HISTORY OF FILM 1: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ART, 1895
HISTORY OF FILM 1: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ART, 1895
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Cinema was invented before the telephone, but after the phonograph. correct answers False
Which of the following were preconditions for motion pictures: correct answers All of the above were preconditions for motion picture;.
1. The human eye will perceive motion if a series of slightly differe...
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Cinema was invented before the telephone, but after the phonograph. correct answers False
Which of the following were preconditions for motion pictures: correct answers All of the above
were preconditions for motion picture;.
1. The human eye will perceive motion if a series of slightly different images is placed before it
in rapid succession
2. The capactiy to project a rapid series of images on a surface.
3. Rapid photography/rapid photographic exposure
Photographs must be printed on a base flexible enough to be passed through a camera rapidly
The Lumiere Brothers correct answers Invented the Cinematographe, a small portable camera
Georges Melies correct answers Created many fantasy films with trick photography, including 'A
Trip to the Moon"
Of the Brighton School of filmmakers, who directed the 1900 film, The Big Swallow? correct
answers James Williamson
Thomas Edison's film studio was nicknamed the "Black Maria." correct answers True
This important early American filmmaker was a film projectionists and an expert at building
photographic equipment. In the late 1900s, he went to work for Edison, whom he greatly
admired. He was assigned to improve the firm's cameras and projectors. He directed films like
Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery. correct answers Edwin S. Porter
Gunning's essay argues that the relation to the spectator set up by films prior to 1906 was
fundamentally different than that relation after 1906. This earlier relation is what Gunning refers
to as the "cinema of attraction." correct answers True
In Gunning's essay, he argues that the "cinema of attractions" of the early days of cinema is an
historical curiosity, but gone forever and no remnants of a cinema of attractions exists in more
modern films. correct answers False
The first scene Gorky describes witnessing in his "Kingdom of Shadows" essay is correct
answers A Paris street
Where did Gorky attend his screening of the Lumiere cinematographe? correct answers Nizhny
Novgorod
Nordisk's breakthrough film came in 1907 with which film? correct answers Lion Hunt
, Which of these was NOT one of the ruling film industries on the international scene in the early
1910s? correct answers Japan
Since 1897, the Edison company had tried to force its competitors out of business by suing them.
correct answers True
J. Stuart Blackton correct answers The Haunted Hotel
Winsor McCay correct answers Little Nemo
Emile Cohl correct answers Fantasmagorie
Ladislav Starevicz correct answers The Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman
Albert Capellani is the early director most often associated with the development of crosscutting.
He directed films such as The Lonely Villa and The Painted Lady. correct answers False
Like Germany, Russia developed a distinctive national cinema in near isolation as a result of
World War I. Before the war, Russian production had been largely dominated by Pathe, which
opened a studio in Russia in 1908, and Gaumont, which followed suit in 1909. correct answers
True
Which of these figures was NOT one of the heads of independent firms who regrouped and
expanded into a studio system that would form the basis for American filmmaking for decades
starting in the 1910s? correct answers David Geffen
During the mid-1910s, filmmakers experimented with what kind of lighting? The most
influential film to include this technique was Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat. correct answers
Effects
The film, Intolerance, was D.W. Griffith's follow-up to the controversial, The Birth of a Nation.
correct answers True
During the 1910s, films made in smaller producing nations share two general traits. First, many
were shot on location. Second, filmmakers frequently sought to differentiate their low-budget
films from more polished imported works by using animals to stand in for human actors. correct
answers False
The German film industry emerged from World War I as the weakest in the world. correct
answers False
Expressionism was not well established in other art forms before the style made its appearance in
German films. correct answers False
Which of the following are formal traits of German Expressionism in film? correct answers All
of the above;
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