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  2. Aug 5, 1997 · Intensity: Directed by Yves Simoneau. With John C. McGinley, Molly Parker, Blu Mankuma, Lori Triolo. A woman spending Thanksgiving at the home of her friend's family in the rural Pacific Northwest finds herself in the clutches of a disturbed serial killer.

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    • Drama, Horror, Thriller
    • Yves Simoneau
    • 1997-08-05
  3. A movie that lives up to its name. Agent10 17 March 2003. In the lush backdrop of this great TV film, John C. McGinley and Molly Parker put together two of the most interesting performances in recent TV history. Not only was this film intense and actually scary, the fact no punches were pulled was rather refreshing.

  4. Nov 24, 2020 · But there’s one glaring omission from the annual Thanksgiving horror discussion: 1997’s made-for-TV movie, Intensity. Based on Dean Koontz’s 1995 novel, this psychological thriller leans...

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  5. Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley. A serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, killing Laura and her parents. Chyna survives, but she learns of Vess's captive: a girl, just as innocent as Chyna, trapped in Vess's home far from the Napa Valley.

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    • What Is A Television System?
    • The Etymology of “Television”
    • The Mechanical Television System
    • Who Invented The First TV?
    • When Was The First Television Broadcast?
    • The First Television Networks
    • The First Television Productions
    • When Was The First TV Sold?
    • TV Becomes Mainstream: The Post-War Boom
    • The First TV Remote Control

    It’s a simple question with a surprisingly complex answer. At its core, a “television” is a device that takes electrical input to produce moving images and sound for us to view. A “television system” would be both what we now call television and the camera/producing equipment that captured the original images.

    The word “television” first appeared in 1907 in the discussion of a theoretical device that transported images across telegraph or telephone wires. Ironically, this prediction was behind the times, as some of the first experiments into television used radiowaves from the beginning. “Tele-” is a prefix that means “far off” or “operating at a distanc...

    The first device you could call a “television system” under these definitions was created by John Logie Baird. A Scottish engineer, his mechanical television used a spinning “Nipkow disk,” a mechanical device to capture images and convert them to electrical signals. These signals, sent by radio waves, were picked up by a receiving device. Its own d...

    Traditionally, a self-taught boy from Idaho named Philo Farnsworth is credited for having invented the first TV. But another man, Vladimir Zworykin, also deserves some of the credit. In fact, Farnsworth could not have completed his invention without the help of Zworykin.

    The first television broadcast was by Georges Rignoux and A. Fournier in Paris in 1909. However, this was the broadcast of a single line. The first broadcast that general audiences would have been wowed by was on March 25, 1925. That is the date John Logie Baird presented his mechanical television. When television began to change its identity from ...

    The First Television Network was The National Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of The Radio Corporation of America (or RCA). It started in 1926 as a series of Radio stations in New York and Washington. NBC’s first official broadcast was on November 15, 1926. NBC started to regularly broadcast television after the 1939 New York World’s Fair. It ha...

    The first made-for-television drama would arguably be a 1928 drama called“The Queen’s Messenger,”written by J. Harley Manners. This live drama presentation included two cameras and was lauded more for the technological marvel than anything else. The first news broadcasts on television involved news readers repeating what they just had broadcast on ...

    The first television sets available for anyone were manufactured in 1934 byTelefunken, a subsidiary of the electronics company Siemens. RCA began manufacturingAmerican setsin 1939. They cost around $445 dollars at the time (the American average salary was $35 per month).

    After the Second World War, a newly invigorated middle class caused a boom in sales of television sets, and television stations began to broadcast around the clock worldwide. By the end of the 1940s, audiences were looking to get more from television programming. While news broadcasts would always be important, audiences looked for entertainment th...

    While the first remote controls were intended for military use, controlling boats and artillery from a distance, entertainment providers soon considered how radio and television systems might use the technology.

  6. Drama Horror 1997 3h 6m. Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley. A serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, killing Laura and her parents. Chyna survives, but she learns of Vess's captive: a girl ...

  7. Intensity. Yves Simoneau, 1997. Intensity. Dean Koontz, 1987. I ntensity is a movie directed by Yves Simoneau in 1997 and based on the book of the same name by Dean Koontz, first published in 1987. The movie features John C. McGinley, Molly Parker, Blu Mankuma, Lori Triolo, Brent Stait, Katie Stuart, and others.

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