions , in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built . The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) is a British public service broadcaster . It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London , is the world ' s oldest national broadcasting organisation , and is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees , with over 20 , 950 staff in total , of whom 16 , 672 are in public sector broadcasting ; including part - time , flexible as well as fixed contract staff , the total number is 35 , 402 . Monochrome describes paintings , drawings , ___MASK39___ , or photographs in one color or values of one color . A monochromatic object or image reflects colors in shades of limited colors or hues . Images using only shades of grey ( with or without black or white ) are called grayscale or black - and - white . However , scientifically speaking , monochromatic light refers to visible light of a narrow band of wavelengths ( see spectral color ). The Kingdom of Great Britain , officially Great Britain , was a sovereign state in ___MASK79___ Europe from 1 May 1707 to 31 December 1800 . The state came into being following the Treaty of Union in 1706 , ratified by the Acts of Union 1707 , which united the kingdoms of England and Scotland to form a single kingdom encompassing the whole island of Great Britain and its outlying islands . It did not include Ireland , which remained a separate realm . The unitary state was governed by a single parliament and ___MASK54___ that was based in Westminster . The former kingdoms had been in personal union since James VI , King of Scots , became King of England and King of Ireland in 1603 following the death of Queen Elizabeth I , bringing about a " Union of the Crowns ". Also after the accession of George I to the throne of Great Britain in 1714 , the kingdom was in a personal union with the Electorate of Hanover . A film , also called a movie , motion picture , theatrical film or photoplay , is a series of still images which , when shown on a screen , creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon . This ___MASK4___ causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession . The process of filmmaking is both an ___MASK65___ and an industry . A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera ; by photographing drawings or miniature models using ___MASK34___ techniques ; by means of CGI and computer animation ; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects . The verb license or grant license means to give permission . The noun licence ( British , Indian , Canadian , Australian , New Zealand , Irish , or South African English ) or license ( American English ) refers to that permission as well as to the ___MASK92___ recording that permission . Intellectual property ( IP ) refers to creations of the intellect for which a monopoly is assigned to designated owners by ___MASK67___ . Intellectual property rights ( IPRs ) are the protections granted to the creators of IP , and include trademarks , copyright , patents , industrial ___MASK39___ rights , and in some jurisdictions trade secrets . Artistic works including music and ___MASK33___ , as well as discoveries , inventions , words , phrases , symbols , and designs can all be protected as intellectual property . A ___MASK63___ is a film with no synchronized recorded sound , especially with no spoken ___MASK13___ . The ___MASK63___ era lasted from 1895 to 1936 . In silent films for entertainment , the ___MASK13___ is transmitted through muted gestures , mime and title cards which contain a written indication of the plot or key ___MASK13___ . The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself , but because of the technical challenges involved , synchronized ___MASK13___ was only made practical in the late 1920s with the perfection of the Audion amplifier tube and the introduction of the Vitaphone system . During silent films , a pianist , theatre organist , or , in large cities , even a small orchestra would often ___MASK15___ music to accompany the films . Pianists and organists would either ___MASK15___ from sheet music or improvise ; an orchestra would ___MASK15___ from sheet music . The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign ___MASK74___ in ___MASK79___ Europe . Lying off the north - ___MASK79___ coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole ___MASK74___ ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous ___MASK74___ , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated ___MASK74___ in the European Union . Desilu Productions was an American ___MASK57___ production company co - owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball , best known for shows such as " I Love Lucy ", "", and " The Untouchables ". Until 1962 , Desilu was the second - largest independent ___MASK57___ production company in the U . S . behind MCA ' s ___MASK42___ Productions until MCA bought Universal Pictures , and Desilu became and remained the number - one independent production company until being sold in 1967 . Ball and Arnaz jointly owned the majority stake in Desilu from its inception until 1962 , when Ball bought Arnaz out and ran the company by herself for several years . Ball had succeeded in making Desilu profitable again by 1967 , when she sold her shares of Desilu to Gulf + ___MASK79___ / Paramount Studios for $ 17 million . After the sale , company officials renamed it Paramount Television . The term public domain has two senses of meaning . Anything published is out in the public domain in the sense that it is available to the public . Once published ___MASK72___ and ___MASK31___ in books is in the public domain , although they may also be copyrighted . In the sense of intellectual property , works in the public domain are those whose exclusive intellectual property rights have expired , have been forfeited , or are inapplicable . For example , the works of Shakespeare and Beethoven , and most of the early silent films , are all now in the public domain by either being created before copyrights existed or leaving the copyright term . Examples for works not covered by copyright which are therefore in the public domain , are the formulae of Newtonian ___MASK60___ , cooking recipes and all software before 1974 . Examples for works actively dedicated into public domain by their authors are ___MASK53___ implementations of cryptographic algorithms , NIH ' s ImageJ , and the CIA ' s " World Factbook ". The term is not normally applied to situations where the creator of a work retains residual rights , in which case use of the work is referred to as " under license " or " with permission ". Clifford Charles " Cliff " Norton ( ___MASK22___ 21 , 1918  January 25 , 2003 ) was an American character actor and ___MASK71___ announcer who had appeared in various movies and television series over a career spanning four decades . George of the Jungle is an American animated ___MASK57___ series produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott , who created " The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show ". The character George was inspired by the story of Tarzan and a cartoon characterization of George Eiferman ( Mr . America , Mr . Universe , IFBB Hall of Famer ) drawn by a cook on his mine sweeper in the Navy during WW2 . It ran for 17 episodes on Sunday mornings from September 9 to December 30 , 1967 , on the American TV network ABC . Ireland , also described as the Republic of Ireland ('), is a sovereign state in north - ___MASK79___ Europe occupying about five - sixths of the island of Ireland . The capital and largest city is Dublin , which is located on the eastern part of the island , and whose metropolitan area is home to around a third of the country ' s 4 . 75 million inhabitants . The state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland , a part of the United Kingdom . It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the Celtic Sea to the south , Saint George ' s Channel to the south - east , and the Irish Sea to the east . It is a unitary , parliamentary republic . The legislature , the ', consists of a lower house , ', an upper house , ', and an elected President (') who serves as the largely ceremonial head of state , but with some important powers and duties . The head of ___MASK54___ is the ' ( Prime Minister , literally ' Chief ', a title not used in English ), who is elected by the Dáil and appointed by the President , and appoints other ___MASK54___ ministers . The European Union ( EU ) is a political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe . It has an area of , and an estimated population of over 510 million . The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states . EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people , goods , services , and capital within the internal market , enact legislation in justice and home affairs , and maintain common policies on trade , ___MASK61___ , fisheries , and regional development . Within the Schengen Area , passport controls have been abolished . A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002 , and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency . Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC , in Portland Place and Langham Place , London . The first ___MASK71___ broadcast was made on 15 March 1932 , and the building was officially opened two months later , on 15 May . The main building is in Art Deco style , with a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame . It is a Grade II * listed building and includes the BBC ___MASK71___ Theatre , where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience , and lobby that was used as a location for filming the 1998 BBC television series " In the Red ". Super Chicken is a segment that ran on the animated ___MASK57___ series " George of the Jungle ". It was produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott , who earlier had created the " Rocky and Bullwinkle " cartoons . It debuted September 9 , 1967 on ABC . The Funny Manns is an American syndicated ___MASK57___ program that first appeared in 1961 . It was hosted by Cliff Norton and featured re - edited public domain silent movies , much as Jay Ward ' s show Fractured Flickers did . The show was co - produced by Nick Nicholson , who sometimes performed on the show ' s skits with Norton . It was broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom . The program would always begin with Cliff Norton as some type of handyman , whether it was a painter , repairman , or even a plumber , and as he began dialog , he would use the lines `` I learned everything I know from my ( Uncle / Father / etc . ) , '' and `` Alright , who ' s the funny man ? '' Then , it would cut to the edited silent films . The silent stars appearing on the show included Snub Pollard , Poodles Hanneford , Billy Bevan , Oliver Hardy ( minus his partner , Stan Laurel ) and a young Mickey Rooney , billed as `` Mickey McGuire '' . The Celtic Sea (; ) is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland bounded to the east by Saint George ' s Channel ; other limits include the Bristol Channel , the English Channel , and the Bay of Biscay , as well as adjacent portions of Wales , Cornwall , Devon , and Brittany . The southern and ___MASK79___ boundaries are delimited by the continental shelf , which drops away sharply . The Isles of Scilly are an archipelago of small islands in the sea . A sovereign state is , in international ___MASK67___ , a nonphysical juridical entity that is represented by one centralised ___MASK54___ that has sovereignty over a geographic area . International ___MASK67___ defines sovereign states as having a permanent population , defined territory , one ___MASK54___ , and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states . It is also normally understood that a sovereign state is neither dependent on nor subjected to any other power or state . ___MASK10___ is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored , nonpersonal message to promote or sell a product , service or idea . Sponsors of ___MASK10___ are often businesses who wish to promote their products or services . ___MASK10___ is differentiated from public relations in that an advertiser usually pays for and has control over the message . It is differentiated from personal selling in that the message is nonpersonal , i . e ., not directed to a particular individual . ___MASK10___ is communicated through various mass media , including old media such as newspapers , magazines , Television , Radio , outdoor ___MASK10___ or direct mail ; or new media such as search results , blogs , websites or text messages . The actual presentation of the message in a medium is referred to as an advertisement or " ad ". Dudley Do - Right , created by Alex Anderson with Chris Hayward and Allan Burns , is the hero of " Dudley Do - Right of the Mounties ", a segment on " The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show " that parodied early 20th - century ___MASK83___ and ___MASK63___ ( the " northern "), using only a piano as a ___MASK32___ background . In a modern sense , ___MASK25___ ( from the , " kmidía ") refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter , especially in theatre , television , film , and stand - up ___MASK25___ . The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece . In the Athenian democracy , the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters . The theatrical genre of Greek ___MASK25___ can be described as a dramatic performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict . Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a " Society of Youth " and a " Society of the Old ". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of ___MASK25___ as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes . In this struggle , the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority , and is left with little choice but to take recourse in ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter . Jay Ward Productions , or simply Ward Productions , is an American ___MASK6___ studio based in Los Angeles County , California . It was founded in 1948 by American animator Jay Ward , and was most notable for the " Rocky and Bullwinkle " franchise . A ___MASK57___ set , more commonly called a ___MASK57___ , TV , TV set , ___MASK57___ receiver , or telly , is a device that combines a tuner , display , and loudspeakers for the purpose of viewing ___MASK57___ . Introduced in the late 1920s in mechanical form , ___MASK57___ sets became a popular consumer product after World War II in electronic form , using cathode ray tubes . The addition of color to broadcast ___MASK57___ after 1953 further increased the popularity of ___MASK57___ sets in the 1960s , and an outdoor antenna became a common feature of suburban homes . The ubiquitous ___MASK57___ set became the display device for the first recorded media in the 1970s , such as Betamax , VHS and later DVD . It was also the display device for the first generation of home computers ( e . g ., Timex Sinclair 1000 ) and video ___MASK64___ consoles ( e . g ., Atari ) in the 1980s . In the 2010s flat panel ___MASK57___ incorporating liquid - crystal displays , especially LED - backlit LCDs , largely replaced cathode ray tubes and other displays . Quisp is a sugar - sweetened breakfast cereal from the Quaker Oats Company . It was introduced in 1965 and continued as a ___MASK49___ - market grocery item until the late 1970s . Sometime afterward , the company sold the item sporadically , and upon the rise of the Internet began selling it primarily online . Quisp made its return to supermarkets as a ___MASK49___ - market grocery item in late 2012 .