cinema history

Question 1

two triangle grey images

Answer 1

camera obscuras [chamber and small hole]

Question 2

what was the kinetoscope

Answer 2

edison’s motion picture exhibition device, it was big and could not be brought around

Question 3

who did horseman on black and white and what was the purpose

Answer 3

it’s the first movie ever made by eadweard muybridge, and it consisted of six cards/paragraphs, put back to back creating motion

Question 4

first US copyright for an identifiable motion picture?

Answer 4

fred ott’s sneeze (1894)

Question 5

first canadian theatre dedicated to showing movies where was it?

Answer 5

ouimetoscope on sainte-catherine

Question 6

who invented the first portable camera?

Answer 6

lumiere

Question 7

what 3 major nations involved in from production during the silent era?

Answer 7

us, russia, germany

Question 8

Name of Chaplin’s main character? What did he represent?

Answer 8

the tramp, he represented a gentleman despite his social status who was childlike

Question 9

What did Chaplin reject at first?

Answer 9

he refused to do sound films in the 1930s

Question 10

What happened in 1929 in relation to the cinema industry?

Answer 10

the first academy awards were announced

Question 11

Who was Eisenstein and what did he contribute to cinema history?

Answer 11

a director who did russian montage

Question 12

first full length epic film

Answer 12

the birth of a nation dw griffith

Question 13

characteristics of silent film

Answer 13

overacting, makeup, music, comic situation, intertitles, movement, musical accompaniment, transition between images

Question 14

what is constructivism (1915-1935)

Answer 14

• shifted its emphasis toward designing functional constructions which could benefit the emerging soviet state

• ventured into the production of items beneficial to the new Russia, the
materials used were appropriate to the product and process whether ceramics, clothing, posters or architecture

• interested in an immediate application to create a new civilization inthe Soviet Union, with art becoming the motor of the propaganda
machine

[beat the white with the red wedge]

Question 15

some characteristics of continuity editing

Answer 15

consistency: eyeline match, match on action, establishing shot, POV shot, axis of action, parallel editing, diegetic or undiegetic sound

Question 16

• What was the studio system and how did it control the industry?

Answer 16

term used to describe Hollywood production during its Golden Age, also called the Classical Era, from 1930 to 1949. This is the era when Hollywood dominated the world’s film industry. The First World War destroyed European competition; with no outside competitors and the ‘block booking’ practices and ‘vertical integration’ of the major American studios, the industry flourished at home.

Question 17

who were the big players

Answer 17

fox film coorperation, loew’s incorporated, metro goldwyn mayer, paramount pictures, RKO pictures, universal pictures, columbia pictures

Question 18

how was united artists different

Answer 18

it allowed artists to control their own interests

Question 19

classic hollywood style and characteristics

Answer 19

invisible style and manner. acting, sound, characters are active and goal oriented

Question 20

themes from modern times (1936)

Answer 20

• man vs machine
• rich vs poor [power]
• hope and the good life
• unemployment and crime

Question 21

What real-life occurrence does Singin’ in the

Rain (1952) pay homage to?

Answer 21

…

Question 22

what was war of the worlds (1938)

Answer 22

radio broadcast by orson welles as an adaption of hg well’s novel

Question 23

characteristics of expressionism

Answer 23

they wanted emotion and meaning rather than reality

Question 24

who were part of the der blaue reiter group

Answer 24

a group of Expressionist artists led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz
Marc. One of the primary goals of the group was to use art to express
spirituality

Question 25

german expressionism

Answer 25

Expressionism was a cross-cultural movement encompassing music,
dance, painting, sculpture,, architecture, design, literature, theater and film and lasted roughly between 1906 + 1924/
• In essence it was a philosophical and artistic critique of bourgeois rationalism; an attempt to express the distortions, alienation, fragmentation and dislocation, the ‘irrationality’ of modern life
• Expressionism represents subjective experience: states of mind, feelings, ideas, perceptions, dreams and visions: often paranoid states.

Question 26

Notable directors german expressionism

Answer 26

fritz lang, robert wiene, paul wegener

Question 27

what came before film noir

Answer 27

it was born from crime films, and the era before was the golden age

Question 28

mise en scene of film noir

Answer 28

Bars or lines in front or behind character Tight framing
Canted shots
Odd angles
Slow tracking shots Backward tracking shots

Question 29

historical context of film noir

Answer 29

it came from crime films, from late 40s to 50s

Question 30

archetypes of film noir

Answer 30

dark setting gloomy foggy, and darkness of humanity

Question 31

motifs of film noir

Answer 31

tense, despair, paranoisa

Question 32

motifs themes and cinematography of spellbound by alfred hitchcock (1945)

Answer 32

love gender, crime psychological thriller, black and white

Question 33

what was so innovative about citizen kane

Answer 33

the camera techniques were new, broken narrative, use of editing, deep focus for cinematography, sound, lighting, overlapping dialogue