Exam 1

Question 1

Eadward Muybridge

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invented the zoopraxiscope in 1879, a machine that allowed him to project up to two hundred single images on a screen.

Question 2

“The Horse in Motion”

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The Horse in Motion is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a sequential series of six to twelve “automatic electro-photographs” depicting the movement of a horse.

Question 3

The Lumiére Brothers

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French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system

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The Cinématographe

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A three-in-one device that could record, develop and project motion pictures

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Zoopraxioscope

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The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying moving images and is considered an important predecessor of the movie projector. It was conceived by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879.

Question 6

“A Trip to the Moon”

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A Trip to the Moon is widely regarded as a landmark film in the origins of cinema and showcased the fantasy elements of storytelling and special effects. The film was written and directed by Georges Méliès

Question 7

“The Great Train Robbery”

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The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company

Question 8

Metropolis

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This influential German science-fiction film presents a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers.

Question 9

Thomas Edison

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American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.

Question 10

Kinetoscope

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an early motion-picture device in which the images were viewed through a peephole.

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George Méliès

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Georges Méliès is famous for his many innovations in motion pictures. He was one of the first to film fictional narratives, and he is regarded as the inventor of special effects in movies.

Question 12

Féerie

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Féerie, sometimes translated as “fairy play”, was a French theatrical genre known for fantasy plots and spectacular visuals, including lavish scenery and mechanically worked stage effects.

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Mise-en-scéne

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The arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play.

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German expressionism

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German Expressionism consisted of several related creative movements in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin during the 1920s.

Question 15

Man with a Movie Camera

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Part documentary and part cinematic art, this film follows a city in the 1920s Soviet Union throughout the day, from morning to night. Directed by Dziga Vertov, with a variety of complex and innovative camera shots, the film depicts scenes of ordinary daily life in Russia.

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Kino-Eye

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Kino-Eye (Anglophonic: Cine-Eye) is a film technique developed in Soviet Russia by Dziga Vertov. It was also the name of the movement and group that was defined by this technique. “The “eye” of the camera – which Vertov refers to as a machine – saw life more accurately than the subjective eye of a human.”

Question 17

Dziga Vertov

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Dziga Vertov was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group

Question 18

Kuleshov effect

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The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing technique that explores the mental phenomenon of how viewers can extract more meaning from the interaction of two connected shots than from a single static image.

Question 19

Chiaroscuro

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a high-contrast lighting technique. Chiaroscuro uses a low key lighting setup, where a key light is used as the sole light source to achieve dark backgrounds with starkly lit subjects.

Question 20

Deep focus

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refers to a technique where all elements of an image—foreground, middleground, and background—are all in sharp focus. This technique helps directors imbue their shots with detail.

Question 21

Citizen Kane

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the first film noir, or at least the direct predecessor of noir, a genre that employs dark, moody atmosphere to augment the often violent or mysterious events taking place.

Question 22

Orson Welles

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American director, actor, producer, and screenwriter who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.

Question 23

Classic Hollywood cinema

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character-centered cinema. Not only are narratives structured around the goals of individual characters, but basic elements of film style are also put at the service of character exposition and dramatic development.

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Italian neorealism

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national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class. They are filmed on location, frequently with non-professional actors.

Question 25

Bicycle Thieves

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It emphasized a documentary technique, the use of nonprofessional actors, a rejection of Hollywood conventions – shooting in natural locations as opposed to studio sets and de-emphasizing editing.

Question 26

Vittorio De Sica

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Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement ; Bicycle Thieves

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Cahiers du Cinéma

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French film magazine

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Jean-Luc Godard

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French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s ; Breathless

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Breathless

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orchestrated dialogue between two worlds—a world of stylized Hollywood romanticism and the everyday world of banal, uncinematic life.

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French new wave

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French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconoclasm.

Question 31

Auteur theory

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the director is more to be considered the “author” of the movie than is the writer of the screenplay

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Cinéma verité

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realistic, typically documentary motion pictures that avoid artificiality and artistic effect and are generally made with simple equipment.

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Bonnie and Clyde

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American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. The couple were known for their bank robberies

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New Hollywood

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movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence.

Question 35

Hays Production Code

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The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.

Question 36

Paramount case

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By the terms of the verdict, the studios were made to sign consent decrees that would end the practice of block booking by requiring that all films be sold on an individual basis. They were also required to divest themselves of their own theater chains.